“Perspectives: Three Authors Discuss Writing about the American West” October 6, 2006

“Perspectives: Three Authors Discuss Writing about the American West”

Featuring:

Dr. Richard Etulain, Dr. Nasario García, and Dr. Glenda Riley

*This event will feature a panel discussion with the authors, followed by a book signing*

Richard Etulain is a Professor Emeritus of History, University of New Mexico. He is the author and editor of over forty books, including his most recent publication Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West. Etulain is also the author of Cesar Chavez: A Brief Biography with Documents and Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry. Professor Etulain is the former director for the Center for the American West at the University of New Mexico and currently resides in Clackamas, Oregon.

Nasario García is Professor Emeritus of Spanish at New Mexico Highlands University. A native New Mexican, he is considered one of the state’s leading folklorists. García is author to 18 books, the majority of which focus upon New Mexico’s Hispanic oral and folk history (titles include Old Las Vegas: Hispanic Memories from the New Mexico Meadowlands, Chistes: Hispanic Humor of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado, and Tiempos Lejanos: Poetic Images from the Past). García retired in 2001 and currently resides in Santa Fe.

Glenda Riley is the Alexander M. Bracken Professor Emeritus of History at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana. She is the author of several books, most of which focus upon the history of women in the American West. Some of these titles are, Confronting Race: Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1815-1915, Women and Nature: Saving the “Wild” West, and Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840-1940.

*This event is FREE and open to the public. For more information on this event, please call 505-277-7494