| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.2 | The History Cooperative

*Arizona's War Town: Flagstaff, Navajo Ordnance Depot, and World War II.* By John S. Westerlund. (Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2003. xxi + 304 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $39.95.)
John S. Westerlund's Arizona's War Town arrives closely behind Brad Melton's and Dean Smith's Arizona Goes to War: The Home Front and the Front Lines during World War II (Tucson, 2003). While Melton's and Smith's work provides a broad overview of the World War II impact on the state of Arizona, Westerlund fleshes out the war's effect on one Arizona city: Flagstaff. Westerlund's is the first scholarly work to take this approach in Arizona. He argues convincingly that Flagstaff's federal depot was a catalyst for diverse economic, social, and cultural changes that no other town in Arizona experienced.	1
Located in northern Arizona near the Navajo and Hopi reservations, with a 1940 population of five thousand, Flagstaff was dependent on logging, the railroad, a college (which later became Northern Arizona University), and tourism. The federal government's construction in 1942 of a large ordnance depot, for storing and shipping ammunition, near Flagstaff transformed the town into a boomtown. The Navajo Ordnance Depot doubled Flagstaff's population, sparked labor and housing shortages, boosted the local economy, and produced many social problems.	. . .

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