| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 93.3

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Book Review

Frontier Crossroads: Fort Davis and the West. By Robert Wooster. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2006. xii, 210 pp. $24.95, ISBN 1-58544-475-8.)

The federal government's importance in developing the American West has become a commonplace of historical discussion. Less remarked is the government's influence on how we see the past. The Pick-Sloan dam-building program of 1944 set the agenda for a generation of Great Plains archeologists; the Indian Claims Commission Act of 1946 gave impetus to the growth of ethnohistory; and the mandate of the National Park Service has become so broad that 60 percent of Park Service sites are historical or archeological in nature. Frontier Crossroads is about one such place: the nineteenth-century army post now called Fort Davis National Historic Site.

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