Josh Garrett-Davis
Josh Garrett-Davis is the Gamble Associate Curator of Western History, Popular Culture, and Firearms at the Autry Museum of the American West. He is the author of What Is a Western? Region, Genre, Imagination (2019) and Ghost Dances: Proving Up on the Great Plains (2012).
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The American West has always been a national and international place for stories, good, bad and ugly. Today, storytellers and storytelling industries are upending and reevaluating which stories and which characters they place at the center of histories, legends, fictions and works of art.
An art and history museum responds to history in the making.
If we see Native people as expert colleagues instead of historical figures, we all stand a greater chance of working together.
How the U.S. Forest Service chose fire suppression as its official policy a century ago.