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Review Of Fort Supply Indian Territory: Frontier Outpost On The Plains, Jean E. Atterbury
Review Of Fort Supply Indian Territory: Frontier Outpost On The Plains, Jean E. Atterbury
Great Plains Quarterly
This paperback, with a new introduction, reprints Carriker's 1970 text chronicling Fort Supply from 1868 to 1894 as a hub for distributing both supplies and personnel throughout the southern Plains. Drawing from both personal and public documents, Carriker presents a journal-like account of western history in microcosm: the subduing and sequestering of Indians on reservations, the negotiations for herds' passage along the famous cattle trails, the maneuvering of boomers and others as they settled what had been Indian Territory. This useful reference, including little analysis or interpretation, provides an intimate glimpse of the life of this integral outpost on the …
Review Of Grain Grades And Standards: Historical Issues Shaping The Future, Mark J. Connolly
Review Of Grain Grades And Standards: Historical Issues Shaping The Future, Mark J. Connolly
Great Plains Quarterly
Two decades worth of research in a wide array of corporate, governmental, and academic literature provides the foundation for Lowell Hill's Grain Grades and Standards: Historical Issues Shaping the Future. How much moisture is too much? What does "plump" mean? What is a bushel? These are some of the questions Hill addresses while explaining passage of the Grain Standards Act of 1916 and the ensuing definitional problems associated with its enactment.
Review Of It's Not The End Of The Earth, But You Can See It From Here: Tales Of The Great Plains, Linda M. Hasselstorm
Review Of It's Not The End Of The Earth, But You Can See It From Here: Tales Of The Great Plains, Linda M. Hasselstorm
Great Plains Quarterly
If Roger Welsch didn't exist, a writer would invent him. He became known for a single action incomprehensible to the city-bred majority of folks: leaving a comfortable professor's life in a Nebraska city for a farm on the arid central plains. Instead of disappearing into obscurity while academics mused on his self-destruction, he became famous writing about country ways. Still, he's sometimes seen as a mere record-keeper for a simpler way of life that is disappearing into the busy blandness of American society.
Review Of Renderbrook: A Century Under The Spade Brand, James W. Cox
Review Of Renderbrook: A Century Under The Spade Brand, James W. Cox
Great Plains Quarterly
In the context of the current concern over the disappearance of the family farm, this work is important because it presents the story of one successful family enterprise. In the late nineteenth century l. L. Ellwood applied a fortune made from barbed wire to create a model cattle operation in west Texas that exists today. His business expanded through careful management and an eye toward innovation. Kelton draws in various aspects of the operation that influenced the evolution of the ranch by considering new technology, diversification, changes in daily ranch operation, and the new role of the cowboy in keeping …
Review Of Watt Matthews Of Lambshead, Margaret A. Mackichan
Review Of Watt Matthews Of Lambshead, Margaret A. Mackichan
Great Plains Quarterly
This handsome book relates the history of a Texas ranch from Comanche days to the present, through the life of one extraordinary man, ninety-year-old Watt Matthews. Laura Wilson's highly readable text speaks clearly and with immediacy about the man, his people, and the land. Throughout the text she allows the Texans to speak in their own voices, summing up pages in pithy witticism. Vignettes of Matthews family history read like a Victorian dime novel: interesting and amazing, truth become legend.
Review Of The American West: A Narrative Bibliography And A Study In Regionalism, Patricia Nelson Limerick
Review Of The American West: A Narrative Bibliography And A Study In Regionalism, Patricia Nelson Limerick
Great Plains Quarterly
Legal scholar Charles Wilkinson reads and recommends books as if the Video Age were not upon us and as if the ideal of an educated, reflective citizenry might be within reach. In the four hundred and eighty-eight items listed in this bibliography, writers have done their part "in defining a geographical region, in giving the West a sense of place, a sense of itself. " If Westerners say yes to the invitation these writers offer, then the consequences could be direct and practical: "When a people gains a sense of itself, wise decisions are likely to follow" (p. 90), wise …
Review Of The Custer Album: A Pictorial Biography Of General George, Sherry L. Smith
Review Of The Custer Album: A Pictorial Biography Of General George, Sherry L. Smith
Great Plains Quarterly
This pictorial biography of General George A. Custer was first published in 1964. Now, the University of Oklahoma Press has brought it out in paperback. Its attractive cover plus the plethora of photographs, which constitute the bulk of the book, bode well for the book's popularity.
