Review Of Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals
Re-Visioning The American West Edited And With
An Introduction By Shirley A. Leckie And Nancy
J. Parezo,
2010
University of Nevada, Reno
Review Of Their Own Frontier: Women Intellectuals Re-Visioning The American West Edited And With An Introduction By Shirley A. Leckie And Nancy J. Parezo, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Pioneering women ethnohistorians and anthropologists who studied American Indians and the trans-Mississippi West deserve greater recognition, not only for the important information they gathered but also for their theoretical insights and methodological advances. As we learn about these women's lives and scholarly contributions, we also come to understand the barriers and prejudices they dealt with in order to pursue the work they valued. This is the argument of Shirley Leckie and Nancy Parezo's collection of intellectual biographies of ten women, born between 1873 and 1910, whose active research careers spanned most of the twentieth century. Their Own Frontier extends the …
Review Of War Of A Thousand Deserts,
2010
Texas State University-San Marcos
Review Of War Of A Thousand Deserts, Jesús F. De La Teja
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Among the challenges that battered Mexico in the decades following independence was raiding from independent Indian groups that increasingly found plunder preferable to peace. In this ambitious and erudite work Brian DeLay argues that it was exhaustion from fighting Comanches, Apaches, and Kiowas among northern Mexicans that largely made for the easy victory of the United States in its 1846- 1847 war of conquest against Mexico. As the evidence mounted for American policy makers that the Mexican government was not only unable to develop its northern territories properly but was incapable of defending them, the logic of incorporating Texas into …
Review Of For All We Have And Are: Regina And The
Experience Of The Great War By James M. Pitsula,
2010
University of Western Ontario
Review Of For All We Have And Are: Regina And The Experience Of The Great War By James M. Pitsula, Brandon Dimmel
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Great War touched many places in Canada, but James M. Pistula's book is the first to examine closely its impact on a distinctly agrarian and western community. Regina, Saskatchewan, was, like many towns in the Canadian prairies after the turn of the century, dependent on agriculture, ethnically diverse, and led by an Anglophile majority that viewed the war as an ideological clash between the democratic British Empire and the despotic German autocracy. That way of thinking made the city of 30,000 a veritable battleground between "Germantown," the "alien" immigrant district, and its English-speaking majority, who through assimilative social reform …
Review Of Waiting For Coyote's Call: An Eco-Memoir
From The Missouri River Bluff By Jerry Wilson,
2010
University of South Dakota
Review Of Waiting For Coyote's Call: An Eco-Memoir From The Missouri River Bluff By Jerry Wilson, Mark D. Dixon
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This book documents its author's move to the bluffs of the Missouri River valley in southeastern South Dakota and his experiences and personal reflections during twenty-five years of life there. In the spirit of Aldo Leopold's A Sand County Almanac, Jerry Wilson weaves together observations about the natural and human history of the bluffs and reflections-derived from his experiences on the South Dakota bluffs and his childhood on an Oklahoma farm-about how to live ethically on the land and toward its creatures. In so doing, he fashions an intimate tapestry of the Missouri River bluffs and woodlands that are …
Review Of Notes From Texas: On Writing In The Lone Star
State Edited By W. C. Jameson,
2010
Purdue University
Review Of Notes From Texas: On Writing In The Lone Star State Edited By W. C. Jameson, Karl Germeck
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
For Notes from Texas, W. C. Jameson compiles essay responses from esteemed veterans of the Texas writing community in an effort to understand how each came to choose a career in writing and succeeded in doing so, as well as the role Texas (its myths and lore, geography, history, and culture) has played in that process. The result is a collection of fourteen personal essays from eleven native, and three transplant, Texans, including such notables as former and co-founding director of the University of North Texas Press, Frances Brannen Vick, novelists Elmer Kelton, Paulette Jiles, James Reasoner, and poet/songwriter …
Review Of Laura Ingalls Wilder And Rose Wilder Lane:
Authorship, Place, Time, And Culture By John
E. Miller,
2010
University of Washington Tacoma
Review Of Laura Ingalls Wilder And Rose Wilder Lane: Authorship, Place, Time, And Culture By John E. Miller, Philip Heldrich
