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Hell on the Range: A Story of Honor, Conscience, and the American West (The Lamar Series in Western History) Paperback – Illustrated, September 10, 2013

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In this lively account of Arizona’s Rim Country War of the 1880s—what others have called "The Pleasant Valley War"—historian Daniel Justin Herman explores a web of conflict involving Mormons, Texas cowboys, New Mexican sheepherders, Jewish merchants, and mixed-blood ranchers. Their story, contends Herman, offers a fresh perspective on Western violence, Western identity, and American cultural history.

At the heart of Arizona’s range war, argues Herman, was a conflict between cowboys’ code of honor and Mormons’ code of conscience. He investigates the sources of these attitudes, tracks them into the early twentieth century, and offers rich insights into the roots of American violence and peace.

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University

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Yale University Press
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September 10, 2013
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5.83 x 0.84 x 9.03 inches
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0274752786
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"This is a rich, deep, and rewarding work of western history - a genuine contribution to the histories of American violence, society and culture, politics, and economics. Herman's research is nothing less than extraordinary as it taps an especially rich body of personal papers as well as published and unpublished memoirs. It will become a classic in the historiography of the American West."—Durwood Ball, University of New Mexico

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“This is a most impressive, well-documented, detailed and essentially interesting study. In Western history studies, it is a real and highly valuable breakthrough.”—Bertram Wyatt-Brown, University of Florida -- Bertram Wyatt-Brown

"An original and provocative contribution to western history. By linking the Rim Country War to the often conflicting demands of honor and conscience, Herman demonstrates how frontier violence continued to shape western identity for generations to come."—Benjamin H. Johnson, author of Revolution in Texas -- Benjamin H. Johnson

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Daniel Justin Herman is professor of history at Central Washington University. He lives in Ellensburg, Washington.

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ASIN ‏ : ‎ 0300198264
Publisher ‏ : ‎ Yale University Press; Illustrated edition (September 10, 2013)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 400 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0274752786
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0300198263
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.16 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.83 x 0.84 x 9.03 inches

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Daniel Herman is professor of history at Central Washington University. His most recent book--The Feudist: A Novel of the Pleasant Valley War--received Reader Views' gold award for best Mountain-West novel of 2020, as well as Reader Views' bronze award for historical fiction. The Feudist was also named a finalist in the SPR awards competition. Herman's earlier books--which range from a history of hunting in the U.S. to a history of indigenous peoples in Central Arizona--have likewise garnered multiple prizes, including the Charles Redd Center-Phi Alpha Theta Book Award in Western History and the Labriola Center National American Indian Book Award. Herman lives in Ellensburg, Washington, with his wife, Margareta, daughter, Persia, and a pair of neurotic cats.

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Lew Craig

A sociological approach.

Reviewed in the United States on October 30, 2013

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First, I must congratulate Mr. Herman on a well researched, scholarly work. He is very thorough, perhaps too thorough, which more about my prejudices in reading the book rather than any weakness in the book itself. I was looking for a well researched narrative on the Pleasant Valley War, not an examination of the sociology of a number of conflicts in Arizona in the same time period. If one is looking for a scholarly approach to Eastern Arizona in the 1880-90's, this is your book and I can't imagine anything better.

I was looking for more on the Pleasant Valley War and was disappointed in that sense. I did learn a lot about Eastern Arizona in the 1880's which was fascinating to me because my wife's grandmother was a child in that area during the time. I had no idea of the conflicts that she must have witnessed and endured as a child.

Herman goes off in several directions towards the end, discussing the life of Arizona's first governor, George Hunt. His life was fascinating, but was only incidental to "Hell on the Range." There were also looks at the writings of Zane Grey and movies made from his books which were pertinent. Herman also wanders around in time and events a bit, which was frustrating to me. I would have preferred to have on area covered, related to other incidents then move on. I also would have replaced his term "honor" with "pride," which I believe is more descriptive of the cowboy mentality. Another minor criticism was that the print in the book was quite small. I would have preferred larger print with more pages, but that is really more a complaint about my aging eyes.

While not exactly what I was looking for, "Hell on the Range" was in many ways a very pleasant surprise. Any one interested in an exciting western narrative should skip this book, but I would hope that interested souls will be willing to read this carefully. In spite of my criticisms, it is a unique gem.

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KT

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Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2017

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Indifferent. Only got this for "mandatory" class.

