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Willa Cather's Women: Gender, Place, And Narrativity In O Pioneers! And My Antonia, David Laird
Willa Cather's Women: Gender, Place, And Narrativity In O Pioneers! And My Antonia, David Laird
Great Plains Quarterly
In a dissertation submitted to the Department of Rhetoric and Oratory at the University of Wisconsin in 1895, Zona Gale argued that American writers were a timid lot, lacking originality and unwilling or unable to see what was happening around them, the harsher truths of a social reality. They drew their material from art rather than from nature, books rather than life. "They had," she said, "all drawn from the same sources, imitated the same models and had not won their material so much from men as from books. "1 Like Zona Gale, Willa Cather was critical of writers …
Frontier Solons: Nebraska's Territorial Lawmaker, 1854-1867, James B. Potts
Frontier Solons: Nebraska's Territorial Lawmaker, 1854-1867, James B. Potts
Great Plains Quarterly
In the thirty-seven years since Earl Pomeroy maintained that the political history of the midnineteenth century American West needed "further study and clarification," Howard R. Lamar, Lewis Gould, Clark Spence, and other specialists have produced detailed studies of politicallife in the western territories. Their works have shed light on the everyday workings and failures of the American territorial system and have elucidated the distinctive political and economic conditions that shaped local institutions in Dakota, Wyoming, and other western regions and influenced what Kenneth Owens has labelled "the pattern and structure of western politics."1
Notes And News For Vol.12 No.2
The Fatal Fall Of Barrett Scott: Vigilantes On The Niobrara, James W. Hewitt
The Fatal Fall Of Barrett Scott: Vigilantes On The Niobrara, James W. Hewitt
Great Plains Quarterly
Vigilante activity, in which a somewhat organized group takes the law into its own hands, has been extant in the United States since the 1700s and reached its zenith on the western frontier during the last half of the nineteenth century.1 Many a hapless horse thief, or careless cattle rustler, met his end in a hangman's noose, as those who had property sought to protect it from those who had none.
Law On The Great Plains: An Introduction, John R. Wunder
Law On The Great Plains: An Introduction, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly
Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka is one of the most important cases in American jurisprudence. Almost everyone recognizes the name of the case and its importance for ending legal segregation in the United States, but almost no one pays any attention to its setting, Kansas and the Great Plains. Does this case represent part of a distinctive legal culture of the Great Plains? Until recently, we have had no way to answer this question because no one has ever attempted a systematic study of law on the Great Plains. This issue of the Great Plains Quarterly is the …
Notes And News For Vol.12 No.3
Having Babies Or Not: Household Composition And Fertility In Rural Iowa And Nebraska, 1900,1910, Deborah Fink, Alicia Carriquiry
Having Babies Or Not: Household Composition And Fertility In Rural Iowa And Nebraska, 1900,1910, Deborah Fink, Alicia Carriquiry
Great Plains Quarterly
How did life change for people from the eastern prairie or forest regions when they crossed the Missouri River to settle in the Plains of Nebraska? The land presented its own social, economic, and environmental problems for the settlers. While some historians have emphasized the resourcefulness with which settlers adapted to maintain the life ways of the rural regions to the east, others have pointed to the cultural and social shifts effected by the plains environment. Considerable social divergence occurred within the plains population, even within the dominant northern European American ethnicity. This study addresses the lives of rural women …
Review Of Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Lyn Ellen Bennett
Review Of Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Lyn Ellen Bennett
Great Plains Quarterly
Storti's account of the 1885 Rock Springs, Wyoming, riot adds a twist to previous interpretations, incorporating the legacy of unionism by laying part of the blame for this grisly massacre at the feet of the Knights of Labor, whose struggle for power with railroad management caught the Chinese in a crossfire. The author focuses briefly on United States immigration policy, the influx of Chinese labor, construction of the transcontinental railroad, and the rise of western unionism, all of which culminated in the Rock Springs massacre.
