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Megan Kate Nelson

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Born and raised in Colorado, Megan Kate Nelson is a historian and writer based in Boston, with a BA from Harvard and a PhD in American Studies from the University of Iowa. She is the author of five books, including The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier (Scribner 2026); Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America (Scribner 2022; winner of the 2023 Spur Award for Historical Non-Fiction); and The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West (Scribner 2020; 2021 Pulitzer Prize finalist in History).

Megan also writes about the Civil War, the U.S. West, and American culture for The New York Times, Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian M ...more

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	The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West 4.02 avg rating — 1,103 ratings — published 2020 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Saving Yellowstone: Exploration and Preservation in Reconstruction America 3.69 avg rating — 543 ratings — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ruin Nation: Destruction and the American Civil War 4.10 avg rating — 107 ratings — published 2012 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Westerners: Mythmaking and Belonging on the American Frontier 4.22 avg rating — 86 ratings — published 2026	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Lens of War: Exploring Iconic Photographs of the Civil War by J. Matthew Gallman (Editor), James Robertson (Goodreads Author) (Contributor), Thavolia Glymph (Contributor) 4.30 avg rating — 66 ratings — published 2015 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trembling Earth: A Cultural History Of The Okefenokee Swamp 3.67 avg rating — 33 ratings — published 2005 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Blue, the Gray, and the Green: Toward an Environmental History of the Civil War by Brian Allen Drake (Contributor), Lisa M. Brady (Contributor), John C. Inscoe (Contributor) 4.23 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2015 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stories of America’s National Parks by Megan Kate Nelson (Goodreads Author), The Great Courses 3.46 avg rating — 13 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civil War Guerrilla: Unfolding the Black Flag in History, Memory, and Myth by Joseph M. Beilein Jr. (Editor), Christopher Phillips (Contributor), Victoria E. Bynum (Afterword) 2.83 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2015 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The New Georgia Encyclopedia Companion to Georgia Literature by Hugh Ruppersburg (Editor), Alan Jackson (Contributor), Alex Lichtenstein (Contributor) 3.75 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“The Navajos could not explain why so many disasters had befallen them at the Bosque. They could only say that the ground was never intended for them.20”
― Megan Kate Nelson, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

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“for the Southwest has always been a landscape that requires mobility for survival.”
― Megan Kate Nelson, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

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“The desert exploded with life: yellow and pink flowers opened the tips of the cholla's spiny fingers; purple wildflowers sprang up in the meadows; and sunflowers lifted their heads. The Treaty of 1868 had been a victory, but not without cost. In order to secure a measure of freedom from the U.S. government, the Navajos had to accede to new methods of federal control. By signing the treaty, however, the government had acknowledged the Nagajos' sovereignty as a people, and that was a significant achievement. Now they had come home. Returning to Diné Bikéyah after four years of imprisonment and exile, the Navajos were trees blooming after a cold, dark winter.”
― Megan Kate Nelson, The Three-Cornered War: The Union, the Confederacy, and Native Peoples in the Fight for the West

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