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Review Of Soldiers West: Biographies From The Military Frontier, Peter Maslowski
Review Of Soldiers West: Biographies From The Military Frontier, Peter Maslowski
Great Plains Quarterly
The American West and the Old Army's role in it remain of enduring interest. For example, Edward M. Coffman's The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898 (1986) is a collective study of the officers and enlisted men and their dependents. Now, as an unintentional but superb companion piece, Soldiers West examines individual officers who were influential in exploring, policing, and developing the frontier. Two important themes emerge from these mini-biographies. First, as military historians have long recognized, the army played a vital role in national development. Second, and less well understood but especially fascinating, was …
Review Of Selling The Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 To 1960, Leslie T. Whipp
Review Of Selling The Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 To 1960, Leslie T. Whipp
Great Plains Quarterly
The title of this book is misleading for anyone who hasn't read the book. The book is not about the ways in which popular western fiction served to promote the West, nor even about the ways in which popular western fiction perpetuated the myth of the Wild West. The book is instead about the way the marketing of western formula fiction impinges upon the fiction; it argues that the conditions of composition, publication, and marketing exercise a shaping force on the details of the writing, and, more particularly, that the conditions of authorship for writers of popular western fiction often …
"The Greatest Thing I Ever Did Was Join The Union": A History Of The Dakota Teamsters During The Depression, Jonathan F. Wagner
"The Greatest Thing I Ever Did Was Join The Union": A History Of The Dakota Teamsters During The Depression, Jonathan F. Wagner
Great Plains Quarterly
During the Great Depression the Dakota Teamsters established themselves as the most important union on the northern Plains. 1 Their success involved struggle and sacrifice, with a full complement of setbacks and losses as well as advances and gains. From the 1930s on, the union has reflected certain of the general characteristics of the parent body, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. Like the International, the Dakota Teamsters was always basically a truck drivers' union, but also something more. As with the International, the concept of jurisdiction was elastic. "In our teamsters union," the Minot, …