| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.4

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Book Review

Ghost West: Reflections Past and Present. By Ann Ronald. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2002. viii + 246 pp. Map, bibliographical essay, $29.95.)

In this travel narrative, Ann Ronald, professor of English at the University of Nevada, Reno, roams the contemporary West like a spirit medium, always attuned to the region's ghosts. Each of the seventeen chapters focuses on a particular site in each state west of the Missouri River. All of the places she visits are "haunted," or redolent of loss; some, like the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana or the site of the Murrah Building in Oklahoma City, witnessed dramatic and violent loss of life; others, such as mining towns in Colorado, or Lake Powell in Utah, represent lost ways of life or lost environments. In each of these places, the author observes the contemporary realities of the people who live there while evoking a sense of history by reanimating the voices of the past.

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