Writing Westward Podcast

Writing Westward Podcast

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Writing Westward Podcast episodes

  • 001 - Louis Warren - God’s Red Son

    A conversation with Louis S. Warren about his book, God's Red Son: The Ghost Dance Religion and the Making of Modern America, published in 2017 by Basic Books and recipient of the 2018 Bancroft Prize.

     

    Louis Warren is the W. Turrentine Jackson Professor of Western U.S. History at the University of California, Davis. He previously authored The Hunter's Game: Poachers and Conservationists in Twentieth-Century America (Yale University Press, 1999), and Buffalo Bill's America: William Cody and The Wild West Show (Vintage Books, 2006).

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    Podcast Notes:

    • Host and Producer Brenden W. Rensink is Assistant Director of the Redd Center, an Assistant Professor of History at BYU, General Editor of the Intermountain Histories project, and author of the 2018 book Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands. Links to other publications and projects here: https://linktr.ee/bwrensink
    • Support provided by the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies at Brigham Young University.
    • Podcast Music was written and recorded by local Provo composer by Micah Dahl Anderson.
      • 1 hr 5 min

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    Conversations with writers and scholars of the North American West, hosted and produced by Prof. Brenden W. Rensink for the BYU Charles Redd Center for Western Studies