| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.2

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Book Review

Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West. By David M. Wrobel. (Lawrence: University Press of Kansas, 2002. xi + 322 pp. Illustrations, table, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)

Between the 1870s and the 1920s, railroads, land companies, and western developers inundated the country with millions of copies of thousands of pamphlets and books. During the same period, historical societies and old settlers organizations turned out huge quantities of personal recollection and history. By studying these materials, Wrobel seeks to illuminate the complicated processes through which popular perceptions of the American West were formed and sustained. Boosters played to popular hopes of progress, reminiscers played on popular longings for "the good old days." There was a contradiction here, of course, and the strength of the book is Wrobel's sensitive examination of these ironies.

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