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Faculty and Staff
William K. Wyckoff
Professor of Geography
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Contact Information
Office: Traphagen Hall #213
Phone: (406) 994-6914
Email: uesww(AT)montana.edu
Education
B.A., Geography, California State Univ., Northridge, 1977
M.A., Geography, Syracuse Univ., 1979
Ph.D., Geography, Syracuse Univ., 1982
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Courses Taught
GEOG 105
- World Regional Geography
GEOG
503 - Settlement Geography
Research Interests
My research interests focus on the historical and cultural geography of
the Rocky Mountain West. Recent projects include an edited volume on
the "Mountainous West" which explores how historical geographers can
contribute to a greater understanding of western issues and geography.
Colorado has been another setting for several projects that center
around the process of human landscape evolution in the West. Montana
interests include a focus on changing population trends in the state
and how people historically have modified the region's diverse and
fragile environment.
Current Graduate Students
Teresa Cohn
Diane
Papineau
Scott
Warren
Selected Publications
2000 Diversity Amid Globalization: World Regions, Environment,
Development (Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall)
1999 Creating Colorado: The Making of a
Western American Landscape, 18601940 (New Haven: Yale University
Press).
1997 "Promotional Imagery of Glacier
National Park," Geog. Rev. 87: 1-26 (with L. Dilsaver).
1995 "Postindustrial Butte," Geog. Rev. 85:
478-96.
1995 The Mountainous West: Exploration in
Historical Geography, (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press), Edited
with L. Dilsaver.
1994 "Geographical images of the American
West: The view from Harper's Monthly, 1850-1900," Journal of the West,
33(2):10-21.
1992 "Denver's aging commercial strip",
Geog. Rev., 82:282-94.
1992 "Peopling the last best place:
Montana's population geography, 1870-1990", Burton Wheeler Center
Proceedings.
1990 "Landscapes of private power and
wealth", in M.P. Conzen (ed.), The Making of the American Landscape.
London: Unwin Hyman, pp. 335-354.
1989 "Central place theory and the location
of services in Colorado in 1899", Social Sci. J., 26:383-398.
1988 The Developer's Frontier. New Haven:
Yale Univ. Press.
1988 "Mapping El Dorado: Pikes Peak
promotional cartography, 1859-1861", Imago Mundi, 40:32-45.
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