Book Reviews

Martha Banta. Imaging American Women: Idea and Ideals in Cultural History C. Jane Gover, The Positive Image: Women Photographers in Turn of the Century America Beth L. Bailey. From Front Porch to Back Seat: Courtship in Twentieth‐Century America Lawrence Clayton. Ranch Rodeos In West Texas A Bruccoli Clark Layman Book. Dictionary of Literary Biography Gerald Gardner. The Mocking of the President: A History of Campaign Humor from Zke to Ronnie Robert Jewett and John Shelton Lawrence. The American Monomyth Roy Jordan. Wyoming: A Centennial Bibliografihy John Kouwenhoven. The Beer Can by the Highway: Essays on What's American about America David Grimsted. Melodrama Unveiled: American Theater & Culture 1800‐1850 Karal Ann Marling. George Washington Slept Here: Colonial Revivals and American Culture, 1876‐1986 Sally McMurry. Families Q Farmhouses in 19th Century America Lawrence E. Mintz. Humor in America: A Research Guide to Genres and Topics Vera Norwood and Janice Monk (eds.). The Desert is no Lady: Southwestern Landscapes in Women's Writing and Art Glenda Riley. The Female Frontzer: A Comparative View of Women on the Praarie and the Plains June Sochen. Cafeteria America: New Identities in Contemporary Life Paul J. Zingg, Editor and Contributor. The Sporting Image, Readings in American Sport History