| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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Book Review

One West, Two Myths: A Comparative Reader. Edited by Carol Higham and Robert Thacker. (Calgary: University of Calgary Press, 2004. xxi + 183 pp. Notes, index. $44.95, paper.)

The eight essays collected in One West, Two Myths offer a comparative approach to the American and Canadian Wests. Taking the 49th parallel as their departure point, the authors explore meanings of regionality and nationality north and south of the U. S./Canada border. A number of the essays included here began as conference proceedings and introduce the work of recent scholars. Beth LaDow, Michel Hogue, and Sheila McManus highlight race as an interrogatory site for rethinking the significance of national boundaries and the contradictory processes by which two nations were made of a single territory, displacing its original inhabitants and disrupting long-established communication and trade routes, what Elliott West calls "across-the-grain incorporations of the West's diverse landforms and peoples" (p. 7). These essays remind us of the arbitrariness of nation-building and the role of myth in sustaining national projects, including national identities.

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