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Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, By Russell Thornton, Henry F. Dobyns
Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, By Russell Thornton, Henry F. Dobyns
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
This volume discusses major dynamics of Cherokee population trends during historic times. That is, it describes the formation and fortunes of one ethnic minority in the United States. Such historic demography is necessarily limited by available information. Consequently, this discussion presents more (and more reliable) details about recent demographic trends than about earlier ones.
Review Of Northern Prairie Wetlands, Arnold Van Der Valk, Editor, Richard A. Gersib
Review Of Northern Prairie Wetlands, Arnold Van Der Valk, Editor, Richard A. Gersib
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
This book provides an exceptionally thorough technical review of the ecology of both shallow and deepwater wetland systems within the prairie pothole region of the United States and Canada and the Sandhills region of Nebraska. The book developed from a regional wetland symposium sponsored by the National Wetlands Technical Council in 1985. It has been written to serve both wetland ecologists and managers, as well as people with a professional interest in northern prairie wetlands who may have but a limited background in wetland ecology. The book consists of 11 chapters that address key wetland components such as hydrology, water …
The Geologic Record Of Wind Erosion, Eolian Deposition, And Aridity On The Southern High Plains, Vance T. Holliday
The Geologic Record Of Wind Erosion, Eolian Deposition, And Aridity On The Southern High Plains, Vance T. Holliday
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Evidence of wind erosion, accumulation of airborne sediments, and drought is preserved on the Southern High Plains. Eolian deposition in the Holocene concentrated between 6000 and 4500 years ago. The Blackwater Draw Formation indicates episodic wind erosion and deposition in the past 1.6 million years. The Ogallala Formation suggests a vast, sandy eolian plain accumulated episodically between 4 and 11 million years. Warmer and drier conditions predicted for the region in a globally-warmer climate will thus be superimposed upon prevailing characteristics of wind and relative aridity that have dominated recent geologic time.
Relationships Between 700 Mb Circulation Variations And Great Plains Climate, Daniel J. Leathers
Relationships Between 700 Mb Circulation Variations And Great Plains Climate, Daniel J. Leathers
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The relationship between monthly midtropospheric circulation variations, occurring in the North American sector, and surface temperature and precipitation across the Great Plains is evaluated for the middle month of each season (January, April, July, and October). The results demonstrate that monthly Great Plains temperature variability is strongly associated with the major pattems of midtropospheric circulation variation during all months considered. Temporally, the strongest associations are observed during October. However, January, July, and April also exhibit spatially coherent regions of strong association. Spatially, the relationship tends to be strongest in the northern Plains, with decreasing association to the south. Precipitation-midtroposphere relationships …
Drought Experience And Perception Of Climatic Change Among Great Plains Farmers, David M. Diggs
Drought Experience And Perception Of Climatic Change Among Great Plains Farmers, David M. Diggs
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
How humans perceive, respond, and adapt to long-term climatic change are questions of fundamental interest to nature and society researchers. This paper analyzes the effect of drought experience on Great Plains farmers' perceptions of long-term climate change. Approximately three-quarters of all farmers surveyed believed that the climate is, or is possibiy, changing. Drought experience, while perhaps not initiating concern for climate change, can solidify peoples' perceptions of the certainty and nature of the change. The potential cognitive heuristics used in the formation of climate change perceptions are discussed.
Introduction: Climate Change On The Great Plains, Paul A. Kay
Introduction: Climate Change On The Great Plains, Paul A. Kay
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
The Center for Great Plains Studies has, for the past decade and a half, hosted annual symposia that draw scholars to address topics of regional interest. The symposium topic for 1990, "Climate Change on the Great Plains," was most timely, given the growing concern with global warming heightened by several years of drought stress in the late 1980s. Interest in this topic has a long lineage in the Center: the ninth symposium, in 1985, addressed "Social Adaptation to Semiarid Environments," and issues of drought and environment have appeared often in the pages of Great Plains Quarterly. The 1990 symposium …
Hydroclimatic Variability On The Great Plains, Michael J. Keables
Hydroclimatic Variability On The Great Plains, Michael J. Keables
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
This study identifies the spatial variability of the hydroclimatology of the Great Plains. Spatial associations of monthly midtropospheric circulation anomalies, total precipitation, and mean stream discharge are identified using an unrotated principal component analysis. Three hydroclimatic associations, representing synoptic circulation features and associated precipitation and stream discharge patterns, identify specific circulation anomalies and corresponding spatial pattems of surface hydrology in the northern, central, and southern Great Plains. Results indicate that nearly 47% of the hydrologic (precipitation and stream discharge) variability during summer is attributed to synoptic-scale midtropospheric circulation anomalies, with sub-synoptic convectional processes accounting for approximately 42% of the hydrologic …
Lowering Real Interest Rates Could Slow Global Warming, Craig S. Marxsen
Lowering Real Interest Rates Could Slow Global Warming, Craig S. Marxsen
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion have increased markedly in this century. Increased carbon dioxide concentrations in the atmosphere are thought likely to help produce a warming of global climate. Many strategies to reduce or reverse the anticipated global warming point to reductions of fossil fuel combustion as a primary ingredient. This paper examines the possibility of obtaining a decrease in world petroleum supply as a result of reducing interest rates relative to the rate of inflation.
