Race and the Wild West: A Conversation with Laura J. Arata and Lauren Francis-Sharma

Laura J. Arata received her PhD from Washington State University in 2014. She is a specialist in public history and the history of race and gender in the American West. Her book project, Race and the Wild West: Sarah Bickford and the Construction of Historical Memory in Virginia City, Montana, 1870–1930, focuses on nineteenth and twentieth century Montana through the life of an African American woman, born a slave, who played an instrumental role in developing tourism at the site of a well-known lynching. Her most recent work, “Terror and Tourism: Lynching, Legend, and the Montana Vigilantes,” appears in the Pacific Northwest Quarterly.

Lauren Francis-Sharma is the author of the critically acclaimed novel ’Til the Well Runs Dry. She resides near Washington, DC with her husband and two children and is the assistant director of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference.

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