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Review Of Keepers Of The Record: The History Of The Hudson's Bay Company Archives. By Deidre Simmons, Scott Stephen Jan 2009

Review Of Keepers Of The Record: The History Of The Hudson's Bay Company Archives. By Deidre Simmons, Scott Stephen

Great Plains Quarterly

Given the remarkable character of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives, it is a little hard to believe that this is the first comprehensive study of their history. It was worth the wait, though, as Simmons deftly weaves more than three centuries of people and paper into a narrative as captivating as the records themselves. As Simmons observes in her introduction, this book is much more than just the history of the HBCA as an institution: it is both a history of the HBC's record-keeping (and record-keepers) from its earliest days and a case study in British and Canadian archival history. …


Review Of Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother's Life In Politics. By Beth Boosalis Davis, Jan P. Vermeer Jan 2009

Review Of Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother's Life In Politics. By Beth Boosalis Davis, Jan P. Vermeer

Great Plains Quarterly

The title of Beth Davis's final chapter in this biography of her mother encapsulates the book's main message: "Life After Is Politics" for Helen Boosalis, a former mayor of Lincoln, Nebraska. Boosalis's life story is ostensibly the story of her political life. Davis, a past local government official herself, strives to describe not just the mayor's personal side or her political work but to demonstrate the intertwining of the two.

Underpinning the story is extensive research into newspaper files from the period, buttressed by scrapbooks, clippings, and memorabilia that her family, chiefly her father, collected over the years. Interviews with …


Notes And News- Fall 2009 Jan 2009

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"Rejoicing In The Beauties Of Nature" The Image Of The Western Landscape During The Fur Trade, Kerry R. Oman Jan 2009

"Rejoicing In The Beauties Of Nature" The Image Of The Western Landscape During The Fur Trade, Kerry R. Oman

Great Plains Quarterly

While traveling along the Platte River on May 18, 1834, William Marshall Anderson stopped to pick up a human skull bleaching in the prairie sunlight. Anderson was from Louisville, Kentucky, and had been sent west by his physician to accompany a fur-trade caravan to the Rocky Mountains in hopes of regaining lost physical strength. He came west not as a typical trader or trapper, but as an attentive observer. What Anderson lacked in physical strength and fortitude, he made up for with a commanding vernacular and lively imagination. Later in the day, after carrying the skull for several miles, he …