Drought And Precipitation Fluctuations In The Great Plains During The Late Nineteenth Century, Cary J. Mock
Drought And Precipitation Fluctuations In The Great Plains During The Late Nineteenth Century, Cary J. Mock
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Monthly precipitation data in the Great Plains from the late nineteenth century (1851–1890) were compared with modem analogs. Seasonal precipitation changes were identified since 1858–1877, depending on the amount of data available, and additional droughts were inferred back to 1851. Regional droughts did not clearly fit any cycle. Precipitation during fall and winter was less than 1951–1980 averages during most of the late nineteenth century. Wetter than modern average springs and summers occurred in the mid-1870s to the mid-1880s. Relationships of these conditions to changes in mid-tropospheric circulation are suggested. Results from this study can be used for verification of …
Great Plains Research: Editorial Matter, Volume 1, Number 1
Great Plains Research: Editorial Matter, Volume 1, Number 1
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences
Includes:
Cover
Publisher Information (The Center for Great Plains Studies)
Copyright page
Table of Contents
Editor’s Note
News and Notes
Calls for Papers (2)
Advertisements (2)
Instructions to Authors
Education On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Erwin H. Goldenstein
Education On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Erwin H. Goldenstein
Great Plains Quarterly
Few people asked to identify outstanding exemplars of education in the United States would immediately think of the Great Plains or its people. And it may well be that the authors of the Land Ordinance of 1785 were more interested in enticing settlers to the old Northwest Territory than in providing financial support for education when they set aside one section of public land in every thirty-six sections for the support of education. Yet education has become very important to the immigrant peoples who have occupied the Great Plains over the past two centuries, and there can be little doubt …
Review Of Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives In North Dakota., Margrethe Ahlshwede
Review Of Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives In North Dakota., Margrethe Ahlshwede
Great Plains Quarterly
Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives in North Dakota celebrates the contributions of women to the history and development of the state of North Dakota on the occasion of that state's centennial in 1989.
Review Of Colorado: A Summer Trip, Kathleen A. Boardman
Review Of Colorado: A Summer Trip, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly
When Bayard Taylor toured Colorado in 1866, he was a veteran travel writer; in the previous twenty years he had visited western Europe, central Africa, California, Egypt, Asia Minor, China, Japan, and Russia. Taylor considered himself a poet and translator, and he disliked the label "Great American Traveler." Nevertheless, he knew how to profit from his trips by publishing travel letters and scheduling lectures. Taylor's Colorado letters to the New York Tribune, later published in book form, describe the railroad and stagecoach trip across Kansas to Denver and into the Rockies, a horseback tour of the mountain parks, and …
Review Of Billy The Kid: A Short And Violent Life, Bill Christophersen
Review Of Billy The Kid: A Short And Violent Life, Bill Christophersen
Great Plains Quarterly
Billy the Kid's last trick was his best. Handcuffed, shackled, and condemned to hang, he overwhelmed and killed two deputies and rode, unharmed, out of Lincoln, New Mexico. Months later, in July 1881, the twenty-one-year-old fugitive would stumble into Sheriff Pat Garrett's waiting firearms. But by then the surface had already been primed for the legend that has since been embellished in dime novels and movies- a legend whose veneers award-winning historian Robert M. Utley (Frontier Regulars, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation) strips away. His Billy the Kid is a scrupulously researched, well-paced-but slightly diffuse-biography of …
Review Of Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View Of The Sioux War Of 1876., Thomas W. Dunlay
Review Of Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View Of The Sioux War Of 1876., Thomas W. Dunlay
Great Plains Quarterly
It is only in recent decades that the Trans-Mississippi Indian wars have become the subject of considerable scholarly as well as popular investigation and writing. It is even more recently that such study has gone beyond indignation at the fate of the Indians themselves. Sherry L. Smith's book is an attempt to understand both sides, and in particular those generally unheard participants, the enlisted men of the regular army. William Earl Smith was the author's great-grandfather, and a major part of the book is his journal of the campaign of General George Crook against the Sioux and Northern Cheyennes in …
Review Of The American West: A Twentieth-Century History., Peter Iverson
Review Of The American West: A Twentieth-Century History., Peter Iverson
Great Plains Quarterly
"This is a little book about a big subject," wrote Gerald Nash in his introduction to The American West in the Twentieth Century (1973). Thanks to Michael Malone and Richard Etulain, we now have a second book on the same subject. The century is more advanced, but their volume is no bigger. Yet within the limits of a relatively brief text, the authors have provided us with an impressive survey of the region.
