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Book Review
| Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes. By W. Paul Reeve. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x + 231 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $35.00.)
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Increasingly, historians are employing analytical models of cultural anthropology, sociology, and geography to good effect. In this tradition, W. Paul Reeve's work on the post-Civil War Utah frontier examines the interactions of several cultural groups through the lenses of shared space, intercultural conflict, and ethnic group boundary maintenance. Within a strong theoretical framework, the author analyzes the "clash of cultures" that ensued as Mormons (LDS) invaded the sacred homeland of the Southern Paiutes, and in turn, had their territory taken by silver-hungry miners in the region around present-day Pioche, Nevada, and St. George, Utah. |
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