Select Articles Published
by Professor Richard W. Slatta This listing does not include published books and more than one hundred op-ed pieces and reviews of books, software, and music.
Areas of Research and Publication in this Bibliography:
  • Comparative History
  • Latin American History
  • Ethnohistory [Hispanic American/Latino & Native American]
  • American West/ Cowboys
  • Electronic Educational/ Computing

    Comparative History

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    1. "Comparing and Exploring Frontier Myth and Reality in Latin America." History Compass, 10: 5 (May 2012): 375-85.
    2. “The Whys and Wherefores of Comparative Frontier History.” Journal of the West, 42: 1 (Winter 2003): 8-13.
    3. "Spanish Colonial Mililtary Strategy and Ideology." in Contested Ground, ed. Donna J. Guy and Thomas Sheridan (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 1998).
    4. "Social History in the Saddle: Trailing the History of the Cowboys of the Americas." Lubbock: Texas Tech University: International Center for Arid and Semiarid Land Studies, publication number 98-1. 1998 (30-page pamphlet).
    5. "Historical Frontier Imagery in the Americas." in Changing Boundaries in the Americas, edited by Lawrence A. Herzog (LaJolla, CA: UCSD Center of US-Mexican Studies, 1992), pp. 25-46.
    6. "Comparative Frontier Social Life: Western Saloons and Argentine Pulperias." Great Plains Quarterly, 7: 3 (Summer 1987): 155-165.
    7. "Llaneros and Gauchos: A Comparative View." Inter- American Review of Bibliography, 35: 4 (1985): 409-421.
    8. "Gauchos, llaneros y cowboys: Un aporte ala historia comparada." Boletin Americanista, 34 (1984): 193-208.
    9. "Cowboys, Gauchos, and Llaneros." Persimmon Hill, 12: 4 (1983): 8-23.
    10. "Cowboys and Gauchos." Americas, 33:3 (Mar. 1981):3- 8.
    11. "Gaucho and Gaucho: Comparative Socioeconomic Change in Rio Grande do Sul and Buenos Aires Province, 1869- 1920." Estudos Ibero-Americanos, 6: 2 (Dec. 1980): 191-202.
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      Latin American History

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    12. "America's First Cowboys." Persimmon Hill, Spring 1997: 15-18 (with Jody G. Martin).
    13. "South America's Cowboys." Cowboys & Indians, 5: 2 (May 1997): 60-65.
    14. "Vaqueros & Charros: Mexico's Horsemen." Cowboys & Indians, 2: 4 (Winter 1994): 26-32.
    15. "Banditry" and "Gauchos, Llaneros." in Encyclopedia of Social History, edited by Peter N. Stearns. New York: Garland, 1994, pp. 76-78, 294-96.
    16. "History Since 1850." in Latin America and the Caribbean: A Critical Guide to Research Sources, edited by Paula H. Covington. Westport: Greenwood Press, 1992, pp. 377-86.
    17. "Banditry and Rural Social History: A Comment on Joseph." Latin American Research Review, 26: 1 (1991): 145-51. "Banditry as Political Participation in Latin America."
    18. Criminal Justice History: An International Review, 11 (1990): 171-87.
    19. "Continuities in Crime and Punishment: Buenos Aires, 1820- 50." (with Karla Robinson), in The Problem of Order in Changing Societies: Essays on Crime and Policing in Argentina and Uruguay, edited by Lyman Johnson, Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 1990: 19-45.
    20. "'Civilization' Battles 'Barbarism': Argentine Frontier Strategies, 1516-1880." Inter-American Review of Bibliography, 39: 2 (1989): 177-94 (reprinted in expanded form in James C. Bradford, ed. The Military Conflict Between Cultures (Texas A&M University Press, forthcoming).
    21. "Recent Literature on the Latin American Military." Military Affairs, 51: 2 (Apr. 1987): 75-78.
    22. "The Demise of the Gaucho and the Rise of Equestrian Sport in Argentina." Journal of Sport History, 13: 2 (Summer 1986): 97-110.
    23. "The Gaucho in Argentina's Quest for National Identity." Canadian Review of Studies in Nationalism, 12: 1 (1985): 99-122 (reprinted in David J. Weber and Jane M. Rausch, eds. Where Cultures Meet: The Frontier in Latin American History (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 1994, pp. 151- 64).
    24. "El llanero y el hato venezolano: Un aporte bibliografico." South Eastern Latin Americanist, 29: 2-3 (Sept.-Dec. 1985): 33-41 (with Arturo Alvarez D'Armas).
    25. "El gaucho argentino." in Marginados, fronterizos, rebeldes y oprimidos, ed. by Miguel Izard. Barcelona: Ediciones del Serbal, 1984, vol. II: 323-35.
    26. "Pulperias and Contraband Capitalism in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires Province." The Americas, 38: 3 (Jan. 1982): 347-62.
    27. "Rural Criminality and Social Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Buenos Aires Province." Hispanic American Historical Review, 60: 3 (Aug. 1980): 450-72 (reprinted in Readings in Latin American History: The Modern Experience, ed. John J. Johnson et al., Duke University Press, 1985).
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      Ethnohistory

