| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4

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| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 38.4 | The History Cooperative

*Becoming Western: Stories of Culture and Identity in the Cowboy State*. By Liza J. Nicholas. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2006. xviii + 214 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $35.00; £26.95.)
Nicholas says her book "seeks to provide a better understanding of the enduring legacy of the western myth" in Wyoming, "with the hope that an informed consciousness of that mythic legacy can work to shape a hopeful western future" (p. xviii). The author might have informed her own consciousness more thoroughly before publishing this book.	. . .

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