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Article: Thomas Jefferson And The Changing West
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- Montana; The Magazine of Western History
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- October 1, 1999
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THOMAS JEFFERSON AND THE CHANGING WEST
James P. Ronda, Editor
University of New Mexico Press, Albuquerque, and Missouri Historical Society Press, St. Louis, 1997. Maps, notes, index. xx + 204 pp. $29.95 cloth, $16.95 paper.
James Ronda has brought together nine papers on Thomas Jefferson presented in 1994 at a national conference in St. Louis, Missouri, to form this book. The challenge to find the relevance of Jefferson's ideas in the West today brought varied responses in research, length, and subject matter, but not in conclusions. For example, Robert Gottlieb notes that Jefferson himself did not provide the link for relating his ideas to the multicultural, urban, ...