Bibliography for Wilbur S. Shepperson

Nonfiction:

Beatty, David and Beatty, Robert O. "Nevada: Land of Discovery" (review) in: Western Historical Quarterly (Oct. 1977), Vol. 8, p. 461. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 591 .A1 W36 1977]

Benjamin, Gilbert G. "The Germans in Texas: A Study in Immigration" (review) in American Historical Review (Oct. 1976), Vol. 81, p. 972. [Available: Knowledge Center: E 171 .A57 1976]

"Biographical Notes on Sir John Oldmixon". in Notes and Queries (Jan. 1962), Vol. IX n.s., pp. 4-5. [Available: Knowledge Center: AG 305 .N7 1962]

Blessing, Patrick J. "The British and Irish in Oklahoma" (review) in Great Plains Quarterly (Summer 1981), Vol. 1, p. 200.

"British Backtrailers: Working-Class Immigrants Return" in In the Trek of the Immigrants: Essays Presented to Carl Wittke. Rock Island, IL: Augustana College Library, 1964, pp. 179-195.

British Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period. Oxford: Blackwell, 1957. [Available: Knowledge Center: JV 6614 S44 1957]

British Views on Emigration to North America, 1837-1860. Ohio: Case Western Reserve Univ., 1951. Dissertation

Buckaroos in Paradise: Ranching Culture in Northern Nevada, 1945-1982. Washington, D.C.: Library of Congress, American Memory. (Historical Collections for the National Digital Library). Bibliography.

"California Hill People, California 1907-1925." on Nevada, One of Fifty (radio program). Program 12. Reno: Univ. of N, 1976. (Host: George Herman, English Dept.) [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: 97-02/12, audiocassette]

"The Cowboy -- One More Time." in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1986), Vol. 29, no. 1, pp. 53-61. [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 29 1986; also at WNC-Carson City]

"Cowboy Poetry: The New Folk Art." in Halcyon: A Journal of the Humanities (1987), Vol. 9, pp. 193-204. (Co-author: Judith K. Winzeler). [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: AP 2 .H14 1987]

"Cowboy Poetry: The New Folk Art" in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Fall 1986), Vol. 29, pp. 254-265.(Co-author: Judith K. Winzeler). [Available: Knowledge Center: BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 29 1986]

A Cultural History of the Federal Employment Service Movement. Denver, CO: University of Denver, 1947. Master of Arts thesis.

Douglass, William A. and Bilbao, Jon. "Amerikanuak: Basques in the New World" (review) in Pacific Historical Review (Nov. 1976), Vol. 45, pp. 618-619.

East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada. (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities). Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press, 1989. [Available: e-book via netLibrary for UNR-affiliated users only; Knowledge Center: F 841 .E27 1989; also at Great Basin College, Elko; WNC-Carson City & WNC-Fallon]

Emigration and Disenchantment: Portraits of Englishmen Repatriated from the United States. Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 1965. [Available: Knowledge Center: E 184 .B7 S48]

"The Foreign-Born Response to Nevada." in Pacific Historical Review (1970), Vol. 31, no. 1, pp. 1-18. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 851 .P18 1970]

Gray, Leslie Burns. "The Source and the Vision: Nevada's Role in the Civil War" (review) in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Fall 1990), Vol. 33, pp. 219-220. [Available: Knowledge Center: BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 33 1990]

Hale, Frederick. "Swedes in Wisconsin" (review) in Journal of the Illinois State Historical Society (Autumn 1984), Vol. 77, pp. 232-233.

Hulse, James W. Forty Years in the Wilderness: Impressions of Nevada, 1940-1980. Reno, NV : University of Nevada Press, 1986. (Foreword by Wilbur Shepperson) [Available: Knowledge Center: F 841 .H75 1986; also at Great Basin College, Elko; WNC-Carson City & WNC-Fallon]

"The Humanities: An Overview of the Reagan Years." in Halcyon: A Journal of the Humanities (1990), Vol. 12, pp. 225-244. [Available: Knowledge Center: AP 2 .H14 1990]

"The Immigrant in Nevada's Short Stories and Biographical Essays." in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1970), Vol. 13, no. 3, pp. 2-15. [Available: Knowledge Center: BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 13 1970; also at Great Basin College, Elko and WNC-Carson City]

"Immigrant Themes in Nevada Newspapers" in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1969), Vol. 12, no. 2, pp. 3-46. [Available: Knowledge Center: BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 12 1969; also at Great Basin College, Elko and WNC-Carson City]

"Immigrants in Nevada." on Nevada, One of Fifty (radio program). Program 4. Reno: Univ. of N, 1976. (Host: George Herman, English Dept.) [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: 97-02/4, audiocassette]

Knobel, Dale T. "Paddy and the Republic: Ethnicity and Nationality in Antebellum America" (review) in Illinois Historical Journal (Winter 1988), Vol. 81, pp. 305-306.

