William C Holly

Historian of the American West, 20th Century US History, Cultural History, and Indigenous History. Research focuses on sacred sites in the American Southwest, specifically Northern Arizona's San Francisco Peaks, and conflict over these sites especially in regards to tourism activites. Manuscript titled The Mountain is Part of Us: Tourism and American Indian Sacred Land in Northern Arizona is under contract to be published by the University of New Mexico Press in their Histories of the North American West Series. This project examines conflicts surrounding the Peaks during the period 1969-1984, and the rise of Indigenous legal actions aimed at stopping expansion of tourist activities at these sites.