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Lawrence Goodwyn And Nebraska Populism: A Review Of Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment In America By Lawrence Goodwyn, Robert W. Cherny
Lawrence Goodwyn And Nebraska Populism: A Review Of Democratic Promise: The Populist Moment In America By Lawrence Goodwyn, Robert W. Cherny
Great Plains Quarterly
Lawrence Goodwyn's book Democratic Promise is an important contribution to our understanding of the nature of Populism. Reviewers have termed it "brilliant" and "comprehensive" and "the new standard against which all future efforts must be measured."1 Goodwyn does, indeed, provide the reader with insights into the nature of Populism that are available nowhere else. Unfortunately, his work also has serious flaws, most obviously in his handling of the Populist movement in Nebraska but ultimately pervading the entire book. The student of Populism must be aware of the flaws but ought not dismiss the work as a whole, for its …
Immigrant Voters And The Nonpartisan League In Nebraska, 1917-1920, Burton W. Folsom Jr.
Immigrant Voters And The Nonpartisan League In Nebraska, 1917-1920, Burton W. Folsom Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
Many people have wondered why socialism never came to America. Some think that life in the factories and on the farms was often so poor that Americans should have been ripe for a socialist government. Political historians have recently shown that radical movements in America had two insurmountable hurdles: strong ethnic loyalties and religious ties. During America's age of capitalist expansion, cultural divisions prevailed when waves of immigrants poured into urban factories and onto Midwestern farms. In the late 1800s and early 1900s, immigrants and natives fought intense local battles over prohibition, woman suffrage, and compulsory school laws. The economic …
Review Of The American West: New Perspectives, New Dimensions Edited By Jerome O. Steffen, James R. Shortridge
Review Of The American West: New Perspectives, New Dimensions Edited By Jerome O. Steffen, James R. Shortridge
Great Plains Quarterly
One learns to be suspicious of essay collections. Not only does article quality usually vary, but often the issues addressed are so disparate that an editor can write of an encompassing theme only by using the vaguest of terms. Using these points as criteria, The American West is a better-than-average collection. Editor Jerome Steffen does not say how the eight essays were assembled, but, with one exception, the quality is very good and, with another exception, an important central theme is followed. Steffen asserts that western history needs new and enlarged perspectives if it is to escape its label of …
Review Of Crossing Frontiers: Papers In American And Canadian Western Literature Edited By Dick Harrison, George Wolf
Review Of Crossing Frontiers: Papers In American And Canadian Western Literature Edited By Dick Harrison, George Wolf
Great Plains Quarterly
Crossing Frontiers asks its readers to think comparatively about the literature of the Canadian and American Wests. The practice, as these proceedings of the 1978 "Crossing Frontiers" conference show, tends to loosen the grip of parochial notions of what "western" literature is and how it ought to be studied. The conference's six major papers, intelligently introduced and edited by Dick Harrison, are presented here along with the critiques and summations of a distinguished group of Canadian and American scholars. The volume conveys the intellectual excitement participants experienced at Banff in April 1978, and it reveals the status of comparative work …
Review Of Landlord William Scully By Homer E. Socolofsky, Leslie Hewes
Review Of Landlord William Scully By Homer E. Socolofsky, Leslie Hewes
Great Plains Quarterly
The main concern of this book is with the American holdings of the Irish landowner, William Scully. The story continues virtually to the present time when the American estate of 225,000 acres at Scully's death in 1906 had shrunk but little to 175,000 acres in the hands of his heirs. The report is notable for the wealth of business details uncovered, from which the account is largely fashioned.
