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Winter 2025 Lectures

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Writing Westward Podcast 069 - James Tejani - A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth

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CFP - Outdoor Recreation History in the North American West Seminar (Aug. 7-8, 2025)

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Writing Westward Podcast 068 - Holly Guise - Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II

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Writing Westward Podcast 067 - Brent M. Rogers - Buffalo Bill and the Mormons

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Writing Westward Podcast 066 - Zak Podmore - Life After Dead Pool

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Fall 2024 Newsletter (Vol. 14)

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Fall 2024 Lectures

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Writing Westward Podcast 065 - Julie Carr - Mud, Blood, and Ghosts

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2024 Award Recipients

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Writing Westward Podcast 064 - Lyndsie Bourgon - Tree Thieves

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Writing Westward Podcast 063 - Andrew Curley - Carbon Sovereignty

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Clarence Dixon Taylor Award Winners

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Writing Westward Podcast 062 - Peter Boag - Pioneering Death

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Writing Westward Podcast 061 - Navied Mahdavian - This Country

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2024 Awards and Funding from the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

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Winter 2024 Newsletter (Vol. 13)

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Winter 2024 Lectures

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Writing Westward Podcast 060 - Natalia Molina - A Place at the Nayarit

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Writing Westward Podcast 059 - Sarah Keyes - American Burial Ground

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Writing Westward Podcast 058 - Heather Hansman - Powder Days

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Writing Westward Podcast 057 - Molly P. Rozum - Grasslands Grown

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Fall 2023 Newsletter (Vol. 12)

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Writing Westward Podcast 056 - Michael K. Johnson - Speculative Wests

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Writing Westward Podcast 055 - Ellen Wohl - Secrets Mountain Ecosytems and the Afterlife of Trees

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Fall 2023 Lectures

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Writing Westward Podcast 054 - Andrea Geiger - Converging Empires

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Writing Westward Podcast 053 - Melissa L. Sevigny - Brave the Wild River

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2023 Award Recipients

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Writing Westward Podcast 052 - Bryce Andrews - Holding Fire

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Writing Westward Podcast 051 - Craig Childs - Tracing Time - Seasons of Rock Art

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Writing Westward Podcast 050 - Anne F. Hyde - Born of Lakes and Plains

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Winter 2023 Newsletter (Vol. 11)

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Writing Westward Podcast 049 - Timothy Bowman - You Will Never Be One of Us

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Winter 2023 Lectures

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2023 Awards and Funding from the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

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Writing Westward Podcast 048 - Alaina E. Roberts - I've Been Here All the While

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Writing Westward Podcast 047 - Cameron Blevins - Paper Trials

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Writing Westward Podcast 046 - Kevin Waite - West of Slavery

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Fall 2022 Newsletter (Vol. 10)

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Writing Westward Podcast 045 - Josh Garrett-Davis - What is a Western?

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Writing Westward Podcast 044 - Robert Chaney - The Grizzly in the Driveway

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Call for Papers - Religion in the American West Seminar Workshop (June 2023)

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Fall 2022 Lectures

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Writing Westward Podcast 043 - Christian S. Harrison - All the Water the Law Allows

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Writing Westward Podcast 042 - Jon T. Coleman - Nature Shock: Getting Lost in America

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Writing Westward Podcast 041 - Corinna Cook - Leavetakings

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2022 Award Recipients

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Redd Center 50th Anniversary Jubilee

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Writing Westward Podcast 040 - Sarah Deutsch - Making a Modern U.S. West

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Writing Westward Podcast 039 - Sara Humphreys - Manifest Destiny 2.0

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Writing Westward Podcast 038 - James McGrath Morris - Tony Hillerman, A Life

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Writing Westward Podcast 037 - Ryanne Pilgeram - Pushed Out

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Winter 2022 Lectures

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Winter 2022 Newsletter (Vol. 09)

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2022 Awards and Funding from the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

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2021 Fall Newsletter (vol. 08)

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Fall 2021 Lecture Schedule

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Writing Westward Podcast 036 - Andrea Ross - Unnatural Selection

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Writing Westward Podcast 034 - Benjamin Hoy - A Line of Blood and Dirt

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2020 Clarence Dixon Taylor Awardees

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2021 Award Recipients

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Writing Westward Podcast 032 - Tiffany Midge - Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's

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Writing Westward Podcast 031 - Susan Lee Johnson - Writing Kit Carson

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Writing Westward Podcast 030 - Janne Lahti - The American West and the World

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2021 Winter Newsletter (vol. 07)

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Winter 2021 Redd Center Lectures

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Writing Westward Podcast 029 - James R. Skillen - This Land is My Land

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2021 Awards and Funding from the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

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Writing Westward Podcast 028 - Bathsheba Demuth - Floating Coast

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Writing Westward Podcast 027 - Barney Scout Mann - Journeys North

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Writing Westward Podcast 026 - Sherry Smith - Bohemians West

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Writing Westward Podcast 025 - Dewey, O'Brien, & Powell - Great Plains Weather, Bison, & Birds

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2020 Fall Newsletter (vol. 06)

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Clarence Dixon Taylor Award Winners

