| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.3

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Book Review

Wayne Aspinall and the Shaping of the American West. By Steven C. Schulte. (Boulder: University Press of Colorado, 2002. xiii + 322 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

Wayne Aspinall considered himself "a strong conservationist in the tradition of Theodore Roosevelt or Gifford Pinchot" (p. 14). Steven Schulte's well-documented interpretation of the Colorado congressman's career provides readers with a compelling and carefully-crafted picture of the man who, during the 1950s and 1960s, maintained a major influence in the development and use of public lands and natural resources in the American West. Although Aspinall argued that he was a conservationist, his promotion of federal reclamation in the American West, according to the author, "was his chief interest" during his twenty-four year career in the House of Representatives. And he was much more, as Schulte demonstrates in his well-crafted narrative.

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