| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.3

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Book Review

Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott. By Patricia Loughlin. (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2005. xxi + 234 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $32.50.)

The last three decades have seen steady growth in scholarship focused on the struggles and contributions of women in the development of the West. Patricia Loughlin's admirable study of three women—Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott—examines the ways in which these important individuals helped shape the early history of the state of Oklahoma. Their backgrounds were both similar and different, but what united them, Loughlin suggests, was an interest in Indian life and status in the only state in the lower 48 that was created by combining two territories—one largely white and the other, largely Indian.

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