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Book Review: One Soldier's Story: A Memoir, Burdett A. Lewis
Book Review: One Soldier's Story: A Memoir, Burdett A. Lewis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Bob Dole's story is a familiar one, by dint of his long political career and three attempts to win the presidency. The Depression-era Kansas boy grows up in the Heartland and heads to the state university to pursue sports, academics, and ultimately a medical career. Drafted into the army, he's grievously wounded in the waning days of World War Two. After a remarkable and agonizing recovery, he enters politics and climbs the ladder to lead the Senate and come within a hairbreadth of the Oval Office.
Book Review: A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism And The Battle For Justice And Equality, 1854-1903, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Book Review: A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism And The Battle For Justice And Equality, 1854-1903, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Across the landscape of modern American politics, the "Populist moment," as Lawrence Goodwyn's 1976 study labeled it, has fascinated scholars. Indeed, late nineteenth-century Populism posed a vocal and effectual political voice for Gilded Age America's discontented. Since his original 1969 study, Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men, O. Gene Clanton has meticulously examined the fundamental role of Kansa, Populists in shaping local and national politics. A Common Humanity, with great efficacy, revisits and reinterprets Kansas's Populism as a fight for fundamental working-class rights and agrarian values, amidst industrialization gone awry.
Book Review: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl, Pamel Riney-Kehrberg
Book Review: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl, Pamel Riney-Kehrberg
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Egan's The Worst Hard Time is a literary and journalistic treatment of the Dust Bowl's impact on the southern Great Plains. He follows the history of the region from the agricultural development of the early twentieth century through the events of the 1930s, focusing on the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Book Review: Horizons West: Directing The Western From John Ford To Clint Eastwood, Joanna Hearne
Book Review: Horizons West: Directing The Western From John Ford To Clint Eastwood, Joanna Hearne
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
First published in 1969, Horizons West was one of the early structuralist treatments of a Hollywood genre and a pivotal text in American writing on the Western. Borrowing from anthropological studies of myth, Kitses outlined a series of binary oppositions between the individual and the community, nature and culture, the West and the East, and wedded this thematic outline to a stylistic exploration of three directors: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, and Sam Peckinpah. The book signaled serious academic consideration of Westerns not only as a legitimate art form but also as a complex and meaningful expression of American cultural history. …
Book Review: At Home On This Moveable Earth, David R. Pichaske
Book Review: At Home On This Moveable Earth, David R. Pichaske
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In this third of a projected four-book memoir, William Kloefkorn examines his late high school and early college years, a time of physical growth and intellectual exploration, of redefining relationships with parents and community, and of laying the foundation for his career as a teacher, scholar, and Nebraska State Poet. Adolescence is the time for what Robert Bly aptly calls "the road of ashes," a period of metaphorical "basement work in the kitchen" (Iron John: A Book About Men). Kloefkorn's reminiscences focus on basement and earth and tedious physical exertion: excavating a foundation for the Zenda Co-op Grain …
Great Plains Quarterly Spring 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly Spring 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Great Plains Quarterly Spring 2006 Editorial Manner, Table of Contents, and Book Notes.
Book Review: True Women And Westward Expansion, Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.
Book Review: True Women And Westward Expansion, Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
With True Women and Westward Expansion, Adrienne Caughfield examines the contributions that Texas women made to the meanings and achievement of U.S. expansion between 1820 and 1860. She argues that they did so in two ways. First, they embraced nineteenth-century ideas of feminine domesticity with which they sought to civilize the wilderness. Second, a select few like Jane McManus Storm Cazeneau, Mary Austin Holley, and Lucy Holcombe Pickens supported expansion with their public writings. ''At its heart," Caughfield explains, "expansionist philosophy closely paralleled domesticity so that adherents to the latter tended to accept the former. The true woman, then, …
Book Review: Travelling Knowledges: Positioning The Immigrant Reader Of Aboriginal Literatures In Canada, Rob Appleford
Book Review: Travelling Knowledges: Positioning The Immigrant Reader Of Aboriginal Literatures In Canada, Rob Appleford
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Canadian Aboriginal writing has blossomed in the past two decades and made a major contribution to the cultural life of both Aboriginal peoples and the general public. Given this wealth, it becomes necessary for the non-Aboriginal literary critic to develop sensitive models for approaching this creative and critical work, both in the classroom and in academic research. The question becomes: how can a non-Aboriginal critic use her "outsider" status in an enabling way when teaching and studying this culturally-specific material? In Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the 1m/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada, Renate Eigenbrod has attempted to use her …
Great Plains Quarterly Winter 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly Winter 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Great Plains Quarterly Winter 2006 Editorial Matter, Table of Contents, and Book Notes.
