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Centennial On The Northen Plains: An Introduction, George Mcgovern
Centennial On The Northen Plains: An Introduction, George Mcgovern
Great Plains Quarterly
Although I am now sixty-eight years old, I have thought of myself during the past half century since my eighteenth birthday as a young man. Perhaps that is partly because I have been blessed with good health and personal vigor, but it may also be because I was born and reared in a young State. South Dakota was only thirtytwo years old when I first came on the scene at Avon in 1922. My father, a pioneer Dakota clergyman, whom I always thought of as an old man, was born in 1868--twenty-one years before South Dakota achieved statehood. He knew …
Review Of Women With Vision: The Presentation Sisters Of South Dakota, 1880-1985, Sandra Schackel
Review Of Women With Vision: The Presentation Sisters Of South Dakota, 1880-1985, Sandra Schackel
Great Plains Quarterly
In the mid-eighteenth century, a young Irish woman, Nano Nagle, renounced her wealthy upper-class background and dedicated herself to ministering to the poor. Her belief in "women's potential as nurturers and ethical models for children" prompted her to establish several schools for needy boys and girls as well as to minister to the sick. After Nagle's death, the order she founded in 1776 became known as the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and as part of a growing movement among Catholics in America in the ineteenth century, the Presentation sisters expanded their outreach to the American …
"Proving Up And Moving Up": Jewish Homesteading Activity In North Dakota, 1900-1920, Janet E. Schulte
"Proving Up And Moving Up": Jewish Homesteading Activity In North Dakota, 1900-1920, Janet E. Schulte
Great Plains Quarterly
In the spring of 1908, Morris Zemsky, a Russian- Jewish immigrant homesteading in Ashley, North Dakota, sent a letter to the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) of the Baron de Hirsch Fund in New York. Joseph Kaminer, Secretary of the Ashley Farmer's Bureau, wrote the note for Zemsky, who spoke only Yiddish. The letter requested advice on the condition of Zemsky's parents "who are now in New York and are actually starving to death. As they are several in the family and no one of them can find work."1 Zemsky requested the IRO to send his parents to his North …
The Segesser Hide Paintings: History, Discovery, Art, Thomas E. Chávez
The Segesser Hide Paintings: History, Discovery, Art, Thomas E. Chávez
Great Plains Quarterly
T here is no doubt that the Segesser hide paintings are among the most novel and important artifacts of the Spanish Colonial history of New Mexico. As aesthetic works they are striking and as hide paintings they are unique. As historical documents they have already sparked revisions in historical interpretation of the period, providing valuable information on significant factors such as modes of warfare, uniforms and clothing, and the war panoply of the Plains Indians. As artifacts, they are among the most valuable acquisitions made by the Museum of New Mexico. Most important, their presence in the Palace of the …
The Hispanic Presence On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Miguel A. Carranza
The Hispanic Presence On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Miguel A. Carranza
Great Plains Quarterly
In April 1989, the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored its thirteenth annual symposium on the topic "The Hispanic Presence on the Great Plains." Scholars from across the United States and Mexico presented papers on a wide variety of topics covering the history, culture, politics, and images of people of Spanish origin on the Great Plains. These presentations focused on the Hispanic presence from the early Spanish explorers who entered the southern fringes of the Great Plains, to the vast migrations of Mexicans coming to "EI Norte" beginning in the early 1900s, to the creation …
Review Of Tejanas And The Numbers Game: A Socia-Historical Interpretation From The Federal Censuses, 1850-1900., Camilo A. Martínez
Review Of Tejanas And The Numbers Game: A Socia-Historical Interpretation From The Federal Censuses, 1850-1900., Camilo A. Martínez
Great Plains Quarterly
Prior to this work did we have a well-balanced portrayal of the Tejano (Mexican American) who resided in the South, Central, and West Texas counties during the last half of the nineteenth century? Evidently not.
Review Of The Good Red Road: Passages Into Native America., Raymond J. Demallie
Review Of The Good Red Road: Passages Into Native America., Raymond J. Demallie
Great Plains Quarterly
In John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, the red road represents the path of life, of peace, and of the continuity of the generations. To many American Indians today it stands for the old, traditional ways, a state of being in harmony with the universe. In this book, the symbol of the red road has been generalized to embrace all humanity, a deeply-felt psychological sense of oneness and balance that serves as counterpoint to the frenetic lifestyle of modem America.
