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Table Of Contents - Volume 4, Number 1, February 1994 Feb 1994

Table Of Contents - Volume 4, Number 1, February 1994

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Contents:

Articles

Book Reports

News and Notes

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Inherited Morphologies Of Two Large Basins In Clay County, Nebraska, Mark S. Kuzila Feb 1994

Inherited Morphologies Of Two Large Basins In Clay County, Nebraska, Mark S. Kuzila

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Rainbasin area of south-central Nebraska is an important component of the central flyway of migratory waterfowl. Little is known or has been reported about the morphology of large basins in the Rainbasin. A subsurface investigation was conducted to determine the morphology of two basins in Clay County, Nebraska. Transects were located across two sample areas, and seventeen test holes were drilled to determine loess thickness and stratigraphy. Radiocarbon dates were obtained from buried paleosols. The modern basin landscape was determined to be a direct result of 2.5 to 8 m of loess deposition on an older basin landscape. The …

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Fall Newsletter 1994, University Of Missouri-St. Louis Jan 1994

Fall Newsletter 1994, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

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Spring Newsletter 1994, University Of Missouri-St. Louis Jan 1994

Spring Newsletter 1994, University Of Missouri-St. Louis

UMSL Global

No abstract provided.

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Admiring Advocate Of The Great Plains: Father Pierre, Jean De Smet, S. J., On The Middle Missouri, Robert Carriker Jan 1994

Admiring Advocate Of The Great Plains: Father Pierre, Jean De Smet, S. J., On The Middle Missouri, Robert Carriker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Great Plains fascinated Pierre-Jean De Smet. When describing his favorite haunts in the broad trans-Mississippi West, De Smet's letters bulged with superlatives. He used only grand and eloquent adjectives to describe the celestial peaks of the Rocky Mountains, the spewing geysers in the Yellowstone basin, The Dalles of the Columbia River, and the freeform, contorted rock formations that sprawled across the White Cliffs of the upper Missouri River. It was the Great Plains, however, that received from Father De Smet not only some of his most dramatic prose, but also some of his most perceptive comments regarding the future …

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Review Of Prince Charming Goes West: The Story Of The E. P. Ranch., Larry A. Mcfarlane Jan 1994

Review Of Prince Charming Goes West: The Story Of The E. P. Ranch., Larry A. Mcfarlane

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a history of the E. P. (Edward Prince) Ranch intertwined with a selective biography of H. R. H. Edward Windsor (Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor) during the forty.-three years he owned the property. Edward arranged for the purchase of the ranch after a visit to the Pekisko Creek district in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains' front ranges of southern Alberta in 1919. The author discusses Edward's motives for acquiring and retaining the 1440 acres and additional leased land and identifies the evolving management strategies and personnel connected with the ranch. In …

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Index To Vol.14 No.4 Jan 1994

Index To Vol.14 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Review Of Relations Of Rescue: The Search For Female Moral Authority In The American West, 1874-1939, Karen Morin Jan 1994

Review Of Relations Of Rescue: The Search For Female Moral Authority In The American West, 1874-1939, Karen Morin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If plenary speeches at the Coalition for Western Women's History conference in the summer of 1992 in Lincoln, Nebraska, are any indication, the 1990s have begun with an apparent methodological consensus by women's historians: that race and class conflict and cooperation, as well as gender differences, must serve as organizing themes for a genuine history of western women. In Relations of Rescue, Peggy Pascoe, professor of history at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, delivers an excellent model for framing such multicultural research. Her starting point for the history of Protestant missionary women in the late nineteenth …

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Plains And Prairie Space, History, And The Literary Imagination, In Australia And The United States, Don D. Walker Jan 1994

Plains And Prairie Space, History, And The Literary Imagination, In Australia And The United States, Don D. Walker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1825 a space observer orbiting the earth could have looked down on two enormous land masses separated by more than 7000 miles. In the southern hemisphere the great body of land was Australia, an insular continent surrounded by the southern seas. In the northern hemisphere the great body of land was the United States, framed on east and west by oceans, bordered on the north by the even greater land of Canada and on the south by the lesser land of Mexico. Australia and the United States were roughly the same size, some three million square miles.

