Susan Lee Johnson

Life

Awards

• 2001 Bancroft Prize

  Works

• Writing Kit Carson: Fallen Heroes in a Changing West. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
• The Lesbian Issue: Essays from Signs, co-edited with Estelle Freedman, Barbara Gelpi, and Kath Weston.
• “Writing Kit Carson in the Cold War: ‘The Family,’ ‘The West,’ and Their Chroniclers,” in On the Borders of Love and Power: Families and Kinship in the Intercultural American Southwest, ed. David Wallace Adams and Crista DeLuzio, pp. 278-318.
• “Nail This to Your Door: A Disputation on the Power, Efficacy, and Indulgent Delusion of Western Scholarship that Neglects the Challenge of Gender and Women’s History,” Pacific Historical Review 79, no. 4 : 605-17.
• “The Last Fandango: Women, Work, and the End of the California Gold Rush,” in Riches for All: The California Gold Rush and the World, ed. Kenneth N. Owens, pp. 230-63.
• “‘A memory sweet to soldiers’: The Significance of Gender in the History of the ‘American West,’” Western Historical Quarterly 24, no. 4. Reprinted in:
• *Clyde Milner ed. A New Significance: Re-envisioning the History of the American West, New York: Oxford University Press,
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• "The United States of Jessie Benton Fremont: Corresponding with the Nation", Reviews in American History, Volume 23, Number 2, June 1995