| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 94.3

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Book Review

Making Space on the Western Frontier: Mormons, Miners, and Southern Paiutes. By W. Paul Reeve. (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006. x, 231 pp. $35.00, ISBN 978-0-252-03126-7.)

W. Paul Reeve's book about an isolated corner of the Great Basin desert is an effective case study at both the micro and macro levels. He demonstrates how three very different groups, Southern Paiutes, Mormons, and Anglo-American miners, competed over a landscape in southern Utah and Nevada between 1860 and 1920. This place, imagined by most Americans as a barren wasteland, turns out to be a hive of activity under Reeve's microscope. He does not tell a story of simple "progress" in which native people were driven out by Mormons who were in turn driven out by more industrious miners. Instead, the three groups coexisted, often unhappily and violently, in this briefly "intercultural" space (p. 2).

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