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Review Of The American West In Film: Critical Approaches To The Western, Terry Nygren Jan 1990

Review Of The American West In Film: Critical Approaches To The Western, Terry Nygren

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

German filmmaker Fritz Lang once observed that the Western is to America what the Niebelungen Saga is to Germany. Set during a relatively brief period in American history, the Western genre mythologized America's confrontation with a vast frontier. Themes center on the conflict between savagery and civilization, community and the rugged individual, lawlessness and social order. Many critics have argued that the Western is primarily a vehicle for American imperialist ideology, and thus, only peripherally about the historical settlement of the West.

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Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough Jan 1990

Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian West is a fine example of a department's contribution to regional studies. The eight essays from six contributors in an attractive, readable, and well-bound monograph are a useful addition to western Canadian studies. The essays (Darby, "From River Boat to Raillines: Circulation Patterns in the Canadian West during the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century"; Holmes, "The Canmore Corridor, 1880-1914: A Case Study of the Selection and Development of a Pass Site"; Hadley, "Photography, Tourism and the CPR: Western Canada, 1884- 1914"; Evans, "The Origin of Ranching in Western Canada: American Diffusion …

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Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés Jan 1990

Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The sugar beet industry was in the forefront of the opening of the northern Great Plains to commercial agriculture. At the end of the nineteenth century, massive expanses of cheap land with ideal climatic and soil conditions were available on the Plains, but the sparse population afforded few farmers or field workers to block, thin, hoe, and top the sugar beets. Between 1890 and World War II, the sugar corporations devised three labor recruitment strategies that created classes of settlers, sojourners, and proletarians on the Great Plains. This essay examines the interaction between the sugar beet industry and its field …

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Review Of Historical Atlas Of Kansas, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1990

Review Of Historical Atlas Of Kansas, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The University of Oklahoma Press, which has published a series of state historical atlases, has now issued a revision of its Kansas atlas, first published in 1972. The authors, historian Homer Socolofsky and geographer Huber Self, have updated their earlier work on the basis of 1984 state and federal government estimates.

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Notes And News For Vol.10 No.2 Jan 1990

Notes And News For Vol.10 No.2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Notes And News For Vol.10 No.3 Jan 1990

Notes And News For Vol.10 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, Courtney Vaughn-Roberson Jan 1990

Review Of For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, Courtney Vaughn-Roberson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, by Stella Gipson Polk, is a touching autobiography that tempts the reader by offering only a glimpse into the author's life. It is a series of vignettes primarily about Stella and the school children who, from 1918 to 1965, she taught and nurtured in several one-room country schools on the West Texas prairie. Thus, the book's organization flows from Stella's own remembrances, includes few pointedly personal insights about the author, and evades self-aggrandizement.

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Notes And News For Vol.10 No.4 Jan 1990

Notes And News For Vol.10 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy And War, 1790- 1870., James Dempsey Jan 1990

Review Of The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy And War, 1790- 1870., James Dempsey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Milloy's examination of the Plains Cree fits in with the growing concern for presenting histories that are not based on the European perspective but focus on events and issues relevant to a particular group's past. Although he is not a native, Milloy's portrayal of the Plains Cree's political and economic relations with neighboring tribes is a good example of how a "native" perspective can give new insight into historical events. For example, he points out that while the Red River area is important to fur trade historians, at other places in the West "significant events were occurring in the …

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Review Of Region And Regionalism In The United States: A Source Book For The Humanities And Social Sciences, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1990

Review Of Region And Regionalism In The United States: A Source Book For The Humanities And Social Sciences, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This multidisciplinary bibliography with annotations offers a judicious sampling of the best published work on American regions and regionalism. It is so useful that most scholars seriously working in regionalism will want to benefit from the authors' wide-ranging yet measured assessments.

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Corporate Point Men And The Creation Of The Montana Central Railroad, 1882-87, William L. Lang Jan 1990

Corporate Point Men And The Creation Of The Montana Central Railroad, 1882-87, William L. Lang

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 21 November 1887, a crowd jammed Ming's Opera House in Helena, Montana, to celebrate the completion of the Montana Central Railway, a branch line of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway. Sharing the Opera House stage that day were railroad executives and managers from the East, Montana politicians, and local businessmen. Their reason for celebration was three-fold. First, because Montalaans had struggled for more than a decade to get rail connections, sometimes nearly making unwise and unnecessary deals with railroad corporations, getting a railroad to build through Montana was cause for celebration.Second, the Montana Central brought with it …

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The Long Winter: An Introduction To Western Womanhood, Ann Romines Jan 1990

The Long Winter: An Introduction To Western Womanhood, Ann Romines

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In many ways, The Long Winter is the central volume in Laura Ingalls Wilder's extraordinary sequence of seven Little House books. 1 It is the most intense and dangerous of the novels, and it covers the shortest span of time, a single legendary seven-month winter. The Ingalls family has made its fullest commitment yet to one spot on the Dakota prairie. Although Pa yearns to start again in Oregon, Ma insists that they settle so the daughters can "get some schooling." Laura, the autobiographical protagonist, is approaching adulthood. This book, darkest of the series, does indeed provide her with powerful …

