| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Book Review

Regions in Transition: The Northern Great Plains and the Pacific Northwest in the Great Depression. By Rolland Dewing. (Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 2006. x + 245 pp. Notes, bibliography, index. $39.95, paper.)

Look long enough, and you will find a gem. In this book, it is found in Chapter Nine. Here Dewing skillfully describes the recurring droughts that plague the Northern Great Plains. Here he explains why, during the 1930s, these droughts pushed out of the Northern Plains many hardy souls who had not joined the migrants who already had left. Here Dewing profiles the Great Depression migrants. And here he shows what the region lost in human capital and what the Pacific Northwest gained. The abundant footnotes in this chapter explain the status of scholarship and how the author's personal relationships in these regions caused him to write this book, which revises that scholarship. This chapter alone is worth the price of the book.

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