Andrew Gulliford, Ph.D. is a writer and historian with deep ties to the American West. He writes and edits non-fiction and personal essays about all aspects of the West with particular emphasis on the Southwest and on people who live and have lived in remote places. His popular writings appear in newspapers across the West with the High County News syndicated column “Writers on the Range”, the Mountain Gazette, and as well as the Grand Junction Sentinel. Andrew has also written for Montana: The Magazine of Western History, Preservation, Utah Preservation, and Colorado Heritage.

A professor of Southwest Studies and history at Fort Lewis College in Durango, Colorado, Andrew Gulliford teaches popular college courses in wilderness and environmental history. He is the author of America’s Country Schools (buy here), Sacred Objects and Sacred Places: Preserving Tribal Traditions: (buy here), and Boomtown Blues: Colorado Oil Shale (buy here), which won the Colorado Book Award.

His essays have been anthologized in Hard at Play in America (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press), Lewis & Clark: Legacies, Memories and New Perspectives (Berkeley: University of California Press); The Landscape of Home: A Rocky Mountain Land Series Reader (Boulder: Johnson Books) and Going Green (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press).

He edited Preserving Western History, which was voted one of the best books on the Southwest in 2005 by the Tucson-Pima County Library. Gulliford also edited San Juan Sampler: Selections from the Nina Heald Webber Southwest Colorado Postcard Collection, Edith Taylor Shaw’s Letters from a Weminuche Homestead, and Garfield County, Colorado: The First Hundred Years, 1883-1983. He was series editor for seven new books in the Mesa Verde Centennial Book Series published during Mesa Verde National Park’s centennial in 2006. Dr. Gulliford’s recent writing and photographs can be seen in the new book Going Green, edited by Laura Pritchett and published by the University of Oklahoma Press (2009). His black and white photos illustrate the book and he has a chapter titled “Handprints in the Canyon.”

Dr. Gulliford’s academic articles have appeared in American Indian Religious Traditions: An Encyclopedia, Annals of Wyoming, The Hayes Historical Journal: A Journal of the Gilded Age, High Plains Anthropologist, The Public Historian, Northwest Ohio Quarterly, Midwest Review, Journal of American Culture, and Journal of the West.

What follows are links to Andrew Gulliford’s popular writings in Inside/Outside Southwest and his monthly column “Gulliford’s Travels” published in the Durango Herald newspaper.

"If viewers are interested in my photographs or illustrations accompanying these articles or essays, please contact Andrew Gulliford directly at gulliford_a@fortlewis.edu"