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Reviews Donald Worster's 'Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West' (1992), Richard White's '"It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own": A History of the American West' (1991), and 'Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past' (1992), edited by William Cronon, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin. These books challenge Frederick Jackson Turner's frontier thesis and feature a less-romantic history of the West. They examine white American expansion westward, its effect on the environment, the influence of governments and economics, and the lack of isolation and innocence.

The article reviews the book "Dignity and Defiance: Stories From Bolivia's Challenge to Globalization," edited by Jim Schultz and Melissa Crane Draper.

Reviews the book 'Pathways of Memory and Power: Ethnography and History Among an Andean People,' by Thomas A. Abercrombie.

Reviews the book `Spencer Baird of the Smithsonian,' by E.F. Rivinus and E.M. Youssef.