Review Of Historical Atlas Of Texas., Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Historical Atlas Of Texas., Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
This volume, the latest in a well-known series published by the University of Oklahoma Press, offers sixty-four topics relating to the history and geography of Texas with accompanying maps. The first six topics outline basic geographic characteristics-location, topography, physio-graphical regions, rainfall, and native plant life. Then follow two dozen maps that treat topics antedating the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845. They include the route followed by various explorers from Cabeza de Vaca in the sixteenth century to the James Long expeditions of 1819-22, as well as several topics relating to the Republic of Texas, 1836. The …
Review Of The Shortgrass Prairie, James H. Locklear
Review Of The Shortgrass Prairie, James H. Locklear
Great Plains Quarterly
Perhaps the most poorly known and least appreciated ecosystem in all of the U.S. is the shortgrass prairie. It is not as though this vegetation type only occurs in a limited area of the country. Shortgrass prairie dominates the landscape of an enormous region stretching from Canada to New Mexico. Why is there so little understanding of this expansive grassland? Perhaps it is because few people have bothered to write about it. Ruth Cushman and Stephen Jones took on this task and we may be thankful to have their book, The Shortgrass Prairie.
Review Of Region And Regionalism In The United States: A Source Book For The Humanities And Social Sciences, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Region And Regionalism In The United States: A Source Book For The Humanities And Social Sciences, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
This multidisciplinary bibliography with annotations offers a judicious sampling of the best published work on American regions and regionalism. It is so useful that most scholars seriously working in regionalism will want to benefit from the authors' wide-ranging yet measured assessments.
Review Of Cow Town Lawyers: Dodge City And Its Attorneys, 1878-1886, Craig Miner
Review Of Cow Town Lawyers: Dodge City And Its Attorneys, 1878-1886, Craig Miner
Great Plains Quarterly
Ironically the feature to which this book serves as a corrective is doubtless a major reason for its publication-the notoriety of the name Dodge City in the popular consciousness. Haywood points out in his last chapter, and adequately demonstrates in his text, that the Front Street reconstruction and the wild and wooly stories of the "Beautiful, Bibulous Babylon of the Frontier" that Easterners hear are not an adequate representation of the town even in its boisterous salad days. He also points out that Dodge was consciously cultivating its wild image as a means of economic development during its cattle town …
Review Of The Windmill Turning; Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, And Other Expressions Of Western Canadian Mennonites, Victor Peters
Review Of The Windmill Turning; Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, And Other Expressions Of Western Canadian Mennonites, Victor Peters
Great Plains Quarterly
Canada and the United States provide the home for two basic types of Mennonites who have little more than their beliefs in common. The older group settled mainly in the east and came to America directly from various German states. Their immigration began in 1683 and initiated the broader stream of German immigration. The other group were the West Prussian Mennonites who left their homes in Russia and came to Canada and the United States in the 1870s.
Review Of Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Richard K. Sutton
Review Of Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Richard K. Sutton
Great Plains Quarterly
Popularized books on wildflowers are not hard to find, though it seems the prairie has been nearly ignored. This is perhaps because there is less of that original biome left than any other and the particular comeliness of the individual wildflower is diluted by a matrix of grass. Runkel and Roosa have produced an excellent picture book, with readable text, in which they cover derivation of Latin names, ecological and botanical descriptions, and anecdotal information on plant use by Native Americans. Its interesting organization follows the bloom sequence of more than 130 dicots and monocots throughout the year, though the …
Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough
Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough
Great Plains Quarterly
Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian West is a fine example of a department's contribution to regional studies. The eight essays from six contributors in an attractive, readable, and well-bound monograph are a useful addition to western Canadian studies. The essays (Darby, "From River Boat to Raillines: Circulation Patterns in the Canadian West during the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century"; Holmes, "The Canmore Corridor, 1880-1914: A Case Study of the Selection and Development of a Pass Site"; Hadley, "Photography, Tourism and the CPR: Western Canada, 1884- 1914"; Evans, "The Origin of Ranching in Western Canada: American Diffusion …
Oglala Sioux Use Of Medical Herbs, George Robert Morgan, Ronald R. Weedon
Oglala Sioux Use Of Medical Herbs, George Robert Morgan, Ronald R. Weedon
Great Plains Quarterly
Despite the turmoil of Sioux cultural losses since contact with Anglo-European culture, the Oglala Sioux have maintained an interest in herbal medicines, although with each passing generation the number of plants actively used for curing has diminished. Fewer people have been learning the identification of plant medicines and their uses, the procedures for preparing plants, and the techniques of herbal cures. Many of the older Sioux blame reservation boarding schools for the disruption of cultural transmission, but other factors have been at work as well.