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Writing Westward Podcast 024 - Justin Farrell - Billionaire Wilderness

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Writing Westward Podcast 023 - Jeff Metcalf - Back Cast, Fly-Fishing and Other Such Matters

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Writing Westward Podcast 022 - Maurice Crandall - These People Have Always Been a Republic

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Writing Westward Podcast 021 - Robert Lee - Land-grab Universities

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2020 Award Recipients

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Writing Westward Podcast 020 - Miroslava Chávez-García - Migrant Longing

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Writing Westward Podcast 019 - Monica Martinez - The Injustice Never Leaves You

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Postponed Events

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Writing Westward Podcast 018 - Megan Kate Nelson - The Three-Cornered War

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Writing Westward Podcast 017 - Jack Nisbet - The Dreamer and the Doctor

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2020 Winter Newsletter (vol. 05)

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2020 Awards and Funding from the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

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Writing Westward Podcast 016 - Frank Bergon - The New Old West

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Winter 2020 Lecture Series

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Writing Westward Podcast 015 - Manu Karuka - Empire's Tracks

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Writing Westward Podcast 014 - Rebecca Robinson and Stephen Strom - Voices and Views from Bears Ears

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2019 Fall Newsletter (vol. 4)

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Writing Westward Podcast 012 - Debra Gwartney - I Am a Stranger Here Myself

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Writing Westward Podcast 011 - Eric Perramond - Unsettled Waters

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Fall 2019 Lecture Series

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Writing Westward Podcast 010 - John Branch - The Last Cowboys: A Pioneer Family in the New West

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Writing Westward Podcast 009 - David A. Chang - Native Hawaiian Geographies of Exploration

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2019 Award Winners Announcement

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Writing Westward Podcast Ep. 008 - Beth Lew-Williams - The Chinese Must Go

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Writing Westward Podcast Episode 007 - Terence Young - Heading Out: A History of American Camping

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Writing Westward Podcast Episode 006 - Flannery Burke: A Land Apart

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Writing Westward Podcast Episode 005 - Tacey M. Atsitty: Rain Scald, Poems

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2019 Winter Newsletter (Vol. 3)

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Winter 2019 Newsletter

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2019 Awards, Grants, and Fellowships from the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

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Writing Westward Podcast Episode 004 - Stephen Pyne: Fire in the American West

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2019 Winter Lecture Series

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Writing Westward Podcast Episode 003 - Benjamin Johnson, Escaping the Dark Gray City

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Writing Westward Podcast Episode 002 - Victoria Lamont, Westerns: A Women's History

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Writing Westward Podcast Episode 001 - Louis S. Warren, God's Red Son

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CFP - New Modern Histories of the 21st Century West

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Fall 2018 Newsletter (Vol. 2)

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Fall 2018 Newsletter, announcing a new...

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2018 Fall Lecture Series

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New Redd Center Director

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2018 Award, Grant, and Fellowship Winners Announcement

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Spring 2018 Newsletter (Vol. 1)

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Our inaugural newsletter. To be added to the...

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2018 Awards, Grants, and Fellowships from the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

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2018 Winter/Spring Lectures and Events

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2017 Fall Lecture Series

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2017 Award, Grant, and Fellowship Winners Announcement

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2017 Awards, Grants, and Fellowships from the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies

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Announcing 2017 Winter/Spring Lectures

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Announcing the Fall 2016 Lecture Series

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Event Announcement: Tacey Atsitty - Poetry Reading from "Rain Scald"

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Tuesday, May 31, 2016       A Poetry Reading...

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2016 Award Recipients

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Event Announcement: Forrest S. Cuch - A Discussion About Utah's Utes

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Event Announcement: LeAnne Howe - Native Literary Transformations: or Breaking Bad

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Tuesday, March 1, 2016   Native Literary...

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Shelley Fishkin - Seeing Absence, Listening to Silence

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James F. Brooks - Mesa of Sorrows: Archaeology, History, and the Ghosts of Awat'ovi Pueblo

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W. Paul Reeve: From Not White Enough to Too White: Rethinking the Mormon Racial Story

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Upcoming Winter 2016 Redd Center Lectures

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2016 Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

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Congrats to Omar S. Valerio-Jiménez

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Event Announcement - Leisl Childers: Making Sense of Mustangs and Mushroom Clouds

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Event Announcement: Sarah Fox - Stories from Downind: A People's History of the Nuclear West

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Event Announcement: Oct. 15 - Michel Hogue - Metis and the Medicine Line

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Event Announcement: Oct. 1 - Peter Nabokov - "The Hunts of Acoma"

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The Redd Center will host the second lecture in...

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Event Announcement: Sept. 17 - Peter Goin, "Re-Visiting Tahoe: Then & Now, A Visual History"

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Event Announcement: Sept. 10 - Lecture on Dams, Reservoirs, and Water Storage

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Event Announcement: BYU Conference on Icelanders in the West

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Date Change for Thursby Lecture

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Fall Lecture Series Webcasts

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Announcing the Fall 2015 Lecture Series

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Free Symposium on the Life and Times of Major Howard Egan

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2015 Award Announcement

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