John Mack Faragher
American historian
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John Mack Faragher (born Phoenix, Arizona) is an American historian, author, and professor emeritus of history at Yale University.[1] He is known for his influential scholarship on the American West, frontier history, migration, and social change in North America.[2]
Awards
- 1980 Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians for Women and Men on the Overland Trail
- 1987 Annual Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic for Sugar Creek
- 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography for Daniel Boone[3]
- 1995 Governor's Award, State of Kentucky, for Daniel Boone
- 2001 Caughey Western History Association Prize for the Best Book in Western History, for The American West
- 2000 Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, for The American West
- 2017 Norman Neuerburg Award, Historical Society of Southern California, for Eternity Street
Works
- Women and Men on the Overland Trail. Yale University Press. 1979. ISBN 978-0-300-08924-0. (reprint 2001)
- Sugar Creek: Life on the Illinois Prairie. Yale University Press. 1986. ISBN 978-0-300-04263-4.
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- Daniel Boone: The Life and Legend of an American Pioneer. Henry Holt & Company. 1993. ISBN 978-0-8050-3007-5.
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- John Mack Faragher, ed. (1996). The encyclopedia of colonial and revolutionary America. Da Capo Press. ISBN 978-0-306-80687-2.
John Mack Faragher encyclopedia.
- John Mack Faragher, ed. (1998). The American Heritage Encyclopedia of American History. Henry Holt & Company. ISBN 978-0-805-04438-6.
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- Robert V. Hine; John Mack Faragher (2000). The American West: A New Interpretive History. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-07835-0.
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- A Great and Noble Scheme: The Tragic Story of the Expulsion of the French Acadians from their American Homeland. W. W. Norton & Company. 2005. ISBN 978-0-393-05135-3.
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- Robert V. Hine; John Mack Faragher (2007). Frontiers: A Short History of the American West. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-11710-3.
- Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles. W. W. Norton & Company. 2016. ISBN 978-0-393-24242-3.
- Robert V. Hine; John Mack Faragher; Jon T. Coleman (2017). The American West: A New Interpretive History. Second Edition. Yale University Press. ISBN 978-0-300-23178-6.
