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Review Of Plains Country Towns By John C. Hudson, Lawrence H. Larsen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John C. Hudson's new book, Plains Country Towns, deals with the dynamics of town building in a 20,000 square-mile area of north central North Dakota. Between 1880 and 1920 railroad colonization agents and independent speculators platted over 500 town sites. Three railroads, the Soo Line, the Northern Pacific, and the Great Northern, planned towns at roughly ten-mile intervals along their main and branch lines. Sometimes, where tracks intersected, they built neighboring promotions. No one expected all the projects to succeed. They were a device used by the railroads to effectively dominate marketing activities. Hudson, a Northwestern University professor of …

Review Of Lewis And Clark Among The Indians By James P. Ronda, G. Malcom Lewis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In his instructions of June 1803 to Meriwether Lewis concerning the conduct of what was to become known as the Lewis and Clark Expedition, Thomas Jefferson made it quite clear that one of the Expedition's purposes was to pave the way for the development of American commerce with the Indians of the northern Plains, Rocky Mountains, and Pacific Northwest. That was soon to occur but the President could not have anticipated the longer-term economic spin off for the nation's publishing industry. Since the appearance in 1807 of the first printed account of the Expedition more than one hundred books have …

The Dust Bowl An Introduction, John Braeman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In March 1985 the Center for Great Plains Studies of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln held its ninth annual symposium "Social Adaptation to Semiarid Environments." The relevance of that topic was evident alike to specialists and to the reader of daily newspaper stories about drought and accompanying starvation in Africa, recurring crop failures in Russia, China's struggle to feed its teeming population, out-of-control grassland fires in Australia, and depletion of ground water supplies and continued soil erosion in the North American Great Plains. Specialists in a broad range of disciplines explored the ways in which different societies have adjusted in the …

The Future Of The Great Plains Re-Visited, Gilbert F. White

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Future of the Great Plains came in the mid- 1930s at the culmination of a great drought and a festering worldwide economic depression as new, ambitious Washington agencies sought to redress the accumulated wounds to people and soil. Following a series of more narrow reports, this comprehensive study presented the prevailing judgments as to what had gone wrong on the Great Plains. And it outlined a widely shared vision of what the future might hold if its social prescriptions were heeded. 1 Sceptics of the time wryly remarked that the animal on its front cover (a large bull, fig. …

Drought Mitigation In Australia Reducing The Losses But Not Removing The Hazard, R. L. Heathcote

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Australia technology has reduced but not eliminated the impact of drought and seems set to do the same for the foreseeable CO2-induced climate change. To document this claim, I wish here to consider first a brief history of drought in Australia-pointing up some parallels and contrasts with the North American experience; second, to outline the various strategies (technological and nontechnological) that have been adopted to try to mitigate drought; third, to review the current thinking on the effect of increasing levels of atmospheric CO2 on the Australian climate and their releva9ce to agricultural and pastoral activities through possible modification …

Comp Ara Tive Drought Strategies The Soviet Union, Paul E. Lydolph

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Background. It cannot be emphasized enough that the Soviet Union is a highlatitude country. Odessa on the Black Sea coast, one of Russia's southern cities, lies at a latitude of 46°N, comparable to that of Billings, Montana, and in fact is cooler in summer than Billings (Lydolph 1977b). Krasnodar in the Kuban District of the North Caucasus, probably the most productive region in the Soviet Union, compares latitudinally and climatically to St. Paul, Minnesota. Kharkov, in the northeastern Ukraine, compares to Winnipeg, Canada; in fact, Winnipeg experiences higher maximum temperatures in summer than Kharkov does. The central black earth region …

Abideth Forever? Global Use Of Semiarid Lands In The Interwar Years, J. M. Powell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

I have undertaken a highly selective Cook's Tour in this article, attempting to integrate our understanding of semiarid lands around the globe. The focus is concentrated on the period between the two great wars when new nationalisms, old imperial networks, and the burgeoning ambitions of scientists combined to create new systems of land use in the semiarid regions, but a few sorties have been made into earlier and later periods to assist the interpretation of specific projects. My own country, Australia, is used as the starting point for the tour, but the influence of American Donald Worster's Dust Bowl (1979) …

Founders And Presidents Of The Nebraska Academy Of Sciences, 1880-1986, C. Bertrand Schultz

Transactions of the Nebraska Academy of Sciences and Affiliated Societies

The Nebraska Academy of Sciences is the oldest interdisciplinary scientific organization in Nebraska and one of the oldest and most successful state academies in the United States. It was founded in Omaha on January 30, 1880, and there were seventy-five Charter Members from eighteen communities.

