Writing Westward Podcast
BookmarkBrenden W. Rensink & the BYU Redd Center
Writing Westward Podcast is a history podcast hosted by Brenden W. Rensink & the BYU Redd Center. It has 85 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.
Writing Westward features conversations with writers of the North American West, sampling from a variety of disciplines and subfields. The podcast is hosted and produced by BYU Redd Center associate director and professor of history, Brenden W. Rensink.
history ·en-us ·85 episodes
085 - David-James Gonzales - Breaking Down the Walls of Segregation
084 - George Frazier - Riverine Dreams: Away to the Glorious and Forgotten Grassland Rivers of America
083 - Sara Gallagher - Black Wests: Reshaping Race and Place in Popular Culture
082 - Martha A. Sandweiss - The Girl in the Middle: A Recovered History of the American West
081 - Neil Mathison - Airstream Country: A Geologic Journey Across the American West
080 - Mark Sundeen - Delusions + Grandeur: Dreamers of the New West
079 - Ernesto Sagas - Latino Colorado
078 - Adam Sowards - Taking Bearing and Being Historically Faithful in Public Writing
077 - Robert Sullivan - Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with America's Most Mysterious War Photographer
076 - Jason Heppler - Silicon Valley and the Environmental Inequalities of High-Tech Urbanism
075 - Coll Thrush - Wrecked: Unsettling Histories from the Graveyard of the Pacific
074 - William Grady - Redrawing the Western: A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
073 - James Buckley - City of Wood: San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry
072 - Amanda Van Lanen - The Washington Apple
071 - John Nelson - Muddy Ground: Native Peoples, Chicago's Portage, and the Transformation of a Continent
070 - Samuel Western - The Spirit of 1889: Restoring the Lost Promise of the High Plains and Northern Rockies
069 - James Tejani - A Machine to Move Ocean and Earth
068 - Holly Miowak Guise - Alaska Native Resilience: Voices from World War II
067 - Brent M. Rogers - Buffalo Bill and the Mormons
066 - Zac Podmore - Life After Dead Pool: Lake Powell's Last Days and the Rebirth of the Colorado River
065 - Julie Carr - Mud, Blood, and Ghosts: Populism, Eugenics, and Spiritualism in the American West
064 - Lyndsie Bourgon - Tree Thieves: Crime and Survival in North America’s Woods
063 - Andrew Curley - Carbon Sovereignty - Coal, Development, and Energy Transition in the Navajo Reservation
062 - Peter Boag - Pioneering Death - The Violence of Boyhood in Turn-of-the-Century Oregon
061 - Navied Mahdavian - This Country: Searching for Home in Very Rural America
060 - Natalia Molina - A Place at the Nayarit: How a Mexican Restaurant Nourished a Community
059 - Sarah Keyes - American Burial Ground: A New History of the Overland Trail
058 - Heather Hansman - Powder Days: Ski Bums, Ski Towns, and the Future of Chasing Snow
057 - Molly P. Rozum - Grasslands Grown
056 - Michael K. Johnson - Speculative Wests
055 - Ellen Wohl - The Secret Life of Mountain Ecosystems and the Afterlife of Trees
054 - Andrea Geiger - Converging Empires, Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands
053 - Melissa L. Sevigny - Brave the Wild River
052 - Bryce Andrews - Holding Fire: A Reckoning with the American West
051 - Craig Childs - Tracing Time, Seasons of Rock Art on the Colorado Plateau
050 - Anne F. Hyde - Born of Lakes and Plains, Mixed-Descent Peoples and the Making of the American West
049 - Timothy Bowman - You Will Never Be One of Us - Rural Roots of Radical Conservatism
048 - Alaina E. Roberts - I’ve Been Here All the While - Black Freedom on Native Land
047 - Cameron Blevins - Paper Trails
046 - Kevin Waite - West of Slavery
045 - Josh Garrett-Davis - What is a Western?
044 - Robert Chaney - The Grizzly in the Driveway
043 - Christian S. Harrison - All the Water the Law Allows
042 - Jon T. Coleman - Nature Shock, Getting Lost in America
041 - Corinna Cook - Leavetakings
040 - Sarah Deutsch - Making a Modern U.S. West
039 - Sara Humphreys - Manifest Destiny 2.0, Genre Trouble in Game Worlds
038 - James McGrath Morris - Tony Hillerman, A Life
037 - Ryanne Pilgeram - Pushed Out
036 - Andrea Ross - Unnatural Selection
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