William Wyckoff
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 954977 |
|---|---|
| NOME | William Wyckoff |
| PRENOMES | William |
| SOBRENOME | Wyckoff |
| ASSINATURA | WYCKOFF W |
| AFILIAÇÕES | Montana State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2568-2784 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 70 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 72 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1982 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2020 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
Obituary
Making Heritage Through Montana's Official State Highway Maps, 1914-2000
We assess Montana highway maps produced between 1914 and 2000 to identify how the Montana Department of Transportation and its predecessors used maps to frame Montana’s place identity and heritage for promotional purposes in the twentieth century. After 1934, we document how Montana’s official state maps became a key source and shaper of tourist knowledge about the state, its history, and its attractions. Five persistent map themes—territorial id…
Embattled River
For centuries, the Hudson River has been a key corridor of movement into the North American interior as well as a waterway that has captured the nation's imagination. The scenic landscapes of the Hudson gave birth to a school of painting, and its towns and shoreline formed the backdrop for great American literature. But at the same time, its waters began to be used and abused by nearby growing cities and industries that multiplied along its banks…
Ethnic Landscapes of America
John A. Cross. Cham, Switzerland: Springer International, 2017. xiv and 411 pp., maps, photos, illustrations, references. $199.99 cloth (ISBN 978-3-319-54008-5); $149.00 electronic (ISBN 978-3-319
Globalization and Diversity
Cartography and capitalism
Seems like I Hardly See Them Around Anymore
A World Made for Money
A WORLD MADE FOR MONEY: Economy, Geography, and the Way We Live Today. By Bret Wallach. xvi and 470 pp.; notes, index. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2015. $40.00 (cloth), isbn 978080329891
Colorado
This handsome historical state atlas – produced by a fine university press and by one of Colorado’s most distinguished historians – should find a place on many book shelves, both within and beyond
How to Read the American West
How to Read the American West
Japanese Internment Camps
The Last Days of the Rainbelt
Mapping wonderlands
America's Public Lands
Making Rocky Mountain National Park
Journal Article Making Rocky Mountain National Park: The Environmental History of an American Treasure Get access Making Rocky Mountain National Park: The Environmental History of an American Treasure. By Frank Jerry J.. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2013. xv + 253 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.) William Wyckoff William Wyckoff Montana State University–Bozeman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
Ivan Doig's Montana and the creation of place-defining literature
Cultural geographers explore many intersections between places and writers. This study examines two memoirs (This House of Sky, Heart Earth) and three novels (English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ride With Me, Mariah Montana) published by Montana author Ivan Doig between 1978 and 1993. Set in his native Montana, these works have been cited for their powerful place-based imagery and language. Doig's example is used to explore the concept of …
On the Road Again
Rural gentrification and nature in the Old and New Wests
The rural American West is a rapidly changing region. Geographers often use the Old West and New West to describe the economic, cultural, and environmental shifts happening within the communities of these regions. However, previous research on the rural West often overlooks the larger economic processes and cultural variables at work in the creation of these regions. Using a case study of Hamilton, Montana, to explore the New West and Anaconda, M…
The World Beyond the Windshield
A Tribute to Donald Meinig
Donald Meinig's probing mind, clear prose, and sweeping geographical perspective have enlivened American historical and cultural geography for more than fifty years. His contributions to the discipline span many scales: His ideas on the evolution and meaning of landscape have enriched our regional appreciation for localities across North America; his geopolitical assessments of colonization, imperialism, and globalization still resonate today; an…
The Humboldt Current
Journal Article The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism Get access The Humboldt Current: Nineteenth-Century Exploration and the Roots of American Environmentalism. By Sachs Aaron. (New York: Viking, 2006. xii + 496 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index, $25.96.) William Wyckoff William Wyckoff Montana State University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Go…
On the Road Again
In On the Road Again, William Wyckoff explores Montana's changing physical and cultural landscape by pairing photographs taken by state highway engineers in the 1920s and 1930s with photographs taken at the same sites today. The older photographs, preserved in the archives of the Montana Historical Society, were intended to document the expenditure of federal highway funds. Because it is nearly impossible to photograph a road without also photogr…
The Political Geography of National Parks
Many national parks contain private lands and non-park economic functions that can interfere with management purposes. The number and variety of these "threats" depend on the degree to which the boundary of a new park encloses previously settled lands and economic development. Yellowstone is the only example of a major park established before European American settlement; it is largely free of inholdings and non-park uses. By contrast, Glacier Na…
Saving the Big Sky
Promotional Imagery of Glacier National Park
The Great Northern Railway vigorously encouraged visitation to Glacier National Park between 1911 and 1930. We reconstruct the railway's promotional imagery of Glacier through an assessment of 796 photographs used by the company to publicize park landscapes and activities. Seven themes in the photographs—Native Americans, scenery, recreation, wildlife, the Wild West, park management, and personalities—reveal a useful portrait of how Glacier Natio…
Rural gentrification and nature in the Old and New Wests
