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Review Of Campaigning With King, Joseph G. Dawson Iii Jan 1992

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.

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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 Jan 1992

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. …

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The Railroad Question Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee And St. Paul Railway V. Minnesota And Constitutional Limits On State Regulations, James W. Ely Jr. Jan 1992

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 …

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The "Poison Porridge" Case: Chinese And The Administration Of Justice In Early Saskatchewan, Ken Leyton Brown Jan 1992

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. …

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1992 Vol. 12 No. 2 Jan 1992

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1992 Vol. 12 No. 2

Great Plains Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Sterling's Carrie: Mrs. J. Sterling Morton, Polly P. Duryea Jan 1992

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.

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Review Of Cather Studies Volume 1, Susan A. Hallgarth Jan 1992

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 …

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Review Of Paula Gunn Allen, Deborah G. Plant Jan 1992

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 …

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Review Of Hurrah For My New Country!, Darlene Ritter Jan 1992

Review Of Hurrah For My New Country!, Darlene Ritter

Great Plains Quarterly

The best summary of the scope of the book is found in the foreword. Leon Fouquet as an immigrant helped settle two states-Kansas and Oklahoma. "Fouquet believed he was seeing a transplanted revolution-an appraisal of some merit-in this new country, which to him was very strange, wild, beautiful, and offered him unbelievable opportunities" (p. xxvii). Read the book with this in mind and appreciate the efforts of the family in presenting in a readable form the information preserved in journals, scrapbooks, and letters.

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Review Of Women Of The New Mexico Frontier 1846-1912, Janet E. Schulte Jan 1992

Review Of Women Of The New Mexico Frontier 1846-1912, Janet E. Schulte

Great Plains Quarterly

Historians of the women's west have centered their analysis around the extent to which Victorian culture shaped women's experience on the frontier. Cheryl Foote's collective biography of white women in New Mexico territory supports the argument that the Victorian cultural values, especially the cult of domesticity, were transferred with few mutations from the East to the Southwest during the nation's westward expansion.

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An Uninviting Wilderness: The Plains Of West Texas, 153+1821, Félix D. Álmaraz, Jr. Jan 1992

An Uninviting Wilderness: The Plains Of West Texas, 153+1821, Félix D. Álmaraz, Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly

Throughout the entire colonial period of Texas, except for brief periods of gallant exploration and practical reconnaissance, Spanish pioneers carefully avoided the Plains of West Texas as a potential area of permanent settlement. Essentially because of the absence of dependable water resources, an all-important consideration prescribed in the Recopilacion de las Leyes de las Indias for the selection of occupation sites, Hispanics generally regarded the West Texas Plains with respectful awe and fearful apprehension. Spanish law prohibited settlers, notwithstanding personal initiative and the availability of land in great abundance, from occupying a region that lacked reliable sources of fresh water. …

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1992 Vol. 12 No. 3 Jan 1992

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1992 Vol. 12 No. 3

Great Plains Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin On The Santa Fe Trail, 1856~57., Michael A. Amundson Jan 1992

Review Of Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin On The Santa Fe Trail, 1856~57., Michael A. Amundson

Great Plains Quarterly

In the fall of 1856, wealthy James Ross Larkin of St. Louis joined a wagon train headed by William Bent, bound for the trader's post on the Santa Fe Trail. Seeking relief from chronic health problems, Larkin instead found adventure. His heretofore unpublished journal of his trip and subsequent travels in New Mexico provides a rare glimpse into antebellum southwestern life. Besides the extensively annotated diary, Barbour also includes background introductions to Larkin, the Santa Fe Trail, the frontier of health seekers, and an 1856 comparison between the trail's endpoints of St. Louis and Santa Fe.

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Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt Jan 1992

Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt

Great Plains Quarterly

Nancy Rash's superb study exemplifies the sort of reevaluation that results from tearing down the artificial walls of the gallery and the salon and relocating an artist within an accurate historical and cultural context. Rash introduces Bingham the total person: artist, certainly, but also writer, politician, legislator, polemicist, and social activist. Indeed, Bingham considered himself a public servant who just happened to be also a painter. This important distinction has been blurred by generations of critics who refused to see the "whole" Bingham and who consequently constructed an image of an artist depicting-in the scenes of Missouri life that form …

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Review Of Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail, Rex Buchanan Jan 1992

Review Of Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail, Rex Buchanan

Great Plains Quarterly

Sam Arnold's Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail is a gustatorial revisiting of mealtime along the old trail. Using various travel accounts, Arnold provides directions for making camp meals and for recreating dinners provided along the way at stops such as Bent's Fort and the Hays House at Council Grove. The recipes, written in a clear and entertaining style, cover everything from moose nose to Turkish pilaf for one hundred; Arnold helpfully suggests modem substitutes for ingredients that are no longer easily available. For readers who want to experience the pleasures and surprises of eating on the nineteenth- century Great …

