Professor Emeritus

L.G. Moses

Vita

 

• Recent Honors
  • Taught the 1994 and 1998 Larom Summer Institute in Western American Studies, Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY
• Publications
  • Wild West Shows and the Images of American Indians, 1883-1933. Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1996. (Paperback edition out Spring 1999)
  • “Interpreting the Wild West, 1883-1914,” in Margaret Connell Szasz, ed., Between Indian and White Worlds:  The Cultural Broker.  Norman: University Oklahoma Press, 1994. Ps. 158-178.
  • “Leonard Peltier,” in David De Leon, ed., Leaders of the 1960’s:  A Biographical Sourcebook of American Activism.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1994. Pp. 133-37.
  • Indian Lives: Essays on Nineteenth-and Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders.  Revised edition.  Albuquerque:  University of New Mexico Press, 1993. Edited with Raymond Wilson.
  • “Indians on the Midway:  Wild West Shows and the Indian Bureau at World’s Fairs, 1893-1904.” South Dakota History 21/3(Fall 1991): 205-229.
  • The Indian Man: A Biography of James Mooney. Urbana & London:  University of Illinois Press, 1984. Winner of the “Choice Award” from the American Library Association as the “Outstanding Academic Book, 1984”
  • “Native American Church” and “The American Indian Movement” in Armand La Potin, ed., Native American Voluntary Organizations.  Westport, CT:  Greenwood Press, 1987.
  • “The Father Tells me So!’  Wovoka, the Ghost Dance Prophet.” American Indian Quarterly 11 (Summer 1985): 97-113. Also ppears as Chapter 7 in Clifford E. Trafzer, ed. American Indian Prophets: Religious Leaders and Revitalization Movements.  Newcastle, CAA:  Sierra Oaks Publishing Co., 1986.
  • “Wild West Shows, Reformers, and the Image of the American Indian, 1883-1914.” South Dakota History 14/3(Fall 1984): 193-221. Winner of the Robinson Prize: in Western History, 1985
  • “Immigration and Ethnicity in American History College Textbooks.”  Co-authored with George M. Lubick. Teaching History 9/1 (Spring 1984): 21-32.
  • “My Father Have Pity on Me!’ Indian Revitalization Movements of the Late Nineteenth Century.”  Co-authored with Margaret Connell Szasz.  Journal of the West 21/1(January 1984): 5-15. Also appears as Chapter 1 in Ferenc M. Szasz, ed., Religion in the West.  Manhattan, KS:  Kansas University Press, 1985.
  • “National Policy for American Indians.” Encyclopedia USA. Edited by R. Alton Lee and Archie P. McDonald. Gulf Breeze, FL:  Academic International Press, 1983.
  • “James Mooney and Wovoka: An Tthnologist’s Visit with the Ghost Dance Prophet.” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 23/2(Summer 1980):  71-86. Also reprinted as among the top ten articles in The Nevada Historical Society Quarterly: A Thirty Year Retrospective (1987)
  • “James Mooney and the Peyote Controversy.” Chronicles of Oklahoma 56/-2(Summer 1978):  127-144.
  • “If there Be Sermons in Stones, I Have Not Heard Them’:  A Biography of Ross Calvin.” The Historical Magazine of the Protestant Episcopal Church 46/2 (September 1977):  333-347.