The Union Pacific Railroad officials and employees provided much of the impetus for the establishment of an Academy of Sciences in Nebraska by providing office space and meeting rooms near the Union Pacific headquarters. Railroad passes were issued to all science teachers, professional scientists, and interested citizens to attend monthly meetings. Five of the officers …

A Possible Mechanism For The Diurnal Oscillations Of Tropical Cyclones, Jay S. Hobgood

Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences: Faculty Publications

A possible mechanism for the diurnal oscillations of tropical cyclones is presented. In the conceptual model developed to explain these features, the diurnal cycle of net radiation at the cloud tops is identified as the primary cause of the oscillations. Radiative cooling of the cloud tops at night steepens the lapse rate and increases convection. This generates a slight intensification in the storm. The reverse occurs during the daytime as the cloud tops absorb solar radiation. This process may be augmented by differential cooling of cloudy and clear areas.

This conceptual model is tested through the use of a numerical …

Third International Pheasant Symposium (January 1986 : Thailand), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Conference Proceedings

Session 1: Thailand

Pheasants of Thailand, Somtob Norapuck

Habitat Destruction in Thailand, Chompool

Session 2: Adaptability of South-East Asian Pheasants

Some views of the adaptability of Rain Forest Pheasants, G. W. H. Davison

Session 3: Adaptability of Himalayan Pheasants

The Adaptability of the Pheasants of Bangladesh in Disturbed Habitats, Md Sohrab Uddin Sarker

Human Impact on Pheasant habitat and numbers of pheasants on Pipar, Central Nepal, Nick Picozzi

Session 4: The Adaptability of Pheasants in China and Pakistan

Summary of Western Tragopan Project in Pakistan with recommendations for conservation of the species, Kamal Islam and John A Crawford

The Breeding …

Spatial Structure In Pedestrian Route Choice, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Aggregated pedestrian trip lengths typically follow gravity model predictions. Given this, the present research asks which route will a pedestrian choose when confronted by two or more distance-minimizing routes of equal length. Ethological, questionnaire, and interview data reveal the spatial structure of pedestrian route choices in terms of spatial complexity measures. Route complexity is found to vary by age and gender. The study is based on data collected in Lincoln, Nebraska.

Review Of Accommodating The Pedestrian By Richard Untermann, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Untermann undertakes to provide design professionals and other decision makers with a down-to-earth, practical guide for converting existing automobile-dominated urban areas into bicycle and pedestrian-oriented neighborhoods and cities. Based primarily on his personal observation, experience, and professional predilections, Untermann lists the presumed "needs" of pedestrians/bicyclists and presents a brief, uneven description of the "characteristics" of walking. A separate chapter, not well-integrated with the rest of the book, focuses specifically on bicyclists and bikeways. The second half of the book addresses specific improvements-primarily for pedestrians suggested by the author for older neighborhoods, downtowns, and suburban communities respectively.

The Use Of Population Reduction As A Technique To Combat Rabies In Alberta, Canada, Richard C. Rosatte

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Control of rabies by reducing the density of potential vectors has been a controversial matter. Only 2 outbreaks of rabies in Europe are likely to have been completely eradicated by control, 1 in Dijon, France, in 1923, and the other in Corsica in 1943 (MacDonald 1980). Schnurrenberger et aL (1964) apparently controlled an outbreak of rabies in striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) in Ohio by gassing dens and through the use of poison. An invasion of red fox (Vulpes vulpesl rabies in southern Jutland from Demark was initially halted by a gassing and poisoning campaign. However, in Great Britian, despite the …

The Use Of Population Reduction As A Technique To Combat Rabies In Alberta, Canada, Richard C. Rosatte

Great Plains Wildlife Damage Control Workshop Proceedings

Control of rabies by reducing the density of potential vectors has been a controversial matter. Only 2 outbreaks of rabies in Europe are likely to have been completely eradicated by control, 1 in Dijon, France, in 1923, and the other in Corsica in 1943 (MacDonald 1980). Schnurrenberger et aL (1964) apparently controlled an outbreak of rabies in striped skunks (Mephitis mephitis) in Ohio by gassing dens and through the use of poison. An invasion of red fox (Vulpes vulpesl rabies in southern Jutland from Demark was initially halted by a gassing and poisoning campaign. However, in Great Britain, despite the …