The Role Of Canada's Prairie Provinces In Constitutional And Parliamentary Reform, Howard Cody
The Role Of Canada's Prairie Provinces In Constitutional And Parliamentary Reform, Howard Cody
Great Plains Quarterly
Canada's federation always has been tentative. This motley collection of French and English speakers, multiculturals and Native peoples, extended across a narrow ribbon of land just above the border with the United States, seems eternally fated to endure tension and uncertainty concerning its national identity and political institutions. This uncertainty may now have reached its highest point in Canada's history. The 1990 failure of the Meech Lake constitutional accord, which was intended to bring Quebec voluntarily into Canada's 1982 constitution, has inspired an unprecedented quest for new constitutional provisions acceptable to Canadians throughout the country. 1 In this paper I …
Review Of Fox At The Wood's Edge: A Biography Of Loren Eiseley, Kathleen A. Boardman
Review Of Fox At The Wood's Edge: A Biography Of Loren Eiseley, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly
Loren Eiseley, anthropologist and essayist,created his own persona in his essays and autobiography. Reluctant to have his self-portrait examined, he snubbed at least one biographer who became too curious about the facts. Several years after Eiseley's death, but still in time to conduct fruitful interviews with Eiseley's wife, Mabel, and many friends and associates, biographer Gale Christianson arrived at the right moment, with the technique and discernment to produce a fine biography that provides a new perspective on Eiseley's self-portrayal. Not that Christianson's version is better or even truer than Eiseley's-but it makes possible a deeper, more complex view of …
Review Of Cante Ohitika Win (Brave-Hearted Women): Images Of Lakota Women From The Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota., Holly Rae Boomer
Review Of Cante Ohitika Win (Brave-Hearted Women): Images Of Lakota Women From The Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota., Holly Rae Boomer
Great Plains Quarterly
In Carolyn Reyer's book, Cante ohitika Win (Brave-hearted Women), the words of Debra Lynn White Plume best characterize the content of oral stories, poetry, and photographs. "I would say that there are two revolving themes that live in what I write: resistance and celebration." Reyer's book, with additional writings by White Plume and Dr. Beatrice Medicine, uses the sub~ title, "Images of Lakota Women from the Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota," and this phrasing gives an accurate description of the resistance that the Lakota face in expressing their culture through both liturature and his~ tory. The images evoked …
Review Of The Dashing Kansan: Lewis Lirulsay Dyche, The Amazing Adventures Of A Nineteenth-Century Naturalist And Explorer, Mary Liz Jameson
Review Of The Dashing Kansan: Lewis Lirulsay Dyche, The Amazing Adventures Of A Nineteenth-Century Naturalist And Explorer, Mary Liz Jameson
Great Plains Quarterly
The nineteenth century was a time of environmental contrasts: vast expanses of virgin wilderness were unexplored, and yet lands and the animals inhabiting them were in danger of extinction. As revealed by Sharp and Sullivan, Lewis Lindsay Dyche was a man who helped to shape the preservation of our natural heritage. If not for the perseverance and foresight of scientists such as Dyche, the only remnants of our wilderness would be those that stand lifeless in museums.
Review Of Dance On The Earth: A Memoir., Micheal A. Peterman
Review Of Dance On The Earth: A Memoir., Micheal A. Peterman
Great Plains Quarterly
The train moves west
the American lady says
"are you native-born Canadian?"
Yes, I say, I'm surely that.
Well, she says, can I tell her
and her friend, Vancouver-bound,
when we'll reach
the more interesting country?
I smile gently I hope
because she couldn't have known
and say
"I was born and grew up
hereabouts
and for me this is
the more interesting country."
Notes And News For Vol.12 No.1
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1992 Vol. 12 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1992 Vol. 12 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly
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Review Of Wyoming: From Territory To Statehood, Micheal A. Amundson
Review Of Wyoming: From Territory To Statehood, Micheal A. Amundson
Great Plains Quarterly
As Wyoming began its second century of statehood in 1991, Lewis L. Gould's Wyoming: From Territory to Statehood remained an important examination of the state's history and current condition. Originally published in 1968 by the Yale University Press under the title of Wyoming: A Political History, 1868-1896, Gould explores both the early political history of Wyoming and the origin of its often tenuous relationship with the federal government.
