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Patricia Nelson Limerick. Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West. New York: W. W. Norton. 2000. Pp. 384. $27.95.

Larger than life with her humor, brilliance, and ease, Patricia Nelson Limerick has once again written an engaging, stimulating, and thought-provoking book consisting of a series of essays on important themes regarding the American West. This time, the issues she takes up are complexity, religion, culture, ethnicity, gender, and violence in the creation of the ever-evolving West, while at the same time she discusses the role of the public intellectual in conveying information and perspective on these issues to the American public. . . .

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