thewest side, should be plowed inwinter. As the expert on his subject,hemay be right.But how many of us would feel that the plowed surface enhances thewilderness ethic of the winter scene? Ifyou are unsure, spend some timewhen thehours ofdaylight are fewto read Yellowstone and theSnowmobile ? youwill be surprised at thecomplexities thathave brought us to today, and the difficulties of finding a just solution. Leslie JamesQuinn YellowstonePark Tour Guide COWBOY TROUT: WESTERN FLY FISHING AS IFIT MATTERS byPaul Schullery Montana Historical Society Press, Helena, 2006. Illustrations, photographs, notes, index. 277 pages. $17.95 paper. Few anglers, angling writers, or environmental historians have spent more years inand around the trout streams of theNorthern Rockies as formerYellowstone National Park historian Paul Schullery.Binding his disparate collection of essays regarding Western fly-fishinginCow boyTrout, Schullery returns to one important constant:Western anglers embrace fly-fishing as "a shinybadge of regional authenticity?of a person's westernness" (p. 5). Fly-fishing isnot only a social exercise, but as Schullery posits in his conclusion, italso offersa "way in' to the greater Western narrative ofwhich ithas longbeen perceived a peripheral component" (p. 221). The "West"Schullery explores isan aesthetic realm ofwildness. It isa spacewhere storiesof cowboys and Indians, visions of landscapes, and sounds of wild game convey a unique sense ofplace thatdifferentiatesitfromamore "civilized"East. The proximityand prominence of this"wildness" ledwestern anglers todefine themselves with an alternative approach to the sport ? fishing big flies in big water? as a semi-conscious rejection of Eastern and European norms. Schullery's most significant passages describe how western fly-fishing trends reflected largereconomic, social, and cultural norms in the nineteenth- and twentieth centuryWest. Rudyard Kiplings's fledgling trips to theYellowstone country hint at the deep economic connection between the "Old West" and the larger global economy, and thepost-River Runs Through It generation of anglers signifythe importance of the service economy in the modern West. The debates of angling ethicsand tacticsbetween "old-timers" (local anglers tied to the traditional farming, ranching, and timber economies) and "green horn" fly anglers (oftenextra-local, city-based denizens of thenew service economies) reflect the contemporary urban-rural binary that dominates the political landscape ofmany Western states. The greatest flaw of Cowboy Trout is that itutilizes a limited geographical definition of the West. The vast majority of the book centers on the stories, landscapes, mythology, and ecology and of Schullery's native Greater Yellowstone and Montana region.While this region is arguably the spiritual and literary heart ofWestern fly-fishing, it obscures the complexities of Western fly-fishingandWest ernhistory thatSchullery seeks to explore.The unique exploitative economic culture of the Alaskan guiding industry,the outsourcing of professional flytyingfrom western flyshops to Southeast Asia andAfrica, and thenetworks of wealthy fly-fishingclubs inplaces as far from viable trout streams as Las Vegas, Los Angeles, and San Francisco could all be used to create a deeper picture of how fly-fishingisperhaps thequintessential example of theeconomy and culture of the "NewWest." Despite these criticisms,Schullery succeeds in his two core goals: exploring the broader history of theNorthern RockyMountain fly fishingcommunity and discussing thehow the Reviews 647 internal tensions of "the gentle sport" occasion ally represent largerhistorical trends. Jeffery Morgan Chadron State College MERIWETHERLEWIS byThomas Danisi and John C. Jackson foreword by Robert J. Moore, Jr. Prometheus Books, Amherst, New York, 2009. Illustrations, bibliography, index. 424 pages. $28.98 cloth. Thomas Danisi and JohnJackson'snew biogra phy Meriwether Lewis isneither an overview of theCorps ofDiscovery's journeynor a detailed biography. It isa painstaking look at one of the fewmen President Thomas Jefferson believed could bring a sense of calm to theUpper Loui siana Territory,a territory tornby factionalism, corruption, and fractiouspower struggles.The territory's residents ? American Indian lead ers,officials from the old Spanish and French governments and the new U.S. government, French-speaking settlers,and newcomers from the eastern United States? demanded the governor's time,wisdom, and abilities. The authors have explored the issues Governor Lewis faced and the work he did to resolve those issues ? tribal treaties and trade agreements, codification of territorial laws, and resolu tion of conflicting land claims based on three national views of property rights ? Spanish, French, and English...