| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.2

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Canada and the United States

Bonnie Christensen. Red Lodge and the Mythic West: Coal Miners to Cowboys. Lawrence: University Press of Kansas. 2002. Pp. xxiii, 312. $34.95.

Red Lodge, Montana, founded by the Northern Pacific Railroad in 1887 as a source for coal, has a beautiful setting on the eastern edge of the Beartooth Mountains that makes it an attractive place to visit. Given its rocky economic prospects after outliving its usefulness as a coal mining center, Red Lodge's survival turned on a nimbleness in shifting identities and making tourism a priority. It has not so much walked away from its years as a coal mining town with an ethnically diverse population as it has incorporated a sanitized version of that past into an appealing package encompassing rodeo and the outdoor activities associated with the American West.

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