| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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Book Review

One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West before Lewis and Clark. By Colin G. Cal-loway. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2003. xx, 631 pp. $39.95, ISBN 0-8032-1530-4.)

The year 2004 marks the beginning of three years of bicentennial celebrations of the Lewis and Clark expedition in many parts of the American West. While this book is one of many that will draw attention to the famous pair of explorers, its central focus sets it apart from most of the others. Rather than discussing the contributions of the expedition, Colin G. Calloway suggests that its members missed much evidence of Native American history. In fact, he goes on to say that "Lewis and Clark did not bring the West into U.S. history, they brought the United States into Western history" (p. 2). Clearly for him the West was anything but a place white settlers invaded and occupied as part of the master narrative of the nation's history. Instead, his central theme is that the region was not a vacant area, but rather a kaleidoscopic world in which a series of peoples and frontiers had formed, overlapped, changed, and reformed for thousands of years, and where American pioneers became just one more group in this long process.

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