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Malcolm Rohrbough has been a respected faculty member of the Department of History at the University of Iowa for many years. He is an authority on the American West, the days of the California gold rush, and the American frontier. Malcolm continues research on the French and the California Gold Rush.
He received his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin in 1963, joining the faculty at the University of Iowa shortly after. He retired from teaching at the University of Iowa in the spring of 2008.
Selected Publications
- The Trans-Appalachian Frontier: People, Societies, and Institutions, 1775-1850 (Oxford University Press, 1978; Paperback edition with new introduction, Wadsworth Press, 1989; Revised edition, Indiana University Press, 2007)
- Co-editor project: co-editor of a 10 volume history of the trans-Appalachian frontier (1995-2007)
- "Mining in the Nineteenth Century American West," in A Companion to the American West, William Deverell, ed. (2004)
- "The Influence of Government and Law on the Settlement of the Trans-Appalachian West, 1775-1830," in States, Societies, Cultures East and West: Essays in Honor of Jaroslaw Pelenski, Janusz Duzinkiewicz, ed. (2004)
- Days of Gold: The California Gold Rush and the American Nation (University of California Press, 1997; Paperback edition, 1998)
- Aspen: The History of a Silver Mining Town, 1879-1893 (Oxford University Press, 1986; Paperback edition, 1987; Revised edition, University Press of Colorado, 2000)
- "The Continuing Search for the American West: Historians Past, Present, and Future" in Old West/New West: Quo Vadis, Gene M. Gressley, ed. (High Plains Publishing Company, 1994)
- The Land Office Business: The Settlement and Administration of American Public Lands, 1789-1837 (Oxford University Press, 1968; Paperback edition with new introduction, Wadsworth Press, 1989)
- "Diversity and Unity in the Old Northwest, 1790-1850: Several Peoples Fashion a Single Region" in Pathways to the Old Northwest (1988)
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