| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.3

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Book Review

The American West: A New Interpretive History. By Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher. (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2000. x + 616 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliographies, index. $40.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

The book under review is a third edition of a textbook Robert Hine first published in 1973 and 1984 with Little, Brown and Company. Hine, now eighty years old and a professor emeritus, wisely chose John Mack Faragher of Yale University to update his work. A former student of Hine, Faragher knew the genesis of Hine's book and he also understood his mentor's underlying philosophy, which was that this retelling of the western story makes no pretense at objectivity or comprehensiveness for it is an interpretive account and the selection of theories are, essentially, theresult of presupposition. Faragher is also exceptionally well-read in topics that have recently been refreshed by research: environmental issues, new attitudes toward the contributions of Native Americans, and the increased role ascribed to women in advancing the frontier. . . .

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