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Richard E. Wynn

Psychobabble on the range

Reviewed in the United States on October 26, 2016

Arizona's Graham-Tewksbury Feud of the 1880's, also known as the Tonto Basin Feud or the Pleasant Valley War, is one of the best-know of the Western Range Wars. Readers not previously familiar with the events of that war will not find them cogently explained in this book. Instead, the author attempts to place them within a "broader context" of events that include conflicts among and between Mormons and their gentile neighbors, Texans and New Mexicans, small ranchers and large cattle interests, cattlemen and sheep men, law enforcement officers, rustlers and vigilantes. The problem with this approach is that, in such a forest of events, it is often difficult to discern the individual trees, much less which ones are the most important. While criticizing other scholars for reductionism - simplifying complex interactions - the author reduces all the aforementioned conflicts to a basic conflict between what he calls "honor and conscience." He explains "honor tended toward assertion, strength, fierceness, combat. Conscience tended toward restraint, modesty, sympathy." (p. xxii) Much of the book is devoted to the Mormon conscience and their travails with gentiles, cowboys, Texans and rustlers, all men of "honor." The introductory chapter is particularly good, but the remainder of the book does not live up to the reader's expectations. We should have been warned when he wrote "Scholars . . . should focus on the way that marginalized people have exerted agency . . . (and) one cannot, in the 21st century, write about violence without writing about gender and race." (p. xxii). He hits every base on the political correctness circuit. Don Dedera wrote the most comprehensive book on the Pleasant Valley War. Author Herman once worked for Dedera, when the latter was an editor, and uses his book as a source while also criticizing it as "not analysis." Dedera, he says, merely "concerned himself with events." (p. 197). The penultimate chapter on Zane Grey, and how he represented and interpreted real events into fiction was more interesting to me than apparently other reviewers, and it also informs the author's own interpretation of real events. His final conclusions: "pioneer women . . . survived a life of oppression" (p. 289), and Ronald Reagan and George W. Bush were war mongers. ". . . Reagan and Bush were, in many ways, the creations of Zane Grey and the empire of Western novels and movies that followed him." (p. 289).

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Barbara

Great scholarship and a great read

Reviewed in the United States on September 8, 2011

This is a well written history of a range war in AZ in the 1880s. Herman examines the spate of lynchings and shootings through the lens of gender theory, specifically notions of masculinity centered on "honor" and competing notions centered on "conscience." That is, some men prized self-assertion and physical toughness, some men prized self-control and probity, and most men aspired to be a little cowboy and a little bourgeois pater familias. Herman is very good at showing how these ideals interacted with one another, shifting according to changing circumstances. He also tells a great story of a very diverse group of people on one of the last frontiers in America. This book is fun to read, even as it enlightens the reader on the development of American ideas of what it is to be a man.

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Dwight Lee Bates

I loved the book which I bought to compare to the ...

Reviewed in the United States on December 25, 2015

I loved the book which I bought to compare to the Johnson County Range War in Wyoming. After studying the range wars in Wyoming and Arizona, I feel that my great grandfather being shot and killed in a gunfight in Medicine Bow, Wyoming in 1902 was related to cowboy honor. It is similar to why straight laced men from New England gambled and drank in the gold fields of California. Also why college fraternity brothers party and why technicians in ordinary life become motorcycle riders in Sturgis. I am drawn to rodeos because I feel the freedom and the want of the cowboys to prove themselves in a manly way. I am proud to be from Wyoming, have worked on a farm and ranch and go every year to a rodeo regardless of being a manager and an Engineer. I do not love to party and would rather be hiking out in the country but I see it as part of the American West culture and freedom.

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Beverly

A good read

Reviewed in the United States on July 26, 2011

This entertaining story provides a background for some aspects of Arizona's current politics. Even beyond Arizona, it supplies a useful insight into the development of the American national character.

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LBJohn

An American Mirror?

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on June 15, 2017

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A very rich canvas, mormons, capitalists, small ranchers, sheep and writers on the West. I'd have liked a timeline as the approach is by theme, so chronology is secondary. At one point I wondered why a Sheriff was looking for someone who I'd already seen die in a previous chapter! Also I could have done with less detail on the courtship of the Governor, although I realise this reflects the main dialectic of the book - honor v conscience. The work is very thorough and raises (unanswerable) questions about race, religion, capital and resource allocation - the Mormon take on Ham and Egyptus, the antipathy toward the Forest Service, the position of women in the West, even LBJ in relation to the 'honor' question! There is a lot to think about, especially given current politics...

A minor quibble: the Rim "War". Many dead over a squabble over race, religion and economics, but certainly no Vietnam or Eastern Front.... More like an Icelandic Saga...

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