SCOTT, MEL. Cities Are for People. Pp. 110. Los Angeles: The Pacific South- west Academy, 1942. No price

• DOI: 10.1177/000271624222400174
• Date: 01 November 1942
• Published date: 01 November 1942
• Subject Matter: Articles

230

parts

relate

to

personal

experiences.

The

historical

essays

were

originally

docu-

mented,

but

for

the

sake

of

uniformity

all

footnotes

have

now

been

omitted.

The

book

has

no

bibliography,

but

it

has

an

index

of

seven

pages.

Each

chapter

is

begun

by

a

verse

written

by

the

author

and

by

a

decorative

sketch

prepared

by

Richard

G.

Underwood.

These

verses

and

sketches

make

a

delightful

fin-

ish

to

the

book

not

found

in

the

ordinary

work.

The

chapter

on

Ranching

on

the

Cheyenne-Arapaho

Reservation

gives

an

excellent

account

of

the

trouble

leading

to

President

Cleveland’s

proclamation

order-

ing

the

removal

of

stock

from

the

reserva-

tion.

’

The

concluding

chapter

states

clearly

the

influence

of

the

cattle

industry

on

other

industries

and

even

on

military

defense,

since

it

depends

partly

on

barbed

wire

which

was

first

used

by

cattlemen.

A

few

minor

errors

appear

in

the

work.

The

statement

that

Murdo

Mackenzie

&dquo;came

to

the

United

States

in

1885

and

served

as

manager

of

the

Prairie

Cattle

Company

from

that

date

until

1890&dquo;

(p.

99)

is

only

partially

true.

Mr.

Mackenzie

had

the

title

of

manager

from

1889

to

1890

only.

The

title

of

Richthofen’s

work

is

Cattle-raising

on

the

Plains

of

North

America

instead

of

Cattle

Ranching

on

the

Plains

of

North

America

(p.

103).

James

Iliff

(p.

114)

undoubtedly

refers

to

John

Wesley Iliff.

The

author

does

not

seem

quite

sure

of

his

own

estimate

of

the

importance

of

the

Cherokee

Strip

Live Stock

Association.

He

states

that

it

was

&dquo;the

greatest

livestock

organization

in

the

world&dquo;

(p.

204),

and

he

also

states

that

&dquo;it

was

perhaps

the

great-

est

organization

in

the

world

engaged

in

the

livestock

industry&dquo;

(p.

210).

The

comment

&dquo;of

course

played

cards&dquo;

(p.

219)

should

not

be

interpreted

as

apply-

ing

to

all

cattle

camps.

Some

ranches

had

definite

rules

against

card

playing.

Article

XII

of

the

General

Rules

of

the

XIT

Ranch

for

January

1888

stated

that

card

playing,

&dquo;whether

engaged

in

by

employees,

or

by

persons

not

in

the

service

of

the

Company,

is

strictly

forbidden

on

the

ranch.&dquo;

By

assembling

these

essays

in

book

form,

the

author

has

made

available

much

inter-

esting

and

authentic

information

concerning

the

cattle

industry.

The

picturesque

and

intriguing

style

of

the

author,

together

with

the

relating

of

many

humorous

incidents,

will

make

the

book

one

of

special

interest

to

the

general

public

as

well

as

to

edu-

cators.

The

Cow

Country

ranks

in

the

first

class

of

books

on

the

cattle

industry.

ORA

B.

PEAKE

Colorado

State

College

of

Education

SCOTT,

MEL.

Cities

Are

for

People.

Pp.

110.

Los

Angeles:

The

Pacific

South-

west

Academy,

1942.

No

price.

This

colorful

paper-covered

folio

is

a

noteworthy

edition

to

the

small

but

grow-

ing

collection

of

statements

of

the

problems

of

a

community

or

region,

its

resources,

and

the

basis

of

its

orderly

growth,

in-

tended

primarily

for

the

use

of

high

school

social

science

students

or

equivalent

adult

education

groups.

It

is

based

largely

upon

the

set

of

essays

sponsored

by

the

Pacific

Southwest

Academy

(of

the

Social

Sci-

ences)

published

last

year

as

Los

Angeles:

Preface

to

a

Master

Plan

(reviewed

in

THE

ANNALS,

September

1941).

The

Haynes

Foundation,

a

local

charitable

trust

which

has

in

the

past

recognized

the

planning

of

the

Los

Angeles

metropolitan

area

as

a

legitimate

object

of

its

bounty,

supported

the

popularization.

This

work

closely

parallels

that

of

the

Pacific

Northwest

Council

which

seeks

to

interpret

the

findings

of

the

planners

to

the

citizens,

particularly

those

of

the

on-

coming

generation,

and

to

make

the

plan-

ners

conscious

of

the

needs

of

educators

for

more

usable

material.

These

brochures

are,

of

course,

in

the

tradition

of

Kessler’s

story

of

the

Dallas

plan

in

the

first

decade

of

the

century,

and

Wackers

Manual

of

the

Chicago

plan

of

the

1920’s.

They

bring

to

bear,

however,

the

resources

of

modern

lithography,

bleed

illustrations,

sans-serif

type,

and

photo-

montage.

More

important,

the

chapters

on

express

highways

and

clover-leaf

intersec-

tions

are

properly

subordinate

to

considera-

tions

of

regional

resources

and

neighbor-

hood

development.

Two

criticisms

come

to

mind.

If

this

is

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