Thomas H. Holloway

Education: BA, University of California, Santa Barbara, 1968; PhD, History, University of Wisconsin, Madison, 1974.

Positions held: Assistant Professor to Full Professor, Cornell University, 1974-2000; Professor of History and Director, Hemispheric Institute on the Americas, University of California, Davis, 2000-2007, Professor of History, 2007-2009, Professor Emeritus, 2009-present; Volunteer Researcher, Fort Vancouver National Historic Site, 2011-present.

Relevant publications:

“HBC Point Blankets in the Pacific Northwest in the Fur Trade Era,” The Tomahawk & Long Rifle, Vol. 50, No. 4 (Fall 2025), 27-32.

“Manifest Destiny and Media Manipulation: John C. Frémont's Buenaventura River Pretense, 1843-1844,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly, Vol. 68, No. 1 (Spring 2025), 3-29.

“Killing Competition with Kindness: Jedediah Smith, George Simpson, and the Aftermath of the Umpqua Massacre,” Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal, Vol. 17 (2023), 1-27.

“Fur Returns of the Hudson’s Bay Company’s Columbia District,” Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly, Vol. 59, No. 4 (Winter 2023), 1-11.

“How Much Did a Beaver Hat Cost?” Museum of the Fur Trade Quarterly, Vol. 56, No. 1 (Spring 2020), 6-13.

“‘Now We Go’: Snake Country Freemen and the Desertions of May 1825,” Rocky Mountain Fur Trade Journal, Vol. 12 (2018), 36-72.