Icons of the American West: From Cowgirls to Silicon Valley edited by Gordon Morris Bakken, Greenwood Press, Westport, Conn., 2008, $175. Noah Webster defined icon as “an object of uncritical devotion.” But don’t let that dissuade you from reading this two-volume set. Icons offers greater latitude than the term might suggest, profiling the good, the …
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