David Lavender

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David Lavender (February 4, 1910–April 26, 2003) was a well-known historian of the Western United States. Born in Telluride, Colorado, Lavender spent most of his life in Ojai, California. An articulate and deeply knowledgeable speaker on the political and social history of the American West, he often spoke at the annual Telluride Mountain Film Festival.

Partial list of notable books:

• One Man's West ISBN 0-8032-5855-0 (memoir of his life as a young man working as miner and range hand in Southwestern Colorado , written in 1943)
• Westward Vision: The Story of the Oregon Trail ISBN 0-8032-7915-9
• The Great Persuader ISBN 0-87081-476-1 (biography about Collis Huntington).
• The Great West ISBN 0-8281-0303-8 publ. 1965 (described as "The best single volume extant on the Westward Movement" by the San Francisco Chronicle)

In 2002, Stephen Ambrose was accused of plagiarizing from The Great Persuader.

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