| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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Book Review

Western Lives: A Biographical History of the American West. Edited by Richard W. Etulain. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2004. 454 pp. Illustrations, maps, bibliographical essays, index. $23.95, paper.)

This book delivers what it promises: the history of the American West through biography. In fifteen roughly chronological essays, different scholars contextualize the lives of selected individuals, both famous and obscure, usually two or three to a chapter throughout the trans-Mississippi West. Although Alaska is included (largely in William H. Lang's Pacific Northwest essay), Hawai'i is neglected. The book begins and ends nontraditionally. In the opening chapter, Gary Clayton Anderson follows native leaders Wakantapi and Juan Sabeata through French and Spanish incursions into their territories in the late 1600s. Carl Abbot concludes with Paul Allen's Seattle, a model of twenty-first-century urbanization. Each essay includes an annotated bibliography, as does the book itself, which fills some holes despite its repetitious nature.

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