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Review Of Land In Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders In North Dakota And Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940, Evelyn Funda Jan 1993

Review Of Land In Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders In North Dakota And Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940, Evelyn Funda

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Much of the work studying women's role in the American West has served to establish the significance and celebrate the contributions of women to Western American history. Lindgren's book is such a work. Strikingly handsome, it portrays the lives of homesteading women in North Dakota from 1870 to about 1915 by providing excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and from personal interviews with homesteading women and their families, as well as a wealth of photographs and comparative statistics from land records. Lindgren's goals are to dispute the stereotypes of women pioneers and to argue that "women must be recognized as main characters …

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Review Of Roadside Geology Of Texas, David B. Loope Jan 1993

Review Of Roadside Geology Of Texas, David B. Loope

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The 74,000 miles of paved roads in Texas cross landscapes and geologic structure of tremendous variety. With its abundant photographs and interpretive sketches, this book gives the traveler an excellent opportunity to understand and appreciate both the grand and the more subtle features visible along the Texas highways. Texas is considerably more geologically diverse than the other plains states, and this is not just a simple function of its greater size. Many of North American's greatest geologic sites are there: Llano (granite), Terlingua (volcanics), Marathon (fold and thrust belt), Glass Mountains {invertebrate fossils}, and Paluxy River (dinosaur tracks). Why so …

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Review Of Wyoming Biographies, Susan H. Swetnam Jan 1993

Review Of Wyoming Biographies, Susan H. Swetnam

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Wyoming Biographies is a biographical dictionary (with a chatty introduction chronicling the settlement of Wyoming) that compiles in alphabetical order life sketches of approximately 265 pioneer citizens. Lawrence M. Woods has collated information from a variety of sources, drawing on contemporary subscription biographies, on more recently written histories, on biographies and memoirs of individuals, on reference works, and on miscellaneous materials (personal conversations and letters, materials in the Wyoming Historical Society collection, etc.). The content of entries varies, but most list the subject's date and place of birth, date of migration to Wyoming, occupation, and government offices.

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2 Jan 1993

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of The Range, Don Gayton Jan 1993

Review Of The Range, Don Gayton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Range" is one of those consciously undefined words in our language. Rather than generating a single image, it produces many, from cowboys to science to art. Rancher/writer Sherm Ewing has put together a book that reinforces the complexity of range as a concept, as a field for economic activity, and as a subject of scientific inquiry.

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Review Of Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography. 3 Vols, David J. Wishart Jan 1993

Review Of Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography. 3 Vols, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

There are almost 4500 entries in this Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography. Candidates were chosen by the editor for the "significance of their deeds" and for the intrinsic "interest" of their role in the frontier process (vii). They are mostly men, mainly Euro-American but also Native American, though clearly some effort has been made to include frontier women. Among them are explorers, scientists, outlaws, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers. T wentiethcentury frontier historians like Athearn and Billington are also included, as long as they, like all the other featured people, are deceased. Strangely, prospectors are excluded on the implausible grounds that …

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Review Of New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900, Willliam M. King Jan 1993

Review Of New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900, Willliam M. King

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

I began this book with the hope that I would learn more about the black military experience in New Mexico. Unfortunately, I did not. Perhaps had I read the bibliographic essay first, I would not have been as disappointed as I was upon concluding Mr. Billington's work. For in that essay he says: "Sources other than the official military records do not exist or are almost impossible to track down. The diaries, memoirs, and personal letters that help fill out the story of the white soldiers are essentially nonexistent for blacks. Few of the remaining entries in this bibliographical essay …

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Notes And News For Vol.13 No.1 Jan 1993

Notes And News For Vol.13 No.1

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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The "Liquid Gold" Rush: Groundwater Irrigation And Law In Nebraska, 1900~93, Sam S. Kepfield Jan 1993

The "Liquid Gold" Rush: Groundwater Irrigation And Law In Nebraska, 1900~93, Sam S. Kepfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Water is power. Water is strength. Water is health. In the Rocky Mountains, it is the most valuable of all assets. Nothing else compares with it, nothing else can compare with it. With it, we can produce trees and forests. With it we can make fertile fields on the desert plains, and make the unsightly and uninviting plateau attractive for agriculture and home-building.1

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Susan Laflesche Picotte.Md.: Nineteenth-Century Physician And Reformer, Valerie Sherer Mathes Jan 1993

Susan Laflesche Picotte.Md.: Nineteenth-Century Physician And Reformer, Valerie Sherer Mathes

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

She was laid to rest beside her husband on a fall Sunday in a small Nebraska town. Three clergymen performed the simple service, the pastor of the Walthill Presbyterian Church, the pastor of the Blackbird Hills Mission, and a member of the Presbyterian Home Missions Board. The closing prayer was given by an Omaha tribal elder. That afternoon a moving graveside service was performed by members of the Amethyst Chapter of the Eastern Star. This diverse assemblage, paying their last respects on 19 September 1915 at the family home and at the Bancroft Cemetery, represented only one facet of the …

