| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4 | The History Cooperative

Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes. Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West. (The American West in the Twentieth Century.) Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 2003. Pp. xix, 419. $39.95.
In this book, Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes analyzes how the introduction of railroads, then automobiles, and finally commercial airlines sequentially changed the nature of economic and social life in the American West. It is an ambitious undertaking, commendable both in its attempt at tripartite comparative transportation history and in its focus on one geographically discrete area of the United States.	1
The book is beautifully written, in an engaging style that is accessible to both the scholar and the lay reader. Schwantes has chosen to write a somewhat personal account of developments, leavening the historical narrative with anecdotes drawn from his own life. The result is a work that has a significant degree of humanity to it, something that is further enhanced by the inclusion of a remarkable collection of nearly 100 black-and-white period illustrations, primarily photographs and advertising literature. These visuals have not been widely published before, and those that depict employees or passengers working on, or traveling in, a train, car, or airplane are particularly compelling.	. . .

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