More Than Statehood On Their Minds: South Dakota Joins The Union, 1889, John E. Miller
More Than Statehood On Their Minds: South Dakota Joins The Union, 1889, John E. Miller
Great Plains Quarterly
"IT'S A GO," read the jubilant headline in the Huron Daily Huronite on 21 February 1889, one day after Congress passed the Omnibus Bill admitting four new states into the Union South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington.1 The following day, despite speculation that he might veto the legislation, President Grover Cleveland signed the bill into law, setting into motion a process that formally conferred statehood on South Dakota on 2 November 1889. For almost a decade momentum had been building in southern Dakota for this day, and people's frustrations with Congressional inaction had grown apace.2
Notes And News For Vol.10 No.4
Plains Indians In New Mexico: The Genízaro Experiance, Russell M. Magnaghi
Plains Indians In New Mexico: The Genízaro Experiance, Russell M. Magnaghi
Great Plains Quarterly
T he colonial period in American history must, include not only the English experience on the Atlantic shore but the Spanish story in the Southwest and the approaches to the Great Plains. l Part of the New Mexican story is the emergence of a new people who become part of our multicultural experience, the detribalized Indians of the Plains and Mountains who were given the name genfzaros and were eventually absorbed into Pueblo-Spanish society. 2 The Spanish had tried to implement their Indian policy on the Great Plains, but frustrated by the environment and the native people, they remained in …
Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés
Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés
Great Plains Quarterly
The sugar beet industry was in the forefront of the opening of the northern Great Plains to commercial agriculture. At the end of the nineteenth century, massive expanses of cheap land with ideal climatic and soil conditions were available on the Plains, but the sparse population afforded few farmers or field workers to block, thin, hoe, and top the sugar beets. Between 1890 and World War II, the sugar corporations devised three labor recruitment strategies that created classes of settlers, sojourners, and proletarians on the Great Plains. This essay examines the interaction between the sugar beet industry and its field …
Review Of Home Town News: William Allen White & The Emporia Gazette, William R. Elkins
Review Of Home Town News: William Allen White & The Emporia Gazette, William R. Elkins
Great Plains Quarterly
Sally Foreman Griffith uses the life of William Allen White, noted editor of The Emporia Gazette, as the vehicle for an insightful examination into the "role of journalism in American culture." Acknowledging that her book is a biography, Griffith nevertheless makes clear that she uses White's career "as a window, or perhaps . . . a prism to observe the communication process as a complex interaction among communicator, audience, and medium, involving many different facets, including the psychological, social, cultural, economic, technological, and political." Put more simply, Griffith gives us a fascinating look into small-town (Emporia, Kansas) America and …
Review Of Mennonite Names/Mennonitische Namen, Reuben Goertz
Review Of Mennonite Names/Mennonitische Namen, Reuben Goertz
Great Plains Quarterly
Do not let the bilingual title frighten you away from this book. With the exception of the picture titles and the bibliography of the East German Commission of Cultural Research, everything that is written in German has the English translation alongside. The chapter on nicknames may lose a little of its subtle humor in the translation, but English readers will still enjoy the origins and meanings of the many nicknames listed.
Review Of A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience Of A Swedish Immigrant Settlement In The Upper Middle West, 1835-1915, Niel M. Johnson
Review Of A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience Of A Swedish Immigrant Settlement In The Upper Middle West, 1835-1915, Niel M. Johnson
Great Plains Quarterly
Robert Ostergren's A Community Transplanted is something of a smorgasbord, with a meaty main course. Ostergren has drawn concepts and methodology from various social science disciplines, which perhaps limits his readership. But the book does break new ground in the extent to which it measures, correlates, and evaluates a great number of socio-economic variables in the lives of hundreds of immigrants from a Swedish parish in the 1880s.
