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Book Review: Calamity Jane: The Woman And The Legend, Herbert T. Hoover
Book Review: Calamity Jane: The Woman And The Legend, Herbert T. Hoover
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No scholar might be better qualified to write a biography of Calamity Jane than James McLaird. During a protracted career as a professor of history at Dakota Wesleyan University, he prepared a grassroots bibliography for South Dakota and published articles about exploration west of the Missouri River while he collected and marketed rare books about the history of the northern Great Plains. He makes the point that had Calamity Jane never existed, substantive themes in either state or regional history would not have been affected but western folklore would have diminished.
Review Essay: The Making Of Margaret Laurence's Epic Voice, David Stouck
Review Essay: The Making Of Margaret Laurence's Epic Voice, David Stouck
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
George Woodcock, international man of letters, once referred to Margaret Laurence as Canada's Tolstoy. To some the comparison seems far-fetched, out of scale, but for others it has substance. Certainly, both writers were from continental plains and were drawn to large events in their country's history; they wrote at length about the relations of the sexes, about injustice and the harsh impact of war, and about the plight of poor people. One could also note they both turned away from writing fiction in midcareer, feeling they had lost the gift, and instead addressed with moral authority the pressing issues of …
Book Review: Myself And Strangers: A Memoir Of Apprenticeship, Mark Busby
Book Review: Myself And Strangers: A Memoir Of Apprenticeship, Mark Busby
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Over the years John Graves, Texas's most noted environmental writer, has lamented time wasted on trying to produce a major work of fiction, a subject that becomes especially clear in Graves's memoir, Myself and Strangers, where he suggests that he should have produced more but was too often distracted.
Book Review: The Cambridge Companion To Willa Cather, Mary R. Ryder
Book Review: The Cambridge Companion To Willa Cather, Mary R. Ryder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In this collection of thirteen essays Lindemann successfully meets her goal of offering recent criticism that recenters Cather as a writer who responded fully to the "changing social and demographic conditions" of her time. The essays indeed encourage reading "against the grain of Cather's escapism" in a range of "interpretative possibilities." Particularly useful are essays exploring little-examined areas of Cather scholarship, including the late Susan Rosowski's study of the comic sense of self in Cather's works and Lisa Marcus's discussion of Cather and the "geography of Jewishness." Rosowski resituates Claude Wheeler's yearning for something splendid in One of Ours within …
Book Review: Blackfoot Ways Of Knowing: The Worldview Of The Siksikaitsitapi, Patricia A. Mccormack
Book Review: Blackfoot Ways Of Knowing: The Worldview Of The Siksikaitsitapi, Patricia A. Mccormack
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Betty Bastien's ambitious goal is no less than the decolonization of Blackfoot ways of knowing as a vehicle to regaining independence, promoting personal and cultural healing, and providing a basis fur a new educational system, It is a "transformational pedagogy" that she has undertaken, employing traditional methods of teaching that involve looking inwardly and using personal experience as a primary source of knowledge. She has worked closely in this project with a small number of elders or "grandparents," men and women who are ceremonial specialists and fluent in the Blackfoot language. Her primary audiences are fellow Siksikaitsitapi - Blackfoot-speakers - …
Book Review: Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, And The Trial That Forged A Nation, Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Book Review: Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, And The Trial That Forged A Nation, Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
A citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations (MHA Nation), Raymond Cross has carried out unparalleled work as an Indian lawyer, a tribal advocate, and an Indian law scholar. Coyote Warrior chronicles Cross's incredible journey from youngest child of a prominent Indian family to American Indian rights crusader, to his two triumphant appearances before the United States Supreme Court, to his lobbying efforts to secure compensation for the lost homelands of his nations. Paul VanDevelder's journalistic style lends much to these tales that appeared before only in the oft-stale pages of the United States Reporter and Congressional hearing transcripts.