Book Review: Indian Country: Essays On Contemporary Native Culture, William Asikinack
Book Review: Indian Country: Essays On Contemporary Native Culture, William Asikinack
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In examining this volume, I came to realize very quickly that Valaskakis is following the style of a traditional North American Indigenous person whom we are meeting for the first time. By way of introduction, she speaks about her family and family life, in a narrative style, in chapter 1. She finishes the book by going full circle and returning to how we are "all related."
Book Review: Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux And The Canadian-American Borderlands, James T. Carroll
Book Review: Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux And The Canadian-American Borderlands, James T. Carroll
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The history of the Sioux people of the Northern Plains is complicated by the artificial boundary line between the United States and Canada. This division has prevented a complete and thorough treatment of Sioux history since most scholars focus on either the American or Canadian portions of the saga. David McCrady's Living with Strangers, however, fills this gap for the nineteenth-century portion of Sioux history. McCrady defines and develops a theory of borderlands and adroitly applies his ideas to the Sioux who ignored diplomatic boundaries and benefited from multiple illicit crossings. Native peoples were pragmatic, self-serving, and clever in manipulating …
Book Review: Western Traditions: Contemporary Artists Of The American West, Reece Summers
Book Review: Western Traditions: Contemporary Artists Of The American West, Reece Summers
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
American western art is experiencing an astonishing resurgence in quantity and popularity. The Los Angeles Times recently reported that "Americans are buying Western art (pictures and sculptures of cowboys, Indians, ranch animals and the landscapes that sustain them) at a startling rate, paying prices that stretch into six and seven figures." Modern-day critics of traditional western art are not as enthusiastic, pointing to its male-centered tradition celebrating violence and overlooking the devastation of indigenous cultures and the environment caused by European settlement.
Book Review: Washita: The U.S. Army And The Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869, Bill Corbett
Book Review: Washita: The U.S. Army And The Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869, Bill Corbett
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
At dawn on November 27, 1868, Lt. Col. George A. Custer led troopers of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in an attack on the village of Black Kettle, a Southern Cheyenne peace chief. Custer's men thundered across the frozen, snow encrusted bottom land of the Washita River in what is now Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, surprising and defeating the Cheyennes. In this book the author describes the circumstances that led to this pivotal event and its consequences.
In The Footsteps Of The Third Spanish Expedition: James Mackay And John T. Evans' Impact On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Kevin C. Witte
In The Footsteps Of The Third Spanish Expedition: James Mackay And John T. Evans' Impact On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Kevin C. Witte
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The odyssey that was the Lewis and Clark Expedition continues to capture the hearts of those who love tales of adventure and unknown lands. In light of the current bicentennial celebration that began in 2003 and will continue through 2006, the popularity and aggrandizement of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery has never been greater. Clearly, none can deny that they were essential to expanding the geographical horizons of a fledgling nation coming to grips with the rich resources that the vast expanse of the Louisiana Territory would offer. However, lost in the glorification of these intrepid …
Book Review: Imagining The African American West, Jere W. Roberson
Book Review: Imagining The African American West, Jere W. Roberson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Blake Allmendinger invites us into an old/new West that is not a place on a map, but rather a place in the psyche-always imagined, out there, over there, someplace, not here. He challenges us to cease thinking of the West only in geographic terms and to envision it as an image, this time with black figures in it and writing about it.
Book Review: The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets, Judith Sornberger
Book Review: The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets, Judith Sornberger
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Kooser's Poetry Home Repair Manual goes a long way toward aiding poets in finding ways to reflect that "order beyond" with lots of practical advice from someone they will find delightful to hang out with.
