Bernard DeVoto (1897–1955)

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1. Bernard DeVoto

   Author of The Year of Decision 1846, Across the Wide Missouri, The Course of Empire

2. Wallace Stegner

   Author of The Spectator Bird, Where the Bluebird Sings to the Lemonade Springs: Living and Writing in the West, All the Little Live Things

3. A. B. Guthrie, Jr.

   Author of The Big Sky, The Way West, These Thousand Hills
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4. Samuel Eliot Morison

   Author of Admiral of the Ocean Sea : a life of Christopher Columbus, The European discovery of America, John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography

5. Daniel J. Boorstin

   Author of The Americans: The Colonial Experience, The Americans: The Democratic Experience, The Americans: The National Experience

6. Dumas Malone

   Author of The sage of Monticello, Jefferson and the Rights of Man : Jefferson and His Time Volume Two, Jefferson and the Ordeal of Liberty : Jefferson and His Time Volume Three

7. Mark Twain

   Author of The Innocents Abroad, A Tramp Abroad, Mark Twain On the Damned Human Race

8. Robert M. Utley

   Author of The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890, A Life Wild and Perilous: Mountain Men and the Paths to the Pacific, Lone Star Justice: The First Century of the Texas Rangers
   All: (1 member)

9. Page Smith

   Author of The Shaping of America: A People's History of the Young Republic, Trial by Fire: A People's History of the Civil War and Reconstruction

10. Francis Parkman

    Author of The Oregon Trail

11. Frederick Jackson Turner

    Author of The Frontier in American History

12. M. F. K. Fisher

    Author of The Gastronomical Me, A Cordiall Water: A Garland of Odd and Old Receipts to Assuage the Ills of Man and Beast, M.F.K. Fisher: A Life in Letters : Correspondence 1929-1991

13. Mari Sandoz

    Author of Crazy Horse, the strange man of the Oglalas: a biography, Old Jules, The Beaver Men: Spearheads of Empire

14. David Lavender

    Author of Bent's Fort

15. Barbara W. Tuchman

    Author of Stilwell and the American Experience in China, 1911-45

16. Irving Stone

    Author of Men to Match My Mountains: The Opening of the Far West, 1840-1900, Love Is Eternal

17. William H. Goetzmann

    Author of Exploration and Empire: The Explorer and the Scientist in the Winning of the American West

18. Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

    Author of The Age of Jackson

19. Robert V. Remini

    Author of Andrew Jackson and the Course of American Empire, 1767-1821

20. Walter Prescott Webb

    Author of The Great Plains