Carlos A. Schwantes

Carlos Schwantes is the St. Louis Mercantile Library Professor of Transportation and the West. He holds a doctorate in American history from the University of Michigan. In total, he has authored or edited fifteen books about various facets of the American West and about transportation. His most recent book is called Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth Century West (Indiana University Press, 2003). Before coming to the University of Missouri-St Louis, he taught at the University of Idaho. He is an avid landscape photographer.

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