The rural American West is a rapidly changing region. Geographers often use the Old West and New West to describe the economic, cultural, and environmental shifts happening within the communities of these regions. However, previous research on the rural West often overlooks the larger economic processes and cultural variables at work in the creation of these regions. Using a case study of Hamilton, Montana, to explore the New West and Anaconda, M…
The Political Geography of National Parks
Many national parks contain private lands and non-park economic functions that can interfere with management purposes. The number and variety of these "threats" depend on the degree to which the boundary of a new park encloses previously settled lands and economic development. Yellowstone is the only example of a major park established before European American settlement; it is largely free of inholdings and non-park uses. By contrast, Glacier Na…
The Mountainous West
Traditional interpretations of the American West have concentrated on the importance of its aridity to the region's cultural evolution and development. But the West is marked by a second fact of physical geography that distinguished it (from the experiences of settlers) from the east. As pioneers struggled with the climate west of the hundredth meridian, they were also confronted by mountains strewn across the region and offering their own set of…
North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers
In this revisionist study, historical geographer Jordan reinterprets cattle ranching in the Old World and New, challenging the notion that western cattle culture derived principally from Texas
William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape
Acclaimed in the 19th century as the world's most famous landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson and his camera presided over the mapping, bounding, and settling of the American West and the larger American landscape. In this lavishly illustrated study, Peter Hales examines Jackson's effect on the ways Americans viewed their land and on the myths that sustain American culture. 198 illustrations
Appalachian Frontiers
Agency culture, cumulative causation and development in Glacier National Park, Montana
Creating Colorado
Sprawling Piedmont cities, ghost towns on the plains, earth-toned placitas set against the Sangre de Cristo Mountains, mining camps transformed into ski resorts-these are some of the diverse regions in Colorado explored in this fascinating book. Historical geographer William Wyckoff traces the evolution of the state during its formative years from 1860 to 1940, chronicling its changing cultural landscapes, social communities, and connections to a…
Postindustrial Butte
Revising the Meyer Model
D. R. Meyer's model of frontier urban growth hypothesizes predictable links between an emerging frontier center and the national urban system. The effectiveness of Meyer's model is evaluated through a content analysis of nonlocal economic place-name mentions in 19th century Colorado newspapers. Using Denver as a case study, the changing pattern of its links to the national urban system between 1859 and 1879 suggests elaborations and revisions in …
The World Beyond the Windshield
Regional Studies
What makes a region a region, and how does one region differ from another? What are the tests of evidence of regionalism? What boundaries have meaning--political, geophysical, economic, cultural, psychological, ethnic, linguistic? Are there special problems in reporting findings about life within a region? These questions and others regarding methods and interdisciplinary content run through this stimulating series of papers on the interplay of l…
Denver's Aging Commercial Strip
During the 1950s, Colfax Avenue, in Denver, developed as one of the preeminent tourist strips in the United States. No fewer than ninety-three motels lined the street on both the east and west sides of town. This article examines the fate of those motels and, more broadly, the post-1950s evolution of the Colfax strip. The decline of the strip is related to changing traffic flows, suburbanization, economies of scale in tourist businesses, and the …
Montana Ghost Dance
A Method for Assessing the Planimetric Accuracy of Historical Maps
The position of linear elements on historical maps can be digitized and numerically compared with similar features on modern maps. This allows for the evaluation of amounts and rates of improvement in cartographic accuracy and of the primary sources used for the generation of subsequent maps. A case study of the Colorado-Green River system illustrates the method and documents the pace of improvement in the cartographic depiction of the river syst…
Ivan Doig's Montana and the creation of place-defining literature
Cultural geographers explore many intersections between places and writers. This study examines two memoirs (This House of Sky, Heart Earth) and three novels (English Creek, Dancing at the Rascal Fair, Ride With Me, Mariah Montana) published by Montana author Ivan Doig between 1978 and 1993. Set in his native Montana, these works have been cited for their powerful place-based imagery and language. Doig's example is used to explore the concept of …
Virtual Rivers
Mapping the ‘new’ El Dorado
The discovery of gold in Colorado in 1858 and 1859 initiated a massive influx of population into the region. Perhaps 50,000 would-be miners, merchants, and settlers reached the diggings in the first eighteen months.' With remarkable speed, knowledge of the new discoveries from the western extremities of Kansas and Nebraska territories reached civilization. Quickly, a dramatic surge of population spread into an area of the American West that heret…
Incorporation as a Factor in Formation of an Urban System
Incorporation records of business enterprises in Colorado identify interregional and intraregional urban linkages between 1859 and 1879. Interregional connections conformed to complex interdependencies that existed in the urban system east of the Mississippi River. Intraregional connections suggested that the role of Denver as a gateway was selective. Competing piedmont centers and small mining centers acted as important secondary sources of inve…
Making Heritage Through Montana's Official State Highway Maps, 1914-2000
We assess Montana highway maps produced between 1914 and 2000 to identify how the Montana Department of Transportation and its predecessors used maps to frame Montana’s place identity and heritage for promotional purposes in the twentieth century. After 1934, we document how Montana’s official state maps became a key source and shaper of tourist knowledge about the state, its history, and its attractions. Five persistent map themes—territorial id…