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Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, Sarah Carter Jan 1992

Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, Sarah Carter

Great Plains Quarterly

The essays in this innovative and significant book look at the effects of European occupation on the people and the environment of semiarid regions on several continents. It is the book's comparative and interdisciplinary approach that makes it particularly original and provocative. Included are the lands of the indigenous people of the North American Plains, the Australian Aborigines, the Kazakhs of what was once the USSR, the Maasai of Kenya, several groups in South Africa, Alaskan, and Lapp (Saami) people. Contributors are from anthropology, economics, English, law, history, religion, Native American studies, and environmental studies and they are John W. …

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Review Of Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths To Healing Ourselves And Our World, Ward Churchill Jan 1992

Review Of Mother Earth Spirituality: Native American Paths To Healing Ourselves And Our World, Ward Churchill

Great Plains Quarterly

When I was a little boy, my mother, bless her heart, used to buy me books like Ben Hunt's Indian Crafts and Lore in a forlorn effort to keep me somewhat "in touch" with the indigenous aspect of my heritage. Hence, early on, I was exposed to such boy scoutish "homages" to things Indian as using uncooked macaroni to simulate the bone employed in making chokers and breastplates, making "peace pipes" out of wooden dowels, and pasting carefully colored bits of graph paper to tee-shirts in an effort to create the appearance of a beaded "Indian costume." It was, mom's …

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Review Of Natural History Of The Black Hills And Badlands, Dan Flores Jan 1992

Review Of Natural History Of The Black Hills And Badlands, Dan Flores

Great Plains Quarterly

This book is a revised edition of a volume that in original form did not include the present section on the South Dakota Badlands, here written by Ronald Weedon, a biologist at Chadron State College. Also added to this revised version is a treatise on the environmental situation of the Black Hills as of 1990. This essay, as well as essays on the topography, geology, biology, and history of the Black Hills, is by biologist Sven Froiland of Augustana College. The book also features long pages of quoted material from various kinds of technical sources (soil profiles, checklists of mammals …

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Review Of Dreams In Dry Places, Dale L. Gibbs Jan 1992

Review Of Dreams In Dry Places, Dale L. Gibbs

Great Plains Quarterly

In the summer of 1936 after weeks of scorching heat, my parents decided to visit my grandparents in Neligh and Clearwater, Nebraska. We got into the 1932 Terraplane which my dad had bought with his veteran's bonus from World War I and headed out through Seward, Columbus, Norfolk, Oakdale, to Neligh. My grandmother's big Victorian house was on North Main Street at the foot of Standpipe Hill and its big yard and porches did, in fact, seem cooler after the 100 degree heat in Lincoln

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Review Of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways Of A Lakota, Lee Irwin Jan 1992

Review Of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways Of A Lakota, Lee Irwin

Great Plains Quarterly

This book supports the basic presupposition that Native American religion has always been the expression of an individual point of view. Endemic to the Sioux religious tradition, the Wicasa Wakan, "holy man" or shaman, has struggled over the last 150 years to preserve a religious heritage that has undergone continuous development and modification. Yet, at the core of that heritage, it has been the personal religious experiences and abilities of the shaman that have acted as the authenticating touchstone of belief. In the same spirit that chainsaws are preferred over stone axes, contemporary Sioux shamans have been challenged to …

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Review Of Go West And Grow Up With The Country': An Exhibition Of Nineteenth-Century Guides To The American West In The Collections Of The American Antiquarian Society., Martha H. Kennedy Jan 1992

Review Of Go West And Grow Up With The Country': An Exhibition Of Nineteenth-Century Guides To The American West In The Collections Of The American Antiquarian Society., Martha H. Kennedy

Great Plains Quarterly

George Miles, curator of western Americana at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has written an excellent catalogue of an exhibition of guides to the American West in the American Antiquarian Society's collections. In his introduction, Miles notes that in addition to the traditional notion of guides as "books or pamphlets that described how to go west," the term can be usefully expanded to include "literature that helped guide them [western pioneers] in establishing their homesteads, in setting up their businesses, in educating themselves and their children, and in creating new territories and states." He then presents annotated entries …

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Review Of Texans In Revolt: The Battle For San Antonio, 1835, Charles Kenner Jan 1992

Review Of Texans In Revolt: The Battle For San Antonio, 1835, Charles Kenner

Great Plains Quarterly

Unless they take special note of the date in the title, many readers will assume this is yet another rehash of the siege of the Alamo. Instead, it is the first monograph-if scarcely seventy pages of text can be called that---devoted to the opening campaign of the Texas Revolution. In the autumn of 1835 several hundred Texas volunteers gathered before San Antonio, elected officers, and began a haphazard series of events that ended with a Mexican capitulation in early December.