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Review Of The Administration Of Dominion Lands, 1870-1930., Barry Kaye Jan 1994

Review Of The Administration Of Dominion Lands, 1870-1930., Barry Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Members of the legal profession have made useful contributions to our knowledge of the history of western Canada. In Manitoba the writings of Roy St. George Stubbs and Dale Gibson come to mind. To be added to that list is Kirk N. Lambrecht, a practicing attorney from Edmonton, Alberta, who has made an important contribution to the literature on the administration and development of Dominion Lands in the western provinces and northern territories of Canada. After the vast areas of Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories were transferred from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada on 15 …

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Inhabiting The Dangerous Middle Of The Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading Of Kroetsch's Gone Indian, Mary K. Kirtz Jan 1994

Inhabiting The Dangerous Middle Of The Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading Of Kroetsch's Gone Indian, Mary K. Kirtz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert Kroetsch, whose approaches to novel writing extend from the primarily realist novel But We Are Exiles (1965) to the clearly post-modernist What the Crow Said (1978) and the somewhat less postmodern Alibi (1983), has left equally wide..ranging impressions on the English--Canadian critical landscape. Responses extend from those who see, at least in his earlier novels, a sympathy for realist and modernist impulses towards synthesis (Turner, Schaefer) to those who have identified Kroetsch as a preeminent postmodern writer (Hutcheon, Neuman); indeed, Linda Hut.. cheon has called him "Mr. Canadian Post.. modern."2 Even within the two parts of Hutcheon's formulation, however, …

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Review Of Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography And Historical Atlas Of Kansas., Patrick G. O'Brien Jan 1994

Review Of Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography And Historical Atlas Of Kansas., Patrick G. O'Brien

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

These two highly disparate reference works will amply serve any inquisitor into Kansas history.

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A North American Connection: Women In Prairie Novels, Ann Barnard Jan 1994

A North American Connection: Women In Prairie Novels, Ann Barnard

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Canadian poet Eli Mandel has said that the prairie writer is one who points in the direction of the prairie and not necessarily one who always lives there or writes exclusively about that region. Mandel, who suggests that the prairie has as much to do with "state of mind" as with locale and that prairie space is dynamic, cites Margaret Laurence and Robert Kroetsch, among others, as examples of Canadian writers identified with the West who have withdrawn and returned. 1 In the United States, Willa Cather comes to mind as prototype for Mandel's paradigm, and although her later work …

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Review Of The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply And Demand, 1866-1890., Kenneth Dagel Jan 1994

Review Of The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply And Demand, 1866-1890., Kenneth Dagel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

From Zane Grey novels to the television series Rawhide, the cattle-trailing period has always fascinated Americans. Jimmy M. Skaggs presents a very readable account of this brief but very important period in the settlement of the American West. Skaggs an economic historian structures his work as a study of the activities of Great Plains cattle-trailing contractors. First published in 1973 and now reprinted the book also includes information on the establishment of stockyards and commission companies. These were vital to the efficient handling of the tremendous influx of beef cattle being trailed up from Texas following the Civil War.

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Notes And News For Vol.14 No.1 Jan 1994

Notes And News For Vol.14 No.1

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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"A Gof-Forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology And The Dust Bowl, Brad Lookingbill Jan 1994

"A Gof-Forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology And The Dust Bowl, Brad Lookingbill

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On an idyllic Sunday in April 1935, people from Lubbock, Texas, to Topeka, Kansas, went on picnics, planted gardens, visited neighbors, and attended church. Communities had been punished with depression and drought, yet on that spring day Plains men and women felt assured that peace and safety had returned. Suddenly in midafternoon the air turned cold, and people noticed then that the sky had become filled with birds, fleeing from some unseen force. Fifteen-year-old Ida Mae Norman, driving home from a Palm Sunday church service with her family, saw a thin strip of black on the horizon north of Guymon, …

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"Gone Back To Alberta": Robert Kroetsch Rewriting The Great Plains, Francis W. Kaye, Robert Thacker Jan 1994

"Gone Back To Alberta": Robert Kroetsch Rewriting The Great Plains, Francis W. Kaye, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Maybe that did it, I thought-maybe that was one of the things that turned me into a writer-my playing [softball] far out in the field. The playing, and the watching that went with it. The listening, out there. The wanting to enter the game while fearing that someone might hit the ball in my direction. The being isolated, out there in the prairie wind and the summer light; my striking up a conversation with a nearby gopher as I watched the pitched ball. . . . The caring so much, so enduringly, for the movements of small creatures, for the …

