| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.1 | The History Cooperative

*Utah Historians and the Reconstruction of Western History.* By Gary Topping. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2003. xii + 388 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $34.95.)
Gary Topping deserves praise for accepting the arduous challenge of assessing five of the American West's most interesting historians—Bernard DeVoto, Dale Morgan, Juanita Brooks, Fawn Brodie, and Wallace Stegner. All were prolific writers, and besides several hundred published works, they generated vast archival records—Morgan's papers alone fill more than eighty microfilms—and Topping appears to have mastered them all.	1
Topping not only analyzes the contributions each historian made to an inclusive version of western history, he also embraces the greater challenge of examining the interpretive failings that created their "ambiguous legacy" (p. 8). His focus on his predecessor's failings opens Topping to charges of arrogant carping, but his obvious affection for his subjects and his humility undercut such a complaint.	. . .

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