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Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873. By M. John Lubetkin. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xviii + 380 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index. $29.95.)

      Western history has always attracted more than its share of non-professional historians, those whose interest is more avocational than vocational. Also, these students of the region have contributed much to our understanding of its past. Jay Cooke's Gamble is part of this tradition. . . .

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