| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.2

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Book Review

Comparative/World

Ferenc Morton Szasz. Scots in the North American West, 1790–1917. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press. 2000. Pp. xvi, 272. $29.95.

This engaging but conventional book seeks to isolate for the reader those aspects of Scottish immigrant culture and enterprise that exerted a significant influence on the history and development of the nineteenth-century West, both in the United States and Canada. In it, Ferenc Morton Szasz, whose previous work dealt with the Manhattan atom bomb project during World War II, presents a series of vignettes concerning the impact of Scottish explorers and fur traders, sportsmen, actors, clerics, shepherds, and cattlemen on the region's development. His most in-depth chapters deal with the dominating influence Scottish explorers and fur traders exerted over the area's economic life in the early nineteenth century, an influence he attributes to the same tough, adventurous spirit that turned Scotsmen into successful empire builders, and with the more long-lasting impact they had on the Canadian, as opposed to the American, frontier. He attributes the latter partly to the larger number of Scots who immigrated to Canada, and partly to the absence of any self-conscious attempt on the part of the Canadian government to develop a melting-pot culture, which enabled the Scottish immigrants' contribution to remain more distinctive there than it did in the United States. . . .

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