Phylogenetics And The Future Of Helminth Systematics, Daniel R. Brooks

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Phylogenetic systematics is a relatively new formal technique that increases the precision with which one can make direct estimates of the history of phylogenetic descent. These estimates are made in the form of phylogenetic trees, or cladograms. Cladograms may be converted directly into classifications or they may be used to test various hypotheses about the evolutionary process. More than 20 phylogenetic analyses of helminth groups have been published already, and these have been used to investigate evolutionary questions in developmental biology, biogeography, speciation, coevolution, and evolutionary ecology.

Water Current, Volume 17, No. 6, November/December 1985

Water Current Newsletter

Director's Report
Clarification of September/October Director's Report
Call for Proposals
Proposals Funded
1986 Nebraska Water Conference
Water Resources Seminar Series
Kremer Lecture Series Speaker
Great Plains Symposium on Transition to Dryland Agriculture
Research Review: Nitrate Removal from Groundwater Supplies Using Biological Denitrification

French History Textbooks As A Tool For Teaching Civilization, Thomas M. Carr Jr.

French Language and Literature Papers

The recent controversy in France over the new history textbooks based on the reforms promulgated under René Haby in the middle 1970s can serve as a reminder of the many uses such textbooks can have in our civilization classes. In the past ten years the Haby programs have become the symbol for what many observers in France take to be a serious weakening of the teaching of history since the late 1960s. At the primary level, history was joined to geography and the sciences as an activité d'éveil; no longer was it the privileged instrument for fostering national identity as …

Mapping The Quality Of Land For Agriculture In Western Canada, James M. Richtik

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The original impetus that brought explorers and settlers to the East Coast of North America had, at least as early as the eighteenth century, evolved into, among other things, an interest in the potential of the Canadian West for European types of agriculture. As settlement spread across the continent, the perceived value of the West changed from fur hinterland to possible agricultural empire. With this shift in interest there was a change in the purpose of exploration, and as features such as rivers, lakes, and mountains became known, assessing and mapping the agricultural potential of the land began. Cartographers would …

The Garden-Desert Continuum Competing Views Of The Great Plains In The Nineteenth Century, John L. Allen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the central portion of the great American continent there lies an arid and repulsive desert which, for many a long year, served as a barrier against the advance of civilization. From the Cordillera to Nebraska, and from the Yellowstone River in the north to the Colorado in the south, is a region of desolation and silence . . . enormous plains which, in winter, are white with snow and, in summer, are gray with the saline alkali dust. They all preserve the common characteristics of barrenness, inhospitality, and misery . ... In this stretch of country there is no …

Index- Fall 1985

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Index (8 Pages)

Fall 1985

Title And Contents- Fall 1985

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

FALL 1985 VOL. 5 NO.4

CONTENTS

THE GARDEN-DESERT CONTINUUM: COMPETING VIEWS OF THE GREAT PLAINS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY John L. Allen

THE EMERGENCE OF THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURE MOVEMENT, 1977-1979 William P. Browne and John Dinse

MAPPING THE QUALITY OF LAND FOR AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN CANADA James M. Richtik

BENJAMIN HARRISON AND THE AMERICAN WEST Homer E. Socolofsky

BOOK REVIEWS

Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion

Riel and the Rebellion 1885 Reconsidered

The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos

NOTES & NEWS

INDEX

PUBLISHED BY THE CENTER FOR GREAT …

Nebraska Bird Review (September 1985) 53(3), Whole Issue

Nebraska Bird Review

1984 Nebraska Nesting Survey … 46

1985 (Sixtieth) Spring Occurrence Report … 50

Hybrid Bluebirds in the Pine Ridge … 67

Notes … 67

Book Review … 68

1984 Nebraska Nesting Survey, Esther V. Bennett

Nebraska Bird Review

Data on the 1984 nesting season in Nebraska were received from 17 observers and organizations, reporting on 72 species from 36 counties or groups of counties. Counties in the tabulations are listed in a west to east order, with the northernmost of the approximately equal locations given first. Numbers represent Nest Record Cards; N represents nests observed for which no Nest Record Card was submitted; F represents feeding; CF represents carrying food; CN represents carrying nesting material; and Y represents young observed. GPC in the following paragraph represents Nebraska Game and Parks Commission. Thirty species were reported on 192 North …