Review Of Cowboys Of The Americas, John Donahue
Review Of Cowboys Of The Americas, John Donahue
Great Plains Quarterly
Some twenty years ago, while preparing a course on the frontier in literature, I first began to research the horsemen of the Americas. At that time, there were available only the numerous classic studies of the American cowboy, those by Dobie, Hough, Folsom, Abbott, Adams, Branch, Frantz and Choate, Santee, to name a few, but on the charro (vaquero), the llanero, the gaucho, or the huaso (guaso), very little was to be found. The few books, articles, extracts from travel logs that existed offered casual observations of these horsemen rather than a focused, coherent study. Only Edward Larocque Tinker's seminal …
Review Of Dee Brown, Dean Knudsen
Review Of Dee Brown, Dean Knudsen
Great Plains Quarterly
Lyman B. Hagen, of Arkansas State University, has written a helpful aid for students of the writings of Dee Brown. Brown is best known as the author of non-fiction like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, but Hagen reminds us that Brown has also written novels, historical fiction, and children's books. Hagen combines quotations from various reviews of Brown's work with personal comments by Dee Brown himself to introduce the novice reader to the varied life and writings of this prolific and unconventional author. This book should prove very useful for all students of the American West.
Review Of Contours Of Discovery: Printed Maps Delineating The Texas And Southwestern Chapters In The Cartographic History Of North America, 1513- 1930, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Contours Of Discovery: Printed Maps Delineating The Texas And Southwestern Chapters In The Cartographic History Of North America, 1513- 1930, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
It is unusual to review a book that is a decade old, as Contours of Discovery is, but this is an unusual publication. As fresh and vital today as it was ten years ago, it consists of two parts: The first is a portfolio of twenty-two historical maps reproduced in color, all of which relate to Texas history; the second is a paper-bound "user's guide" that offers both an essay on cartographic history as it pertains to Texas and a section of commentaries on each of the maps included in the portfolio.
Review Of The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony And Healing., Beatrice Medicine
Review Of The Medicine Men: Oglala Sioux Ceremony And Healing., Beatrice Medicine
Great Plains Quarterly
As a Lakota person, it seems more pertinent to me that those publications that deal with specific groups, i.e., Oglala, be reviewed by persons from that band. Tribally controlled colleges on reservations could possibly be sources for the reviews.
Review Of Czech Voices: Stories From Texas In The Amerikán Národní Kalendář., Joseph G. Svoboda
Review Of Czech Voices: Stories From Texas In The Amerikán Národní Kalendář., Joseph G. Svoboda
Great Plains Quarterly
Clinton Machann and James W. Mendl are already known to readers interested in Czech ethnicity in Texas by a volume entitled Krasna Amerika published in 1983 and recounting the history of the Czech community in Texas, its social structure, religion, folk culture, literature, language, journalism, and eventual assimilation and retention of ethnic identity. The present volume brings the history of Texas Czechs to life by way of reminiscences of immigrants who settled in the Lone Star State.
Review Of Winter Sports In The West., Benjamin G. Rader
Review Of Winter Sports In The West., Benjamin G. Rader
Great Plains Quarterly
A product of a conference sponsored by the history department of the University of Calgary and the Historical Society of Alberta in 1987, this set of ten papers treats aspects of the history of winter pastimes in western Canada. No single theme binds the collection together, though several authors try to assay the importance of the harsh climate and the rugged prairie/mountain terrain to western Canada's winter recreations. Their conclusions are not surprising. Climate and terrain prevented white settlers from replicating the rich village-centered pastimes of Europe. Instead, the settlers either had to abandon or adapt the traditional games or …
Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition Volume 6: November 2, 180s-March 22, 1806., Gerald M. Parsons
Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition Volume 6: November 2, 180s-March 22, 1806., Gerald M. Parsons
Great Plains Quarterly
This latest edition of the Journals represents the midpoint of an eleven-volume project sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska and co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Society, to publish a completely reedited version of all extant materials relating to the famous expedition of 1804-1806. Nine volumes (2-10) will contain all extant journal writings, while Volume 1 (1983) is already acknowledged a magnificently produced edition of the cartographic history of the trip, and Volume 11 will contain natural history materials, including reproductions of the herbarium sheets that Lewis gathered during the journey.
