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Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925., Susan E. Gray
Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925., Susan E. Gray
Great Plains Quarterly
Prevailing Over Time is an exploration of the development of Swedish, Russian Mennonite, and French Canadian farming communities in central Kansas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. McQuillan examines the immigrants' adoption of American social practices and the adjustment of ethnic and nativeborn settlers to farming in an area of unpredictable rainfall.
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Review Of Land In Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders In North Dakota And Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940, Evelyn Funda
Great Plains Quarterly
Much of the work studying women's role in the American West has served to establish the significance and celebrate the contributions of women to Western American history. Lindgren's book is such a work. Strikingly handsome, it portrays the lives of homesteading women in North Dakota from 1870 to about 1915 by providing excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and from personal interviews with homesteading women and their families, as well as a wealth of photographs and comparative statistics from land records. Lindgren's goals are to dispute the stereotypes of women pioneers and to argue that "women must be recognized as main characters …
Marguerite Laflesche Diddock: Office Of Indian Affairs Field Matron, Lisa E. Emmerich
Marguerite Laflesche Diddock: Office Of Indian Affairs Field Matron, Lisa E. Emmerich
Great Plains Quarterly
"I am an Indian girl fifteen years old .... Sometimes I am sorry that the white people ever came to America. What nice times we used to have before we were old enough to go to school, for then father used to take us on the buffalo hunt."l
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1993 Vol. 13 No. 3
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1993 Vol. 13 No. 3
Great Plains Quarterly
No abstract provided.
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Susan Laflesche Picotte.Md.: Nineteenth-Century Physician And Reformer, Valerie Sherer Mathes
Susan Laflesche Picotte.Md.: Nineteenth-Century Physician And Reformer, Valerie Sherer Mathes
Great Plains Quarterly
She was laid to rest beside her husband on a fall Sunday in a small Nebraska town. Three clergymen performed the simple service, the pastor of the Walthill Presbyterian Church, the pastor of the Blackbird Hills Mission, and a member of the Presbyterian Home Missions Board. The closing prayer was given by an Omaha tribal elder. That afternoon a moving graveside service was performed by members of the Amethyst Chapter of the Eastern Star. This diverse assemblage, paying their last respects on 19 September 1915 at the family home and at the Bancroft Cemetery, represented only one facet of the …
Review Of Pawnee Passage, 1870-1875, Oliver Frohling
Review Of Pawnee Passage, 1870-1875, Oliver Frohling
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1875 the Pawnees were removed from the remains of their vast lands in Nebraska to a new reservation iI). Indian territory. Relying on historical sources as well as oral history accounts of Pawnee life, Blaine documents the mounting pressures on the tribe in the years between 1870 to 1875 that finally led to their expulsion from Nebraska. She carefully describes the change in the Pawnee way of life that resulted from government policies and pressures by surrounding settlers.
Review Of Roadside History Of Oklahoma, Brad Bays
Review Of Roadside History Of Oklahoma, Brad Bays
Great Plains Quarterly
Writing local history for the general reader requires a harmonization of scholarship and literary skill. Roadside History of Oklahoma at best provides stereotypical entertainment at the expense of regional coherence, accuracy, and pluralistic interpretation
Review Of The Custer Reader, James Brisco
Review Of The Custer Reader, James Brisco
Great Plains Quarterly
In the nearly 120 years since Custer died at the Little Big Hom, about the only thing that historians can agree upon about him is that he was flamboyant. Thus far, the literature about him has either been favorable or very antiCuster in nature. Paul Andrew Hutton has assembled a collection of some of the more classic articles on Custer. Some of these are more favorable accounts, and some are less flattering articles about Custer's career as a soldier.
Review Of Quivira: Europeans In The Region Of The Santa Fe Trail, 1540-1820, Jane Maclaren Walsh
Review Of Quivira: Europeans In The Region Of The Santa Fe Trail, 1540-1820, Jane Maclaren Walsh
Great Plains Quarterly
The subjects addressed in this book are familiar ones: Spanish exploration of the American Southwest and eastward through the Great Plains, and French exploration westward from Louisiana. According to the jacket blurb, William Brandon offers "a closely written synthesis" of these explorations, examining them through a lens provided by a region that he variously calls a frontier and an ancient trade route. Unfortunately, while much of Quivira is synthesis, written as a gossipy digest of historical events occurring in an ever-enlarging region during a three-hundred-year period; little of it is "closely written."
Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, Cynthia E. Willis
Review Of The Cherokees: A Population History, Cynthia E. Willis
Great Plains Quarterly
Russell Thornton provides a scholarly and comprehensive review of the population variations of an American Indian tribe after contact first with European and then United States' cultural, institutional, and economic policies. He notes population fluctuations along with historical events that occurred after first contact. Governmental policies including accommodation, paternalism, assimilation, extermination, and relocation and isolation of the Cherokees clearly affected population totals. Thornton concludes by acknowledging the Cherokees' own never-ending search for self-determination and viability.