One may wonder how different things might have been if Scully's intention to become a resident farmer on his recently acquired land in Illinois in the early 1850s had been realized. Instead, …
Review Of Deserts On The March By Paul B. Sears, R. Douglas Hurt
Review Of Deserts On The March By Paul B. Sears, R. Douglas Hurt
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1935, the worst Dust Bowl year, Paul B. Sears, then professor of botany at the University of Oklahoma, published Deserts on the March, a succinctly written book that directed public attention toward the growing menace of soil erosion in the United States. By 1980, Deserts on the March had become a classic ecological study; it is currently in the tenth printing and fourth edition. Sears, now retired from his position of chairman of the conservation program at Yale University, has rewritten much of the original text, but his message is the same today as it was nearly fifty …
Review Of Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880 By Julie Roy Jeffrey, Sandra L. Myres
Review Of Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880 By Julie Roy Jeffrey, Sandra L. Myres
Great Plains Quarterly
The exploration and settlement of the American West have long been subjects of interest to American historians and their readers, but until recently the frontier was viewed as a predominantly male experience. Frederick Jackson Turner's frontiers were explored, conquered, and settled by men, and Turner's successors kept to the male theme. The few women who were mentioned in western history texts and general studies could be counted on the fingers of one hand-Sacajawea, Narcissa Whitman, and Calamity Jane-with an occasional sprinkling of brave pioneer mothers and mining camp prostitutes with hearts of gold.
In the wake of the feminist movement, …
Review Of The Sioux: A Critical Bibliography By Herbert T. Hoover & The Emigrant Indians Of Kansas: A Critical Bibliography By William E. Unrau, Francis Paul Prucha
Review Of The Sioux: A Critical Bibliography By Herbert T. Hoover & The Emigrant Indians Of Kansas: A Critical Bibliography By William E. Unrau, Francis Paul Prucha
Great Plains Quarterly
The Center for the History of the American Indian at the Newberry Library is publishing a series of brief bibliographies, of which eighteen have now appeared. They cover topical aspects of Indian history-for example, demography, federal Indian policy, and missions-and particular tribes or groups of tribes. All the volumes follow a similar format. There is an alphabetical listing of roughly two hundred important works, with a shorter list of works suitable for a basic library collection. Writings recommended for beginners and for high school students are also marked. Preceding the full list is a historiographical essay of some thirty to …
Review Of "Paper Talk": Charlie Russell's American West By Brian W. Dippie, Robert Spence
Review Of "Paper Talk": Charlie Russell's American West By Brian W. Dippie, Robert Spence
Great Plains Quarterly
After much too long a wait, we have now a second volume of Charles M. Russell's inimitable "paper talk" -as he called his illustrated letters, verses, Christmas greetings, and similar personalia. The first was assembled by Frederic Renner in 1962 for the Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth, and has long been out of print.
Russell (1864-1926), the self-taught cowboy artist of the northern plains frontier, had a wide circle of friends and he was characteristically loyal to them. His correspondence is surprisingly extensive (despite his disclaimer that "writing ain't my strong holt"). Brian Dippie has performed a …
Review Of The Pirst Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements In Texas By T. Lindsay Baker, Maria Starczewska- Lambasa
Review Of The Pirst Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements In Texas By T. Lindsay Baker, Maria Starczewska- Lambasa
Great Plains Quarterly
Though sporadic arrivals of Poles into the United States had started much earlier, it was onl y in 1854 that Polish immigration led to the establishment of the first self-contained Polish community and parish. It was perhaps a trick played by history that the first settlements of Silesian Poles sprang up in the San Antonio area of Texas rather than in an area such as Connecticut, which in many respects is geographically more like Poland. The large stream of Polish immigrants arriving in this country in the latter part of the nineteenth century and in the early twentieth moved to …
Review Of In Search Of Canaan: Black Migration To Kansas, 1879-80 By Robert B. Athearn, Walter Weare
Review Of In Search Of Canaan: Black Migration To Kansas, 1879-80 By Robert B. Athearn, Walter Weare
Great Plains Quarterly
Beginning in the spring of 1879 and continuing through most of 1880, thousands of former slaves (estimates range from six thousand to sixty thousand) fled the American South, determined to resettle on the "holy ground" of John Brown's Kansas. This dramatic "Exodus" captured the attention of journalists and politicians at the time, setting off a U.S. Senate investigation in 1880, and over the decades has held a mild fascination for historians. More recently, a number of scholars have caught the "Kansas Fever," most notably Robert Athearn in this volume and Nell Irvin Painter in her Exodusters: Black Migration to Kansas …
The White Mustang Of The Prairies, Elizabeth Atwood-Lawrence
The White Mustang Of The Prairies, Elizabeth Atwood-Lawrence
Great Plains Quarterly
One of the most vivid and symbolically expressive legends in the annals of the American West is that of the White Mustang. Inhabiting the vast reaches of the western plains, the Stallion was said to have "paced from the mesas of Mexico to the Badlands of the Dakotas and even beyond, from the Brazos bottoms of eastern Texas to parks in the Rocky Mountains," during an interval extending from about 1825 to 1889.1 Alternately known as the "White Steed of the Prairies," the "Pacing White Stallion," the "Phantom White Horse," and "Ghost Horse of the Plains," his story occurs …
Title And Contents- Spring 1981
Title And Contents- Spring 1981
Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly
Spring 1981 Vol. 1 No.2
CONTENTS
THE WHITE MUSTANG OF THE PRAIRIES Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence
MULFORD AND BOWER: MYTH AND HISTOR Y IN THE EARLY WESTERN William A. Bloodworth, Jr.
THE HEIRS OF JAMES C. MALIN: A GRASSLAND HISTORIOGRAPHY Allan G. Bogue
BOOK REVIEWS
Crossing Frontiers: Papers in American
and Canadian Western Literature
The American West: New Perspectives,
New Dimensions
The Sioux: A Critical Bibliography
The Emigrant Indians of Kansas: A
Critical Bibliography
The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture
The Fur Trade of the American West,
1807-1840: A Geographical Synthesis
Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi
West, 1840-1880
The …
Notes And News- Spring 1981
Great Plains Quarterly
NOTES & NEWS
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Mulford And Bower: Myth And History In The Early Western, William A. Bloodworth Jr.
Mulford And Bower: Myth And History In The Early Western, William A. Bloodworth Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
With the exception of commentary on Owen Wister and The Virginian (1902), surprisingly little has been written about popular western novels published before world War I.1 Yet it was writers following in the wake of The Virginian's popularity who really developed and defined the mass-audience western of commercial prospects and formulaic content. B. M. Bower, Clarence Mulford, William McCleod Raine, and Charles Alden Seltzer prepared the way for the later and greater popularity of Zane Grey, whose books first became best-sellers between 1912 and 1917; for the prolific productions of pulp writers like Max Brand after 1918; and …
The Heirs Of James C. Malin: A Grassland Historiography, Allan G. Bogue
The Heirs Of James C. Malin: A Grassland Historiography, Allan G. Bogue
Great Plains Quarterly
In the early pages of his important novel of western life, Zury, The Meanest Man in Spring County, Joseph Kirkland brought the Prouder family to the blazed tree that marked the location of the Illinois land that was to be their new home, the "woods behind" and the "prairie before" them. Herbert Quick halted yOl1ng Jacobus Vandemark on the bluffs above Dubuque, where the first great rolling sweep of the prairie grassland lay spread before him, and reported that a great surge of emotion coursed through the boy. John Ise pictured the covered wagon of his parents, Rosie and Henry …
Review Of The Black Towns By Norman L. Crockett, Lawrence H. Larsen
Review Of The Black Towns By Norman L. Crockett, Lawrence H. Larsen
Great Plains Quarterly
In the fifty years after the Civil War, black leaders founded some sixty predominantly black communities in the United States. Most were located in the rural South or on the central Great Plains. Most failed within a short time, leaving behind shattered dreams and few, if any, remains. Norman L. Crockett examines five of these communities in his new book, The Black Towns: Nicodemus in Kansas, Mound Bayou in Mississippi, and Langston, Clearview, and Boley in Oklahoma.
Crockett, who says that studies of fragmentary records indicate that these towns were fairly typical, believes that the rhetoric and behavior of …
Review Of The Fur Trade Of The American West, 1807- 1840: A Geographical Synthesis By David J. Wishart, Doyce B. Nunis Jr.
