| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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Book Review

The Lonesome Plains: Death and Revival on an American Frontier. By Louis Fairchild. (College Station: Texas A&M University Press, 2002. xxii + 323 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

In The Lonesome Plains, psychology professor Louis Fairchild provides a detailed portrait of Plains life, arguing that the ubiquitous isolation of the area was relieved only by infrequent social gatherings occasioned by funerals or religious revivals. To provide evidence for his thesis, Fairchild mines the rich research collections of the Panhandle-Plains Museum, which allows him to focus on the Panhandle region and western plains of Texas. Sources on Plains life in Kansas, Oklahoma, and New Mexico flesh out his narrative, giving it less of a strict focus on Texas. Fairchild also fits the experience of homesteaders in West Texas and the Texas Panhandle into the "westering" framework laid out by Julie Roy Jeffrey, Lillian Schlissel, John Mack Faragher, Craig Miner, and Sandra Myres.

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