Kunkler, Anita. Hardscrabble: A Narrative of the California Hill Country. Reno : University of Nevada Press, 1975. (commentaries and notes, by Wilbur S. Shepperson, ed.). [Available: Knowledge Center: F 868 S49 K86 1975; also at Great Basin College, Elko; WNC-Carson City, and WNC-Fallon]

Laxalt, Robert. "Nevada: A Bicentennial History" (review) in Western Historical Quarterly (July 1978), Vol. 9, pp. 353-354. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 591 .A1 W36 1978]

"The Maverick and the Cowboy." in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1983), Vol. 26, no. 1, pp. 13-22. [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 26 1983 and at WNC-Carson City]

Mirage-Land: Images of Nevada. (Wilbur S. Shepperson Series in History and Humanities). Reno: Univ. of Nevada Press, 1989. (Co-author: Ann Harvey; foreword by Ann Ronald). [Available: Knowledge Center: F 841 .S54 1992; also at Great Basin College, Elko; WNC-Carson City & WNC-Fallon]

"A Modest Harangue to the National Endowment." in Halcyon (1982), pp. 141-155. [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: AP 2 .H14 1982]

"Nevada: Beautiful Desert of Buried Hopes." in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1991), Vol. 34, no 4, pp. 439-465. [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: F 741 .I32 1991]

"Nevada: Land of Discovery" (review) in: American West (July/Aug. 1977), Vol. 14, p. 55. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 591 .A1 A4 1977]; and in: Western Historical Quarterly (Oct. 1977), Vol. 8, p. 461. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 591 .A1 W36 1977]

Norelius, Eric. "The Pioneer Swedish Settlements and Swedish Lutheran Churches in America, 1845-1860" (review). in: Illinois Historical Journal (Spring 1986), Vol. 79, pp. 72-73.

"Portraits from an Antique West" in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1980), Vol. 23, no. 3, pp. 139-147. [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 23 1980]

Poulton, Helen J. The Historian's Handbook; a Descriptive Guide to Reference Works.  Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1972. (Foreword by Wilbur S. Shepperson). [Available: Knowledge Center, Reference: Z 6201 P65]

The Promotion of British Emigration by Agents for American Lands, 1840-1860. Reno, University of Nevada Press, 1954. [Available: Knowledge Center: JV 6614 S45]

Questions from the Past. (Series: Nevada Studies in History and Political Science). Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1973. Co-Authors: Neal A. Ferguson and Francis X. Hartigan. [Available: Knowledge Center: D 24 .S53; and WNC-Carson City]

Restless Strangers: Nevada's Immigrants and Their Interpreters. (The Lancehead Series: Nevada and the West). Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1970. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 850 A1 S5; also at Great Basin College, Elko; WNC-Carson City & WNC-Fallon]

Retreat to Nevada: A Socialist Colony of World War I. (The Lancehead Series: Nevada and the West). Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1966. (Co-author: John Folkes).   [Available: Knowledge Center: HX 92 .N4 S45 and also at Great Basin College, Elko; WNC-Carson City, and WNC-Fallon]

Roske, Ralph Las Vegas: A Desert Paradise (review) in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Fall 1989), Vol. 32, pp. 222-224. [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 32 1989]

Sagebrush Urbanity: Nevada's Humanities. Reno: Nevada Humanities Committee, 1990. [Available: Knowledge Center: AZ 513 .N3 S53 1990; Great Basin College, Elko; and WNC-Carson City]

Samuel Roberts: A Welsh Colonizer in Civil War Tennessee. Knoxville : University of Tennessee Press, 1961. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 445 .W5 R6]

"Sir Charles Wentworth Pilke: A Republican Baronet in Nevada" in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly. (Oct.-Dec. 1960), Vol. 3, no. 4, pp. 13-29. [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 5: Vol. 3 1960]

Six Who Returned: America Viewed by British Repatriates. Reno: University of Nevada Press, 1961. [Available: Knowledge Center: E 184 .B7 S5]

Smith, Michael M. "The Mexicans in Oklahoma" (review). in New Mexico Historical Review (July 1982), Vol. 57, pp. 304-305. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 791 .N65 1982]

"Socialist Pacifism in the American West During World War I: A Case Study" in The Historian: A Journal of History (1967), Vol. 29, no. 4, pp. 619-633. [Available: Knowledge Center: D1 .H217 1967]

Strong, Douglas H. "Tahoe: An Environmental History" (review). in Montana: a publication of the Montana Historical Society (Winter 1985), Vol. 35, pp. 69-70 [Available: Knowledge Center: F 726 .M74 1985]

"Teaching the Constitution." in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1977), Vol. 20, no. 4, pp. 252-259. [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 4: v. 20 1977; also at WNC-Carson City]

"Wanderers Hell-Bent on Plundering: A Review Essay." in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1988), Vol. 31, no. 4, pp. 276-281.  [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 4: v. 31 1988; also at WNC-Carson City]

Williams, John Hoyt. "A Great and Shining Road: The Epic Story of the Transcontinental Railroad" (review) in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Spring 1989) Vol. 32, pp. 76-78.