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Review Of A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company And Two Centuries Of Mapping, 1670- 1870., Paul Hackett Jan 1993

Review Of A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company And Two Centuries Of Mapping, 1670- 1870., Paul Hackett

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In recent years scholars have sought out the records of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as excellent primary sources for Canadian historical research. The vast majority of this attention has been focused on the company's immense body of written documents, the product of its fur trading activities. In addition to its role in the fur trade, however, the HBC also made a critical contribution to the exploration and mapping of much of Canada prior to 1870 and has left an impressive cartographic legacy. Until now the full value of this aspect of the HBC's activities has been largely overlooked. With …

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Review Of The Dispossession Of The American Indian, 1887- 1934., Thomas E. Ross Jan 1993

Review Of The Dispossession Of The American Indian, 1887- 1934., Thomas E. Ross

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Understanding the significance of the General Allotment Act of 1887 (Dawes Act) is central to any rational analysis of the present condition of the American Indian population. McDonnell has, in The Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887-1934, given us an excellent primer on the reasoning for the establishment of the Dawes Act and how it has affected the lives of the peoples it was designed to help. Although more than 20 percent of this little book is devoted to notes and bibliography, it is a valuable contribution to American Indian literature and a timely addition to the quincentenary debate.

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Review Of Prairyerth (A Deep Map)., Joseph J. Wydeven Jan 1993

Review Of Prairyerth (A Deep Map)., Joseph J. Wydeven

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is a splendid book, ambitiously and selfconsciously American, at once contemporary and a throwback to the American Renaissance, calling up Thoreau's travels in Concord and inquiries into nature, as well as hints of Melville's metaphysical grapplings. Whereas in his first book, Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon moved up across American landscapes, here in Prairy Erth he stays put: in Chase County, Kansas, close to the center of America, he sinks down his probes, immerses himself in reports and archives, and holds discourse with all manner of persons, animals, plants, and things.

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Review Of Aboriginal Water Rights In Canada: A Study Of Aboriginal Title To Water And Indian Rights, Theron Josephson Jan 1993

Review Of Aboriginal Water Rights In Canada: A Study Of Aboriginal Title To Water And Indian Rights, Theron Josephson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This study is one of a series sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Natural Resource Law. Written by Richard Bartlett of the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, it is first and foremost a discourse on the current legal status of water rights of Canada's aboriginal peoples.

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An American Heart Of Darkness: The 1913 Expedition For American Indian Citizenship, Russel Lawrence Barsh Jan 1993

An American Heart Of Darkness: The 1913 Expedition For American Indian Citizenship, Russel Lawrence Barsh

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In his pungent essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Chinua Achebe explores Europeans' literary use of African stereotypes to work out their own psycho-social dilemmas.1 The journey into Africa was in reality a journey inside the confused souls of explorers and missionaries who sometimes found salvation there but never saw, heard, or found the Africans. The Africans they imagined were only a dark reflection of themselves.

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Notes And News For Vol.13 No.4 Jan 1993

Notes And News For Vol.13 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past., Marguerite Helmers Jan 1993

Review Of Under An Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past., Marguerite Helmers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The influence of Frederick Jackson Turner's conception of the Western frontier can be measured by the efforts taken to refute him. The contributors to this volume have found him an imposing figure to contend with. As a result, Turner hovers behind almost every page and footnote. In their introduction, however, editors Cronon, Miles, and Gitlin argue that there is a need to set Turner aside in favor of a Western history that is based on a "community focus" rather than the achievements of individual men. Following this approach, essays by Gitlin, John Mack Faragher, Sarah Deutsch, Katherine Morrissey, and Cronon …

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Review Of Wounded Knee Lest We Forget And Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account., John R. Wunder Jan 1993

Review Of Wounded Knee Lest We Forget And Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account., John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The meandering Wounded Knee Creek wanders timelessly through south central South Dakota on the Pine Ridge Reservation. Yet time seemed to stop at least twice on its banks, once at the massacre of several hundred Sioux in Big Foot's band by the Seventh Cavalry in late December 1890 and nearly a century later during the forcible takeover of the settlement of Wounded Knee by the American Indian Movement in late February 1973. Today these events are known as Wounded Knee I and Wounded Knee II.

