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An Editorial Note- Winter 1981, Frederick C. Luebke
An Editorial Note- Winter 1981, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region. As an interdisciplinary agency, the Center aims to improve communication between scholars in the several fields interested in regional studies.
Regionalism has …
Toward A History Of Plains Archeology, Waldo R. Wedel
Toward A History Of Plains Archeology, Waldo R. Wedel
Great Plains Quarterly
First viewed by white men in 1541, the North American Great Plains remained little known and largely misunderstood for nearly three centuries. The newcomers from Europe were impressed by the seemingly endless grasslands, the countless wild cattle, and the picturesque tent-dwelling native people who followed the herds, subsisting on the bison and dragging their possessions about on dogs. Neither these Indians nor the grasslands nor their fauna had any counterparts in the previous experience of the Spaniards. Later Euro-American expeditions, whether seeking gold, converts, or furs, added many details of much interest, but likewise found no wealth of minerals, too …
Notes And News- Winter 1981
Great Plains Quarterly
Notes and News
The Center For Great Plains Studies
The Christlieb Collection Of Western Art
A New Edition Of Journals Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition
The 1981 Symposium: "American Pioneer Landscapes"
The 1982 Symposium: Call For Papers
The John Evans 1796-97 Map Of The Missouri River, W. Raymond Wood
The John Evans 1796-97 Map Of The Missouri River, W. Raymond Wood
Great Plains Quarterly
One of the curious twists of Great Plains history is that the first accurate eyewitness map of the Missouri River in what is now North and South Dakota-the historic home of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Indians and of their nomadic neighbors-was produced by a Welshman who had come to the United States to seek evidence for something that never existed: the illusory "welsh Indians." The inquisitive welsh explorer, John Thomas Evans (1770-99), did not find what he came to discover, but he produced what was to be one of the most important maps available to Meriwether Lewis and William …