{"title":"James L. Haley","authors":"James L. Haley","doi":"10.7560/706149-024","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/706149-024","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":287097,"journal":{"name":"Conversations with Texas Writers","volume":"20 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114947042","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"William H. Goetzmann","authors":"K. Sloan","doi":"10.7560/706149-021","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.7560/706149-021","url":null,"abstract":"THE FIRST TIME I saw Bill Goetzmann- \"Dr. G\" as we graduate students called him in the seventies - he came burst-L·. ing into the American studies office at the University of Texas, brow furrowed in concentration, eyes focused only on his office door beyond the secretaries' desks. His battered briefcase literally trailed him as he barged ahead, seeming to see no one as he churned a path to his office. Despite the Austin heat of a September afternoon, he wore a rumpled sport coat. A cloud of energy seemed to linger even after he'd closed his door.\"That was him. Goetzmann,\" said Herb Hovenkamp, a graduate student who'd been showing me, a newcomer, around campus. His eyes gleamed playfully. He'd just had visual proof of the stories he'd been telling about the dynamic professor whose seminar I had enrolled in. That was in the early fall of 1978.Herb, who went on to become an accomplished legal historian, wasn't the only one eager to both regale and intimidate incoming students with stories of Bill Goetzmann. From young professors as well as students, we heard of his formidable intellect, his ability to \"make or break\" graduate students depending on whether they could hold up to the intellectual rigor of his seminar discussions. Everyone, it seemed, had a story to tell, whether of his intensity in the classroom, his wit, or his high demands from students. In the office that September day, Herb picked up a copy of Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and Scientist in the Winning of the American West, Dr. Goetzmann's Pulitzer Prize-winning tome, a wealth of information about the charting of the wilderness and the settling of the frontiers. \"Be sure you know the thesis of this,\" he said. \"He changed the way historians think about the expansion of the West.\"Dr. William H. Goetzmann, whose many books on the exploration and settlement of the American West, Western art, and American intellectual history were major contributions to the field, died of congestive heart failure at his home in Austin, Texas, on 7 September 2010. His three children, William N., Anne, and Stephen, were with him during his final days. Services at St. Austin's Church in Austin and Dwight Hall Chapel at Yale brought together colleagues and former students to commemorate the fullness of his life as a scholar, teacher, writer, and generous mentor. He was laid to rest in the Grove Street Cemetery in New Haven, where his marker reads - a line from Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass - \"Solitary, singing in the West, I strike up for a New World.\"Born in Washington, D.C., in 1930, the only child of Viola and Harry Goetzmann, Bill Goetzmann grew up in Minnesota and, later, Houston, Texas. He pursued his education at Yale University, obtaining his doctorate in the relatively new field of American studies and then teaching in the program from 1955 to 1964. His passionate interest in the American West began with his dissertation under the tutelage of Howard R. Lamar, research published as Army Explo","PeriodicalId":287097,"journal":{"name":"Conversations with Texas Writers","volume":"17 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2005-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"128554537","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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