Book Review: As For Sinclair Ross, Peter Dickinson
Book Review: As For Sinclair Ross, Peter Dickinson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Long admired by academics and fellow writers for his finely wrought portraits of small-town prairie life in Canada between the wars, and of the restless, complex, desiring souls contained within and by this landscape, Sinclair Ross was an intensely private man who nevertheless craved a wider popular audience for his work. It is thus somewhat ironic that his greatest public notoriety should have come as a result of his posthumous outing by Keath Fraser in As for Me and My Body (1997), a memoir documenting Fraser's twenty-seven-year friendship with the author that was affectionately written but rather salaciously reviewed. Even …
Book Review: America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life And Works, Leroy L. Panek
Book Review: America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life And Works, Leroy L. Panek
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Mignon Eberhart occupies a singular place in the history of American crime fiction. She began writing in 1923, at the beginning of what would become known as the "golden age" of detective fiction. The age was golden both because of the quality of some of the writers who took up and reshaped the form and because publishers discovered that marketing detective stories could make them a lot of money. Eberhart became one of the best-known mystery writers of her times. H. R. F. Keating called her a "star writer" and Gertrude Stein described her as one of the "best mystifiers …
Book Review: God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith And Conflict In The American West, Charles H. Lippy
Book Review: God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith And Conflict In The American West, Charles H. Lippy
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Most studies linking region and religion have looked at New England, because of Puritanism's impact, or the South, because of the "Bible belt" image. A few have examined the Southwest, mostly to analyze Spanish influence in the age of colonial conquest. Kerstetter's work, however, joins an increasing number that focus on how region and religion are intertwined in the West. That alone makes it valuable.
Book Review: Poets Talk: Conversations With Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Moure, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, And Fred Wah, Alison Calder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Reading Poets Talk is like overhearing an interesting conversation in a café: you eat up the discussion, but you also want to jump in and ask your own questions. The poets would be fascinating tablemates: diverse in terms of sexuality and race, they are united by how they understand language's relation to social power structures, and how they challenge the "rules" of language to subvert or expose other, often implicit, social rules. They're also united by what I'll call, not condescendingly, generationality: they're established writers with long personal and political histories. The result is a collection of interviews that are …
Book Review: The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight And Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856, Mark R. Ellis
Book Review: The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight And Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856, Mark R. Ellis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1855, General William S. Harney's Sioux Expedition smashed into Little Thunder's Lakota village along Blue Water Creek (Ash Hollow) in western Nebraska. The attack was in retaliation for the killing of Lt. John Grattan and twenty-nine soldiers near Fort Laramie the year before. When the shooting stopped, at least eighty-six Lakotas, including many women and children, lay dead or dying. The violence at Blue Water Creek was part of what both R. Eli Paul and Paul N. Beck call "The First Sioux War." While Red Cloud's War, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee Massacre are …
Book Review: Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier, Ken Baake
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Locust is a hybrid academic study and popular science mystery that tells of the locust plague that swept out of the Rocky Mountains to eviscerate much of the Great Plains' fledgling agriculture in the late nineteenth century.
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Located at the crossroads of America, Kansas had long experience of interstate migrants. For many decades armies of workers had entered the state to pursue the harvest of a number of crops, or to pick up whatever work was available on their way west in pursuit of a more rewarding life. The U.S. population was highly mobile and migration played an essential role in a vigorously expanding economy. Ailing transients, especially tubercular cases, had as their destination the pure, dry air of the Southwest. To these we can add indeterminate numbers of seasonal workers, ex-veterans, homeless boys, peddlers, beggars, and …
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Photographs by Edward Curtis have been widely reproduced, and Christopher Cardozo's selection is distinctive only because all of the subjects are women. Cardozo's text gives a brief biography of Curtis and is highly laudatory of Curtis's ability to establish relationships with his subjects. The reproduction of the photos is disappointingly muddy, an effect that emphasizes the sense that the photos are of significant age. It does not capture the extraordinary qualities of clarity, depth, and luminosity that characterize Curtis's originals (although perhaps it would be impossible to reproduce those qualities except from Curtis's glass plate negatives).
Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman
Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During World War I a crowd in Lewistown, Montana, removed all German language textbooks from the high school and burned them while forcing the principal to kiss the American flag. Elsewhere in Montana, residents were convicted of sedition for uttering casual remarks about the inefficiencies of wartime food rationing or refusing to buy Liberty Bonds. German-speaking residents of Montana were fined and imprisoned for voicing their pacifism, socialism, or even their skepticism, whether in a beer hall or from the pulpit. With newspapers declaring that there were "but two classes of citizens: patriots and traitors," the state and the nation …
Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander
Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As a biologist, Theodore Sargent has taken a different approach to the life and work of Massachusetts writer Elaine Goodale Eastman. For instance, he admires her childhood poetry published when she was living at Sky Farm in the Berkshires. He likes her "eye for detail and skill with words," although many literary scholars have dismissed her verse as conventional in form and sentimental in content.
Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker
Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the culture of the American West, the term "authenticity" comes close to "frontier" in its ubiquity, resonance, and elusiveness. The fifteen essays in this outstanding collection clarify how authenticity has functioned in cultural and literary settings. Instead of simply distinguishing the "fake" from the "authentic," they explore the nature and consequences of quests for and claims to authenticity. Readers interested in the Great Plains will find rewarding essays on literature, environment, and the uses of American Indian history.
Book Review: In-Between Places, Brewster E. Fitz
Book Review: In-Between Places, Brewster E. Fitz
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The title of this collection of eleven essays comes from Glancy's paraphrase of William Heyen's definition of poetry as "language of things that can't be gotten to. It lives in the in-between places." The title also refers to Glancy's moving in between places on the Great Plains and to her writing as a mixed-blood. Glancy's style is personal, elusive, allusive, parodying, and fragmentary. It's a style that requires patience and an open mind, a style she attributes to "patterns" of the structure of the Cherokee language that remain in her.
Book Review: Barbed Wire: An Ecology Of Modernity, Alan Krell
Book Review: Barbed Wire: An Ecology Of Modernity, Alan Krell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The first years of this century were "barbed" in more ways than one. Three books were published in quick succession on barbed wire: the first by Olivier Razac, then by me, and, most recently, by Reviel Netz. Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity builds on Netz's sagacious essay written for the London Review of Books (July 20, 2000).
Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins
Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is an important book if only for the reason that it will make many reconsider what they think they know about the Cherokees. Their early history, like that of any people, is obscured in the dimness of the past. While some of the early story may be reconstructed through surviving myth and modern theory, much uncertainty clouds origins and early migration patterns. After white contact and the chronicles and accounts of traders, missionaries, and adventurers are written, the veil isn't entirely lifted. Many written records pose more questions than they answer. For example, when the British first came upon …
Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, William Ferris
Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, William Ferris
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
How proud Ellison would be to see his work and that of so many other distinguished artists, writers, and musicians recognized in the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. The Great Plains roots of Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Cornel West, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, and Jay McShann make emphatic the region's importance in African American history and culture. Like their counterparts in the American South, these artists migrated to Chicago and New York where they became leaders in the nation's cultural life.
Book Review: The Red Man's On The Warpath: The Image Of The "Indian" And The Second World War, Robert Alexander Innes
Book Review: The Red Man's On The Warpath: The Image Of The "Indian" And The Second World War, Robert Alexander Innes
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
R. Scott Sheffield's study of the images used by bureaucrats and journalists provides an in-depth examination of Anglo-Canadians' perceptions of First Nations people and how these perceptions affected Indian policies.
German Heritage And Culture In Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club, Thomas Austenfeld
German Heritage And Culture In Louise Erdrich's The Master Butchers Singing Club, Thomas Austenfeld
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Reid's discussion of the formal properties of Erdrich's work helps explain the author's popular appeal. Mewing easily between urban and rural settings, between reservation culture and mainstream culture, Erdrich has been evoking the various sets of social and historical circumstances that define the lives of contemporary Native Americans in the Great Plains. In The Master Butchers Singing Club (2003), Erdrich turns her attention explicitly to her own part-German ancestry and fictionalizes it, thereby bringing a n element of both thematic and autobiographical relevance into prominence.