Book Review: Alberta Premiers Of The Twentieth Century, Rod Macleod
Book Review: Alberta Premiers Of The Twentieth Century, Rod Macleod
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Province of Alberta has had an even dozen premiers in the century since its creation in 1905. The body of historical and biographical writing on the political history of the province is uneven, to put it mildly. Only five of the province's political leaders have been the subject of biographies. Curiously, the current premier, Ralph Klein, has the most (three), while Ernest Manning, arguably the most important Alberta political figure of the century, has none. Five premiers have not so much as an article or chapter published on them. This collection thus fills a large gap and, on the …
Book Review: The Captured: A True Story Of Abduction By Indians On The Texas Frontier, Gary L. Ebersole
Book Review: The Captured: A True Story Of Abduction By Indians On The Texas Frontier, Gary L. Ebersole
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is a well-researched and well-written study of a handful of Indian captivities on the Texas frontier in the 1870s. Its author was motivated by the desire to know more about the life of Adolph Korn (1859-1895), his distant relative, who was captured at the age of ten by Comanche Indians. The Indian captivity tale has been a staple of the literature of the Americas since the publication of Mary Rowlandson's account from Puritan New England in 1682. Hundreds of accounts - factual, fictional, and fictionalized - have told the tale of the innocent abducted and carried off to the …
Book Review: Horizons West: Directing The Western From John Ford To Clint Eastwood, Joanna Hearne
Book Review: Horizons West: Directing The Western From John Ford To Clint Eastwood, Joanna Hearne
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The new edition is a useful overview of six major directors, a densely descriptive homage to the genre, and a touchstone in the history of film genre criticism. Critics familiar with the 1969 edition will appreciate the way Kitses has updated and elaborated on his initial premises. Readers new to Western genre criticism should see the work as an important strand in a broad range of critical discourses that now includes, among others, studies of gender in Westerns by Lee Clark Mitchell and Jane Tompkins, materialist, industry-based analyses by Peter Stanfield, Peter Lehman's extensive readings and re-readings of John Ford's …
Book Review: Powwow, Clifford E. Trafzer
Book Review: Powwow, Clifford E. Trafzer
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Powwow invites readers into the dancing circle where a cornucopia of information, analysis, and interpretation vibrates, telling us about the popular intertribal celebration. The topic of American Indian powwows creates strong emotions and colorful stories, and the editors invite several authors into the "dance arena" of this book to share their research and experiences. As a result, readers will hear the drum, see traditional and fancy dancers, smell the sizzling fry bread, and feel the spirit that is the American Indian powwow. The editors point out that powwows vary in size from the larger Red Earth gathering on the Great …
Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, Andrew C. Isenberg
Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, Andrew C. Isenberg
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The latest of the local encyclopedias is the University of Nebraska Press's Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. This work was long in the making: the idea for the encyclopedia emerged out of the University of Nebraska's Center for Great Plains Studies in the late 1980s.
Somewhere along the way, the editors of the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains decided to organize the entries not alphabetically but thematically. This thematic organization has its virtues, especially for readers interested in particular subjects. As editor David Wishart explains, the thematic chapters provide "an interpretive function which is lacking in purely alphabetical works." Yet …
Book Review: Encyclopedia Of The Lewis And Clark Expeditions, Stephen S. Witte
Book Review: Encyclopedia Of The Lewis And Clark Expeditions, Stephen S. Witte
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In their preface, the authors hope "that this book will prove a valuable resource to students of the Lewis and Clark Expedition." Regrettably, numerous errors and contradictions drastically reduce its value.
Book Review: The Oregon Trail: An American Saga, Howard Jablon
Book Review: The Oregon Trail: An American Saga, Howard Jablon
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
David Dary's The Oregon Trail is a pleasant excursion on a well-traveled road. His hook is not a trail-blazing work of the stature of such classics as Francis Parkman's The California and Oregon Trail (1849) and Bernard De Voto's The Year of Decision, 1846 (1943), nor is it as erudite as John D. Unruh's The Plains Across (1979) nor as encyclopedic as Merrill J. Matte's Platte River Road Narratives (1988); however, it remains a useful introduction to the subject.
