| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.3

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Book Review

Imagining the Big Open: Nature, Identity, and Play in the New West. Edited by Liza Nicholas, Elaine M. Bapis, and Thomas J. Harvey. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2003. xv + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $24.95, paper.)

A strange group invaded the West in the closing decades of the last century. They wore fanny packs, swigged bottled water, and masticated Power Bars. Their obsessions—scenery, real estate, and leisure—rivaled their diet and wardrobe for new fangled oddness. Next to conquerors of the past, these hordes seemed benign, more nun than Hun. Yet they possessed a mighty weapon: over-valued stock portfolios. In the 1990s, this army of consumers entered the American West with cash to spend. They acquired land, political influence, and strong opinions about how the region should look and run.

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