| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Reconstructing Fort Union By John Matzko. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2001. xiv + 231 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $45.00; £31.96.)

Reconstructing Fort Union is a story that proves the old adage that "all politics is local" In this story,, individuals dedicated to the remembrance of an outpost of the far-flung American Fur Company empire pass the torch from one to another in hopes of marshaling local heritage and economic interests while trying to find a patron to underwrite the realization of their dream to see this fort rebuilt. Once that voice is found, the story becomes an object lesson on how to put political pressure on a government agency to make it do something that its own policies say it should never do. 1

Fort Union was never the center of national attention. Yet, as a regional center for the commercial interests of the American Fur Company it played a role in the United States's contact with, and later destruction of, Native peoples. When its location and the resources it was built to exploit lost their importance, it was quickly dispensed with. . . .

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