Books

  • Home in the Valley: Powell’s First Century. Cody, WY, Wordsworth Publishing, 2008. (Co-authored with Beryl Churchill.)
  • William F. Cody’s Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. Norman, OK, University of Oklahoma Press, 2007.
  • American Studies at Carleton: The First Fifty Years.  Carleton College, Northfield, MN, 2003.
  • Farm Town; Stories of the early history of Powell [Wyoming]. Privately published by the Powell Tribune, June 1999.
  • Land, Water, and People: The Shoshone Project Story (1998). Co-authored with Beryl Churchill. Powell, Wyo.: Shoshone Irrigation District.

Selected Articles

  • “Sarah Trimmer.” In: Paul and June Schlueter, editors. An Encyclopedia of British Women Writers. New York: Garland Publishing, 1988.
  • “Poetry and History.” History and Theory, 1975, 14.
  • “The Dam and the Valley: Land, People, and Environment below Buffalo Bill Dam in the twentieth century,” Agricultural History, 2002, 76: 272-288.
  • “Buffalo Bill Cody and Wyoming Water Politics,” Western Historical Quarterly, 2002, 33: 433-452.
  • “Local Experience and National Policy in Federal Reclamation; the Shoshone Project, 1909-1953,” Journal of Policy History, 2003, 15: 301-323.
  • “Elwood Mead, Buffalo Bill Cody, and the Carey Act in Wyoming,” Montana, the Magazine of Western History, Spring 2005, 55: 36-51.
  • “‘Law or No Law!’–Elwood Mead and the Struggle over Power Plant Revenues, Shoshone Project, 1926-1953,” in Reclamation; Managing Water in the West; The Bureau of Reclamation History Essays from the Centennial Symposium, (U. . Government Printing Office, 2008), vol. 1, 407-428.
  • “‘Not an Imaginary Picture Altogether, but Parts;’ The Artistic Legacy of Buffalo Bill Cody,” Montana, the Magazine of Western History, Spring 2011, 61: 40-59.

Selected Reviews

  • Irrigated Eden; The Making of an Agricultural Landscape in the American West, by Mark Fiege (Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1999), in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Fall 2000.
  • Drowning the Dream: California’s Water Choices at the Millennium, by David Carle (Westport, CT: Praeger, 2000), in Western Historical Quarterly, Spring 2001.
  • Groundwater Management in the West, by Jeffrey S. Ashley and Zachary A. Smith (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1999), in Western Historical Quarterly, Spring 2001.
  • Collecting Nature: The American Environmental Movement and the Conservation Library, by Andrew Kirk (Lawrence: The University Press of Kansas, 2001), in Western Historical Quarterly, Winter 2002.
  • The American West: The Invention of a Myth, by David H. Murdoch (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2001), in MONTANA; The Magazine of Western History, Summer 2002.
  • The Politics of Western Water: The Congressional Career of Wayne Aspinall, by Steven Sturgeon (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2002), in Western Historical Quarterly, Autumn 2003.
  • Water and American Government; The Reclamation Bureau, National Water Policy, and the West, 1902-1935 (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Winter 2003.