Biographical Sources & Critical Response:

The Author's and Writer's Who's Who. 6th ed. Darien, CT: Hafner Pub., 1971. [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: Z 1010 .I57 6th 1971]

The Blue Book: Leaders of the English-Speaking World. London: St. James, 1976.

British Emigration to North America: Projects and Opinions in the Early Victorian Period. (reviews) in:

• American Quarterly (Spring 1958), Vol. 10, no. 1, p. 83. [Available: Knowledge Center: AP 2 .A3985 1958]
• Dalhousie Review (1958), Vol. 38, p. 129
• American Historical Review (Jan. 1958), Vol. 63, No. 2, p. 473
• American Academy of Political and Social Science, Annals (1957), Vol. 313, p. 187 [Available: Knowledge Center: H 1 .A4 1957]
• Canadian Historical Review (1958), Vol. 39, p. 158. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 1001 .C27 1958]
• Catholic Historical Review (1958), Vol. 43, p. 508. [Available: Knowledge Center: BX 1404 .C3 1958]
• English Historical Review (1958), Vol. 73, p. 735
• Indiana Magazine of History (1957), Vol. 53, p. 469
• Journal of Economic History (March 1958), Vol. 18, no. 1, p. 122; in Minnesota History (1957), Vol. 35, p. 374
• Mississippi Valley Historical Review (Dec. 1957), Vol. 44, no. 3, p. 552
  New York Historical Society Quarterly (1959), Vol. 43, p. 364
• Ohio History (1957), Vol. 66, p. 433
• Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography (1958), Vol. 82, p. 119
  Wisconsin Magazine of History (1958), Vol. 41, p. 308.

Contemporary Authors. 1st revision. Detroit, MI: Gale Research, 1967, Vols. 1-4, p. 859. [Available: Knowledge Center: Ref Z 1224 .C6 and online via the Library web site's Gale Literature Resource Center database]

Contemporary Authors, New Revision Series. Detroit: GaleResearch, 1982. Vol. 6. [Available: Knowledge Center: Ref Z 1224 .C62 and online via the Library web site's Gale Literature Resource Center database]

Directory of American Scholars. 6th-8th eds. Lancaster, PA: Science Press, 1974, 1978, 1982. [Available: Knowledge Center: LA2311 .D576 Vol. 1]

"East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada" (review) in Montana (Spring 1990), Vol. 40, pp. 88-89. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 726 .M74 1990]

"East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada" (review) in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Fall 1990), Vol. 33, pp. 219-220. [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 33 1990]

"East of Eden, West of Zion: Essays on Nevada" (review) in Pacific Quarterly Review (Fall 1990), Vol. 59, pp. 121-122. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 851 .P18 1990]

Emigration and Disenchantment: Portraits of Englishmen Repatriated from the United States (reviews):

• American Historical Review (1966), Vol. 71, no. 2, p. 564; in American Notes and Queries (1965), Vol. IV, pp. 61-63 [Available: Knowledge Center: PE1 .A569 1965]
• American Jewish Historical Quarterly (1966-67), Vol. 56, p. 134
• Economic History Review (Brit) (n.s., 1968), Vol. 21, p. 199
• Economic History Review (US) (1968), Vol. 21, p. 199
• The Historian (1966), Vol. 28, p. 679 [Available: Knowledge Center: D 1 .H217 1966]
• International Migration Review (Spring 1969), Vol. 3, no. 2, p. 116
• Journal of American History (March 1965-66), Vol. 52, no. 4, p. 849
• New York Historical Society Quarterly (1966), Vol. 50, p. 301
• Pacific Northwest Quarterly (1967), Vol. 58, p. 101. [Available: Knowledge Center: F852 .P23 1967]
• Wisconsin Magazine of History (1967), Vol. 50, p. 184.

