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The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands. By Sheila McManus. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2005. xxvi, 236 pp. Cloth, $69.95, ISBN 0-8032-3237-3. Paper, $29.95, ISBN 0-8032-8308-3.)
In The Line Which Separates, Sheila McManus presents an ambitious but focused study of how the drawing of a border line between Alberta and Montana was complicated by the construction of nation, race, and gender from 1860 to 1890 in a borderland running roughly from Helena to Calgary and from the Rockies to slightly east of the Alberta–Saskatchewan line. This explicitly borderlands history (only incidentally comparative) describes "how a border came to be, and how it shaped the people, places, and processes on both sides" (p. xvi). . . .
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