The "Liquid Gold" Rush: Groundwater Irrigation And Law In Nebraska, 1900~93, Sam S. Kepfield
The "Liquid Gold" Rush: Groundwater Irrigation And Law In Nebraska, 1900~93, Sam S. Kepfield
Great Plains Quarterly
Water is power. Water is strength. Water is health. In the Rocky Mountains, it is the most valuable of all assets. Nothing else compares with it, nothing else can compare with it. With it, we can produce trees and forests. With it we can make fertile fields on the desert plains, and make the unsightly and uninviting plateau attractive for agriculture and home-building.1
Review Of Victorian West: Class And Culture In Kansas Cattle Towns, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Victorian West: Class And Culture In Kansas Cattle Towns, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
Since Robert Haywood retired from the academic administration of Washburn University some years ago, he has become a major historian of the Great Plains region. Although he has been interested chiefly in Kansas history, he has produced books of general interest. His latest, Victorian West: Class and Culture in Kansas Cattle Towns, may also be his best.
Review Of Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland In Jeopardy, Ernest Rouske
Review Of Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland In Jeopardy, Ernest Rouske
Great Plains Quarterly
Millions of years ago earth crust movements caused a sixty-four-square mile area near what is now Great Bend in central Kansas to drop, creating a shallow, poorly drained basin. These wetlands, called Cheyenne Bottoms, draw hordes of waterfowl and shorebirds during spring and fall migrations. Its importance is such that it is considered one of the three major stop-over places for shorebirds east of the Rockies, "an oasis in a parched and wind seared landscape beckoning the greatest travelers on the globe."
New World Encounters: Exploring The Great Plains Of North America, John L. Allen
New World Encounters: Exploring The Great Plains Of North America, John L. Allen
Great Plains Quarterly
Arising partly from the debates, scholarly and otherwise, surrounding the commemoration of the Columbian Quincentennial, the claim has been made that the European discovery and exploration of the New World was a process that had "meaning only in terms of European ignorance, not in terms of any contribution to universal knowledge"1 and that the study of exploration and discovery is therefore ethnocentric or (worse) racist. Such a claim, which denies the mechanisms of exploration and discovery their important place in the broader epistemological process of how we know and understand the world, is contentious.
Review Of Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past., Marguerite Helmers
Review Of Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past., Marguerite Helmers
Great Plains Quarterly
The influence of Frederick Jackson Turner's conception of the Western frontier can be measured by the efforts taken to refute him. The contributors to this volume have found him an imposing figure to contend with. As a result, Turner hovers behind almost every page and footnote. In their introduction, however, editors Cronon, Miles, and Gitlin argue that there is a need to set Turner aside in favor of a Western history that is based on a "community focus" rather than the achievements of individual men. Following this approach, essays by Gitlin, John Mack Faragher, Sarah Deutsch, Katherine Morrissey, and Cronon …
Review Of Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth Of A Vital American Force, James W. Ely Jr.
Review Of Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth Of A Vital American Force, James W. Ely Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
Albro Martin has authored a masterful account of the pivotal role of railroads in shaping American economic and social life. The foremost historian of American railroads, Martin examines the emergence of the railroad system in the antebellum era, the growth of the great transcontinental lines, and the numerous difficulties experienced by railroads in the twentieth century. He pictures the railroads as agents of change, noting that railroads were instrumental in opening the prairie states for settlement, facilitating industrialization, and forging a national market for goods. As America's first big business, the railroads also compelled the formulation of new legal rules …
The United States Army As A Constabulary On The Northern Plains, Larry D. Ball
The United States Army As A Constabulary On The Northern Plains, Larry D. Ball
Great Plains Quarterly
With the formation of the United States military establishment in the late eighteenth century, the new army undertook many services in the developing republic, including several associated with the frontier movement. While the army considered the suppression of hostile Indians its primary mission in the West, its soldiers routinely supported civilian law enforcement authorities. After the Civil War, white criminals accompanied other American frontiersmen onto the northern Plains, where white desperadoes soon posed a serious problem. In the late 1870s they descended upon the Black Hills mining camps and looted stagecoaches in alarming numbers; brazenly robbed Union Pacific trains and …
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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1993 Vol. 13 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1993 Vol. 13 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Review Of Malcolm: The Life Of A Man Who Changed Black America, Learthen Dorsey
Review Of Malcolm: The Life Of A Man Who Changed Black America, Learthen Dorsey
Great Plains Quarterly
For manY'African Americans, Malcolm is a shining black prince, a charismatic leader, and the ideological founder of the movement toward a black awakening. He is a cultural and political icon, and as such, belongs to all of us. For Bruce Perry, Malcolm is a chameleon and a man in conflict. His Malcolm is a political opportunist, who yearned for happiness and love but courted failure, longed for freedom but shunned it until it was too late, hungered for the approval of the very authority figures he defied. Rather than view Malcolm as an individual thinker who could publicly change his …
Review Of People Of The Willows: The Prehistory And Early History Of The Hidatsa Indians, Gregory L. Fox
Review Of People Of The Willows: The Prehistory And Early History Of The Hidatsa Indians, Gregory L. Fox
Great Plains Quarterly
Research concerning the Plains Village tradition in the Middle Missouri subarea has been a primary focus of Northern Plains archaeology for the past hundred years. Peoples of the Willows incorporates results of those investigations along with more recent work stemming from the National Park Service-sponsored research program at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site into a definitive and readable volume on the Hidatsa people of North Dakota.
