Our Emeritus Faculty

William E. Farr

Professor Emeritus of History; Associate Director, Center for the Rocky Mountain West

Contact

Phone
(406) 243-7706
Email
farr@crmw.org

Education

PhD, University of Washington, 1971

Field of Study

Native Americans and the Rocky Mountain West; Medieval and Reformation Europe

Selected Publications

Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet: An Impressionist at Glacier National Park.  Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.

Lanterns on the Prarie: The Blackfeet Photographs of Walter McClintock.  Norman, OK: University of Oklahoma Press, 2009.  (contributor)

"Going to Buffalo: Indian Hunting Migrations across the Rocky Mountains.  Part 2, Civilian Permits, Army Escorts."  Montana: The Magazine of Western History.  54 (Spring 2004): 26-44.

"Going to Buffalo: Indian Hunting Migrations across the Rocky Mountains.  Part 1, Making Meat and Taking Robes."  Montana: The Magazine of Western History.  53 (Winter 2003): 2-21.

"'When We Were First Paid': The Blackfeet Treaty, the Western Tribes, and the Creation of the Common Hunting Ground, 1855."  Great Plains Quarterly.  21 (Spring 2001): 131-54.

Fifty Years After the Big Sky: New Perspectives on the Fiction and Films of A.B. Guthrie, Jr.  Helena, MT: Montana Historical Society Press, 2001.  (co-editor and introduction co-writer)

The Reservation Blackfeet, 1885-1945: A Photographic History of Cultural Survival.  Seattle: University of Washington Press, 1984.  *Received Pacific Northwest Award for Achievement in Technical Communication, 1985; Pacific Northwest Bookseller's Award for Excellence, 1985.

Montana: Images of the Past.  Boulder, CO: Pruett Publishing Co., 1978 (with K. Ross Toole)

John Wyclif as Legal Reformer.  Studies in Medieval and Reformation Thought, Vol. X.  Leiden, Netherlands, 1974.