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In his third book on Laura Ingalls Wilder, John E. Miller presents another fascinating study of this most cherished writer and her times. Miller weighs in on a number of the continuing controversies surrounding Wilder's books, foremost among them the question of how the Little House books were authored. He also enters into the continuing debate on the racial politics of Wilder's writing, especially in Little House on the Prairie, that has become the focus of many newer studies of Wilder's work. Miller presents Wilder and daughter Rose Wilder Lane as products of their respective times, showing how during …
Review Of Mennonite Women In Canada: A History By
Marlene Epp,
2010
Ohio University
Review Of Mennonite Women In Canada: A History By Marlene Epp, Katherine Jellison
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Marlene Epp's overview of two hundred years of Mennonite women's history in Canada focuses largely on the two major sites of Mennonite settlement-Ontario and the Great Plains of Manitoba. Her discussion of the Manitoba settlers-so-called "Russian Mennonites" whose Germanic ancestors migrated to Russia in the early nineteenth century-encompasses their history from the group's arrival on the Plains in the 1870s to the present. Her study provides a wealth of material for historians of Great Plains women, immigrants, and religious minorities.
Review Of Heart Of The West: New Painting And Sculpture Of
The American West Edited By Laura Caruso, With
Essays By James H. Nottage, Ann Scarlett Daley,
Gordon Mcconnell, And Mindy A. Besaw,
2010
Emporia State University
Review Of Heart Of The West: New Painting And Sculpture Of The American West Edited By Laura Caruso, With Essays By James H. Nottage, Ann Scarlett Daley, Gordon Mcconnell, And Mindy A. Besaw, Monica Kjellman-Chapin
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Since the valorization of abstraction beginning at midcentury, Western realist art has suffered from the sense that it is too regional, nostalgic, conventional, and populist to be considered a significant and relevant contribution to the contemporary American pictorial tradition. Richly illustrated and drawing upon the resources of the Denver Art Museum's Institute of Western American Art, as well as an exhibition of drawings and sculptures by George Carlson, Heart of the West attempts to reposition contemporary Western realist art and situate this work as an important and persistent contribution to American art. In addition to an introduction by the director …
Review Of Breathing In The Fullness Of Time By William
Kloefkorn,
2010
Southwest Minnesota State University
Review Of Breathing In The Fullness Of Time By William Kloefkorn, David Pichaske
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The central metaphor in this final installment of Nebraska State Poet Bill Kloefkorn's four-part celebration of life in the Great Plains is air. Whereas his three previous memoirs- water, fire, and earth-explored childhood and adolescent memories, Kloefkorn here focuses mainly on adult experiences in college and the Marine Corps, teaching English at Nebraska Wesleyan, classroom adventures as a poet-in-residence, and his celebrated victory in the North Platte, Nebraska, hog-calling contest. Time and tradition are central concerns in this book, as is desire-in football and marriage, in writing poetry and being a good Marine or hog caller, in overcoming adversities like …
Review Of Passion And Preferences: William Jennings Bryan And The 1896 Democratic National Convention
By Richard Franklin Bensel,
2010
University of Arkansas at Little Rock
Review Of Passion And Preferences: William Jennings Bryan And The 1896 Democratic National Convention By Richard Franklin Bensel, Raymond D. Screws
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Richard Franklin Bensel offers a masterful inspection of William Jennings Bryan's "Cross of Gold" speech and the 1896 Democratic National Convention. As Bensel demonstrates, this convention, held in the newly finished Coliseum in Chicago, was a watershed in American political history. Southern and western Democratic leaders, including those from the Great Plains, wrested the power of the party from "the patricians of the East"; the soft money men, or silver supporters, defeated the gold or hard money Democrats. Bryan did not alter this course, but his "Cross of Gold" speech, one of the most famous orations in American political history, …
To The Ice: George Bird Grinnell's 1887 Ascent Of Grinnell Glacier,
2010
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
To The Ice: George Bird Grinnell's 1887 Ascent Of Grinnell Glacier, Richard Vaughan
Articles by Maurer Faculty
This article discusses a climbing expedition undertaken by U.S. conservationist George Bird Grinnell to ascend what would come to be known as Grinnell Glacier in Montana. Grinnell’s efforts to establish Glacier National Park are detailed. Grinnell’s previously unpublished descriptions of the glacier and its surrounding area are analyzed by the author.