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Review Of Surveying The Canadian Pacific: Memoir Of A Railroad Pioneer And The Railway King Of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849,1923, Alec Paul Jan 1994

Review Of Surveying The Canadian Pacific: Memoir Of A Railroad Pioneer And The Railway King Of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849,1923, Alec Paul

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Both these books deal with themes related to railways and with events significant to the early economic development of western Can, ada. But there the similarity ends. Rylatt's memoir is a highly personal account of a stint with a survey crew in the Canadian cordillera a decade before the laying of the rails. Flem, ing, on the other hand, gives us a life of William Mackenzie, a railway builder who kept no diary and left very few personal papers to guide the biographer. Thus it is easier to contrast than compare the two volumes.

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Review Of The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840, Brad A. Bays Jan 1994

Review Of The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840, Brad A. Bays

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In her very readable and significant ethnohistorical work The Texas Cherokees, Dianna Everett resourcefully tells the story of this small and little-understood group during their twenty- year tenure in Texas. Everett argues that the Cherokees' migration to, problems in, and expulsion from Texas can best be understood via their traditional yet dichotomous political structure. That is, Cherokee ideals of group consensus and harmony among individuals conflicted with the realities of factionalism; and like most writers, Everett relates that this dichotomy became detrimental only after white contact.

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Hugh Clifford And Frank Swettenham: Environmental Cognition And The Malayan Colonial Process, Victor R. Savage, Lily Kong Jan 1994

Hugh Clifford And Frank Swettenham: Environmental Cognition And The Malayan Colonial Process, Victor R. Savage, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

George Perkins Marsh has successfully highlighted the importance of the subjective in "seeing". Without precisely labelling the process as a "cognitive" one, Marsh nevertheless recognised that people's perceptions and evaluations are significant filters in the understanding of any social "reality". In the same vein, Gailey (1982:ix) has also pointed out that people are not "mere reflections of a period. They impose their own order and vision upon their times". In this paper, we will focus specifically on this cognitive element; in particular, we have chosen two people of similar sex, nationality and professions, working in Malaya in the same period, …

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'Environment' As A Social Concern: Democratising Public Arenas In Singapore?, Lily Kong Jan 1994

'Environment' As A Social Concern: Democratising Public Arenas In Singapore?, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

This paper explores the question of who defines the agenda of environmental concerns in Singapore. It argues that the state plays an inordinately large role in defining the agenda and implementing the solutions. Few other competing environmental agendas have been set in alternative public arenas. While this has worked generally well in Singapore, there are larger roles for environmental groups, businesses and industries, and other bodies to play. It is in the enlarged roles of these bodies that the hope for a greater democratization of public arenas in Singapore lies.

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Reading Landscape Meanings: State Constructions And Lived Experiences In Singapore's Chinatown, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Lily Kong Jan 1994

Reading Landscape Meanings: State Constructions And Lived Experiences In Singapore's Chinatown, Brenda S. A. Yeoh, Lily Kong

Research Collection School of Social Sciences

The term 'landscape" embodies multiple levels of meaning: it articulates the ideological intent of the powerful who plan or shape the landscape in particular ways and at the same time reflects the everyday meanings implicit in the daily routines of ordinary people associated with the landscape. Through an analysis of four themes constituting the landscape of Singapore's Chinatown, we unpack two different but interdependent versions of landscape reality: the construction of social meanings from the state's perspective and those derived from the lived experiences of Chinatown's inhabitants. In our first theme, we explore the multiplicity of meanings invested in Chinatown's …

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Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. Xii, No. 1, Wku Latin American Studies Dec 1993

Ua68/2 Intercambio Internacional, Vol. Xii, No. 1, Wku Latin American Studies

WKU Administration Documents

Newsletter created by WKU Latin American Studies program regarding science, politics and economic advances in Latin America as well as cooperative projects between WKU and universities across Latin America. The newsletter is written in both English and Spanish.

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The Nuclear Contamination Of Kazakhstan, Rebecca Marie Matter Dec 1993

The Nuclear Contamination Of Kazakhstan, Rebecca Marie Matter

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This thesis studies the radioactive contamination of Kazakhstan's environment, concentrating on the period between February 1989 and January 1993. For each type of nuclear degradation in Kazakhstan the thesis asks the questions: what is its cause and extent, what are its consequences for humans, and what are the human responses. The main causes of Kazakhstan's nuclear devastation are atomic weapons' tests, uranium mining, manufacturing of uranium fuel, and the operation of a fast breeder reactor power generator unit. The amount of radioactive contamination is colossal. The consequences for the health of the population, especially at Semey, are severe. The human …

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Iranian Foreign Policy Shedding The Pariah Image, Joseph Edward Gleason Jr. Dec 1993

Iranian Foreign Policy Shedding The Pariah Image, Joseph Edward Gleason Jr.

