William H Goetzmann
Biographic Data
| ID | 539901 |
|---|---|
| NAME | William H Goetzmann |
| GIVEN NAMES | William H |
| FAMILY NAME | Goetzmann |
| SIGNATURE | GOETZMANN W H |
| AFFILIATIONS | The University of Texas at Austin |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 56 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 26 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 56 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1959 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
New Lands, New Men
Wheel Boats on the Missouri
When the Eagle Screamed
When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Expansionism, 1800-1860. By William H. Goetzmann. (Norman: University Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pp. xvii, 146. Maps. $11.95.) Regeneration through Violence: The Mythology the American Frontier, 1600-1860. By Richard Slotkin. (Norman: University Oklahoma Press, 2000. Pp. 669. $24.95.) The language the Cold War dominates William H. Goetzmann's When the Eagle Screamed, breezy account American exp…
Ferdinand V. Hayden
This biography of Ferdinand V. Hayden is well named. The author's general approach is a sociological study of Hayden's entrepreneurship. As such, it becomes a social science case study of one of the most important figures in Gilded Age America, since Hayden spent more than twentyfive years exploring and surveying the American West, first as a scientist adjunct to U.S. Army topographical engineer expeditions in the Dakotas, Montana, and northern W…
A River Running West
William H. Emory
The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott
Picturing Empire
The Contested Plains
Journal Article The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado. By Elliott West. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xxiv, 422 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-0891-5.) Get access William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 259, https://doi.org/10.2307/256748…
My Confession
Samuel Chamberlain's My Confession is a classic, ribald tale of nineteenth-century life. Perhaps the best written account of a soldier's adventures and misadventures in the Mexican War and its aftermath, this unexpurgated edition is now available for the first time, complete with over 150 of Chamberlain's wonderful textual illustrations reproduced in full color.Chamberlain's remarkable story is pure melodrama; but Goetzmann has proven by his pain…
Re-Imagining the Modern American West
Journal Article Re-Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art Get access Re-Imagining the Modern American West: A Century of Fiction, History, and Art. By Etulain Richard W.. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1996. xxviii + 241 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $45.00, cloth; $17.95, paper.) William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford A…
Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War
Frederic Remington & Turn-of-the-Century America
Journal Article Frederic Remington & Turn-of-the-Century America. By Alexander Nemerov. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1995. x, 244 pp. $40.00, ISBN 0-300-05566-8.) Get access William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 83, Issue 2, September 1996, Pages 650–651, https://doi.org/10.2307/2945031 Publishe…
Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War
Journal Article Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War: The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings Get access Sam Chamberlain's Mexican War: The San Jacinto Museum of History Paintings. By Goetzmann William H.. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1993. xii + 207 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, index. $49.95.) Karal Ann Marling Karal Ann Marling University of Minnesota Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Weste…
From Maps to Metaphors
Journal Article From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver Get access From Maps to Metaphors: The Pacific World of George Vancouver. Edited by Fisher Robin Johnston Hugh. (Vancouver: University of British Columbia Press, 1993. viii + 353 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, index. $39.95.) William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann University of Texas, Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Googl…
The First Americans
The First Americans
Journal Article The First Americans: Photographs from the Library of Congress Get access The First Americans: Photographs from the Library of Congress. Text by Goetzmann William H.. (Washington, DC: Starwood Publishing. 1991. 144 pp. Illustrations, bibliography, index. $34.95.) Victoria Wyatt Victoria Wyatt University of Victoria Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 24, Issu…
The West of the Imagination
The West of the Imagination
High Tech History
Frontier Myths and Images
Magnificent Voyagers
The West of the Imagination
Journal Article The West of the Imagination and The West of the Imagination Get access The West of the Imagination. By Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann William N.. (New York: W. W. Norton and Company, 1986. xviii + 458 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $34.95.)The West of the Imagination. PBS Series, six parts, 1986. Written by Goetzmann William H.. Produced by KERA-TV Dallas. Hosted and narrated by James Whitmore. Available through Films for the Hu…
Karl Bodmer's America
Now, for the first time, artists, historians, and anthropologists - all of whom have a professional interest in Bodmer's superb works - as well as lovers of western history and art have an opportunity to see in their true colors this artist's record of the American landscape and life in America during the early 1830s' - John C. Ewers, Montana
Looking Far North
Journal Article Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899. By William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan. (New York: Viking, 1982. xxv + 244 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, note on the sources, and index. $17.95.) Get access Ted C. Hinckley Ted C. Hinckley San Jose State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 1003–100…
Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863
Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863
Journal Article Army Exploration in the American West, 1803–1863. By William H. Goetzmann. Yale Publications in American Studies, Number 4. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. xx + 509 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendixes, bibliographical essay, and index. $6.50.) Get access Earl Pomeroy Earl Pomeroy University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Iss…
Looking Far North
Journal Article Looking Far North: The Harriman Expedition to Alaska, 1899. By William H. Goetzmann and Kay Sloan. (New York: Viking, 1982. xxv + 244 pp. Maps, illustrations, appendix, notes, note on the sources, and index. $17.95.) Get access Ted C. Hinckley Ted C. Hinckley San Jose State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 69, Issue 4, March 1983, Pages 1003–100…
Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains
The Taos Trappers
The Contested Plains
Journal Article The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, & the Rush to Colorado. By Elliott West. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 1998. xxiv, 422 pp. $34.95, ISBN 0-7006-0891-5.) Get access William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann University of Texas, Austin, Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 86, Issue 1, June 1999, Page 259, https://doi.org/10.2307/256748…
The First Americans
Karl Bodmer's America
Now, for the first time, artists, historians, and anthropologists - all of whom have a professional interest in Bodmer's superb works - as well as lovers of western history and art have an opportunity to see in their true colors this artist's record of the American landscape and life in America during the early 1830s' - John C. Ewers, Montana
A View of American Studies
The American Hegelians
The Mountain Man as Jacksonian Man
can history has been the Mountain Man. Remote, so it would seem, as Neanderthal, and according to some almost as inarticulate, the Mountain Man exists as a figure of American mythology rather than history. As such he has presented at least two vivid stereotypes to the public imagination. From the first he has been the very symbol for the romantic banditti of the forest, freed of the artificial restrictions of civilization-a picturesque wanderer i…
Isaac Newton's Papers and Letters on Natural Philosophy
Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863
Army Exploration in the American West, 1803-1863
Journal Article Army Exploration in the American West, 1803–1863. By William H. Goetzmann. Yale Publications in American Studies, Number 4. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1959. xx + 509 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, appendixes, bibliographical essay, and index. $6.50.) Get access Earl Pomeroy Earl Pomeroy University of Oregon Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 47, Iss…
Army Exploration in the American West 1803-1863
The Transits of Venus
Bigler's Chronicle of the West
The Mountain Man as Jacksonian Man
can history has been the Mountain Man. Remote, so it would seem, as Neanderthal, and according to some almost as inarticulate, the Mountain Man exists as a figure of American mythology rather than history. As such he has presented at least two vivid stereotypes to the public imagination. From the first he has been the very symbol for the romantic banditti of the forest, freed of the artificial restrictions of civilization-a picturesque wanderer i…
The Bureau of American Ethnology. A Partial History . Neil M. Judd
Exploration and Empire
When the Eagle Screamed
Journal Article When the Eagle Screamed: The Romantic Horizon in American Diplomacy, 1800–1860. By William H. Goetzmann. (New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1966. xvii +138 pp. Maps, notes, bibliography, and index. Cloth, $4.95; paper, $1.95.) Get access John Jay Tepaske John Jay Tepaske Ohio State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 54, Issue 2, September 1967, Page 40…
Exploration and Empire
Journal Article Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West. By William H. Goetzmann. (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1966. xxii + 656 + xviii pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, note on sources, and index. $10.00.) Get access Dale L. Morgan Dale L. Morgan Bancroft Library Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 55, Issue 1, June 1968, Page…
History, Social Science, and Education
The Makers of Modern Geography . Robert E. Dickinson
The Taos Trappers
The American Hegelians
The American Hegelians
Dewey's Hegelianism
Mountain Man Stereotypes
Journal Article Mountain Man Stereotypes: A Note Get access William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 6, Issue 3, July 1975, Pages 295–300, https://doi.org/10.2307/967593 Published: 01 July 1975
Science and the Ocean Frontier
Thinkers and Tinkers
The Exploring Spirit
Journal Article The Exploring Spirit: America and the World Then and Now Get access The Exploring Spirit: America and the World Then and Now. By Boorstin Daniel J.. (New York: Random House, 1976. xii, 102 p. $6.95.) William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann University of Texas at Austin Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Volume 8, Issue 2, April 1977, Pages 203–204, https://doi.o…
A View of American Studies
Benjamin Silliman and His Circle
William H. Ashley
Journal Article William H. Ashley: Enterprise and Politics in the Trans-Mississippi West. By Richard M. Clokey. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1980. xiii + 305 pp. Maps, illustrations, notes, bibliography, and index. $18.95.) Get access William H. Goetzmann William H. Goetzmann Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 6…
Thomas Jefferson and the Stony Mountains
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