Frontier Meditations

Since 2017, historian Erik J. Wright has interviewed many of the leading historians of the American West. This book is a collection of many of those candid discussions. Published between 2017 and 2023 in The Tombstone Epitaph and the Journal of the Wild West History Association, Wright's interviews have helped shed new light on Western historiography and what it means to be a historian in the 21st-century. Included are the last known public interviews with renowned historians Robert M. Utley and Robert K. DeArment as well as talks with Pulitzer Prize winning-writers and leading experts in the field of Western expansion, violence, outlawry, and warfare.