History and Humanities: Essays in Honor of Wilbur S. Shepperson. Reno, NV: Univ. of Nevada Press, 1989. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 841.5 H57 1989; Great Basin College, Elko; Western NV Community College, Carson City & Fallon]

Hulse, James W. "The Elliott-Shepperson Era in Nevada History." in Halcyon (1994) Vol. 16, pp. 197-204. [Available: Knowledge Center: AP2 .H14 1994]

"Mirage-Land: Images of Nevada" (review) in Idaho Yesterdays (1994), Vol. 38, no. 1, p. 32. [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: F 741 .I32 1994]

"Mirage-Land: Images of Nevada" (review) in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (Winter 1992), Vol. 35, pp. 272-273. [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 35 1992]

"Mirage-Land: Images of Nevada" (review) in Utah Historical Quarterly (Winter 1993), Vol. 61, p. 106. [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: F 821 .U92 1993]

The Promotion of British Emigration by Agents for American Lands, 1840-1860 (reviews) in:

• Canadian Historical Review (1954), Vol. 35, p. 352. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 1001 .C27 1954]
• Southwestern Historical Quarterly (1956), Vol. 60, p. 333.

Restless Strangers: Nevada's Immigrants and Their Interpreters (reviews) in:

• American West (1971), Vol. 8, no. 4, p. 52. [Available: Knowledge Center: F591 .A1 A4 1971]
• Arizona and the West (1971), Vol. 13, p. 393. [Available: Knowledge Center: F806 .A69 1971]; in CLIO: An International Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History (1972) Vol. 1, no. 3, pp. 82-83
• International Migration Review (Spring 1972), Vol. 6, no. 1, p. 80
• Montana (1971), Vol. 21, no. 3, p. 71. [Available: Knowledge Center: F726 .M74 1971]
• Pacific Historical Review (1972), Vol. 41, p. 117. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 851 .P18 1972]
• Pacific Northwest Quarterly (1973), Vol. 64, p. 41. [Available: Knowledge Center: F852 .P23 1973]
• Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal (1971), Vol. 8, no. 2, p. 146. [Available: Knowledge Center: H1 .R6 1971]
• Southern California Quarterly (1971), Vol. 53, p. 372. [Available: Knowledge Center: F867 .H67 1971]
• Western States Jewish Historical Quarterly (1973), Vol. 6, p. 73. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 591 .W469 1973]

Retreat to Nevada: A Socialist Colony of World War I (reviews) in:

• American Historical Review (April 1967), Vol. 72, no. 3, p. 1116
• Arizona and the West (1967), Vol. 9, p. 187. [Available: Knowledge Center: F806 .A69 1967]
• California Historical Society Quarterly (1968), Vol. 47, p. 356. [Available: Knowledge Center: F856 .C24 1968]
• Journal of American History (March 1967), Vol. 53, no. 4,  p.844
• Pacific Historical Review (1967), Vol. 36, p. 358. [Available: Knowledge Center: F851 .P18 1967]
• Pacific Northwest Quarterly (1967), Vol. 58, p. 162. [Available: Knowledge Center: F852 .P23 1967]
• Rocky Mountain Social Science Journal (1968), Vol. 5, no. 1, p. 163. [Available: Knowledge Center: H1 .R6 1968]
• Utah Historical Quarterly (1967), Vol. 35, p. 272. [Available: Knowledge Center, Special Collections: F 821 .U92 1967]

Rowley, William D. "In Memoriam: Wilbur S. Shepperson (1919-1991)." in Nevada Historical Society Quarterly (1991), Vol. 34, no 4, pp. 516-517. [Available: Knowledge Center, BGIC: 29-H 62 4: Vol. 34 1991]

"Samuel Roberts: A Welsh Colonizer in Civil War Tennessee" (reviews) in: The Historian (1962), Vol. 24, p. 536. [Available: Knowledge Center: D 1 .H217 1962]; in Ohio History (1962), Vol. 71, p. 69.

Szasz, Ferenc M. Scots in the North American West, 1790-1917.  Norman, OK: Univ. of Oklahoma Press, 2000. [Available: Knowledge Center: F 596.3 S3 S93 2000]

Who's Who in America. 38th-48th eds. Wilmette, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1974-1994. [Available: Knowledge Center: E 176 .W642]

Who's Who in the West. 23rd-24th eds. Chicago, IL: Marquis Who's Who, 1992/93-1994/95. [Available: Knowledge Center: E 176 .W646]

Winzeler, Judith. "Wilbur S. Shepperson: May 23, 1919-September 21, 1991." in Halcyon (1993) Vol. 15, pp. vii-x. [Available: Knowledge Center: AP2 .H14 1993]

The Writers Directory. 4th-11th eds. New York : St. Martins Press, 1980/82-1994/96. [Available: Knowledge Center: PN 451 .W7]