Graduate Program in International Studies Theses & Dissertations

This study analyzes Iranian foreign policy since 1979 to determine if Iran is a pariah state in the international community. To determine Iran's isolation in the international community, various factors were examined, including diplomatic relations, political leverage, relations with the United Nations, and the ability to acquire military hardware. Iran's status was compared with three generally accepted pariah states, Taiwan, Israel, and South Africa to determine the degree of isolation faced by the Islamic Republic. This study determined that Iran remains a pariah state, but is less isolated than most pariah states because its objectionable behavior, its aggressive foreign policy, …

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Free Trade And The Environment: A Case Study Of The Texas Colonias, F. Andrew Schoolmaster Aug 1993

Free Trade And The Environment: A Case Study Of The Texas Colonias, F. Andrew Schoolmaster

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Colonias are unincorporated subdivisions located in the rural, largely unregulated portion of counties where building codes and regulations are either nonexistent or unenforceable. Colonias are characterized by Third World living conditions where basic infrastructure services such as wastewater collection and treatment, drainage, paved streets, and, in some cases, electricity is lacking. Housing is substandard, with poor plumbing, heating and cooling systems. In Texas, there are approximately 1,193 colonias (home to an estimated 280,000 people, mostly Hispanic) concentrated outside of El Paso, and in counties comprising the lower Rio Grande Valley. In 1989 and 1991, voters approved constitutional amendments that authorized …

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Annual Index Aug 1993

Annual Index

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Annual Index

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Review Of Ecology And Human Organization On The Great Plains By Douglas B. Bamforth, David J. Wishart Aug 1993

Review Of Ecology And Human Organization On The Great Plains By Douglas B. Bamforth, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In this compact book, the outgrowth, or reprint, of his dissertation, Douglas Bamforth focuses his attention on cultural-ecological relationships between Native American hunters and the physical environments of the Great Plains. Specifically, Bamforth is concerned with forging a link between the social organization of historic and prehistoric hunters and their resource base, particularly the bison. It is a thoroughly professional study, drawing from a wide array of interdisciplinary evidence. The reader is systematically led from initial theoretical considerations, where a predictive theory is postulated, through an exegesis of grassland and ungulate ecology, to the application of the theory to regional …

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Environmental Impact Assessment In Practice: Exploring The Contradictions, Joel Novek Aug 1993

Environmental Impact Assessment In Practice: Exploring The Contradictions, Joel Novek

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Since its introduction into Canada in 1973, Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) has been controversial. Proponents argue that EIA is a practical means of achieving sustainable development because major projects are subject to an independent review before they are issued a license to proceed. However, the government's role in promoting resource-based development such as the ALPAC pulp mill (northern Alberta) and the Repap mills (northern Manitoba) has attracted considerable resistance. Public opposition to pulp and paper megaprojects in western Canada has reinforced the contradiction between the government's role as development promoter and as protector of northern resources and aboriginal populations.

Analysis …

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Estimated Effect Of Alternative Production Practices On Profit And Ground Water Quality: Texas Seymour Aquifer, Ronald D. Lacewell, Manzoor E. Chowdhury, Kelly J. Bryant, Jimmy R. Williams, Verel W. Benson Aug 1993

Estimated Effect Of Alternative Production Practices On Profit And Ground Water Quality: Texas Seymour Aquifer, Ronald D. Lacewell, Manzoor E. Chowdhury, Kelly J. Bryant, Jimmy R. Williams, Verel W. Benson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The Seymour aquifer of north-central Texas is identified as containing elevated levels of nitrate. The area has been designated as a Hydrologic Unit Area under the President's Water Quality Initiative. The effect of alternative production practices on the relative changes in nitrate leaching through the vadose zone was measured by adding an extended soil profile in the EPIC-WQ simulation model. Net returns from alternative production methods were estimated by using returns from associated yield and adjusting the cost of different levels of nitrogen, irrigation, and harvesting. Trade offs between nitrate percolation and net returns were explored by plotting the net …

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