| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.3 | The History Cooperative

Book Review

Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West. Edited by Kathleen A. Boardman and Gioia Woods. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2004. vii + 447 pp. Notes, bibliographies, $24.95, paper.)

This is not a book to be read for pleasure, at least in its entirety. Seven of the fourteen essays have been published previously in some version, and in general the quality of the essays tends to be uneven. Among the best of them: Eric Waggoner's "'Gifted with Reason': Progressive Fictions in Two Early Twentieth-Century Western Autobiographies," particularly the section devoted to Geronimo: His Own Story (New York, 1906); Richard Hutson's "Ecce Cowboy: E. C. Abbott's We Pointed Them North," which recovers an authentic record of traildriving experience; Tara Penry's "Sentimental Eco-Memoir: Refuge, Hole in the Sky, and the Necessary Reader," which follows Suzanne Clark's lead in reclaiming sentimentality as an aesthetic value in memoirs by William Kittredge and Terry Tempest Williams; and Melody Graulich's "Prepositional Spaces: Family Photographs, History, and Storytelling in Memoirs by Contemporary Western Writers," which "examines how four western women storytellers [Leslie Marmon Silko, Yoshiko Uchida, Mary Clearman Blew, and Norma Cantú] situate their life stories within family albums" (p. 32).

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