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Review Of Natural History Of The Black Hills And Badlands, Dan Flores
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 …
Review Of Dreams In Dry Places, Dale L. Gibbs
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
Review Of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways Of A Lakota, Lee Irwin
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 …
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
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 …
Review Of Texans In Revolt: The Battle For San Antonio, 1835, Charles Kenner
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.
Review Of Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States 1775 To The Present, Robert M. Kitson
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 …
Review Of Historical Atlas Of The American West, Frederick C. Luebke
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.
Review Of Astoria & Empire, I.S. Maclaren
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 …
Review Of Gennans In The New World: Essays In The History Of Immigration, Jorg Nagler
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 …
Review Of American Indian Archery, Mark J. Swetland
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 …
Review Of Manuel Alvarez, 1794-1856: A Southwestern Biography, Ralph H. Vigil
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
Review Of Lone Stars: A Legacy Of Texas Quilts, 1936-1986 And Nem-Aska Quilts And Quiltmakers, Lynn White
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.
Battered Pioneers: Jules Sandoz And The Physical Abuse Of Wives On The American Frontier, Betsy Downey
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 …
When East Meets West: The Passions Of Landscape And Culture In Gretel Ehrlich's Heart Mountain, Gregory L. Morris
When East Meets West: The Passions Of Landscape And Culture In Gretel Ehrlich's Heart Mountain, Gregory L. Morris
Great Plains Quarterly
Gretel Ehrlich is a writer who has taken for the subject of her art-and who has taken for her home-the Big Hom Basin of northern Wyoming. That particular extension of plains landscape, stretched between the Big Horn Mountains to the east (a sort of geological intrusion upon an otherwise Great Plains terrain) and the Absarokas to the west, has provided both an intensely personal and a brilliantly imaginative source of inspiration for Ehrlich's fiction and non-fiction. What on one hand has been a distinctly restorative (and even erotic) landscape for Ehrlich also has proven to be a potently politicized landscape.
Review Of American Indian Resource Materials In The Western History Collections, University Of Oklahoma, Anne Carmen
Review Of American Indian Resource Materials In The Western History Collections, University Of Oklahoma, Anne Carmen
Great Plains Quarterly
The American Indian Resource Materials amount to about twenty percent of the Western History Collection at the University of Oklahoma. Among these materials are unpublished manuscripts, photographs, interviews, and sound recordings that cover a historical period from the early 1800s to 1980.
Review Of The Enduring Indians Of Kansas: A Century And A Half Of Acculturation, James A. Clifton
Review Of The Enduring Indians Of Kansas: A Century And A Half Of Acculturation, James A. Clifton
Great Plains Quarterly
In a region as well mapped and paved as Kansas Indian studies, anyone promising better roads to improved understanding faces large obstacles. The author pledges himself to a "true picture" of certain Kansas Indians as "multidimensional human beings," one that shows how they "strategically utilized their syncretic cultures in order to survive in a hostile Kansas." If not obvious, the latter statement is conceptual garbage, while the story he tells is everything but multidimensional. On the contrary, what this author does is to impose on the historical record his own version of the currently popular, orthodox Indian Story: his "enduring …
Review Of To The Horizon And Beyond, Micheal J. Grant
Review Of To The Horizon And Beyond, Micheal J. Grant
Great Plains Quarterly
To the Horizon and Beyond is a collection of reminiscences of former student ministers of the United Church of Canada who spent summer internships in Golden Prairie, Saskatchewan, between 1929 and 1975. Personal accounts relate how the student ministers, who were mainly from central and eastern Canada, dealt with local religious and social responsibilities. The students also give their impressions of the weather, the land, and the people of the Canadian Great Plains.