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Review Of Historical Atlas Of Texas., Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1990

Review Of Historical Atlas Of Texas., Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This volume, the latest in a well-known series published by the University of Oklahoma Press, offers sixty-four topics relating to the history and geography of Texas with accompanying maps. The first six topics outline basic geographic characteristics-location, topography, physio-graphical regions, rainfall, and native plant life. Then follow two dozen maps that treat topics antedating the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845. They include the route followed by various explorers from Cabeza de Vaca in the sixteenth century to the James Long expeditions of 1819-22, as well as several topics relating to the Republic of Texas, 1836. The …

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Review Of New Directions In American Indian History, Michael Eastin Jan 1990

Review Of New Directions In American Indian History, Michael Eastin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This appropriately titled collection of essays is the first volume of a continuing bibliographic series intended to supplement earlier bibliographies and further assist American Indian historians, especially newcomers to the field, in determining the relative merit of the hundreds of new publications concerning American Indians becoming available annually.

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Review Of Kaw Valley Landscapes, Huber Self Jan 1990

Review Of Kaw Valley Landscapes, Huber Self

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This revised edition describes views a tourist might see when circling the Kansas or Kaw River valley from Kansas City on the north, westward to Wamego in Pottawatomie County and from Alma in Wabaunsee County, south of the river, back to Kansas City.

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More Than Statehood On Their Minds: South Dakota Joins The Union, 1889, John E. Miller Jan 1990

More Than Statehood On Their Minds: South Dakota Joins The Union, 1889, John E. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"IT'S A GO," read the jubilant headline in the Huron Daily Huronite on 21 February 1889, one day after Congress passed the Omnibus Bill admitting four new states into the Union South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington.1 The following day, despite speculation that he might veto the legislation, President Grover Cleveland signed the bill into law, setting into motion a process that formally conferred statehood on South Dakota on 2 November 1889. For almost a decade momentum had been building in southern Dakota for this day, and people's frustrations with Congressional inaction had grown apace.2

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Review Of Women With Vision: The Presentation Sisters Of South Dakota, 1880-1985, Sandra Schackel Jan 1990

Review Of Women With Vision: The Presentation Sisters Of South Dakota, 1880-1985, Sandra Schackel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the mid-eighteenth century, a young Irish woman, Nano Nagle, renounced her wealthy upper-class background and dedicated herself to ministering to the poor. Her belief in "women's potential as nurturers and ethical models for children" prompted her to establish several schools for needy boys and girls as well as to minister to the sick. After Nagle's death, the order she founded in 1776 became known as the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and as part of a growing movement among Catholics in America in the ineteenth century, the Presentation sisters expanded their outreach to the American …

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Review Of We Fed Them Cactus, Felix D. Almaraz Jan 1990

Review Of We Fed Them Cactus, Felix D. Almaraz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Concerned about a lack of recorded history of her family's contributions to the settlement of eastern New Mexico, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca in the 1940s began to compile data for a book that would focus on the cultural values of Hispanics who grazed their livestock on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle. Relying on oral traditions of family members, friends, and acquaintances, Dona Fabiola reinforced the narrative with occasional references to archival documents.

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Review Of Folklife Annual 1987, Lynn M. Ireland Jan 1990

Review Of Folklife Annual 1987, Lynn M. Ireland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Those of us disheartened by what seems to be an ever-increasing homogenization of American culture will find solace and hope in the pages of this attractive, well-designed book. Produced by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Folklife Annual celebrates "the fact of our national diversity." Great Plains readers will be encouraged to discover a number of pieces directly related to this region.

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Plains Indians In New Mexico: The Genízaro Experiance, Russell M. Magnaghi Jan 1990

Plains Indians In New Mexico: The Genízaro Experiance, Russell M. Magnaghi

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T he colonial period in American history must, include not only the English experience on the Atlantic shore but the Spanish story in the Southwest and the approaches to the Great Plains. l Part of the New Mexican story is the emergence of a new people who become part of our multicultural experience, the detribalized Indians of the Plains and Mountains who were given the name genfzaros and were eventually absorbed into Pueblo-Spanish society. 2 The Spanish had tried to implement their Indian policy on the Great Plains, but frustrated by the environment and the native people, they remained in …

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Review Of A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience Of A Swedish Immigrant Settlement In The Upper Middle West, 1835-1915, Niel M. Johnson Jan 1990

Review Of A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience Of A Swedish Immigrant Settlement In The Upper Middle West, 1835-1915, Niel M. Johnson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert Ostergren's A Community Transplanted is something of a smorgasbord, with a meaty main course. Ostergren has drawn concepts and methodology from various social science disciplines, which perhaps limits his readership. But the book does break new ground in the extent to which it measures, correlates, and evaluates a great number of socio-economic variables in the lives of hundreds of immigrants from a Swedish parish in the 1880s.

