Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude: Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin. Edited by Dennis R. Judd and Stephanie L. Witt.

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Cities, Sagebrush, and Solitude: Urbanization and Cultural Conflict in the Great Basin . Urban West Series. Edited by Dennis R. Judd and Stephanie L. Witt. (Reno: University of Nevada Press, 2015. ix + 271 pp. Illustrations, maps, tables, notes, index. $34.95, paper.) In this well-organized and effectively written anthology, a dozen essays offer varied perspectives on an enduring theme of the Intermountain West: the coexistence of lightly populated countryside and densely settled cities. It begins with a seeming paradox: although people here often espouse rugged individualism, they live in a part of the country that has the highest percentage of land in federal ownership. Moreover, the region’s city dwellers and rural folk are often on different sides of the aisle politically. In a … Francaviglia2002{at}yahoo.com