Book Review: Childhood On The Farm: Work, Play, And Coming Of Age In The Midwest, Elizabeth Hampsten
Book Review: Childhood On The Farm: Work, Play, And Coming Of Age In The Midwest, Elizabeth Hampsten
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
By "Midwest," Pamela Riney-Kehrberg means the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and the eastern half of Nebraska and Kansas, and by child, "any dependent son or daughter, generally twenty-one or younger, regardless of physical maturity, who remained subject to his or her parents' authority on the farm and in the home." She explains having "chosen 1870 as my starting date" to avoid the Civil War, and "1920 as an ending date because of upheavals occurring in the years that followed" (the automobile, radio, economic depression).
Natural Areas, Regions, And Two Centuries Of Environmental Change On The Great Plains, David J. Wishart
Natural Areas, Regions, And Two Centuries Of Environmental Change On The Great Plains, David J. Wishart
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
A careful reading of recent issues of the Natural Areas Journal, the publication of the Natural Areas Association, will leave you with the conclusion that humans are not a part of natural areas. When humans do appear, it is either as disturbing agents, disrupting the naturalness through, for example, the introduction of exotic plants and animals, or as managers, enhancing the naturalness through, for example, prescribed burning. This is an explicit and purposeful exclusion: "We can probably all agree," wrote the editor of the journal in 2004, "that 'natural' places are areas where human actions have minimally changed the …
Book Review: Finding Sand Creek: History, Archeology, And The 1864 Massacre Site, Lincoln Faller
Book Review: Finding Sand Creek: History, Archeology, And The 1864 Massacre Site, Lincoln Faller
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Metal detritus of war and an old map, recently discovered in Chicago helped an interdisciplinary team of historians, archeologists, geomorphologists, ethnographers, remote imagers, and descendants of the victims of the Sand Creek Massacre to find the exact site where that atrocity was enacted; so this book reports,
Book Review: Black Earth And Ivory Tower: New American Essays From Farm And Classroom, Doug Werden
Book Review: Black Earth And Ivory Tower: New American Essays From Farm And Classroom, Doug Werden
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
What does agriculture have to do with the humanities? The integration of these seemingly antithetical worlds is essential for these agriculture-rooted authors who articulate their connection to rural life and labor they have maintained despite performing academic work. While several of the authors present their childhood experiences, they avoid nostalgia by exploring the forces that have made them return to the farm in their lives and research. There is a valorization of agricultural values coupled with the paradoxical recognition that the life of labor-intensive family farms is waning, the very trend that propelled many of these writers into off-farm careers. …
Book Review: Manifest And Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions Of The Nineteenth-Century United States, Bethany Schneider
Book Review: Manifest And Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions Of The Nineteenth-Century United States, Bethany Schneider
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Stephanie LeMenager's Manifest and Other Destinies is a beautifully researched, elegantly written, authoritative and long-needed reexamination of the fictions that girded American expansion. It is also a model of inventive and interventative scholarship. Across three sections, entitled "Desert," "Ocean," and "River," LeMenager's revelatory readings of Cooper, Melville, Irving, Twain, and dozens of other nineteenth-century novelists, journalists, memoirists, and political commentators explore representations of environments that actively resisted or transformed white agrarian settlement. This is a literary history of the nineteenth-century United States that radically rewrites received understandings of the force and direction of expansionist ideologies across the century.
Book Review: Learning To Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience And American Indian Literature, Bruce E. Johansen
Book Review: Learning To Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience And American Indian Literature, Bruce E. Johansen
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In a twist on assimilation, many boarding-school students used the English language, a primary tool of colonization, to "talk back" to the system. As surely as the boarding-schools' inventors understood that language is the vessel of culture, none of them gave much thought to the ways in which Native Americans would use English to critique the schools into which many of them had been unwillingly enrolled.
Their writings, examined by Amelia Katanski, indicate that the boarding-school students were unwilling to surrender as victims. Learning English describes how Native American students in boarding schools often forged new identities, taking a degree …
Book Review: Where Custer Fell: Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield Then And Now, Herman J. Viola
Book Review: Where Custer Fell: Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield Then And Now, Herman J. Viola
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the famed U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by the flamboyant George Armstrong Custer attacked a large Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. By day's end, Custer and more than two hundred of his men lay dead. More than a century later, the battle still remains a subject of controversy, debate, and fascination.