| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Book Review

Devil's Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story. By Tom Rea. (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 2006. xii + 307 pp. Illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, index. $26.95.)

Tom Rea in Devil's Gate: Owning the Land, Owning the Story takes issue with how the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints interprets the history of the area known as Martin's Cove near Devil's Gate in central Wyoming. The church views Martin's Cove as a sacred site because of its beliefs that many Mormon overland emigrants died there late in 1856. Ten years ago, the church bought the Tom Sun Ranch near the cove and wanted to purchase from the Bureau of Land Management the land on which the cove is located. Unable to do so, the church and the BLM in 2003 signed a twenty-five-year lease granting the church control of the land. Today, the LDS Church's interpretation of the site includes mainly the Mormon handcart disaster. Rea argues there are many more stories about the area which deserve to be told, and he sees the dominance of the historical interpretation by only one story as a "tragedy" (p. 9).

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