Personal profile
About
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.
Contact Information
Phone: 314-516-5734
Related documents
Education/Academic qualification
History, PhD, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
History, MA, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
Research Interests
- American History
- American West
- Archival Research
- Historical Method
- Landscape Photography
- Transportation
Disciplines
- History
- Transportation
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Book Review - Supplanting America’s Railroads: The Early Auto Age
Schwantes, C. A., Oct 1 2018Research output: Other contribution
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Hop King: Ezra Meeker’s Boom Years. By Dennis M. Larsen
Schwantes, C., Jul 1 2017Research output: Other contribution
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Letters on North America
Chevalier, M., Rowan, S. & Schwantes, C. A., Nov 9 2017Research output: Book/Report › Book
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Richard H. Frost. The Railroad and the Pueblo Indians: The Impact of the Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe on the Pueblos of the Rio Grande, 1880–1930.
Schwantes, C. A., Dec 1 2016Research output: Other contribution
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Ways to the West: How Getting Out of Our Cars Is Reclaiming America's Frontier by Tim Sullivan (review)
Schwantes, C. A., Jan 1 2016Research output: Other contribution