| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 35.4

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Book Review

Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West. By Virginia Scharff. (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2003. xi + 239 pp. Illustrations, notes, index. $49.95, £35.00, cloth; $19.95, £13.95, paper.)

Virginia Scharff's sprightly new book is as far-reaching as her subjects—the countless women, from Sacajewea to suburban soccer moms, who have traversed the western landscape. For Scharff, "the West" is both place and process: a modern region as well as the historical consolidation of a white American capitalist order. Since families were at the center of western settlement ideology and practice, this capitalist order was a gendered order as well. Women, and what Scharff winkingly terms their "movements," were integral to settlement's success. In a set of historical essays concluded with a dash of personal memoir, Twenty Thousand Roads traces women's paths through the ideological and historical processes that created the place we now call "the West."

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