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Review Of Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States 1775 To The Present, Robert M. Kitson Jan 1992

Review Of Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States 1775 To The Present, Robert M. Kitson

Great Plains Quarterly

The story of the Black Hills, recounted in this very readable chronicle by Edward Lazarus-- son of Arthur Lazarus, one of the attorneys who represented the Sioux Nation in its Black Hills claim against the U.S. government-DEten seems a case study in the history of IndianlnonIndian relations in North America. It encompasses some of the most famous names and events from the days of the frontier: Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Custer, Little Big Hom, and Wounded Knee. It is that era that fascinates Americans when they are moved to think of the indigenous population of this continent, and the one …

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Review Of Historical Atlas Of The American West, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1992

Review Of Historical Atlas Of The American West, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly

This book is another in the well-known series of historical atlases published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Most are defined by states; this one attempts the huge task of treating the entire western half of the United States, including the Great Plains.

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Review Of Astoria & Empire, I.S. Maclaren Jan 1992

Review Of Astoria & Empire, I.S. Maclaren

Great Plains Quarterly

James Ronda blends new documentation with older sources to provide an ample study of New York businessman John Jacob Astor's failed effort to spawn a transcontinental and transglobal fur trade enterprise in the second decade of the nineteenth century. The new interpretations include a view of Astor as capable of being, when pushed to the limit, a scoundrel and a liar (273, 274). Ronda also provides interesting discussions of the Russian connection, the relation between biologists and Astorians, and the political ramifications to the United States of Astor and Astoria. Meanwhile, the main narrative treats the rise and fall of …

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Review Of Gennans In The New World: Essays In The History Of Immigration, Jorg Nagler Jan 1992

Review Of Gennans In The New World: Essays In The History Of Immigration, Jorg Nagler

Great Plains Quarterly

This book is a collection of nine essays Frederick C. Luebke published between 1965 and 1985 and one essay specifically written for this volume dealing with German-American historiography of the last decades. The essays-including revisions and addenda-reflect Luebke's impressive contribution to the social, political, and cultural history of German Americans and provide an overview of the substantial German immigration to the United States. The essays also delineate Luebke's changing focus from the Great Plains and Midwest of the nineteenth century to an enlarged nationwide perspective of Germans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To go even beyond this agenda, Luebke …

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Review Of American Indian Archery, Mark J. Swetland Jan 1992

Review Of American Indian Archery, Mark J. Swetland

Great Plains Quarterly

"I have long considered writing about Indian archery, which has held a lifetime interest for me, to try and correct some of the misconceptions regarding this phase of American Indian life" (ix). That this is the fourth reprinting of American Indian Archery suggests that the Laubins' interest is shared by many readers. In several reviews of this book since its 1980 publication, it has been variously described as "readable" and "methodically researched," and "Laubin's style" as "a highly personal, largeminded one." Such accolades may well overwhelm the uninitiated student of Native American archery, creating a sense that this is the …

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Review Of Manuel Alvarez, 1794-1856: A Southwestern Biography, Ralph H. Vigil Jan 1992

Review Of Manuel Alvarez, 1794-1856: A Southwestern Biography, Ralph H. Vigil

Great Plains Quarterly

The subject of this lively, well-written book is Manuel Alvarez, an important but neglected figure who played a key role in New Mexican and western affairs under the Mexican and U. S. government. A Spaniard by birth, a Mexican by expediency, and a trader by inclination, Alvarez was an avid reader, deeply interested in history, who believed that worldly happiness came to the man who thought justly, acted uprightly, and lived usefully

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Review Of Lone Stars: A Legacy Of Texas Quilts, 1936-1986 And Nem-Aska Quilts And Quiltmakers, Lynn White Jan 1992

Review Of Lone Stars: A Legacy Of Texas Quilts, 1936-1986 And Nem-Aska Quilts And Quiltmakers, Lynn White

Great Plains Quarterly

These lovely volumes are celebrations of quilts, of women, and of the states they represent. They are intended for a lay audience of quilters and quilt collectors and, more broadly, anyone interested in graphic arts.

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Battered Pioneers: Jules Sandoz And The Physical Abuse Of Wives On The American Frontier, Betsy Downey Jan 1992

Battered Pioneers: Jules Sandoz And The Physical Abuse Of Wives On The American Frontier, Betsy Downey

Great Plains Quarterly

One of the most compelling aspects of Mari Sandoz' biography of her father, OldJules, is her account of the violence that Jules Sandoz inflicted upon his family. Jules Sandoz had left his native Switzerland in a fit of temper and ended up in northwestern Nebraska in 1884. Well educated and from a well-to-do professional family, he was nevertheless a character by any standards. He had a violent temper matched by unflagging paranoia and contentiousness. He was remarkable for personal filth and filthy stories. But he was also a gregarious center of community life, an outstanding horticulturalist, a voracious reader …

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