Book World; Mining the Myth of the Old West The Washington Post | December 17, 1992| | . This material is published under license from the Washington Post.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Washington Post. (Hide copyright information) Copyright

CITIES OF GOLD

By Douglas Preston

Simon & Schuster. 480 pp. $25END NOTES

For centuries, Europeans have struggled to conquer the American Southwest. From Coronado to the final defeat of Geronimo, the imperative has been to tame the land and exploit its riches. It is with great irony, then, that Douglas Preston informs us in "Cities of Gold" that the reality of the Old West today is not victory, but "layer after layer of loss."

In these days of revisionary history, this is hardly a revelation, though Preston did not arrive at his conclusion in the stacks of a university library. He ...

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