| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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Book Review

When We Were Young in the West: True Stories of Childhood. Edited by Richard Melzer. (Santa Fe: Sunstone Press, 2003. 345 pp. Illustrations, map, notes, index. $19.95, paper.)

Richard Melzer has brought together an admirable collection of experiences related to growing up in New Mexico. The stories, most previously published in either books or articles, range from the 1850s to 1960s and reflect the state's diverse population and cultures. Each represents one of the main themes outlined in sixteen chapters that span such varied topics as traveling the Santa Fe Trail, living on farms and ranches, village life, schooling, World War II, and Native American childhoods.

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