| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.1

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Book Review

In the Work of Their Hands Is Their Prayer: Cultural Narrative and Redemption on the American Frontiers, 1830–1930. By Joel Daehnke. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2003. xi + 299 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $59.95, cloth; $26.95, paper.)

In this wide-ranging, well researched, and beautifully written study, Joel Daehnke explores how the terminology of redemption—both sacred and secular—structured responses to the West in popular, political, and literary culture. While his thesis is hardly surprising, Daehnke sheds light on the multiple meanings of national mission and progress as they were mapped onto western landscapes. By focusing on representations of Americans at work or at play at particular sites, Daehnke restores locally distinctive nuances to cultural narratives, such as Manifest Destiny, too often invoked as broad historical forces.

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