Review Of The Fur Trade Of The American West, 1807- 1840: A Geographical Synthesis By David J. Wishart, Doyce B. Nunis Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
The fur trade of the Trans-Missouri West has long been a fertile field of historical investigation, effectively plowed for almost a century by scholars, both trained and lay. Taking those familiar materials, Wishart has produced a book that brings a new and challenging dimension to that history. Indeed, his synthesis calls for a new interpretation, namely, that the fur men's rapacious exploitation of the fur resources of the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains "was destructive to the physical environment and to the native inhabitants alike." The romantic image of the buckskin-clad mountain man at the cutting edge of the nation's …
Review Of The Horse In Blackfoot Indian Culture By John C. Ewers, Mary Jane Schneider
Review Of The Horse In Blackfoot Indian Culture By John C. Ewers, Mary Jane Schneider
Great Plains Quarterly
The reprinting of The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture makes it possible for a new generation of plains anthropologists and historians to savor this book, long a basic reference. When Ewers began fieldwork on the Blackfoot Reservation in 1941, one of his concerns was the description of the role of the horse in Blackfoot and Plains Indian culture. Although concerned primarily with the Blackfoot, he also assembled pertinent ethnographic and historical data from other tribes.
Beginning with a general review of the acquisition of horses by North American Indians, the first chapter ends with a discussion of the acquisition of …
Review Of Women And Men On The Overland Trail By John Mack Faragher, Robert L. Munkres
Review Of Women And Men On The Overland Trail By John Mack Faragher, Robert L. Munkres
Great Plains Quarterly
Instead of a general treatment of life on the road west, Women and Men on the Overland Trail by John Mack Faragher is an analysis of several rather specialized aspects of interpersonal relationships within the context of the westward movement. These relationships are then further examined in connection with rural Midwestern life generally during the time period under consideration. Among the topics considered in some detail are gender roles and the division of work both on the farm and on the trail, the significance of differences in men's and women's diaries, the frequency and costs of child-bearing and rearing, and …
Two Authors And A Hero: Neihardt, Sandoz, And Crazy Horse, Helen Stauffer
Two Authors And A Hero: Neihardt, Sandoz, And Crazy Horse, Helen Stauffer
Great Plains Quarterly
The western writers John G. Neihardt and Mari Sandoz had much in common, not the least of which was their admiration for Crazy Horse, the famous Oglala Sioux chief during the Indian wars of the last century, whom both considered the "last great Sioux." The chief was a fine tactician and warrior, fighting successfully against General Crook at the Battle of the Rosebud and General Custer at the Little Bighorn in 1876, but the authors found much more to admire in his personal life. Born on the Great Plains around 1841, he remained a "hostile savage" all his life; nevertheless, …
Rölvaag, Grove And Pioneering On The American And Canadian Plains, Dick Harrison
Rölvaag, Grove And Pioneering On The American And Canadian Plains, Dick Harrison
Great Plains Quarterly
Ole Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the Earth are not obvious choices with which to begin comparing the pioneer fiction of the American and Canadian plains. Giants, translated from the Norwegian, is about Helgelander fishermen settling in the wilds of Dakota Territory in 1873 and, with little more than their bare hands, trying to farm the alien prairie and establish rudimentary institutions of family, church, school, and local government. Fruits, written in English, is about an Anglo-Saxon farmer from Ontario who brings equipment and capital to the task of building an empire …
Title And Contents- Winter 1981
Title And Contents- Winter 1981
Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly
WINTER 1981 VOL. 1 NO.1
Contents
AN EDITORIAL NOTE Frederick C. Luebke
CHINOOK CLIMATES AND PLAINS PEOPLE Reid A. Bryson
TOWARD A HISTORY OF PLAINS ARCHEOLOGY Waldo R. Wedel
THE JOHN EVANS 1796-97 MAP OF THE MISSOURI RIVER W. Raymond Wood
TWO AUTHORS AND A HERO: NEIHARDT, SANDOZ, AND CRAZY HORSE Helen Stauffer
BOOK REVIEWS
The Ioway Indians
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
Women and Men on the Overland Trail
Frederic Remington and the West: With the Eye of the Mind
The Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the …
Review Of The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants And The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 By John D. Unruh, Jr., Robert G. Athearn
Review Of The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants And The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 By John D. Unruh, Jr., Robert G. Athearn
Great Plains Quarterly
In this somewhat less than precisely titled work John D. Unruh set out to synthesize an enormous amount of published and unpublished material concerning travel across the plains during a period of two decades. Readers will discover that to Unruh "the plains across" meant the central route to the West Coast. He refers only briefly to a southern passage (pp. 67 and 400) and to the Pike's Peak rush that admittedly brought forth miners, as opposed to emigrant settlers (p. 119). However, he does discuss the miners' rush to California in '49. It is estimated that one hundred thousand "Peakers" …
