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God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith and Conflict in the American West. By Todd M. Kerstetter. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. viii, 213 pp. $36.00, ISBN 0-252-03038-9.)
God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land addresses part of the untold history of the American West by putting together the themes of religion, the mythical culture of the West, and the role of the federal government in western affairs. Usually historians treat those themes separately since each alone is complex enough. Todd M. Kerstetter has also brought together subjects of historical investigation usually treated separately: Mormons, Native Americans, and new religious movements. He has illumined all of these by comparing them and examining their points of friction and resonance with the developing culture of the United States and its West. . . .
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