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Abstract
The Mountain West: Interpreting the Folk Landscape Terry G. Jordan, Jon T. Kilpinen, and Charles F. Gritzner Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins U niversity Press, 1997 Reviewed by W. S c o t t Professor Emeritus, Western Washington University Ja m e s D e d ic a te d to the m em ory o f Fred Kniffen-- in the authors' words the "founding father o f research in A m erican folk geography"-- The Mountain West is a m ajor addition to the sparse collection o f litera ture on the cultural geography o f the A m erican W est. In this slim volum e o f seven chapters, the authors waste little space on prelim i naries and quickly m ove to the purpose in undertaking their present research. In an opening chapter titled "The A m erican W est: Continuity or Innovation?" Jordan and his co-authors reject unequivocally histo rian Earl Pom eroy's claim that "the sources on the W est are in large part literary" (p. 8). A t the same time, they call into question the two m ost widely known-- if now far from w idely accepted-- interpreta tions o f
Journal
Yearbook of the Association of Pacific Coast Geographers – University of Hawai'I Press
Published: Oct 1, 1996