Richard White, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $18.95 (249p) ISBN 978-0-941423-71-7
A moving tale of racism, kidnapping, love and the loss of innocence in the Wyoming Territory of the 1880s, this intelligent western transcends its genre to achieve emotional depth and timely relevance. Josiah Grey, half black, half Native American,...
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Richard White, Author Four Walls Eight Windows $18.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-941423-73-1
The massacre at Groton, Conn., in 1781, when Benedict Arnold's troops decimated the Revolutionary militia, provides the background for this slender, affecting historical novel. Most of the characters are based on real people, and the language and...
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Richard White. Norton, $35 (736p) ISBN 978-0-393-06126-0
The transcontinental railroads "created modernity as much by their failure as by their success," writes MacArthur fellow and Parkman Prize–winning historian White in this important and deeply researched history. Often poorly built and with no real...
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Richard White, Author, James R. Grossman, Editor, Patricia Nelson Limerick, With University of California Press $30 (116p) ISBN 978-0-520-08843-6
White and Limerick analyze some of the most pervasive images of the American West, many of which are represented in a show of the same name at Chicago's Newberry Library this fall. In his contribution ``Frederick Jackson Turner and Buffalo Bill,''...
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Richard White. Oxford Univ, $35 (1,008p) ISBN 978-0-19-973581-5
This splendid history from White (Railroaded), professor of American history at Stanford, reveals why the 30 years after the Civil War do not readily draw historians to them. These decades are marked by racial violence, bitter labor strikes,...
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Richard White. Norton, $35 (384p) ISBN 978-1-324-00433-2
True crime doesn’t come more stranger than fiction than the unsolved murder of Jane Stanford (1828–1905), the widow of robber baron Leland Stanford, who died in Hawaii of strychnine poisoning a month after a previous attempt to kill her the same way
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