The Price Of Conflict: War, Taxes, And The Politics Of Fiscal Citizenship,
2010
Indiana University Maurer School of Law
The Price Of Conflict: War, Taxes, And The Politics Of Fiscal Citizenship, Ajay K. Mehrotra
Articles by Maurer Faculty
Since 2003 American political leaders and lawmakers have been committed to the simultaneous pursuit of tax cuts and military excursions abroad. Just a few decades ago, when military hawks were also deficit hawks, such a position would have seemed incongruous. This essay reviews, War and Taxes, a provocative and fascinating new book that seeks to explain the apparent dissonance of recent American wartime tax policy. In contrast to conventional wisdom which presumes that wartime patriotism has always and everywhere trumped self-interest, War and Taxes shows that the history of U.S. wartime taxation is not quite such a heroic tale. By …
Women In Antebellum Alachua County, Florida,
2010
University of North Florida
Women In Antebellum Alachua County, Florida, Herbert Joseph O'Shields
UNF Graduate Theses and Dissertations
The purpose of this study was to investigate the role and status of women in Alachua County, Florida, from 1821 through 1860. The secondary literature suggests that women throughout America had virtually no public role to play in antebellum society except in limited circumstances in some mature urban, commercial settings. The study reviewed U.S. Census materials, slave ownership records, and land ownership records as a means to examine the family structures, the mobility and persistence of persons and households, and the economic status of women, particularly including woman headed households. The study also examined laws adopted by the Florida legislative …
Stamper, George Washington, Sr. Book 2,
2010
Morehead State University
Stamper, George Washington, Sr. Book 2, Carter County Genealogical Society
Carter County Genealogy Collection
Book 2 of the family history of George Washington Stamper, Sr. son of James W "Pewter John" and Sarah Sallie (Stamper) Stamper of Carter County, Kentucky.
Erwin - Misc. Book 1,
2010
Morehead State University
Erwin - Misc. Book 1, Carter County Genealogical Society
Carter County Genealogy Collection
Miscellaneous Book 1 of the genealogy of the Erwin family of Carter County, Kentucky.
Stamper, Sylvania Book 7,
2010
Morehead State University
Stamper, Sylvania Book 7, Carter County Genealogical Society
Carter County Genealogy Collection
Book 7 of the family history of Sylvania Stamper, daughter of George Washington Stamper, Sr. and Catherine Dyer Stamper of Carter County, Kentucky.2010
Stamper, Asa,
2010
Morehead State University
Stamper, Asa, Carter County Genealogical Society
Carter County Genealogy Collection
A family history of Asa Stamper, son of Dock Stamper and Ellen Taulbee Stamper, and his wife Treva Holliday Stamper of Carter County, Kentucky.
Stamper Family - Lawrence County, Ohio,
2010
Morehead State University
Stamper Family - Lawrence County, Ohio, Carter County Genealogical Society
Carter County Genealogy Collection
A family history of the Stamper family of Lawrence County, Ohio.
Stamper, George Washington Sr. Book 4,
2010
Morehead State University
Stamper, George Washington Sr. Book 4, Carter County Genealogical Society
Carter County Genealogy Collection
Book 4 of the family history of George Washington Stamper, Sr. son of James W "Pewter John" and Sarah Sallie (Stamper) Stamper of Carter County, Kentucky.
Stamper, George Washington, Sr. Book 1,
2010
Morehead State University
Stamper, George Washington, Sr. Book 1, Carter County Genealogical Society
Carter County Genealogy Collection
Book 1 of the family history of George Washington Stamper, Sr. son of James W "Pewter John" and Sarah Sallie (Stamper) Stamper of Carter County, Kentucky.