Review Of The Cowgirls, Karen Morin
Review Of The Cowgirls, Karen Morin
Great Plains Quarterly
If this book suffers from anything it's too much enthusiasm for its subject. Joyce Roach sets out to prove that the cowgirl is our "foremost genuine American heroine," and while this is at least arguable, she tends to overstate her case at the expense of the early suffragists (cowgirls, not they, were the "advance guard of the feminist movement") and in particular at the expense of other western women: "Other frontier women were more or less forgotten with the passing of the frontier. The life of the farm woman, for instance, was never heroic, just miserable . . . and …
Review Of The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions & Government Policies And Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers And Government Policy, Paul A. Olson
Great Plains Quarterly
Both of these books concern the force of myth. James Clifton's The Invented Indian, a book put together by Clifton with sixteen other authors, represents an account of the collaboration between Native Americans and whitesanthropologists, poets, do-gooders, and government policymakers-to create a stereotypical "Indian" and an equally stereotypical history of Indians. The stereotypes are conveyed as "facts" in school texts, the media, and "scholarship," i.e., that perhaps hundreds of millions of Indians lived in America when Columbus came, that Pocahontas saved the Virginians and Squanto the Pilgrims, that the United States Constitution derives from the Iroquois, that Indians worshipped Mother …
Review Of A Hannony Of The Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol., Ron Tyler
Review Of A Hannony Of The Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol., Ron Tyler
Great Plains Quarterly
Public buildings have been seen as reflections of society's culture and politics for centuries, and it has been a long-accepted corollary that Americans view their state capitols as palaces of democratic government. This handsome volume, with essays by Frederick C. Luebke, H. Keith Sawyers, David Murphy, Dale L. Gibbs, Joan Woodside and Betsy Gabb, Norman Geske and Jon Nelson, and Robert C. Ripley, richly documents the story of one of the more unusual American capitol buildings: Bertram Goodhue's Nebraska State Capitol. It, too, is a paean to democracy, but it is a delightful and surprising architectural maverick.
Review Of Kansas Wildlife, Don Cunningham
Review Of Kansas Wildlife, Don Cunningham
Great Plains Quarterly
A catchword current among naturalists is "biodiversity," a term used to describe the variety and number of organisms present in an area. Biodiversity is one measure of the "health" of an environment, and the term itself is probably a useful one, as 1t can efficiently suggest environmental quality and the complex interrelationship among living things, plant and animal.
Review Of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Politics Of Indian Affairs, Sharon M. Harris
Review Of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Politics Of Indian Affairs, Sharon M. Harris
Great Plains Quarterly
In Removals Maddox exposes the complicity of many of our most treasured nineteenth-century American authors in the figurative-and consequently, quite literal-removal of American Indians from constructions of nineteenth century culture. That some of these authors viewed themselves as sympathetic to the "Indian question" merely demonstrates (as Maddox extends Roland Barthes' argument) how the myth of apoliticized discourse can result in the transformation of "history into nature."
The Legal Culture Of The Great Plains, Kermit L. Hall
The Legal Culture Of The Great Plains, Kermit L. Hall
Great Plains Quarterly
The great prairie lawyer Abraham Lincoln once said of an opposing legal counsel's argument, "He caught on to something, but only by the hind leg."l Lincoln's observation applies with equal force to our current understanding of the legal culture of the Great Plains, and even that characterization is generous. Take, for example, the literature on the region's history of public and private law and legal institutions. It is pitifully small. Bits and pieces are scattered through specialized journals and state history periodicals, but there is nothing like a systematic body of scholarship. 2
Review Of Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters Of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919, Michael J. Grant
Review Of Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters Of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919, Michael J. Grant
Great Plains Quarterly
The experiences of a single female homesteader on the Great Plains of South Dakota are revealed in Bachelor Bess. This collection of letters spanning 1909-19 was written by Elizabeth Corey to her family in Iowa. The letters focus primarily on the social activities of Corey, who worked as a schoolteacher while homesteading in the West River country of South Dakota.
