John Mack Faragher

John Mack Faragher (born Phoenix, Arizona) is an American historian, author, and professor emeritus of history at Yale University. He is known for his influential scholarship on the American West, frontier history, migration, and social change in North America.

Awards 1980 Frederick Jackson Turner Award of the Organization of American Historians for Women and Men on the Overland Trail 1987 Annual Book Prize, Society for Historians of the Early American Republic for Sugar Creek 1993 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Biography for Daniel Boone 1995 Governor's Award, State of Kentucky, for Daniel Boone 2001 Caughey Western History Association Prize for the Best Book in Western History, for The American West 2000 Western Heritage Award, National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum, for The American West 2017 Norman Neuerburg Award, Historical Society of Southern California, for Eternity Street

Works (reprint 2001)