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A decent synthesis of the power of changing visions about the Rockies in the American imagination and culture. Its content is often fun and educational with its profiles of quirky mountain men and fur traders, fervent missionaries, visionary artists, polyglot immigrants lured by gold or silver, creative hucksters, and rapacious industry magnates.

Ferguson uses a chapter organization that nicely allies phases over time with themes in human response to the Rockies and the West as motivator and field of dreams. A progression from desire and discovery to greed and exploitation.

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He makes what seem wise conclusions to tie up all his forays, but he loses stars for me by not filling in the dots well enough with an effective logical progression and documentation. For example, he refrains from talking much about the politics of Manifest Destiny or any details of the subjugation of the Indians.

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