Review of \u3ci\u3eDispersed City of the Plains\u3c/i\u3e, by Harris Stone, with Joan Stone and J. William Carswell.

The book succeeds on several intellectual levels: it presents valuable historical references for the development of towns and cities on the Great Plains; it exposes the materiality and construction, and painful choices, in the restoration and rehabilitation of historic structures; and it lends a frame of values and iconographic references to the overlooked and little appreciated dispersed places and architecture of the middle territory of the United States