| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 33.4

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Book Review

The Human Tradition in the American West. Edited by Benson Tong and Regan A. Lutz. (Wilmington, DE: SR Books, 2002. xxvi + 237 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $60.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

As part of the Human Tradition in America Series, The Human Tradition in the American West utilizes short biographies "of persons whose lives shed light" on our historical understanding of the American West (p.i). Editors Benson Tong and Regan A. Lutz present thirteen mini-biographies that collectively illustrate the unifying characteristic of the U. S. West: diversity. "Unlike the East, with its seemingly deterministic Puritan heritage, and the South, saddled by the burden of slavery, the U. S. West defies a monocausal explanation for its development" (p. xiii). This diverse group of biographies includes an eighteenth-century Jesuit priest (Francisco Javier Clavijero), a nineteenth-century journalist and cartographer (Henry DeGroot), and a twentieth-century Lakota activist (Robert Burnette). Loosely connected by brief chapter introductions and a general introduction, "The American West in Its Many Incarnations," by Tong and Lutz, these essays do illustrate the human diversity of the western experience. . . .

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