"Perhaps the most important thing about this book of essays is the intellectual daring of the editors and the contributors in tackling the extremely important but extremely difficult linkage of power and place in the West. This is an admirable example of innovative, pioneering scholarship." - Richard Maxwell Brown
"[T]he essay by Joseph Taylor III presents a compelling analysis of the spatial relations of power in the management of the Oregon salmon fishery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In doing so, it offers the book's most sophisticated exploration of the relationship between power and place"
- BC Studies
"splendid"
- Journal of American History
"[T]he essay by Joseph Taylor III presents a compelling analysis of the spatial relations of power in the management of the Oregon salmon fishery in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. In doing so, it offers the book's most sophisticated exploration of the relationship between power and place"
- BC Studies
"splendid"
- Journal of American History
