| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 88.3

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Book Review

People of the Wind River: The Eastern Shoshones, 1825–1900. By Henry E. Stamm IV. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1999. xvi, 320 pp. $27.95, ISBN 0-8061-3175-6.)

Henry E. Stamm IV's study of the eastern Shoshone Indians is more the story of the reservation that was set aside for these people than an ethnohistorical assessment of their culture. The book, then, fits into the genre of social history, as the main themes include the study of agricultural programs, missionary efforts, demographic trends, relations with surrounding whites, and the like. Chronologically, the majority of the book covers the period 1868–1885, when the Shoshones were finally convinced to settle at Wind River in western Wyoming and embrace the governmental "civilization" program. . . .

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