up these local comforts and pleasures. Add to this theextraordinarily richproduction values that thepublishers have lavished on thisbook ? itswonderful and true color is testimony, once again, thatLynxGroup printing of Salem is a truly remarkable, if largelyunsung, asset toOregon culture ? and you have, all inall, a beautiful book, a joy to leaf through,page by page, something akin to a visual harvest. Henry Sayre Oregon State University - Cascades Campus critical transformative period in Utah's, and the inter-mountain West's, early twentieth-century agriculturalhistory. Agriculture acrossAmerica was becoming big business by the early twen tieth century and this is a case study,of sorts, of how a single industry ? asmuch as copper mining inMontana or timber-cutting in the Pacific Northwest ? came to dominate the economy, thepolitics, and the culture of a vast region of the country. Throughout this period, the Church of Jesus Christ ofLatterDay Saints (LDS) church proved that itcould, and would, stoop to the lowest and most nefarious business practices in order to achieve the bottom-line: near monopolistic control of the inter-mountain sugar industry.Ultimately, church officials over time looked littlelike the saints theypub licly fashioned themselves as; unadulterated greed primarilymotivated them, justified by "divine" personal blessing and themotivation to increase the church's already consider able financial clout. Church leaderswho had substantial personal and financial stake in the corporation also pressured the rank and file to patronize Utah-Idaho instead of smaller, local companies, despite more competitive prices. Their unraveling (and public embarrassment) would comewith severalhigh profile and dam aging federal investigations into the business practices ofUtah-Idaho Sugar in the 1920s.As Godfreywrites, "a look into the earlyhistory of the Utah-Idaho SugarCompany, then,indicates that,for Mormons in the early 1900s,business and religionwere not a good mix, a lesson that the churchwould not reallygrasp until the lat terpart of the twentiethcentury when itbegan to require itshigh-ranking officials to divest themselves of active business connections" (p. 207). The Utah-Idaho sugar scandals would be a painful early twentieth-century test run. This is a well-research monograph, but tressedby awealth of government investigative reports, financial and legal records, personal correspondence, and newspapers, among oth ers. Itdemonstrates theclout ? on a variety of RELIGION,POLITICS, AND SUGAR:THE MORMON CHURCH,THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT, AND THEUTAH-IDAHO SUGARCOMPANY, 1907-1921 by Matthew C. Godfrey Utah State University Press, Logan, 2007. Illustrations, photographs, maps, tables, notes, bibliography, index. 232 pages. $34.95 cloth. In 1890, thefederalgovernment forcedUtah to abandon polygamy as a precondition forstate hood, an event itachieved in 1896.As historian Matthew Godfrey contends, "this event pre cipitated a transformation inUtah's economy, where it became not only more commercial ized than in thepast, but alsomore national in scope and inmarket," as the Mormon church began gradually to loosen its iron-clad grip on the regional inter-mountain economy (p. 4). That is,however, loosening its grip on most everything but the burgeoning and lucrative sugar industry.Sugar became the bellwether industry to lead this transformation as a third of all ofUtah's farmers were raising sugarbeets by 1920.And theChurch remained an integral force in thedevelopment of the goliathUtah Idaho Sugar Company (in addition to the Amalgamated Sugar Company). This study, thus, charts the confluence of power ? both provincial and national? money, politics, and thehegemony of theMormon church in this 640 OHQ vol. 109, no. 4 levels ? a single agricultural commodity can produce. For more contemporary examples one need look no furtherthan thepower that corn holds over theAmerican agricultural economy currently (including, ironically,the conversion of corn to sugarby-products). This book should be of interestto historians and scholars of the early twentieth-century West, particularly the inter-mountain region, and especially to those interested in the historic roots of economic power wielded by theLDS church. Keith Edgerton Montana State University-Billings and cultures into a single philosophical treat ment, an unfortunate and recurrent oversight inmany Native American writings. The truth is thereare over 800 federally recognized and non-recognized tribes inAmerica, each with unique characteristics in culture and philoso phy.Cordova, who grew up in amarginalized community ofApache and non-Natives, does not overlook thisdiversity,and neither do the editors. She uses...