| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.1

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Book Review

A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800–1922. Edited by Susan Cummins Miller. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2000. xiv + 447 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $21.95, paper.)

Anthologies are difficult to review. What do we ask of an editor who puts together a collection of writings on the American frontier? Do we look for intellectual coherence? Do we ask that a collection represent more than a sum of its parts? If so, how does A Sweet, Separate Intimacy measure up? 1

Miller has selected pieces from some thirty-four women writers and arranged them in strict chronological order by the authors' birth dates. Her collection opens with two Ojibwa tales retold by Jane Johnston Schoolcraft. Although it has become commonplace to begin anthologies of American literature with Native American pieces, suggesting that their authors somehow stand outside time and history, Miller incorporates the Ojibwa tales into her history of women on the American frontier. Since Schoolcraft, the daughter of an Irish trader and his Ojibwa wife was born in 1800, her stories begin the book. . . .

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