Cartography and capitalism
Seems like I Hardly See Them Around Anymore
Settlement, Livestock Grazing and Environmental Change in Southwest Montana, 1860–1990
The Developer's Frontier
American Sublime
Land subdivision on the Holland Purchase in western New York State, 1797–1820
Frontier Milling in Western New York
Sawmilling and gristmilling activities shaped the economic geography of the nineteenth-century eastern North American frontier. Placement and development of mills in western New York are analyzed to measure the effect of a large private land company on the geography of mills and to consider a set of general theoretical concepts that assess factors of frontier-mill location. Results illustrate the variety of assistance provided to millers by land …
Savannah '86
Incorporation as a Factor in Formation of an Urban System
Incorporation records of business enterprises in Colorado identify interregional and intraregional urban linkages between 1859 and 1879. Interregional connections conformed to complex interdependencies that existed in the urban system east of the Mississippi River. Intraregional connections suggested that the role of Denver as a gateway was selective. Competing piedmont centers and small mining centers acted as important secondary sources of inve…
Mapping the ‘new’ El Dorado
The discovery of gold in Colorado in 1858 and 1859 initiated a massive influx of population into the region. Perhaps 50,000 would-be miners, merchants, and settlers reached the diggings in the first eighteen months.' With remarkable speed, knowledge of the new discoveries from the western extremities of Kansas and Nebraska territories reached civilization. Quickly, a dramatic surge of population spread into an area of the American West that heret…
The Developer's Frontier
Revising the Meyer Model
D. R. Meyer's model of frontier urban growth hypothesizes predictable links between an emerging frontier center and the national urban system. The effectiveness of Meyer's model is evaluated through a content analysis of nonlocal economic place-name mentions in 19th century Colorado newspapers. Using Denver as a case study, the changing pattern of its links to the national urban system between 1859 and 1879 suggests elaborations and revisions in …
Town Building on the Colorado Frontier
Central place theory and the location of services in Colorado in 1899
Central Place Theory predicts the geographic distribution of services in an economy. Using the 1899 Colorado State Business Directory, this case study examines retail grocers, physicians, wholesale grocers and dentists. As predicted by the theory, the distribution of grocers, physician, and dentists closelyailable parallels population patterns. Higher order services such as dentistry are available at few centers while low order services such as g…
The Developer's Frontier
Journal Article The Developer's Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape. By William WyckofF. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xiv + 239 pp. $27.50.) Get access Graeme Wynn Graeme Wynn University of British Columbia Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 76, Issue 2, September 1989, Pages 587–588, https://doi.org/10.2307/1908017 Published: 01 September 198…
The Developer's Frontier
William Henry Jackson and the Transformation of the American Landscape
Acclaimed in the 19th century as the world's most famous landscape photographer, William Henry Jackson and his camera presided over the mapping, bounding, and settling of the American West and the larger American landscape. In this lavishly illustrated study, Peter Hales examines Jackson's effect on the ways Americans viewed their land and on the myths that sustain American culture. 198 illustrations
The Developer's Frontier
The American West
American Progress
The American Backwoods Frontier
The Developer's Frontier
Journal Article The Developer's Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape Get access The Developer's Frontier: The Making of the Western New York Landscape. By Wyckoff William. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1988. xiv + 239 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $27.50.) S. George Ellsworth S. George Ellsworth Logan, Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Wester…
Settlement, Livestock Grazing and Environmental Change in Southwest Montana, 1860–1990
Beyond the Frontier
Appalachian Frontiers
Denver's Aging Commercial Strip
During the 1950s, Colfax Avenue, in Denver, developed as one of the preeminent tourist strips in the United States. No fewer than ninety-three motels lined the street on both the east and west sides of town. This article examines the fate of those motels and, more broadly, the post-1950s evolution of the Colfax strip. The decline of the strip is related to changing traffic flows, suburbanization, economies of scale in tourist businesses, and the …
Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770-1860
Journal Article Landscape and Material Life in Franklin County, Massachusetts, 1770–1860. By J. Ritchie Garrison. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1991. xx + 314 pp. $42.50, ISBN 0-87049-680-8.) Get access William Wyckoff William Wyckoff Montana State University, Bozeman, Montana Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of American History, Volume 80, Issue 1, June 1993, Pages 250–251, https://doi…
A Method for Assessing the Planimetric Accuracy of Historical Maps
The position of linear elements on historical maps can be digitized and numerically compared with similar features on modern maps. This allows for the evaluation of amounts and rates of improvement in cartographic accuracy and of the primary sources used for the generation of subsequent maps. A case study of the Colorado-Green River system illustrates the method and documents the pace of improvement in the cartographic depiction of the river syst…
Regional Studies
What makes a region a region, and how does one region differ from another? What are the tests of evidence of regionalism? What boundaries have meaning--political, geophysical, economic, cultural, psychological, ethnic, linguistic? Are there special problems in reporting findings about life within a region? These questions and others regarding methods and interdisciplinary content run through this stimulating series of papers on the interplay of l…
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