Review Of The Trial Of Leanard Peltier., John Krejci
Review Of The Trial Of Leanard Peltier., John Krejci
Great Plains Quarterly
On 26 June 1975 in a firefight on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation between the FBI and AIM, two FBI agents were killed. AIM member Leonard Peltier and three other Indians were arrested. Only Peltier was convicted. The Trial of Leanard Peltier carefully documents the trial in its social and historical context.
The Origins Of The Initiative And Referendum In South Dakota: The Political Context, Steven L. Plott
The Origins Of The Initiative And Referendum In South Dakota: The Political Context, Steven L. Plott
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1898 South Dakota became the first state to amend its constitution to give its citizens the option of the initiative-in which a given percentage of voters may propose a law, which then must be approved at the polls-and the referendum- in which a law proposed either by initiative or by the lawmaking body must then be approved by a given percentage of voters. These measures, also known as direct legislation, were seen by both voters and legislators as a way to reform democracy by making it more responsive to the people. Exactly what impetus propelled South Dakota to enact …
Toward A Policy Of Destruction: Buffaloes, Law, And The Market, 1803-83, Andrew Isenberg
Toward A Policy Of Destruction: Buffaloes, Law, And The Market, 1803-83, Andrew Isenberg
Great Plains Quarterly
When the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, it acquired an abundance of natural resources that would help fuel American economic expansion for the rest of the nineteenth century. The fertile soil of the tallgrass prairie would support one of the most productive agricultural regimes in the United States. Lumberers would cut longleaf, shortleaf, loblolly, and slash pine from the west bank of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and St. Louis. Miners would discover deposits of gold and lead in Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota.1 Yet the most prominent resource of the Louisiana Territory …
Saskatchewan Bound: Migration To A New Canadian Frontier, Randy William Widds
Saskatchewan Bound: Migration To A New Canadian Frontier, Randy William Widds
Great Plains Quarterly
Almost forty years ago, Roland Berthoff used the published census to construct a map of English Canadian settlement in the United States for the year 1900 (Map 1).1 Migration among this group was generally short distance in nature, yet a closer examination of Berthoff's map reveals that considerable numbers of migrants gravitated toward more distant agricultural and urban frontiers and a reading of the historical literature on internal migration within North America emphasizes the fact that a significant number of Canadians living in the United States returned home to Canada during the period 1896-1914.2
Notes And News For Vol.12 No.4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1992 Vol. 12 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1992 Vol. 12 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt
Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt
Great Plains Quarterly
This rich collection of essays is intellectually substantial, culturally significant, and much overdue. One of the least appreciated phenomena of American culture is its remarkable history of self-fashioning. The American continent was settled by European immigrants for a variety of reasons over some four centuries, and each wave of settlers contributed to the burgeoning mythology of the New World its own set of self-fulfilling prophecies. "America" was--and to a significant extent still is--a largely European construct, a cultural matrix whose outlines emerged and evolved often re-actively as individuals and groups found their expectations challenged by the stark realities of the …
Review Of Campaigning With King, Joseph G. Dawson Iii
Review Of Campaigning With King, Joseph G. Dawson Iii
Great Plains Quarterly
For half a century the name of Charles King meant entertaining fiction about the institution that he knew and revered-the United States Army. King was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (Class of 1866), a professional soldier, and veteran of the Civil War, Reconstruction duty in the South, the Indian Wars, National Guard assignments, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine campaign. His writings revealed much about the life of soldiers and officers during the late nineteenth century.
