| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 104.4

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Book Review

Canada and the United States

Paul F. Starrs. Let the Cowboy Ride: Cattle Ranching in the American West. (Creating the North American Landscape.) Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, in association with the Center for American Places, Harrisonburg, Va. 1998. Pp. xx, 356. $35.95.

This appealingly written work of geographic history belongs on the top shelf of important books about western cattle ranching. It merits comparison with classic studies by Ernest S. Osgood, Walter Prescott Webb, and Terry Jordan. The volume also deserves inclusion among the best cultural geographies dealing with the American West, including those by Jordan, D. W. Meinig, Yi-Fu Tuan, and David Wishart. The book is worthy of the high praise it will receive. 1

Paul F. Starrs focuses on cattle ranching in the American West. The first four chapters summarize historical as well as present-day problems facing ranchers beyond the 98th meridian. Then Starrs provides brief case studies of ranching in five western counties. The final three chapters take up the future of ranching, noting the economic, environmental, and legal pressures on ranchers. Scattered throughout the book are more than 100 photographs, charts, and graphs that clearly illustrate its major points. The endnotes and bibliographical essay also attest to the author's familiarity with leading scholarship about the American West. . . .

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