sus artisticvision, East and kin versusWest and opportunity, and natural environment versus economic development. The puristmight wonder why such a biog raphy is needed, since Foote, a professional au thor, wrote her own luminescent reminiscences, which were carefullyreassembled bymining his torianRodman Paul and published in 1980 asA Victorian Gentlewoman in theFar West. Occa sionally,when Miller quotes a wonderful pas sage by Foote, a readermight wish he or she were reading "the original." Miller's research pro vides contextual information,however, thatall themore enriches our admiration forMary Hallock Foote. For example, Miller tellsus in great detail why Foote was considered the fore most female illustratorof her time.Miller also provides samples ofFoote's correspondencewith publishers thatshowhow vigorously this"gentle woman" negotiated fordecent fees as she grew confident in her talents and evolved into the major financial supporterofher family. On some occasions thatfamily overwhelmed her,especially when they lived in crowded quarters located, ironically, in the vast open spaces of theBoise RiverValley in Idaho orGrass Valley,California. Foote wrote toher best friendback East, "I am daily chopped in littlepieces and passed around and devoured and expected to be whole again next day, and all days.And I am neveralone, for a single minute!" (p. 116). Miller analyzes themajor theme of Foote's life ? the tension between building a sense of home and community in theEast or in the West ? in a thoughtful way. This is a farmore empathetic treatmentofFoote's deep-seated tra ditional femalevalues than wasWallace Stegner 's inhis novelAngle of Repose. Stegner 's heroinewas petulant,whereasMiller demonstrates howMary Hallock Foote grew inmaturity to understand thatthedebate over thegeographical location of "home" was ultimately moot to thosebred inthe magnificent wild places of the West: "Whilewe are strivinginexile inorder that we may one day take our children home, theyare strikingdeep roots into thisalien soil,andmay not consent to call any other home" (p. 200). I predict that those introduced toMary Hallock Foote viaMiller's biographywill be eager topursue Foote's own voice inher reminiscences of life inplaces as varied asMonterrey,Mexico, and Leadville, Colorado. Miller's selectivesynop ses of Foote's fiction serve as a guide for those who want to seefirsthandwhy Scribners and the AtlanticMonthly vied forherworks. A substan tialbibliography closes thisbiography inwhich Miller encouragesus,with contagious zest,to learn more about Foote. Watershed: The Undamming of America By Elizabeth Grossman Counterpoint, New York, 2002. Notes, bibliography, index. 256 pages. $26.00 cloth. Reviewed by Jeff Crane Culver-Stockton College, Canton,Missouri AMERICAN ENVIRONMENTALIST! has al . ways been a complex movement, and in recentdecades ithas grown increasingly multi faceted with the riseof theenvironmental justice movement and the use of easements and land trusts to preserve ecosystems or at least block furtherecological deterioration. InWatershed, Elizabeth Grossman has provided a useful guide to one of themost important developments in contemporaryAmerican environmentalism. She describes a general trend toward restoration of deteriorated landscapes and ecosystems and, more specifically,the removal of dams nation wide to restore streams, rivers, and their aquatic Reviews 137 ecosystems. Grossman's book provides a national portrait of this river restorationmovement by lookingatdam removal effortsin Maine, Florida, Washington, Wisconsin, and other states. Beginning in Maine, theauthor examines suc cessful dam-removal efforts, particularly the re markable success of theEdwards Dam removal on theKennebec River and the consequent re turnsof impressivefish runs.Grossman closes thebookwith thefight over theLower SnakeRiver dams in Washington State, leaving readers at the focus of recent effortsand thepossible limitof the current dam removal and river restoration movement. The book isan effectivegeneral overview of an importantmovement. Each chapter focuses on a single region, providing a basic historical background ofdam construction and theuse of the riverbefore and afterdamming, cataloging the subsequent ecological effects, and describing effortsto remove the dam and the results.The Snake River discussion is one of the stronger chapters.Grossman effectively describes thede bate over removal of thefourLower Snake River dams and captures the complexity in the con flict. Her coverage would have been much stron ger, however, ifshehadmore effectively used Keith Petersen'sRiver ofLife, Channel of Death, a com prehensive studyof thedamming of theLower Snake River and thedams' effects on salmon and steelhead runs. While Petersen's book iscited in thebibliography, there isno referenceto itin the...