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Centennial On The Northen Plains: An Introduction, George Mcgovern Jan 1990

Centennial On The Northen Plains: An Introduction, George Mcgovern

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although I am now sixty-eight years old, I have thought of myself during the past half century since my eighteenth birthday as a young man. Perhaps that is partly because I have been blessed with good health and personal vigor, but it may also be because I was born and reared in a young State. South Dakota was only thirtytwo years old when I first came on the scene at Avon in 1922. My father, a pioneer Dakota clergyman, whom I always thought of as an old man, was born in 1868--twenty-one years before South Dakota achieved statehood. He knew …

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Owen Wister : Wyoming's Influential Realist And Craftsman, Leslie T. Whipp Jan 1990

Owen Wister : Wyoming's Influential Realist And Craftsman, Leslie T. Whipp

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 8 July 1885, while on his first visit to Wyoming, Owen Wister wrote in his journal, "This existence is heavenly in its monotony and sweetness. Wish I were going to do it every summer. I'm beginning to be able to feel I'm something of an animal and not a stinking brain alone. "1 Wister was being very candid and very appreciative in this statement of just how much Wyoming had done for him, but Wyoming was to be more fortunate and significant for him than he knew. Wyoming's affirmation of the animal in Owen Wister proved to have …

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The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond The Boederlands: The Case Of El Cosmopolita, 1914-19, Michael M. Smith Jan 1990

The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond The Boederlands: The Case Of El Cosmopolita, 1914-19, Michael M. Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the first three decades of the twentieth century, a variety of factors-overpopulation, endemic poverty, inflation, stagnant wages, peonage, and, especially, the Mexican Revolution of 191O-drove hundreds of thousands of Mexicans from their homeland and into the United States. Although most of these migrants settled in the contiguous southwestern American states, tens of thousands proceeded north into the Great Plains and the Midwest, establishing dozens of colonias (settlements) in railroad centers, mining camps, industrial districts, and agricultural encampments. From 1900 until the Great Depression, the creation of these cultural islands of Mexican immigrants in such places as Oklahoma City, Kansas …

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The Hispanic Presence On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Miguel A. Carranza Jan 1990

The Hispanic Presence On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Miguel A. Carranza

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In April 1989, the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored its thirteenth annual symposium on the topic "The Hispanic Presence on the Great Plains." Scholars from across the United States and Mexico presented papers on a wide variety of topics covering the history, culture, politics, and images of people of Spanish origin on the Great Plains. These presentations focused on the Hispanic presence from the early Spanish explorers who entered the southern fringes of the Great Plains, to the vast migrations of Mexicans coming to "EI Norte" beginning in the early 1900s, to the creation …

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Review Of Tejanas And The Numbers Game: A Socia-Historical Interpretation From The Federal Censuses, 1850-1900., Camilo A. Martínez Jan 1990

Review Of Tejanas And The Numbers Game: A Socia-Historical Interpretation From The Federal Censuses, 1850-1900., Camilo A. Martínez

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Prior to this work did we have a well-balanced portrayal of the Tejano (Mexican American) who resided in the South, Central, and West Texas counties during the last half of the nineteenth century? Evidently not.

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Review Of Remote Beyond Compare: Letters Of Don Diego De Vargas To His Family From New Spain And New Mexico, 1675-1706, David J. Weber Jan 1990

Review Of Remote Beyond Compare: Letters Of Don Diego De Vargas To His Family From New Spain And New Mexico, 1675-1706, David J. Weber

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Spain was but a stepmother to me, for she banished me to seek my fortune in strange lands" (130-31). Thus Diego de Vargas, a member of the untitled nobility, explained why he had set out for the Indies at age twenty-eight, leaving his wife and four children behind in Madrid. Thirty-two years later when Vargas died while on campaign against Apaches in New Mexico, he had not made his fortune nor returned to Madrid as planned. He had won fame, however, in New Mexico and New Spain. For his intrepid leadership of the reconquest of New Mexico following the stunning …

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Review Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Frederick E. Hoxie Jan 1990

Review Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Frederick E. Hoxie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This contribution to the Boise State University Western Writers Series is slightly more than fifty pages long, but it represents the fullest presentation of D'Arcy McNickle's life and work available in print. While two recent American doctoral dissertations (by Birgit Hans, English, University of Arizona; and Dorothy Parker, History, University of New Mexico) work their way toward publication as books and articles, this will stand as the handiest guide to the man and his work.

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Review Of Mennonite Names/Mennonitische Namen, Reuben Goertz Jan 1990

Review Of Mennonite Names/Mennonitische Namen, Reuben Goertz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Do not let the bilingual title frighten you away from this book. With the exception of the picture titles and the bibliography of the East German Commission of Cultural Research, everything that is written in German has the English translation alongside. The chapter on nicknames may lose a little of its subtle humor in the translation, but English readers will still enjoy the origins and meanings of the many nicknames listed.

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Review Of Blossoms Of The Prairie: The History Of The Danish Lutheran Churches In Nebraska, George R. Nielsen Jan 1990

Review Of Blossoms Of The Prairie: The History Of The Danish Lutheran Churches In Nebraska, George R. Nielsen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Blossoms of the Prairie is grassroots history at its best. The volume fairly exudes energy, enthusiasm, dedication, and untold hours of painstaking work. It is a harvest of information gleaned from both Danish and English sources.

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