Charles Redd Center for Western Studies 2013 Annual Report 954 Spencer W. Kimball Tower Brigham Young University Provo, UT 84602 801-422-4048 reddcenter.byu.edu Contents Our Mission ...........................................................1 Personnel ..............................................................1 Director’s Report: ......................................................2 Associate Director’s Report: ..............................................4 Oral History Report .....................................................8 Summary of Finances ...................................................9 Plans for 2014 .........................................................10 Lectures, Prizes, and Events .............................................13 2013 Redd Center Awardees .............................................16 2012 Charles Redd Center Award Reports .................................21 Annaley Naegle Redd Assistantship ........................................23 Charles Redd Fellowship Award in Western American History ................33 Independent and Creative Works Award ....................................49 John Topham and Susan Redd Butler BYU Faculty Research Award ............57 John Topham and Susan Redd Butler Off-Campus Faculty Research Award ......67 Public Programming Award ..............................................89 Summer Award for BYU Upper Division and Graduate Students ............ 119 Summer Award for Off-Campus Upper Division and Graduate Students. 125 Our Mission The mission of the Charles Redd Center for Western Studies is to promote the study of the Intermountain West by sponsoring research, publication, teaching, and public programs in a variety of academic disciplines including history, geography, sociology, anthropology, politics, economics, literature, art, folklore, range science, forestry, and popular culture. Personnel Faculty: Brian Q. Cannon, Director Administrative: Jessie L. Embry, Associate Director Staff: Mary Nelson, Office Specialist through September 2013 Amy Carlin, Office Specialist since September 2013 Student Employees and Interns for 2013: Michael Chavarria, Reilly Hatch, Neil Longo, Mitchell Palsson, Shaina Robbins, Katherine Wald Current Board Members: Thomas G. Alexander, James B. Allen, Val J. Anderson, Lyn Ellen Bennett, Jay Buckley, John E. Butler, Dennis Cutchins, Ed Geary, Sarah George, P. Jane Hafen, Quin Monson, Kathy Mullins, John L. Murphy, Jeff Nichols, Paul Starrs, Carol Ward, Laura Woodworth-Ney Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor of Western American History: Ignacio Garcia Lemuel Hardison Redd, Jr. Professor of Western American History Emeriti: Thomas G. Alexander, James B. Allen Visiting Scholars for 2013: Christian Heimburger, University of Colorado-Boulder; Grisell Ortega Jimenez, El Colegio de México; Elise Boxer, University of Utah 1 Director’s Report: Brian Q. Cannon Last year was a busy and productive one at the Charles Redd Center. The Center continued its traditions of underwriting the scholarship of professors, students, and independent scholars; funding prizes for articles and National History Day projects; supporting museum exhibits; and helping to fund other public programs in western studies. The monetary value of these awards approached $100,000. In the Winter Semester we sponsored lectures at BYU by Grisell Ortega from El Colegio de México, the Center’s Winter Semester visiting scholar, and Stephen Aron of UCLA. We also co-sponsored a book talk by Erin Thomas and lectures by Claudia Bushman and Jane Hafen. The Center hosted an interdisciplinary studies workshop with assistance from a steering committee of western studies faculty on April 17 under Jessie Embry’s capable direction. The event provided faculty members from numerous disciplines with the opportunity to network and plan interdisciplinary research projects. During the Fall Semester the Center sponsored a wealth of events. In September Michael Amundson of Northern Arizona University gave a talk on his book Passage to Wonderland: Re-Photographing Yellowstone Park. In October the Center sponsored a lecture by Mark Fiege of Colorado State University on his new book Republic of Nature and a lecture by Paul C. Gutjahr of Indiana University about the publishing of the Book of Mormon. The Center co-sponsored a screening with director John Valadez of his new PBS documentary on Latino Americans as well as a lecture by Katherine Jellison of Ohio University. In November the Center co-sponsored the William A. Wilson Folklore Archive Founder’s Day Lecture by Steven Siporin of Utah State University; a lecture by graduate student Jared Tamez of the University of Texas El Paso; and a talk by Loren O. Joseph, a Shoshone Paiute educator and motivational speaker. Elise Boxer from the