A panel presentation, “Perspectives: Three Authors Discuss Writing about the American West,” is set for Friday, Oct. 6, from 2 to 4 p.m. in the University of New Mexico Student Union Building, ballroom A.
Richard Etulain is a UNM professor emeritus of history. Author of more than 40 books, his recent publication is “Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West.” He also wrote “Telling Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry,” and “Cesar Chavez: A Brief Biography with Documents.” Etulain is the former director of the Center for the American West at UNM.
Nasario García is professor emeritus of Spanish at New Mexico Highlands University. A native New Mexican, he is considered one of the state’s leading folklorists. García authored 18 books, primarily with a focus on New Mexico’s Hispanic oral and folk history. Among his titles are “Old Las Vegas: Hispanic Memories from the New Mexico Meadowlands,” “ Chistes: Hispanic Humor of Northern New Mexico and Southern Colorado” and “Tiempos Lejanos: Poetic Images from the Past.” García retired in 2001 and currently resides in Santa Fe.
Glenda Riley is the Alexander M. Bracken Professor Emeritus of History at Ball State University in Muncie, Ind. The author of several books, her work primarily focuses on the history of women in the American West. Some of her titles include, “Confronting Race: Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1815-1915,” “Women and Nature: Saving the ‘Wild’ West,” and “Taking Land, Breaking Land: Women Colonizing the American West and Kenya, 1840-1940.”
The UNM Bookstore, UNM Press, and the Center for the Southwest present this event, which is free and open to the public. Following the panel discussion, the authors will be available to sign books.
For more information, please call 277-7494.
Media Contact: Carolyn Gonzales, (505) 277-5920; e-mail: cgonzal@unm.edu