Review Of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy Of Conflict, F. Arturo Rosales
Review Of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy Of Conflict, F. Arturo Rosales
Great Plains Quarterly
This unique work by a pioneer in Chicano history is perhaps one of the most inspiring works to date on the subject of Mexicans in the United States, a contention to which I will return. The study contains a brief history of the end of the Mexican American War in 1847 and the negotiations between the two warring nations that were concurrent with the period.
Review Of One-Room School: Teaching In 19305 Western Oklahoma, Colleen Ryan
Review Of One-Room School: Teaching In 19305 Western Oklahoma, Colleen Ryan
Great Plains Quarterly
The term "one-room school" often evokes images, myths, and misconceptions. This book captures the memories of one young woman teaching in rural Oklahoma in the 1930s who succeeded despite unique problems of isolation, distance, time, weather, limited resources, and inadequate training.
Review Of Calico Chronicle: Texas Women And Their Fashions, 1830-1910, Elizabeth A. Turner
Review Of Calico Chronicle: Texas Women And Their Fashions, 1830-1910, Elizabeth A. Turner
Great Plains Quarterly
Betty J. Mills, curator of costumes and textiles at the museum, Texas Tech University, has compiled a detailed and accessible study of Texas women's garments. Overcoming the obstacles of garment preservation and reconstruction, Mills uncovers information about clothing by studying photographs, museum collections, correspondence, diaries, magazines, and newspapers to determine how fabrics and garments were constructed and acquired. Often this side of history is lost, but Mills provides us with a conscientious study that presents cloth and garments as documents of the everyday kinds of lives of Texas people. Through this thoughtful research, Mills explores the symbolic role of fashion …
Review Of Images Of The West: Changing Perceptions Of The Prairies, 1690-1960., Robert Thacker
Review Of Images Of The West: Changing Perceptions Of The Prairies, 1690-1960., Robert Thacker
Great Plains Quarterly
Over the past several years, Western Producer Prairie Books has published volumes that demonstrate-quite apart from the materials they offer and the arguments they advancethe enduring "lure of the land" felt by English-Canadians (both prairie dwellers and those living elsewhere) toward their prairie as an evocative and formative landscape. Ronald Rees's Land of Earth and Sky: Landscape Painting of Western Canada (1984) and New and Naked Land: Making the Prairies Home (1988), from the same press, and now R. Douglas Francis's Images of the West, suggest that Western Producer is tapping a general interest in the Canadian prairie landscape …
Review Of The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations., Daniel Tyler
Review Of The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations., Daniel Tyler
Great Plains Quarterly
Readers of The Twentieth Century West are urged to review the prologue (Etulain) and epilogue (Nash) before tackling the works of contributing authors. These two pieces explain the guidelines of the editors and their purpose in dividing the book into five parts: People, Economy, Environment, Politics, and Culture.