University of Utah, a visiting scholar at the Redd Center during the Spring and Summer Terms, spoke at the Fall Semester Western Studies Faculty luncheon. In the fall Jessie Embry and I taught an interdisciplinary lecture series course, American Studies 392R, for the second time. Students in the course were treated to research presentations by a dozen guest presenters from biological sciences, humanities, and social sciences, each of whom had received research support from the Redd Center. Over the summer Jessie and I worked with over a dozen authors in revising and polishing a book manuscript, “Immigrants in the Far West: Historical Identities and Experiences,” resulting from the Redd Center’s August 2011 seminar on western immigration; the manuscript is now in press at the University of Utah with an expected release date late in 2014. This year, we also celebrated the publication of Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West, edited by Jessie Embry. This collection of sixteen essays, published by University of Arizona Press, represents the culmination of the Redd Center’s 2008 seminar on oral history. In August we said goodbye to Mary Nelson, who ably worked as our office specialist for two and a half years. We were fortunate to hire Amy Carlin, who holds a bachelor’s degree in linguistics and an editing minor, as our new office specialist. I am grateful to both Mary and Amy for their cheerfulness, efficiency, and professionalism. Director’s Report: Brian Q. Cannon In November Jessie Embry announced her plans to retire in the spring of 2014 after having worked at the Redd Center since 1979 (not counting her previous work as a student employee). I am struggling to come to terms with the tremendous loss we will experience with Jessie’s retirement. Her work at the Center during my tenure as director has been vital and I express my wholehearted appreciation for her loyalty to the Center and her wisdom. Also in the fall Charles Peterson and I received a contract from the University of Utah Press for the forth- coming publication of The Awkward State of Utah: Coming of Age in the Nation, 1896–1945. Based upon recommendations from the press’s external reviewers, we have been modestly expanding the manuscript and sharpening its interpretive dimensions. The manuscript was nominated for the press’s Wallace Stegner Prize in American Environmental and Western History. My presidential address, “Homesteading Remembered: A Sesquicentennial Perspective,” appeared in the Winter 2013 issue of Agricultural History. I chaired and commented in two sessions at the Western History Association conference, and I presented papers at the Agricultural History Society (co-presented with my former student Scott Catt) and at the European Rural History Organization’s biennial meeting. I continued to serve on the editorial board of BYU Studies, as an associate fellow at the Center for Great Plains Studies, and as an associate editor for Agricultural History. I accepted invitations to serve as a member of the editorial board for the Utah Historical Quarterly, as the program chair for the 2014 Mormon History Association meeting in San Antonio, and as the local arrange- ments co-chair for the 2014 Agricultural History Society meeting in Provo. I began work on a chapter entitled “Regions of Rural America: The Intermountain and Mountain West” for theRoutledge History of Rural America. I taught US History from 1890 to 1945, Utah History, and the second half of the US History survey course. I am grateful to our board members for their excellent suggestions and their service as judges in our awards competitions. I am also grateful to BYU and the College of Family, Home and Social Sciences for their support of the Redd Center. 3 Associate Director’s Report: Jessie L. Embry Publications “Salt Lake City,” “Polygamy,” “Pacific Islanders,” “Manifesto,” “Larry Echo Hawk,” “The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints,” “Ethnic Enclaves,” “Ezra Taft Benson,” “Asian Americans,” “Edmunds-Tucker Act,” “Endangered Species Act, 1973” (with Hannah Anderson), Encyclopedia of Politics of the American West (Sage Publisher, 2013). Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West, ed. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013). “Stories of Community and Work in the Redd Center Oral History Program,” Oral History, Community, and Work in the American West (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2013). “San Juan County Public Lands,” Blue Mountain Shadows, guest editor. Summary for The Persistence of Polygamy, Vol II for Newell Bringhurst and Craig Foster. Upcoming Publications Update of “Mormons,” Gale Encyclopedia of Multiculural America, Judy Galens, et al, eds. (Detroit, Michigan: Gale Research, Inc., 1995). “Indian Placement Program Host