| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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Book Review

Dry Place: Landscapes of Belonging and Exclusion. By Patricia L. Price. (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2004. xxv + 224 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $59.95, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

Spaces of the Mind: Narrative and Community in the American West. By Elaine A. Jahner. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2004. xviii + 191 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $49.95, £37.95.)

By principle, western borders—whether a line scratched in the sand or a divide fortified by federal law—establish who is in and who is not. As a result, then, regional boundaries have long been the stage for intense political and cultural debates. Equally important, and as both these monographs illustrate, borders also shape relations between people and place and can determine identity. Whether it is the international border of the Southwest that interests Patricia Price or the social divide between various ethnic groups that Elaine Jahner examines, the places-in-between become locations to understand how westerners define themselves and their larger world. For each author, borders are places of negotiation where individuals center themselves within their community and their region.

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