| Book Review | The Western Historical Quarterly, 34.1

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Book Review

Writing: The Pioneer Woman. By Janet Floyd. (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002. ix + 228 pp. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index. $32.50.)

In many ways, Janet Floyd's Writing: The Pioneer Woman would more aptly be titled Discussing the Pioneer Woman. As the book jacket promises, Floyd does touch on "autobiographical texts, published and private, known and obscure," but usually as a springboard to scholarly discussions already in play. She does not analyze or summarize the various arguments so much as place them against or alongside each other. . . .

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