Review Of Frederic Remington And The West: With The Eye Of The Mind By Ben Merchant Vorpahl, William H. Goetzmann
Review Of Frederic Remington And The West: With The Eye Of The Mind By Ben Merchant Vorpahl, William H. Goetzmann
Great Plains Quarterly
This book, by the editor of the Frederic Remington-Owen Wister letters, is a strangely disappointing work on a promising subject. It is not the usual picture book of Remington paintings, nor is it really a biography. Rather it is an attempt to recreate Remington's intellectual, emotional, and artistic perceptions as they changed through his life. This is a laudable attempt. Unfortunately, the author is most often cryptic, confused, and much given to the jargon of abstraction. As a consequence any reader must bring a good deal of information to the book or it will be virtually meaningless. Possibly a good …
Review Of The Ioway Indians By Martha Royce Blaine, David M. Gradwohl
Review Of The Ioway Indians By Martha Royce Blaine, David M. Gradwohl
Great Plains Quarterly
Martha Royce Blaine, director of the Indian Archives Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society, here traces the history and culture of the Ioway Indians from the end of the prehistoric period to contemporary times. Her book will be welcomed by both laypersons and scholars interested in the significant role of this Native American group in the history of the prairies and plains.
Blaine's comprehensive and sensitive perspective draws upon evidence from several disciplines and links the identities of living people with perceptions of the past as understood from the oral traditions handed down by Native Americans, the historic documents penned …
Review Of Western Movies Edited By William T. Pilkington And Don Graham, Michael T. Isenberg
Review Of Western Movies Edited By William T. Pilkington And Don Graham, Michael T. Isenberg
Great Plains Quarterly
Western movies have been around so long and captured such wide audiences precisely because they reflect and comment upon some of the most enduring features of American culture. We have all grown up with the commonalities (and banalities) of the stock western: the noble hero, the comic or weakling sidekick, the schoolmarm, the villain. If these stereotypes were all there were to it, the western genre would long since have gone the route of, say, the novels of Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth.
The value of westerns, like that of many other genres, is that they speak to present concerns as well …
Review Of Trees, Prairies, And People: A History Of Tree Planting In The Plains States By Wilmon H. Droze, Richard A. Overfield
Review Of Trees, Prairies, And People: A History Of Tree Planting In The Plains States By Wilmon H. Droze, Richard A. Overfield
Great Plains Quarterly
Whether trees will grow successfully on the Great Plains has been a perplexing question since the early days of settlement, and forestry and tree-planting attempts were numerous before President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed what in 1934 became the Prairie States Forestry Project, or more commonly the Shelterbelt Project. What was unique about the Roosevelt plan was its size, both in number of trees and in area involved. The project ultimately covered a zone about 100 miles wide by 1,150 miles long and stretched from North Dakota to Texas. Trees, Prairies, and People is a history of this New Deal program. …
Review Of The Dust Bowl By Paul Bonnifield & Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains In The 1930s By Donald Worster, Thomas Saarinen
Review Of The Dust Bowl By Paul Bonnifield & Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains In The 1930s By Donald Worster, Thomas Saarinen
Great Plains Quarterly
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s provides an excellent case study of American reactions to a major ecological crisis. By examining carefully how the nation and the region responded to this phenomenon, we could learn valuable lessons to aid in understanding current and future ecological crises. Thus it is of more than antiquarian interest to evaluate these two recent books on the Dust Bowl and the associated events now almost half a century behind us.
Although both authors examine the same area, events, and personalities, their treatment and conclusions are decidedly different. Both focus on the southern plains and devote …
Chinook Climates And Plains Peoples, Reid A. Bryson
Chinook Climates And Plains Peoples, Reid A. Bryson
Great Plains Quarterly
Changes in climate are major factors shaping the history of human occupance in the Great Plains region. Although Americans have often acted as though climates are fixed, the record indicates that in the past the climate of the Great Plains has changed drastically over relatively short periods of time. In order to acquire some understanding of what the Great Plains climate may become in the future and how human society may prepare for it, we must first comprehend what it was at various times in the past.
CHINOOK CLIMATES
An important element in the climate of the American West is …