THE LAMAR SERIES IN WESTERN HISTORY

The Lamar Series in Western History includes scholarly books of general public interest that enhance the understanding of human affairs in the American West and contribute to a wider understanding of the West’s significance in the political, social, and cultural life of America. Comprising works of the highest quality, the series aims to increase the range and vitality of Western American history, focusing on frontier places and people, Indian and ethnic communities, the urban West and the environment, and the art and illustrated history of the American West.

Editorial Board

Howard R. Lamar, Sterling Professor of History Emeritus, Past President of Yale University

William J. Cronon, University of Wisconsin–Madison

Philip J. Deloria, University of Michigan

John Mack Faragher, Yale University

Jay Gitlin, Yale University

George A. Miles, Beinecke Library, Yale University

Martha A. Sandweiss, Princeton University

Virginia J. Scharff, University of New Mexico

Robert M. Utley, Former Chief Historian, National Park Service

Recent Titles

Subverting Exclusion: Transpacific Encounters with Race, Caste, and Borders, 1885–1928, by Andrea Geiger

Hell on the Range: A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West, by Daniel Justin Herman

William Clark’s World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns, by Peter J. Kastor

The Jeffersons at Shadwell, by Susan Kern

Geronimo, by Robert M. Utley

Forthcoming Titles

Welcome to Wonderland: Promoting Tourism in the Rocky Mountain West, by Peter Blodgett

The Shapes of Power: Frontiers, Borderlands, Middle Grounds, and Empires of North America, by Pekka Hämäläinen

The Shawnee Nation, by Sami Lakomaki

American Genocide: The California Indian Catastrophe, 1846–1873, by Benjamin Madley

Nature’s Noblemen: Transatlantic Masculinities and the Nineteenth-Century American West, by Monica Rico

The Rush to Gold: France and the California Gold Rush, by Malcolm J. Rohrbough

The Cherokee Diaspora, by Gregory Smithers