Expanding Horizon

Elliott West’s Continental Reckoning, plus a Texas Ranger history, a dual biography of Cody and Hickok, a novel of the Mississippi frontier and a Californio biography.     I first became aware of Elliott West’s scholarship while in graduate school in the 1990s. West’s Growing Up With the Country: Childhood on the Far-Western Frontier (1989), The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains (1995) and The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers, and the Rush to Colorado (