Review Of Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man And Sun Dance Chief., Todd Kerstetter
Review Of Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man And Sun Dance Chief., Todd Kerstetter
Great Plains Quarterly
Social ills plague Indian reservations in the United States as they have since the day those institutions were born. From within the Indian community, an elderly holy man has raised his voice to prescribe a return to traditional Indian religion.
Review Of New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900, Willliam M. King
Review Of New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900, Willliam M. King
Great Plains Quarterly
I began this book with the hope that I would learn more about the black military experience in New Mexico. Unfortunately, I did not. Perhaps had I read the bibliographic essay first, I would not have been as disappointed as I was upon concluding Mr. Billington's work. For in that essay he says: "Sources other than the official military records do not exist or are almost impossible to track down. The diaries, memoirs, and personal letters that help fill out the story of the white soldiers are essentially nonexistent for blacks. Few of the remaining entries in this bibliographical essay …
Review Of The Dispossession Of The American Indian, 1887- 1934., Thomas E. Ross
Review Of The Dispossession Of The American Indian, 1887- 1934., Thomas E. Ross
Great Plains Quarterly
Understanding the significance of the General Allotment Act of 1887 (Dawes Act) is central to any rational analysis of the present condition of the American Indian population. McDonnell has, in The Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887-1934, given us an excellent primer on the reasoning for the establishment of the Dawes Act and how it has affected the lives of the peoples it was designed to help. Although more than 20 percent of this little book is devoted to notes and bibliography, it is a valuable contribution to American Indian literature and a timely addition to the quincentenary debate.
Review Of Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography. 3 Vols, David J. Wishart
Review Of Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography. 3 Vols, David J. Wishart
Great Plains Quarterly
There are almost 4500 entries in this Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography. Candidates were chosen by the editor for the "significance of their deeds" and for the intrinsic "interest" of their role in the frontier process (vii). They are mostly men, mainly Euro-American but also Native American, though clearly some effort has been made to include frontier women. Among them are explorers, scientists, outlaws, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers. T wentiethcentury frontier historians like Athearn and Billington are also included, as long as they, like all the other featured people, are deceased. Strangely, prospectors are excluded on the implausible grounds that …
Review Of Wounded Knee Lest We Forget And Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account., John R. Wunder
Review Of Wounded Knee Lest We Forget And Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account., John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly
The meandering Wounded Knee Creek wanders timelessly through south central South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Yet time seemed to stop at least twice on its banks, once at the massacre of several hundred Sioux in Big Foot's band by the Seventh Cavalry in late December 1890 and nearly a century later during the forcible takeover of the settlement of Wounded Knee by the American Indian Movement in late February 1973. Today these events are known as Wounded Knee I and Wounded Knee II.
Unplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce In A Frontier Town Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century, C. Robert Haywood
Unplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce In A Frontier Town Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century, C. Robert Haywood
Great Plains Quarterly
"W elcome to Dodge City, the biggest, wildest, wickedest little city on the continent," was the exuberant greeting given out-of-town visitors to Dodge's Fourth ofJuly celebration in 1883. The assessment projected was a selfcongratulatory one shared and frequently envied by the rest of the United States. Dodge was enjoying the peak of its cattle-town fame and prosperity as the quintessential frontier boom town, unrestrained by convention, the "very embodiment of waywardness and wantonness." Few communities seemed more at odds with the national social values and mores that later generations would label Victorian. As a mecca for free-spending cowboys it was …
Lands, Laws, And Women: Decisions Of The General Land Office, 1881~ 1920 A Preliminary Report, Nancy J. Taniguchi
Lands, Laws, And Women: Decisions Of The General Land Office, 1881~ 1920 A Preliminary Report, Nancy J. Taniguchi
Great Plains Quarterly
"S ettlement" of the West-by common understanding-has meant the taking up of the public domain, especially homesteads and preemptions, under federal law. Obviously, "settlement" in this sense has little to do with actual occupation, or the property rights of Native Americans and long-resident Hispanics would not have been so long ignored. The specific process of settling involved three steps: filing a claim, proving up and/or making payment, and obtaining title or ownership. Each of these steps had its pitfalls, which, when they occurred, were usually resolved by the General Land Office (GLO), a division of the Department of the Interior …