| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 37.4 | The History Cooperative

*Building on a Borrowed Past: Place and Identity in Pipestone, Minnesota*. By Sally J. Southwick. (Athens: Ohio University Press, 2005. xii + 204 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $38.95, cloth; $18.95, paper.)
Like the railroad lines that crossed Pipestone, Minnesota, in the last century, many scholarly disciplines intersect in this book. Students of heritage tourism, Native American history, popular memory, and cultural geography will find Southwick's work well worth reading. Who would have guessed that a slender volume about a tiny prairie town could address so many important topics?	1
The town of Pipestone was built on Euro-Americans' romantic notions of Native American life. Beginning in the mid-nineteenth century, Euro-Americans heard about the place where several Plains Indian groups obtained the red stone they carved and polished into pipes and other objects. In 1837, George Catlin painted a quarry scene and sent a sample of the "pipe-stone" back east; geologists named it catlinite. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Song of Hiawatha," published in 1855, imagined the "Great Pipe-stone Quarry" as the place where the "Great Spirit" Gitche Manito taught the Native peoples of North America to stop warring with one another. Hugely popular, Longfellow's poem projected a Native history and identity for the place only loosely tied to the real Indians who were still using the site.	. . .

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