| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 39.1

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Book Review

Aryan Cowboys: White Supremacists and the Search for a New Frontier, 1970–2000. By Evelyn A. Schlatter. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2006. xv + 250 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $50.00, cloth; $19.95, paper.)

In the past few decades, there have been occasional, often highly spectacular, incidents of violence and terrorism by white supremacist groups operating in western U. S. states. Most have attracted substantial media attention and their details are familiar: the Idaho-based Aryan Nations compound (now defunct) in which assorted neo-Nazis, Ku Klux Klan members, and racist skinheads gathered to pledge their allegiance to racist ideals; the Order, a racist network whose members were convicted of various robberies and the assassination of a Jewish radio announcer in Denver; and the white supremacist Randy Weaver, whose standoff with federal agents at his Idaho home resulted in the death of his wife and son. Aryan Cowboys attempts to account for such diverse right wing activity by exploring how historical traditions of western society, especially vigilantism, a frontier mentality, and values of manhood and fraternalism, have encouraged some white western men to embrace the extremist views and actions of white supremacism.

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