Elliott West
Ghost Dancers, Wounded Knee, and Native American Survival
Saturday, May 14, 2022
About Elliott West
Elliott West, Alumni Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Arkansas, is a specialist in the social and environmental history of the American West. He has twice been chosen as his university’s teacher of the year and, in 2009, he was one of three finalists for the Robert Foster Cherry Prize for the outstanding classroom teacher in the nation. He has written several books, including The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains (1995); The Contested Plains: Indians, Goldseekers and the Rush to Colorado (1998), winner of the Francis Parkman Prize and the OAH Ray Allen Billington Prize; and The Last Indian War: The Nez Perce Story (2009). In 2014, the University of Oklahoma Press published The Essential West: Collected Essays.