| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 32.4

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Book Review

The Washakie Letters of Willie Ottogary: Northwestern Shoshone Journalist and Leader, 1906–1929. Edited by Matthew E. Kreitzer. (Logan: Utah State University Press, 2000. xviii + 331 pp. Illustrations, maps, appendixes, notes, bibliography, indexes. $24.95, paper.)

Born in 1869, Willie Ottogary grew up at a time of tremendous change for the Northwestern Shoshone people. The Bear River Massacre of 1863 and the following treaty with the United States served as the catalysts for their cultural transformation from hunters and gatherers to agriculturalists. Mormon missionaries laid out plans for them to settle on arable lands where they would be taught to farm and be educated and civilized according to their values. Ottogary's people eventually established homesteads at Washakie and along the lower Bear River Valley. Young Ottogary grew up in this environment, also spending time on the family's property near Elwood, Utah. At eight years of age, Willie was baptized into the Mormon faith. In addition to the time he spent in church, his childhood experiences included a secular education at the Washakie day school, and schooling in a mixture of Shoshone traditional and transitional culture. . . .

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