History 4110
People of the West
You will be assigned one ethnic group in a state/region of the West. Prepare a brief essay in which you discuss at least one monograph done in at least the past ten years on the particular group. Identify the major issues addressed, and the methodology employed. Give a personal assessment of the quality of the monograph.
Pacific Northwest Indians
Eastern Europeans in Western mining
Nebraska immigrant ranchers
Mexican Americans, Utah
Germans from Russia,
Nebraska
African-Americans, West Coast (Civil War period or before)
Hutterites, Montana and the Dakotas
Chinese and Black interaction in the West
Scandinavians, Pacific Northwest timber industry
Chinese, British Columbia/Pacific Northwest
Mennonites, northern plains
Italians/Greeks, southeastern Utah
Irish, Butte, Mont.
“Buffalo soldiers” (African-Americans in the frontier army)
African-Americans, Seattle
Portuguese in the West
Chinese in the Rocky Mountain West
Jews in the intermountain West
Native American-African American relations in the 19th century West
Mexican-Americans, Colorado