Bridging the Distance: Common Issues of the Rural West . Edited by David B. Danbom. Foreword by David M. Kennedy.

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Bridging the Distance: Common Issues of the Rural West . Edited by David B. Danbom. Foreword by David M. Kennedy. (Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 2015. xiii + 296 pp. Illustrations, maps, charts, tables, notes, bibliography, index. $30.00, paper.) Congratulations to editor David B. Danbom on his excellent timing for explaining the motivations behind the ranchers’ occupation of Oregon’s Malheur National Wildlife Refuge during winter 2016 as well as the responses of the local community and the Burns Paiute Tribe. This interdisciplinary collection of essays illuminates the consequences of historical decisions. David M. Kennedy’s foreword and Jon K. Lauck’s essay introduce the volume with a solid western historiography. Kennedy observed how surprised Frederick Jackson Turner would be that today’s census data reveals even fewer residents in many areas than in the … glaserles{at}ccsu.edu