Review Of Pipe, Bible, And Peyote Among The Oglala Sioux: A Study In Religious Identity, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith
Review Of Pipe, Bible, And Peyote Among The Oglala Sioux: A Study In Religious Identity, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith
Great Plains Quarterly
Pipe, Bible, and Peyote among the Oglala Sioux is a republication of a 1980 manuscript published in the Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion. Steinmetz, a Jesuit priest, spent twenty years (1961-1981) on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where he served as clergyman and participated, observed, and reflected on the unique constellation of modem Lakota religion. Steinmetz outlines the complexity of different religious identities among the Sioux, to include: the traditional "pure" non-acculturative beliefs and its practitioners, reflected in the American Indian Movement's political emphasis on a return to indigenous practices; "Ecumenist I," designating Lakota Christians who practice both …
Review Of Tomahawk And Cross; Lutheran Missionaries Among The Northern Plains Tribes, 1858-1866, Christopher Pippert
Review Of Tomahawk And Cross; Lutheran Missionaries Among The Northern Plains Tribes, 1858-1866, Christopher Pippert
Great Plains Quarterly
In his most recent work Gerhard Schmutterer recounts the failure of a German-Lutheran mission located between the Yellowstone River and Deer Creek Stations (in present-day Wyoming) between 1858 and 1866. This particular attempt to Christianize the Indians of the American West was a joint venture between Germans and German-Americans of the German- Lutheran church, who wished to maintain the ties between pioneers and their church as well as save the souls of Native Americans. Approximately half the book is appendices that reprint the diary of Jacob Schmidt and the autobiography of Carl Krebs, both members of the mission. The author …
Review Of Native Americans: Five Centuries Of Changing Images., Joseph C. Porter
Review Of Native Americans: Five Centuries Of Changing Images., Joseph C. Porter
Great Plains Quarterly
Native Americans is a lavishly illustrated, attractive "coffee table" book intended for the general reader, and such volumes are significant because they reach wide audiences who frequently learn about complex and important topics from such general works. In Native Americans Trenton and Houlihan essay the imagery of the Native American in European and Euro-American art. They utilize an "integrated" anthropological and art-historical critique" (p. 7), and they use the concept of "cultural areas" to organize their text.
Review Of Bull Threshers And Bindlestiffs: Harvesting And Threshing On The North American Plains And Plains Folk Ii: The Romance Of The Landscape, Leon Satterfield
Review Of Bull Threshers And Bindlestiffs: Harvesting And Threshing On The North American Plains And Plains Folk Ii: The Romance Of The Landscape, Leon Satterfield
Great Plains Quarterly
For thirty years or so, I've wondered how to spell the word that referred to those little metal nipples I used to pump grease into when I was helping my dad grow wheat. It's not in any dictionary I've ever seen, but it is in Thomas Isem's account of the culture surrounding the reaping and threshing of small grains before the advent of the combine.
Review Of Texas: A Modem History, Janet Schmelzer
Review Of Texas: A Modem History, Janet Schmelzer
Great Plains Quarterly
In Texas: A Modem History David G. McComb, professor of history at Colorado State University, wanted to provide the "adult reader" with a "brief, narrative history" that would capture the "ethos," "flavor," and "rhythm" of Texas (p. vii). He has succeeded. In seven short chapters (or 186 pages) he has spanned a myriad of historical subjects from the earliest Indian tribes, the Spanish conquest, the Alamo, and the cattle and oil industries to the present-day social, political, and "economic complexities. At the same time he has woven into his story the humanness of Texans and Texas. Moreover, he has enhanced …
Review Of A Long March: The Lives Of Frank And Alice Baldwin, Carol M. Schneider
Review Of A Long March: The Lives Of Frank And Alice Baldwin, Carol M. Schneider
Great Plains Quarterly
The battles fought by Frank Baldwin on the open plains are not the only conflicts chronicled in A Long March. While Frank was away for long periods of time, his wife, Alice, battled her own feelings of depression, inadequacy, and especially anger at the role of Victorian wife, which she fought against in search of worth and individuality.
Review Of Kansas Governors, Lynwood E. Oyos
Review Of Kansas Governors, Lynwood E. Oyos
Great Plains Quarterly
Kansas Governors began more than a decade ago when Homer Socolofsky provided the information on Kansas governors for the Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States and the Biographical Directory of American Territorial Governors. In the current volume, he brings together a much more complete treatment of both the territorial and state governors of Kansas. A long-time Kansas historian, Socolofsky was well qualified to enter into this project. In addition to examining primary source material within Kansas, he used relevant resources found in the Newberry Library and the Library of Congress.