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Recent Scholarship

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Draper, Timothy Dean, “‘‘A Little Kingdom of Mixed Nationalities’: Race, Ethnicity, and Class in a Western Urban Community; Rock Springs, Wyoming, 1869–1929” (Northern Illinois University, 2007). Order No. DA3301626.

Kido, Pamela S., “Becoming Local: Social Movement and Literary Production in Late-Twentieth Cenetury Hawai‘I” (University of California, Santa Cruz, 2008). Order No. DA3301335.

 

Cole, Dermot, Fairbanks: A Gold Rush Town That Beat the Odds. (Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 2008. 224 pp. Paper, $19.95, isbn 978-1-60223-030-9.)

McComb, David G., Spare Time in Texas: Recreation and History in the Lone Star State. (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008. 290 pp. Cloth, $60.00, isbn 978-0-292-71870-8. Paper, $24.95, isbn 978-0-292-71889-0.) Heavily illustrated.

Roberts, David, Devil’s Gate: Brigham Young and the Great Mormon Handcart Tragedy. (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2008. 402 pp. $26.00, isbn 978-1-4165-3988-9.)

Rottenberg, Dan, Death of a Gunfighter: The Quest for Jack Slade, the West’s Most Elusive Legend. (Yardley: Westholme, 2008. xiv, 520 pp. $29.95, isbn 978-1-59416-070-7.)

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