The West, an Illustrated History

Geoffrey C. Ward, historian, screenwriter, and former editor of American Heritage magazine, is coauthor of The Civil War and Baseball and was principal writer of the television series upon which they were based. He is also the cowriter (with Dayton Duncan) of the script for The West series and the author of many other books, including A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, which won the 1989 National Book Critics Circle Award for biography and the 1990 Francis Parkman Prize awarded by the Society of American Historians. Stephen Ives is the producer and director of The West series. He served as a consulting producer for The Civil War, and his documentary Lindbergh opened the 1990 season of The American Experience on PBS. In 1989, he coproduced The Congress with Ken Burns. Ken Burns, executive producer of The West, has been making documentary films for over fifteen years, most recently directing the landmark series Baseball and The Civil War. His other films include the Academy Award-nominated Brooklyn Bridge, The Shakers, The Statue of Liberty (also nominated for an Oscar), Huey Long, Thomas Hart Benton, and Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio.Geoffrey C.; contributions by Momaday, N. Scott; Duncan, Dayton; Faragher, John Mack; Jeffrey, Julie Roy... Ward is the author of 'The West, an Illustrated History', published 1996 under ISBN 9780316057691 and ISBN 031605769X.