    28. “Cowboys of Color in South America” Blackpast.org 2010,
    29. "Indians of the Wild West Shows." Cowboys & Indians, 6: 1 (March 1998): 80-85, 131.
    30. "The Indian and the Horse." Cowboys & Indians, 2: 2 (Summer 1994): 48-54 (with Corinne Frist Glover).
    31. "Hispanics in Oregon: A Demographic Profile." in Nosotros, The Hispanic People of Oregon: Essays and Recollections, ed. Erasmo Gamboa and Carolyn M. Buan (Portland: Oregon Council for the Humanities, 1995), pp. 7-10.
    32. "Hispanics in the Pacific Northwest: A Demographic Profile, 1980." Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 75: 3 (July 1984): 108-16 (with Maxine P. Atkinson).
    33. "Chicanos in the Pacific Northwest: A Demographic and Socioeconomic Portrait." Pacific Northwest Quarterly, 70: 4 (Oct. 1979): 155-62.
    34. "Chicanos in the Pacific Northwest: An Historical Overview of Oregon's Chicanos." Aztlan, 6: 3 (Fall 1975): 327- 40.
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      History of the American West

    35. "'Just a Continual Rumble and Roar': A Texas Cowboy Remembers an 1884 Cattle Drive." Southwestern Historical Quarterly, 94: 2 (October 2010): 172-79.
    36. "Making and Unmaking Myths of the American Frontier." European Journal of American Culture, 29: 2 (2010): 81-92.
    37. Molly Kruckenberg and Richard W. Slatta. “‘$30 a month for all summer and don’t have to work Sundays.’: Letters from Cowboy Earl J. Martin.” South Dakota History, 38, 2 (Summer 2008): 125-47.
    38. “Simple Pleasures of the Old West.” Cowboys & Indians, 39 (March 1999): 110-15.
    39. "Romance and Hardship: C. J. Belden: Wyoming's Celebrated Cowboy Photographer." Cowboys & Indians, 6: 6 (January 1999): 132-37, 178, 189.
    40. "E. E. Smith, Cowboy Photographer." Cowboys & Indians, 5: 6 (January 1998): 76-83.
    41. "No Honor Among Thieves: Old West Outlaws." Cowboys & Indians, 4: 5 (Winter 1996): 96-99, 152-54.
    42. "Foreword" to Philip Ashton Rollins, The Cowboy Reprint, Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1997.
    43. Remington Writes the West." Persimmon Hill, 24: 3 (Autumn 1996): 70-72.
    44. "Wild Women of the Old West." Cowboys & Indians, Winter 1996.
    45. "Life and Death of the Great Trail Drives." Cowboys & Indians, 4: 3 (Fall 1996): 42-47.
    46. "Cowboy Hardware." Cowboys & Indians. 4: 2 (Summer 1996): 36-41 (with Mark Mayer).
    47. "The Ten Worst Cowboy Movies Ever."Persimmon Hill, 24: 1 (Spring 1996): 80-82.
    48. "Cowboy President: Roosevelt in the Badlands." Cowboys & Indians, 3: 4 (Winter 1995): 42-48.
    49. "The Sound of the West: A Cowboy's Spurs." Cowboys & Indians, 3: 2 (Summer 1995): 10-18 (with Mark Mayer).
    50. "Regulators of the Old West." Cowboys & Indians, 3: 1 (Spring 1995): 10-18.
    51. "America's Breed: The Quarter Horse." Cowboys & Indians, 3: 1 (Spring 1995): 20-27.
    52. "Foreword" to Margot Liberty and Barry Head, Working Cowboy: Recollections of Ray Holmes (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1995), pp. xi-xvi.
    53. "Saloon Life in the Old West." Cowboys & Indians, 2: 3 (Fall 1994): 32-42.
    54. "Modern Cowboy Minstrel: Michael Martin Murphey." Western Styles, 2: 4 (August 1994): 28-34.
    55. "Roots of Rodeo." Cowboys & Indians, 2: 1 (Spring 1994): 18-22 (reprinted in Rodeo Magazine, 1994).
    56. "In Their Own Words: Cowboy Memoirs." Cowboys & Indians, 2: 1 (Spring 1994): 45-50.
    57. "Cowboying at the Chapman-Barnard Ranch." Persimmon Hill, 21: 3 (Spring 1993): 36-41 (with Jeanne Ronda).
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      Educational Computing