Corporate Point Men And The Creation Of The Montana Central Railroad, 1882-87, William L. Lang
Corporate Point Men And The Creation Of The Montana Central Railroad, 1882-87, William L. Lang
Great Plains Quarterly
On 21 November 1887, a crowd jammed Ming's Opera House in Helena, Montana, to celebrate the completion of the Montana Central Railway, a branch line of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway. Sharing the Opera House stage that day were railroad executives and managers from the East, Montana politicians, and local businessmen. Their reason for celebration was three-fold. First, because Montalaans had struggled for more than a decade to get rail connections, sometimes nearly making unwise and unnecessary deals with railroad corporations, getting a railroad to build through Montana was cause for celebration.Second, the Montana Central brought with it …
Review Of Blossoms Of The Prairie: The History Of The Danish Lutheran Churches In Nebraska, George R. Nielsen
Review Of Blossoms Of The Prairie: The History Of The Danish Lutheran Churches In Nebraska, George R. Nielsen
Great Plains Quarterly
Blossoms of the Prairie is grassroots history at its best. The volume fairly exudes energy, enthusiasm, dedication, and untold hours of painstaking work. It is a harvest of information gleaned from both Danish and English sources.
Review Of Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet, George A. Schultz
Review Of Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet, George A. Schultz
Great Plains Quarterly
Increasingly historians who write about leadership in the American Indian resistance movements argue that the typical leader was not the standard war chief. R. David Edmunds in his books on the Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa focuses not on their military acumen but on their unique diplomatic and political skills. Similarly, Joseph B. Herring's biography of Kenekuk, the Kickapoo prophet, reveals a rare blend of leadership skills that Kenekuk employed to unite the Vermillion band, first in Illinois and then in Kansas. Using a variety of stratagems, Kenekuk, sometimes with reason and other times with bluster, fenced with politicians and …
Review Of A Stranger In Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher And The American Indians, John R. Wunder
Review Of A Stranger In Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher And The American Indians, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly
This is the best written biography I have read in many years. A beautifully crafted book, it is a comprehensive picture and excellent scholarly treatment of a most unpleasant person, a person one can have little sympathy for in today's world. And yet, to the credit of the author, one comes away from this work having a much greater understanding of Alice Fletcher and a more balanced view of the meaning of her work.
The Long Winter: An Introduction To Western Womanhood, Ann Romines
The Long Winter: An Introduction To Western Womanhood, Ann Romines
Great Plains Quarterly
In many ways, The Long Winter is the central volume in Laura Ingalls Wilder's extraordinary sequence of seven Little House books. 1 It is the most intense and dangerous of the novels, and it covers the shortest span of time, a single legendary seven-month winter. The Ingalls family has made its fullest commitment yet to one spot on the Dakota prairie. Although Pa yearns to start again in Oregon, Ma insists that they settle so the daughters can "get some schooling." Laura, the autobiographical protagonist, is approaching adulthood. This book, darkest of the series, does indeed provide her with powerful …
Review Of South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., To Oscar Howe And Over A Century Of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial & State Governors, Gilbert C. Fite
Review Of South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., To Oscar Howe And Over A Century Of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial & State Governors, Gilbert C. Fite
Great Plains Quarterly
Special events in the history of a state have customarily stimulated an unusual variety of commemorative writings. Such is the case with the books under review, both of which grew out of South Dakota's centennial in 1989. Moreover, both books deal with one theme-leadership. One concentrates on political leadership while the other includes a broader representation.
Homestead On The Range: The Emergence Of Community In Eastern Montana, 1900-1925, Rex C. Myers
Homestead On The Range: The Emergence Of Community In Eastern Montana, 1900-1925, Rex C. Myers
Great Plains Quarterly
Mary Tanner saw homesteading as "a togetherness" learned from neighbors. 1 In 1915 she and thirty-two families shared that togetherness at Round Butte, Dawson County, Montana, clustered around a school and post office that bore the same name. Neighbors got together and threshed grain, raised barns, or brought in crops for neighbors "laid up" by accident or illness. That same cooperative effort extended to the formation of the Round Butte school and post office, to community social organizations, and ultimately to the creation of a new county, Garfield, in 1919.