Books
Splendid Service: The History of the Montana National Guard, 1867-2006. Editor. Pullman: Washington State University Press, Fall 2010.
The History of the Idaho National Guard, Editor. Boise: The Idaho Military Division, 1995.
The Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 1877-1900. Niwot, Colorado: University Press of Colorado, 1993. Paperback, 1997.
Articles
“Finding Sarah Gammon Bickford,” William Peterson and Orlan J. Svingen, Finding Sarah Gammon Bickford website; sponsored by Building Freedom in the Territorial West, $15,000 Partnership-in- Scholarship Grant, National Trust for Historic Preservation, December 2009 to July 2011.
“The Public History Field School,” Public History News [newsletter of the National Council on Public History], Orlan J. Svingen and William Peterson, September 2010.
AJim Crow, Indian Style,@ American Indian Quarterly 11 (Fall 1987): 275-286. Reprinted in Harry W. Fritz, Mary Murphy, Robert R. Swartout, Jr., Montana Legacy: Essays on History, People and Place. Helena, Montana: The Montana Historical Society Press, 2002.
“The Pawnees of Nebraska: Twice Removed,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 16 (Number 2 1992): pp. 121-137. Special Edition: Repatriation of American Indian Remains. Reprinted in Roger Nichols, The American Indian: Past and Present, 5th Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1999).
“Jim Crow, Indian Style,” American Indian Quarterly 11 (Fall 1987): 275-286. Reprinted in Sucheng Chan, P. H. Daniels, Mario Garcia, and Terry Wilson. Peoples of Color in the American West. Lexington, Massachusetts: D. C. Heath and Company, 1994.
“Jim Crow, Indian Style,” American Indian Quarterly 11 (Fall 1987), pp. 275-286. Reprinted in Roger Nichols, The American Indian: Past and Present, 4th Edition (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992).
“The Pawnees of Nebraska: Twice Removed,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal, 16 (Number 2 1992): pp. 121-137. Special Edition: Repatriation of American Indian Remains.
“Jim Crow, Indian Style,” American Indian Quarterly 11 (Fall 1987): pp.275-286.
“The Case of Spotted Hawk and Little Whirlwind: An American Indian Dreyfus Affair,” Western Historical Quarterly 15 (Summer 1984): 281-298.
“The Mustard Seed: Six Ursulines in Montana,” Montana: The Magazine of Western History 34 (Spring 1984): 14-28.
“John Jacob Astor,” in R. Alton Lee, Ed., The Encyclopedia of the United States of America. Gulf Breeze, Florida: Academic International Press, 1982.
“Reservation Self-Sufficiency: Farming versus stock raising on the Northern Cheyenne Indian Reservation, 1900-1914,@ Montana: The Magazine of Western History 31 (Fall 1981): 14-23.
Contracted Reports
“Traditional Land Use Study of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes in southwestern Montana and southeastern Idaho,” In progress and in conjunction with the Mountain States Transmission Intertie Project, The Bureau of Land Management, and the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Idaho. January 1st, 2012 – December 31st, 2012.
“Historical Perspectives of the Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Idaho in South Western Montana.” Shoshone-Bannock Tribes of Idaho, Fort Hall, Idaho, Fall 2010.
“Sacajawea’s People: The Fort Lemhi Indian Community Federal Recognition Project.” Editor. The Fort Lemhi Indian Community, Blackfoot Idaho. 1996.
“The Northwest Mining Association of Spokane, Washington: A Centennial History.” Editor. Northwest Mining Association of Spokane, Washington. 1993.
Co-Investigator, “A History of Beneficial Water Use on the Nez Perce Indian Reservation, 1836-1940.” Nez Perce Tribe of Idaho, subcontractor to Anthropology Laboratory, University of Idaho, in conjunction with the Bureau of Indian Affairs, Portland Area office. With Dr. Roderick Sprague, Anthropology Laboratory, University of Idaho, 1991.
Principal Investigator, “History of the Expropriation of Pawnee Indian Graves in the control of the Nebraska State Historical Society.” Prepared for the Native American Rights Fund, Boulder, Colorado. 1989.
Co-Principal Investigator, “The Proto-historic and administrative history of the Crow homeland to 1920.” Contracted with historical research associates, Missoula, Montana. 1988.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Preliminary Report of Historical Findings.” Lac Court Oreille Band of Chippewa Indians et al v. State of Wisconsin et al. A Chippewa Indian Hunting Fishing Rights Report prepared for the Attorney General’s office of the State of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin. 1985.
Co-Principal Investigator, “History of Eastern Navajo Federal Trust Lands in the San Juan River Basin, New Mexico.” Prepared for the U.S. Department of Justice, Alburquerque, New Mexico and the Navajo Tribe. 1984.
Co-Principal Investigator, “Historical Study of the Mescalero Apache Indian Tribe, New Mexico, 1848-1873.” Prepared for Fettinger and Bloom, P.C. Alamogordo, New Mexico. 1984.