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 Signature Books to Publish Selections from the Critchlow Lectures, 1990-2004!
Critchlow Lecture Series on Utah and the American West

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Past Critchlow Lectures

2007

Professor Mark Eifler
University of Portland
"The Geopolitics of the Lewis and Clark Expedition" 

2006
Professor John Mack Faragher
Yale University
"A New Look at Violence in the American West"

2005
Fred C. Adams
Utah Shakespeare Festival
"History of Theater in Utah"

2004
Robert Briggs
Fullerton, California
"The Invasion of Suthern Utah: Pre-Conditions to the 1857 Disaster at Mountain Meadows"

2003
David Haward Bain
Middlebury College
"Wasatch to Green Mountains: Tracking Bernard DeVoto, Teacher/Historian"

2002
Brad Dimock
Flagstaff, Arizona
"Sunk without a Sound: The Tragic Colorado River Honeymoon of Glen and Bessie Hyde"

2001
James P. Ronda
University of Tulsa
"By the Book: Lewis and Clarke's Voyage into Print"

2000
Carol Madsen
Brigham Young University
"Crossing the Divide: The Personal Diplomacy of Emmeline B. Wells,
Nineteenth Century Mormon Activist"

1999
Davis Bitton
University of Utah
"George Q. Cannon and the Economy of Territorial Utah"

1998
Ross Peterson
Utah State Unviersity
"When Politics were Civil: Stewart Udall's Contribution to the Humanities, 1961-1969"

1997
Thomas Alexander
Brigham Young University
"Building Zion, Restoring Eden, and Preparing for the Miiennium: 19th Century Mormon Prohets and Environment"

1996
Jean Bickmore White
Weber State University
"Dreams, Myths, and REality: A Centennial Perspective on Utah's Consitution"

1995
William Mulder
University of Utah
"In Their Own Tongue: Nordic-Language Immigrant Culture in Early Utha"

1994
Valeen Tippetts Avery
Northern Arizona University
"Contested Ground: David Hyrum Smith Comes to Utah, 1869-1875"

1993
Wayne Carver
Carleton College
"A Strickly Personal History of Baseball, Plain City, and Me"

1992
Leanard Arrignton
Utah State Unviersity
"Symbols of Growth and Development: The First National Bank of Ogden and its Affiliates"

1991
Dean May
University of Utah
"Gold, War, and the New West of the 1860s"

1990
Ronald Walker
Brigham Young University
"Women on the Utah Indian Frontier"

1990
William J. Critchlow III
Ogden, Utah
"Captain James Brown: A Founder of Ogden"

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