| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.2

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Book Review

Army Architecture in the West: Forts Laramie, Bridger, and D. A. Russell, 1849–1912. By Alison K. Hoagland. Foreword by Paul L. Hedren. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2004. xiii + 288 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $49.95.)

With military spending in the United States currently the nation's highest priority, it may be difficult to imagine a time when little public support and funding existed for the nation's defense. In Army Architecture in the West, Alison K. Hoagland examines a chapter in American military history by studying three western forts built and occupied in Wyoming during the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Forts Laramie, Bridger, and D. A. Russell (now F. E. Warren Air Force Base) all survive today, the first two as historic sites and the third as an active military base. This exhaustively researched and well-crafted book argues that the forts' buildings "were powerful agents in the process of civilizing the West" (p. 250). Although the early architecture of the forts suffered from poor funding and remote locations, officers sought a sense of refinement in planning and form. Hoagland is especially interested in documenting the development of these sites and analyzing how these forts came to be built in order to understand "the army's attitude toward its role in the West" (p. 10).

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