What remains of the West?
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BY EARL POMEROY
eventy-two years ago the members of the American Historical Association moved 700 miles west from their usual meeting place to Chicago, which some historians wanted to see because it was having a fair, though one of them, the librarian at Harvard University, complained that the Association's program was "a pitiful show," of such quality as not to warrant "asking any reputable writer to take part. . . ." x What they heard Dr. Pomeroy is professor of history at the University of Oregon, Eugene. The original of this paper was presented by Dr. Pomeroy at the Thirteenth Annual Dinner of the Utah State Historical Society, September 17, 1965. _ J u s t i n Winsor to H. B. Adams, 22 March 1893, in W. Stull Holt, ed., Historical Scholarship in the United States, 1876—1901: as Revealed in the Correspondence of Herbert B. Adams (Baltimore, 1938), 199.