Book Review: Writing Out Of Place: Regionalism, Women, And American Literary Culture, Kathleen Boardman
Book Review: Writing Out Of Place: Regionalism, Women, And American Literary Culture, Kathleen Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Although it has everything to do with location, nineteenth-century American literary regionalism is nor "about" natural geographic boundaries, according to Judith Fetterley and Marjorie Pryse. That is, issues of vantage point, marginalization, and gender and racial positioning are crucial to this literature, and the lens of feminist standpoint theory brings it sharply into focus. In contrast, the habit of categorizing by setting - Sarah Orne Jewett and the Maine coast or Mary Austin in the California desert - suggests geographic determinism and distracts us from what these writers might have in common: regionalism as "a discourse or a mode elf …
Book Review; The Garden Of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor, Ruth Chambers
Book Review; The Garden Of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor, Ruth Chambers
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Don Kerr's The Garden of Art: Vic Cicansky, Sculptor reviews the career and practice of one of Saskatchewan's must important visual artists. Although paperback and inexpensive, the book includes an illustrated text followed by sixty-four pages of full-color photographs that provide a retrospective of Cicansky's work. The author describes Cicansky's sculptures and his working process and records relevant details of his life.
Book Review: Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story Of George Bent - Caught Between The Worlds Of The Indian And The White Man, Lincoln Faller
Book Review: Halfbreed: The Remarkable True Story Of George Bent - Caught Between The Worlds Of The Indian And The White Man, Lincoln Faller
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the last two decades of his life Bent became a prolific letter-writer as well; more than five hundred of his letters survive in various archives. His chief correspondents were Grinnell, with whom he collaborated in shaping the foundational texts of Cheyenne history and ethnography, and George Hyde, who also worked with Grinnell and supplied him with a great deal of information gleaned from his own far more extensive correspondence with Brent. Bent's letters to Hyde became the basis for Hyde's Life of George Bent: Written from His Letters (essentially completed by 1916, hut not published until 1968), which Halfbreed …
Book Review: Conversations With Texas Writers, Don B. Graham
Book Review: Conversations With Texas Writers, Don B. Graham
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This book contains fifty interviews with "Texas" writers, including one "interview" with a dead writer, the pulp hero Robert E. Howard (author of the Conan books, etc.). It's actually Howard's biographer who's interviewed, which is odd and conveys a significance that's unwarranted. The book is also a bit Austin-centric, as twenty of the authors live in the capital city.
Book Review: Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art, Jim Hoy
Book Review: Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art, Jim Hoy
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Charles M. Russell: The Storyteller's Art, by shedding light on Russell's ability to create narrative in writing, has the added advantage of contributing critical insight into his painting as well.
Book Review: Alien Heart: The Life And Work Of Margaret Laurence, Frances W. Kaye
Book Review: Alien Heart: The Life And Work Of Margaret Laurence, Frances W. Kaye
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The best introduction to Margaret Laurence will always be the writings of Margaret Laurence, especially the five Manawaka books, the three published volumes of her correspondence, and her memoir. But after one has become acquainted with that complex, vulnerable, wise, generous, and conflicted woman/writer, Alien Heart is a good source for recapitulation and further detail. Without blinking at or emphasizing Margaret's drinking and sometimes self-destructive relationships, Powers strongly recalls her kindness, her passion, her idiom, and her "place to stand upon."
Book Review: Standing Bear Is A Person: The True Story Of A Native American's Quest For Justice, Kyle C. Wyatt
Book Review: Standing Bear Is A Person: The True Story Of A Native American's Quest For Justice, Kyle C. Wyatt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Poncas still remember the events surrounding the 1879 verdict that first recognized Constitutionally protected Native rights. Descendants--some only one generation removed from the forced march that preceded the trial--continue to live on the Great Plains and share the stories of the long walk to Indian Territory. Unfortunately, this text docs not attempt to incorporate contemporary Native voices that can enrich such an important historical narrative.