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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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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 035 - Wolters and Steel - Env. Politics and Policy of Western Public Lands
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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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Writing Westward Podcast 033 - Steven L. Peck - The Tragedy of King Leere in a Post-Apocalyptic West
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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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Redd Center Statement on Racism
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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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Writing Westward Podcast 013 - Leah Sottile - The Bundyville Podcast and Longform Western Journalism
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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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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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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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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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2016 Award Recipients
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Event Announcement: Forrest S. Cuch - A Discussion About Utah's Utes
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Sujey Vega - The Desert Diaspora: An Exploration of Latino LDS and Their Ethnic Religious Belonging
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Event Announcement: LeAnne Howe - Native Literary Transformations: or Breaking Bad
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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: Richard Francaviglia - Saint-Making and Map-Making
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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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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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