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T. H. Watkins

One of the foremost chroniclers of the American West, T. H. Watkins was an editor at American Heritage for six years and a long-time contributor. He also served as Editor of Wilderness magazine for fifteen years, and as Wallace Stegner Distinguished Professor of Western American Studies at Montana State University.

Watkins is perhaps best known for Righteous Pilgrim, a 1990 biography of Harold L. Ickes, the crusading secretary of the interior for Franklin Delano Roosevelt, which was a National Book Award finalist.  He also wrote The Hungry Years, The Great Depression: America in the 1930s, and two dozen other books.

Articles by this Author

Too many of our wonderful historic ships have been lost, but funds recently appropriated by Congress will help to see a major part of our history belayed—tied down, secure.
In southern California the orange found a home.
Western miners, the hard-rock stiffs, were as tough and horny-handed a breed of men as any in the world.
A low comedy for high stakes: