| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 36.4 | The History Cooperative

*The Not So Wild, Wild West: Property Rights on the Frontier*. By Terry L. Anderson and Peter J. Hill. (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2004. xii + 263 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $24.95.)
The cover photograph of The Not So Wild, Wild West features a beautiful, snowy scene of the Grand Tetons from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, replete with a buck-'n-rail fence in the foreground, visually suggesting the subtitle of the book. Some readers might construe such a shot as merely a cliché, except that the photograph here was actually printed backwards, so that anyone familiar with the Tetons would have a kind of Alice-in-Wonderland feeling while musing over the cover; the place looks familiar, but is clearly askew.	1
Many western historians will no doubt experience a similar sensation in reading the book. Although the authors take seriously Patricia Nelson Limerick's notion that the history of the West is about real estate, their interpretations are unusual in the field, and they provide new perspectives, as well as significant distortions. Both Anderson and Hill approach the West's development from the standpoint of free-market environmentalism and use economic analyses to explain the conflicts between different groups of people.	. . .

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