| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.2

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Book Review

Starting Over: Community Building on the Eastern Oregon Frontier. By William F. Willingham. (Portland: Oregon Historical Society Press, 2005. xi + 228 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, appendix, notes, bibliographic essay, index.)

From sheepshooters to moonshiners, the history of eastern Oregon enjoys a rich body of anecdotal accounts and empirical studies authored by a dedicated lineage of local historians, most notably George Brimlow, Phil Brogan, Edward Gray, and Mike Hanley. Unfortunately, few "academic" historians have contributed to this literature and successfully contextualized the Euro-American resettlement of the high desert in the broader themes and patterns of a regional or national narrative. Peter K. Simpson's The Community of Cattlemen (Moscow, ID, 1987) and Nancy Langston's Where Land & Water Meet (Seattle, 2003) represent two recognizable exceptions. Indeed, scholars of Oregon Basque immigration and community development, such as Richard Etulain, Jeronima Echeverria, and John Bieter, have elevated the region above micro-history the most consistently.

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