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.2
Review Of Shaping Educational Change: The First Century Of The University Of Northern Colorado At Greeley, Maxine Benson
Review Of Shaping Educational Change: The First Century Of The University Of Northern Colorado At Greeley, Maxine Benson
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1936, when a young instructor named James Michener was offered a position at the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, his faculty mentors at the Ohio State University summer school warned him not to accept the job: "The sands of the desert are white with the bones of promising young men who went West and perished trying to get back East" (ix). Undeterred, Michener did go to Greeley, where he taught at the school's College High until 1941. He also acquired a master's degree as well as the historical background that he incorporated into his 1974 novel, Centennial …
Review Of The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88., H. Elaine Lindgren
Review Of The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88., H. Elaine Lindgren
Great Plains Quarterly
Mary Dodge Woodward's keen observations, written in her diaries, serve to recreate days of bonanza farming in the Red River Valley of the North in the 1880s. Mary Dodge Woodward came to the Fargo area to live on a bonanza farm managed by her son Walter. A telescope extended Mary Dodge Woodward's view of the land stretching beyond the farmyard. "I stand at the east chamber-which is my observatory- with the spy glass everyday" (82).
Wyoming Political Surprises In The Late 1980s: Deviating Elections In A Conservative Republican State, Cal Clark, Janet Clark
Wyoming Political Surprises In The Late 1980s: Deviating Elections In A Conservative Republican State, Cal Clark, Janet Clark
Great Plains Quarterly
Wyoming is typical of the states in the upper Great Plains region (Montana, Kansas, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota) in many but not all aspects. In socioeconomic terms, the Great Plains are basically agricultural and rural with fewer prominent urban centers than elsewhere in the nation. Politically the region is generally viewed as conservative and Republican, but this image is subject to several important caveats. First, agrarian crises have periodically fueled insurgent political movements, such as the Populism of the 1890s, Progressivism in the early twentieth century, strong support for Roosevelt's New Deal, and support for populist or liberal …
Review Of The Quapaws, Charles G. Ballard
Review Of The Quapaws, Charles G. Ballard
Great Plains Quarterly
How to shake the hand of the unsmiling stranger in town and at the same time lose your shirt and all you own-such is the amazing and also tragic history of the American Indian. Although W. David Baird does not deviate much from the familiar and almost expected Jacksonian shakedown, he does offer succinct and at times moving accounts of how one formerly important tribe on the Mississippi-Arkansas trace was successively reduced in importance by its encounters with the French, the Spanish, and the Americans.
Review Of American Indian Autobiography, Charles Lachance
Review Of American Indian Autobiography, Charles Lachance
Great Plains Quarterly
Often a piece of scholarly literature is intriguing not because it is completely right but because it is somewhat wrongheaded. Such is the case with H. David Brumble's historical survey of American Indian autobiography. This is not to imply that Brumble errs in the details of his short history of Indian autobiography. Nor is it to say that he misconceives most of his generalizations on the subject. As an Indian or part Indian myself, I am repeatedly chastened by the formidable expertise displayed by non-Indians like Brumble who write on Native American culture. The argument of Brumble's informative book is …
Review By Plains Folk, North Dakota's Ethnic History, L. Martin Perry
Review By Plains Folk, North Dakota's Ethnic History, L. Martin Perry
Great Plains Quarterly
Plains Folk essentially completes its 1983 predecessor, Prairie Mosaic, authored by sociologist William Sherman. The earlier work outlined the landscape of ethnic groups that composed North Dakota, the state with the highest proportion of foreign-born residents prior to the Second World War. For the sequel, Sherman teamed up with a handful of ethnic historians to give extended treatment to the same folks: "Yankees," Germans from Germany and eastern Europe, Scandinavians, Slavs, and those with a more limited presence.
Review Of Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse Of Native American Indian Literatures, Kathryn Shanley
Review Of Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse Of Native American Indian Literatures, Kathryn Shanley
Great Plains Quarterly
Back about eight or ten years ago, when Punk hit the American youth scene, there was a joke floating around. It went something like this: How did the dead baby get across the road? [Answer: Safety-pinned to the chicken.] Of course, in order to "get" the joke, you have to understand the Punk mentality and be able to recall instantly the joke that (as far as I can tell) has floated around children's playgrounds for the past several decades: Why did the chicken cross the road? [Answer: To get to the other side.] For Punks, the philosophically probing "why" is …
Review Of The Potawatomi, Nancy Shoemaker
Review Of The Potawatomi, Nancy Shoemaker
Great Plains Quarterly
Clifton's The Potawatomi is one of a series of books in American Indian history designed for "young adults." Not-so-young adults will find the book of little use and would be better served by referring to Clifton's article on the Potawatomi in the Handbook of North American Indians.