| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 40.1

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Book Review

Fortune's a River: The Collision of Empires in Northwest America. By Barry Gough. (Madeira Park, BC: Harbour Publishing, 2007. 413 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendices, notes, bibliography, index. $36.95.)

In Fortune's a River, Barry Gough describes the North American West as "a cockpit of imperial rivalries" (p. 182). That cockpit engaged the political and commercial interests of Britain, France, Russia, Spain, and the emerging United States. In synthesizing these historical interests, Gough provides authenticity through historical detail gained from primary and secondary sources, adds color and perspectives through illumination of principal characters in the historical drama ranging from Thomas Jefferson to the relatively little-known Jacques d'Eglise, and achieves comprehensiveness through examining in turn the interests and adventures of the nations and commercial ventures present in the cockpit.

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