Review Of Field Guide To Wildflowers Of Nebraska And The Great Plains, Roadside Wildflowers Of The Southern Great Plains, Wildflowers Of The Northern Great Plains, And Wildflowers Of The Taugrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest., Kathleen H. Keeler
Great Plains Quarterly
These four flower books represent a blossoming of attractive popular books describing prairie plants. Each of these four books has a slightly different goal. In terms of area covered, Farrar focuses on Nebraska, Vance, Jowsey and Mclean consider plants of the northern Great Plains, Freeman and Schofield aim at roadside wildflowers of the southern Plains, and Runkel and Roosa on wildflowers of the northern tallgrass prairie. The types of plants included vary also. Farrar includes both common and rare Nebraska wildflowers but no shrubs or trees, Vance et al. include common native wildflowers, visible introduced species, and some woody plants. …
The Railroad Question Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee And St. Paul Railway V. Minnesota And Constitutional Limits On State Regulations, James W. Ely Jr.
The Railroad Question Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee And St. Paul Railway V. Minnesota And Constitutional Limits On State Regulations, James W. Ely Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
Few issues more vexed Americans during the Gilded Age than the regulation of railroads. America's first big business, the railroads wielded enormous economic power and by the end of the nineteenth century represented 10 percent of national wealth. 1 Farmers and other local shippers often viewed railroads as an exploitative monopoly and blamed them for excessive and discriminatory charges. They repeatedly clamored for regulation of the freight and passenger rates fixed by railroad companies. Agricultural interests in the Great Plains states were particularly active in seeking regulatory legislation. Railroad investors and managers, on the other hand, opposed regulatory laws and …
The "Poison Porridge" Case: Chinese And The Administration Of Justice In Early Saskatchewan, Ken Leyton Brown
The "Poison Porridge" Case: Chinese And The Administration Of Justice In Early Saskatchewan, Ken Leyton Brown
Great Plains Quarterly
On the morning of 8 August 1907 a number of patrons were taking breakfast in the Capital Restaurant on Lome Street in Regina. The restaurant had not been in operation long but was apparently doing a good business, so it must have been somewhat disturbing to Mr. Steele, the owner and manager, when shortly after beginning their morning meal a number of his patrons became ill. The symptoms included quite severe abdominal pains so the decision was taken to send for a doctor who arrived to find nine people suffering from what was obviously something rather more serious than indigestion. …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1992 Vol. 12 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1992 Vol. 12 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Review Of Sterling's Carrie: Mrs. J. Sterling Morton, Polly P. Duryea
Review Of Sterling's Carrie: Mrs. J. Sterling Morton, Polly P. Duryea
Great Plains Quarterly
Margaret V. Ott has given a valuable gift to the pioneer descendants living close to the banks of the Big Muddy. From detailed journals, letters, and diaries, she traces the lives of the J. Sterling Morton family as they construct their home, Arbor Lodge, on the Morton Ranch near Nebraska City. Many in my transitional generation will find elements of their own history in Mrs. Ott's fictionalized biography, Sterling's Carrie.
Review Of Cather Studies Volume 1, Susan A. Hallgarth
Review Of Cather Studies Volume 1, Susan A. Hallgarth
Great Plains Quarterly
Cather Studies is a new biennial series intended to display the quality and diversity of current scholarship on Cather. This first volume showcases papers presented at the Third National Seminar on Willa Cather (1987). Future volumes no doubt will continue to incorporate essays from these educational events and address, as they do, a broad audience. Contributors to this volume include teachers from all levels of the educational system (high school, junior college, four-year professional and liberal arts colleges, and state and research universities) and all parts of the United States (both coasts, the South, the Northeast, the Midwest, and the …
Review Of Paula Gunn Allen, Deborah G. Plant
Review Of Paula Gunn Allen, Deborah G. Plant
Great Plains Quarterly
Elizabeth Hanson's Paula Gunn Allen is a very good overview of the extensive body of work of an important scholar, critic, and writer. Through a balance of summary and critical analysis, Hanson examines the content, style, and purpose of Paula Gunn Allen's work. As Hanson suggests, to know something about Allen's life and work is "to gain insight into the trans-formative art" that reveals Allen's "exceptionally acute visionary power" (p. 5). Hanson maintains that this visionary power and the creativity to which it gives rise are consequences of Allen's situatedness outside Native American and Anglo-American culture. Hanson describes this particular …