| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 95.4

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Book Review

Catholicism in the American West: A Rosary of Hidden Voices. Ed. by Roberto R. Treviño and Richard V. Francaviglia. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2007. xii, 172 pp. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-58544-621-6.)

Today there are approximately 64 million Catholics in the United States. Given the role Catholics played in the development of the frontier, has the historical Catholic experience in the West been undervalued or hidden away? Catholicism in the American West seeks to provide some answers by exposing some hidden away events and personalities. Because of space limitations, this volume confines itself to "the recovery of minority voices, especially those of women and people of color" (p. ix). A majority of its essays were presented as Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures at the University of Texas at Arlington in 2004. Two additional chapters are included because they were the co-winners of the Webb-Smith Essay Competition held in conjunction with the lectures. One of the strengths of this book is the introduction by Steven M. Avella, a professor of history at Marquette University. Avella's historiography of American Catholicism is a wonderful reminder of landmark works in the field.

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