Water Current, Volume 17, No. 5, September/October 1985

Water Current Newsletter

Director's Report
Nebraska Groundwater Foundation
Report on Irrigation Tour
Meeting of Nebraska Water Conference Council
Meeting of University-Wide Forum on Water Policy
New Book on Water Law
Research Review: Interpretation of Vegetation Encroachment and Flow Relationships in the Platte River by Use of Remote Sensing Techniques

Viewpoint: Forage And Range Research Needs In The Central Great Plains, Kenneth P. Vogel, H. J. Gorz, Francis A. Haskins

Department of Agronomy and Horticulture: Faculty Publications

In the central Great Plains, pastures and rangelands often are not economically competitive with grain crops. This has led to increases in acreages of row crops at the expense of rangelands, pastures, and hay crops on marginal lands resulting in severe erosion problems. The productivity of forages, pastures, and rangelands needs to be increased to levels that would make them economically competitive with grain crops. Innovative research will be needed to develop the required knowledge and technology upon which productivity increases can be based. Pastures and rangelands in this area are usually components of production systems which may also include …

Pawnee Geography Historical And Sacred, Waldo R. Wedel, Douglas R. Parks

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The earth is a fundamental religious symbol for American Indian peoples. Among horticultural and hunting tribes alike, Mother Earth is the female principle, the expression of fertility and creator of life, begetting vegetation, animals, and humans. In this elemental role she often appears conspicuously in religious rituals. For many American Indian peoples, specific geographical features on the earth also figured prominently in tribal conceptions of the sacral world. The Pawnee Indians, who formerly lived in east central Nebraska, provide an instructive example of a people who had an elaborate and unique set of beliefs about such landmarks and who incorporated …

Title And Contents- Summer 1985

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

SUMMER 1985 VOL. 5 NO.3

CONTENTS

PAWNEE GEOGRAPHY: HISTORICAL AND SACRED Douglas R. Parks and Waldo R. Wedel

MAPPING KANSAS AND NEBRASKA: THE ROLE OF THE GENERAL LAND OFFICE Ronald E. Grim

BOOK REVIEWS

Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1852

Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux

A Guide to American Indian Resource Materials in Great Plains Repositories

NOTES & NEWS

PUBLISHED BY THE CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIES

Mapping Kansas And Nebraska The Role Of The General Land Office, Ronald E. Grim

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The rectangular alignment of fields, farmsteads, and roads is one of the most striking characteristics of the settlement pattern of the Great Plains. As most students of this region's cultural landscape are aware, the dominant factor in the formation of this regular, geometric pattern was the federal government's rectangular survey system. The basic features of this survey system (base lines, principal meridians, 36-square-mile townships, sections, and quarter sections) have been outlined in introductory geography and cartography textbooks, while historical and cultural geographers have examined the system's effect on the landscape.¹ In addition, much has been written about the land …

A Widening Horizon Catholic Sisterhoods On The Northern Plains, 1874-1910, Susan C. Peterson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Catholic sisterhoods have been part of American life since the colonial period, first as operators of charitable institutions to aid the needy and then, in the nineteenth century, as teachers of both immigrant children in the East and Indian children at mission schools on reservations in the West. Conventional historical studies have either slighted or ignored their contributions to the settlement of the northern plains, and recent articles on Catholic missions in history journals do little better. In both secular and church histories, Catholic sisters are traditionally pictured as silent representatives of female purity or as extensions of the church …

Title And Contents- Spring 1985

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

SPRING 1985 VOL. 5 NO.2

CONTENTS

WOMEN ON THE PLAINS: AN INTRODUCTION Frances W. Kaye

WOMEN ON THE GREAT PLAINS: RECENT DEVELOPMENTS IN RESEARCH Glenda Riley

WESTERN WOMEN AND TRUE WOMANHOOD: CULTURE AND SYMBOL IN HISTORY AND LITERATURE June O. Underwood

HAVING A PURPOSE IN LIFE: WESTERN WOMEN TEACHERS IN THE TWENTIETH CENTURY Courtney Ann Vaughn-Roberson

A WIDENING HORIZON: CATHOLIC SISTERHOODS ON THE NORTHERN PLAINS, 1874-1910 Susan C. Peterson

BOOK REVIEWS

Historians and the American West

A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo, 1755-1870

Prairie Wildflowers: An illustrated manual of species suitable for cultivation and grassland restoration

The …