The Mystery Of Francis Jeffrey Dickens, N.W.M.P., And Eric Nicol's Dickens Of The Mounted, Robert Thacker
The Mystery Of Francis Jeffrey Dickens, N.W.M.P., And Eric Nicol's Dickens Of The Mounted, Robert Thacker
Great Plains Quarterly
Almost from its inception in 1873, but certainly since its "Great March" west during the summer of 1874 across "the Great Lone Land" of the Plains that had been the Hudson's Bay Company's domain only a few years before, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been among the world's most famous corporate entities; it is, perhaps, the most famous police force. 2 Its reputation is rooted in the very real heroism of its early years and the high standards of excellent service it has had since then; but the mythic quality of that reputation-as a cadre of judicious superheroes-has been …
Review Of American Indian Water Rights And The Limits Of Law, John R. Wunder
Review Of American Indian Water Rights And The Limits Of Law, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly
Do Indians have a right to water on their reservations? An answer to such a question seems obvious. Water is a part of land, and if you have sovereignty or ownership over the land, even limited sovereignty, rights to the water should follow.
Review Of Death Comes For The Chief Justice: The Sloughrynerson Quarrel And Political Violence In New Mexico., Harold J. Weiss
Review Of Death Comes For The Chief Justice: The Sloughrynerson Quarrel And Political Violence In New Mexico., Harold J. Weiss
Great Plains Quarterly
On 15 December 1867, William Logan Rynerson, a member of the Legislative Council of the territory of New Mexico, fired a bullet from a revolver and killed the opinionated, fiery, and sharp-tongued chief justice of the supreme court-John Potts Slough. Before the shot, Slough exclaimed, "Shoot and be damned!" (p. 70). Mortally wounded, he pulled a derringer from his vest pocket and let it fall to the floor. So ended the career of Chief Justice Slough.
Review Of Catlin And His Contemporaries; The Politics Of Patronage, Colin G. Calloway
Review Of Catlin And His Contemporaries; The Politics Of Patronage, Colin G. Calloway
Great Plains Quarterly
Brian Dippie provides a corrective to the image of George Catlin as a hopeless romantic. Stung by criticism in eastern artistic circles, Catlin headed west on "a new path to fame and fortune" (p. 11). After a few years visiting the Indians, he spent more than thirty years hustling to find a patron and to market his work. That he failed to do so was not for want of effort. According to Dippie, Catlin would "try anything to make a dollar from his art" (p. 21) and Indians were worth more to him dead than alive once he had captured …
The Ambivalence Of John Steuart Curry's Justice Defeating Mob Violence, Stephen C. Behrendt
The Ambivalence Of John Steuart Curry's Justice Defeating Mob Violence, Stephen C. Behrendt
Great Plains Quarterly
John Steuart Curry's mural Justice Defeating Mob Violence (Fig. 1), painted in 1936-37 for the United States Department of Justice, offers viewers a revealing perspective on the cultural values inherent in then-current notions of law and order. In approaching his mural, Curry assumed the traditional role of the history painter as it had been known in post-Renaissance Europe, especially in the eighteenth century; he undertook to present for public approbation and public edification a moralistic allegorical statement about the relations between societal disorder and both the institutions designed to control such disorder and the agents appointed to enforce that control. …
Review Of Word Ways: The Novels Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Alanna Kathleen Brown
Review Of Word Ways: The Novels Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Alanna Kathleen Brown
Great Plains Quarterly
D'Arcy McNickle is best known for his ethnohistorical works, They Came Here First (1949), Indians and Other Americans (1959), and Native American Tribalism: Indian Survival and Renewals (1973). He also is recognized for his extraordinary efforts on behalf of Indian self-determination while a member ofJohn Collier's Bureau of Indian Affairs staff. Yet in reading John Purdy's thorough and sensitive analysis of McNickle's three novels, The Surrounded (1936), Runner in the 'Sun (1954), and Wind from an Enemy Sky (1978), it may ultimately be McNickle's work in fiction that most effectively preserves Indians' social and spiritual values while stimulating Euro-Americans to …
Review Of Bighorse The Warrior, Marc Becker
Review Of Bighorse The Warrior, Marc Becker
Great Plains Quarterly
Bighorse The Warrior recounts the story of Gus Bighorse, a Navajo warrior who lived through attacks by Kit Carson and the United States Army, the Navajos' Long Walk, and the death of thousands of his people in the nineteenth century. In the oral history tradition of the Navajo people, Bighorse passed his stories on to his children, and this book stands as a tribute to the clarity and accuracy of that tradition. In this interesting and readable personal account, his daughter Tiana Bighorse gives voice to his memory. This book is not the story of a tragic victimization of the …