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Professor Hurtado is the Paul H. and Doris Eaton Travis
Chair in American History and a scholar of Western and
Native American history. He has published several books
and a long list of scholarly articles and book chapters.
His recent biography, John Sutter: A Life on the
North American Frontier, won the 2007 Caughey Book
Prize from the Western History Association for the most
distinguished book on the history of the American West.
He also just published an edited collection of essays,
Reflections on American Indian History: Honoring
the Past, Building the Future, that grew out of
a conference held at the University of Oklahoma in 2005
in honor of Wilma Mankiller. Professor Hurtado is currently
at work on a biography of Herbert E. Bolton, the dean
of borderlands historians, a project supported by a
year-long fellowship from the Huntington Library. He
regularly teaches courses on the history of the American
West and directs a large number of M.A. and Ph.D. students.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of California,
Santa Barbara.
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