      CD ROMs
    58. "Freeware for Writers." Roundup Magazine, (August 1999): 22, 33.
    59. “Riding the Cyber Range.” Roundup Magazine, 6: 4 (April 1999): 36-37.
    60. "Cowboys & Indians Ride the World Wide Web." Cowboys & Indians, 5: 4 (September 1997): 34.
    61. "Just Beyond the Horizon: Computing and History in 1995." History Microcomputer Review, 11: 2 (Fall 1995): 15-22.
    62. "Selecting a Microcomputer." History Microcomputer Review, 8: 2 (Fall 1992): 22-30.
    63. "HMR Forum: The State of Academic Computing in History." History Microcomputer Review, 8: 2 (Fall 1992): 11-21.
    64. "Laptop Power for History on the Road." History Microcomputer Review, 7: 2 (Fall 1991): 25-34 (with Gordon D. Newby).
    65. "HyperHistory: A New Way of Seeing and Teaching History." Collegiate Microcomputer, 9: 4 (November 1991): 202-04.
    66. Co-editor, International Journal of Social Education, 5: 1 (Spring 1990), special issue, "Technology and Education;" co- author, "Introduction," pp. 7-10.
    67. "Historians and Microcomputing, 1989." Social Science Computer Review, 7: 4 (Winter 1989): 446-58.
    68. "Microcomputers in Historical Research and Writing: Course Suggestions and a Sample Syllabus." Council of Chairs Newsletter, Oct. 1988: 5-12.
    69. "The Army Marches Online." Link-Up, March/April 1988: 20-21, 26 (on an online network for Army historians).
    70. "Students Discuss Microcomputers and History." History Microcomputer Review, 3: 2 (Fall 1987): 7-16.
    71. "Telecommunications for Historians: ScholarNet." OAH Newsletter, May 1987: 17- 18.
    72. "ScholarNet: The Beginning of a World2/1/97 5:05:56 PM Academic Community." The Futurist, 21: 2, March/April 1987: 17-19.
    73. "ScholarNet: Telecomputing for the Humanities and Social Sciences." Social Studies Teacher, 8: 3 (Feb./Mar. 1987): 9-10.
    74. "Telecommunications for Historians." History Microcomputer Review, 2: 2 (Fall 1986): 25-34.
    75. "Telecommunications for the Humanities and Social Sciences." Microcomputers for Information Management, 3: 2 (June 1986): 91-110.
    76. "Networking: Stay Current with Ideas and Colleagues in Your Profession." Family Computing, May 1986: 32, 34.
    77. "dBase II/III Books for Scholars: An Introduction to dBase Literature." Collegiate Microcomputer, 4: 1 (Feb. 1986): 27-37.
    78. "Online Scholars." Link-Up, Jan. 1986: 17, 24. "Database Design with dBase III: An Introduction and Tutorial." Social Science Microcomputer Review, 3: 2 (Summer 1985): 115-27.
    79. "Teaching Writing with the Microcomputer." TOPIC: A Journal of the Liberal Arts, 39 (Fall 1985): 47-55.
    80. "Data Base Management Software and Historical Research." History Microcomputer Review, 1: 2 (Fall 1985): 16-27.
    81. "Teaching Historical Research Methods with Data Base Software." History Microcomputer Review, 1: 2 (Fall 1985): 28-35.
    82. "Make Mine Heavenly." Electronic Education, Sept. 1985, p. 22 (how to organize a school computer user group).
    83. "Telecomputing Services, Teaching, and Research." Collegiate Microcomputer, 3: 1 (Feb. 1985): 23-28.
    84. "The Banquet's Set." Electronic Education (Jan. 1985): 12-13 (on researching online databases).
    85. "Portables on Campus." Portable Companion (Nov. 1984): 36-39 (with John David Smith).
    86. "Teaching Historical Research with a Microcomputer." The History Teacher, 18: 1 (Nov. 1984): 45-55.
    87. "Professional Connections." Link-Up, Aug. 1984: 14, 17, 19.
    88. "dBase II On Campus." Data Based Advisor Apr. 1984: 38, 41, 44.
    89. "Teleresearch on Campus." Link-Up, Apr. 1984: 50-52.
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