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The United States Army As A Constabulary On The Northern Plains, Larry D. Ball Jan 1993

The United States Army As A Constabulary On The Northern Plains, Larry D. Ball

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With the formation of the United States military establishment in the late eighteenth century, the new army undertook many services in the developing republic, including several associated with the frontier movement. While the army considered the suppression of hostile Indians its primary mission in the West, its soldiers routinely supported civilian law enforcement authorities. After the Civil War, white criminals accompanied other American frontiersmen onto the northern Plains, where white desperadoes soon posed a serious problem. In the late 1870s they descended upon the Black Hills mining camps and looted stagecoaches in alarming numbers; brazenly robbed Union Pacific trains and …

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Index To Vol.13 No.4 Jan 1993

Index To Vol.13 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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The North Dakota Anit-Garb Law: Constitutional Conflictand Religious Strife, Linda Grathwohl Jan 1993

The North Dakota Anit-Garb Law: Constitutional Conflictand Religious Strife, Linda Grathwohl

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In a little known but apparently not uncommon practice in twentieth-century American education, public school systems across the nation, lacking teachers or money, employed Catholic nuns as teachers. Those opposed to employing sisters as teachers challenged their right to wear their habit, or religious garb, while teaching in a public school. 1 This paper provides the constitutional and religious background to this legal controversy and explores the issues in depth through a case study of sisters teaching in the state of North Dakota from the 1930s to the early 1960s.

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How Far West Am I?: The Almanac As An Explorer's Yardstick, Arlen J. Large Jan 1993

How Far West Am I?: The Almanac As An Explorer's Yardstick, Arlen J. Large

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 14 September 1494, three ships from Spain lay anchored at the southeastern tip of Hispaniola. Their admiral, Christopher Columbus, looked up at a full moon expecting something to happen, and it did.

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1993 Vol. 13 No. 4 Jan 1993

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1993 Vol. 13 No. 4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of John Rollin Ridge: His Life & Works, Kevin Mullroy Jan 1993

Review Of John Rollin Ridge: His Life & Works, Kevin Mullroy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

James Parins has produced the first booklength study of John Rollin Ridge, the mixedblood Cherokee writer and California newspaper editor. Ridge (1827 -67) packed a great deal into his relatively short life and certainly deserves a biography. He grew up during the violent years of Cherokee removal and postremoval factionalism; when only twelve, he saw his father assassinated; he later killed an enemy and fled to California to become a forty-niner; and he became well-known as a poet, editor, and political commentator. Ridge is best remembered as the author of The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California …

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Review Of Victorian West: Class And Culture In Kansas Cattle Towns, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1993

Review Of Victorian West: Class And Culture In Kansas Cattle Towns, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Since Robert Haywood retired from the academic administration of Washburn University some years ago, he has become a major historian of the Great Plains region. Although he has been interested chiefly in Kansas history, he has produced books of general interest. His latest, Victorian West: Class and Culture in Kansas Cattle Towns, may also be his best.

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Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom Jan 1993

Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The title of this book is a fine indicator of its essential theme, for this is the story of how the prevailing images of Omaha determined the objectives of city planning. From 1945 to 1973, Omaha's economy changed fundamentally, and this reality eventually changed how local decision- makers perceived their community. These new perceptions finally brought a new orientation in planning for the heart of the city

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Unplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce In A Frontier Town Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century, C. Robert Haywood Jan 1993

Unplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce In A Frontier Town Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century, C. Robert Haywood

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"W elcome to Dodge City, the biggest, wildest, wickedest little city on the continent," was the exuberant greeting given out-of-town visitors to Dodge's Fourth ofJuly celebration in 1883. The assessment projected was a selfcongratulatory one shared and frequently envied by the rest of the United States. Dodge was enjoying the peak of its cattle-town fame and prosperity as the quintessential frontier boom town, unrestrained by convention, the "very embodiment of waywardness and wantonness." Few communities seemed more at odds with the national social values and mores that later generations would label Victorian. As a mecca for free-spending cowboys it was …

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Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925., Susan E. Gray Jan 1993

Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925., Susan E. Gray

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Prevailing Over Time is an exploration of the development of Swedish, Russian Mennonite, and French Canadian farming communities in central Kansas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. McQuillan examines the immigrants' adoption of American social practices and the adjustment of ethnic and nativeborn settlers to farming in an area of unpredictable rainfall.

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Lands, Laws, And Women: Decisions Of The General Land Office, 1881~ 1920 A Preliminary Report, Nancy J. Taniguchi Jan 1993

Lands, Laws, And Women: Decisions Of The General Land Office, 1881~ 1920 A Preliminary Report, Nancy J. Taniguchi

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"S ettlement" of the West-by common understanding-has meant the taking up of the public domain, especially homesteads and preemptions, under federal law. Obviously, "settlement" in this sense has little to do with actual occupation, or the property rights of Native Americans and long-resident Hispanics would not have been so long ignored. The specific process of settling involved three steps: filing a claim, proving up and/or making payment, and obtaining title or ownership. Each of these steps had its pitfalls, which, when they occurred, were usually resolved by the General Land Office (GLO), a division of the Department of the Interior …

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Exploring The Great Plains: An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton Jan 1993

Exploring The Great Plains: An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The essays presented in this issue of the Great Plains Quarterly were originally delivered at the sixteenth annual symposium of the Center for Great Plains Studies, at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, in April 1992, under the title, "American Encounters: Exploring the Great Plains." Other essays from the conference will appear in future issues of the Quarterly and in Great Plains Research.

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