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Review Of N. Scott Momaday: The Cultural And Literary Background By Matthias Schubnell, Kenneth C. Mason Jan 1987

Review Of N. Scott Momaday: The Cultural And Literary Background By Matthias Schubnell, Kenneth C. Mason

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Despite the fact that Momaday's individual books have received a good deal of attention in the form of critical essays, this is the first book-length treatment of his work. It is a happy circumstance, then, for Momaday and for scholars of Native American literature, that Schubnell has written such a broad, penetrating, and extensively researched study. This book will doubtless be the standard Momaday critical text for some time to come.

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Foreign Investment In The American And Canadian West, 1870-1914: An Annotated Bibliography, Larry A. Mcfarlane Jan 1987

Foreign Investment In The American And Canadian West, 1870-1914: An Annotated Bibliography, Larry A. Mcfarlane

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Anne Ostrye, head of reference in the William Coe Library at the University of Wyoming, has compiled a useful annotated bibliography of foreign investment in the North American West. This region includes the tier of states from Texas through the Dakotas and westward to the Pacific (with some information from farther east) and those provinces from Manitoba through British Columbia, the Yukon, and the Northwest Territories. The foreign investments identified are primarily British, although some Dutch, French, and German ventures are also noted (and after 1900 American investments in Canada).

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Time And Vision In Wright Morris's Photographs Of Nebraska, Joanne Jacobson Jan 1987

Time And Vision In Wright Morris's Photographs Of Nebraska, Joanne Jacobson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Wright Morris is better known as a writer than as a photographer, but his photographs of Nebraska deserve more attention than they have received. Morris's work in the 1930s never achieved the fame of the Farm Security Administration photographs. And he himself cut short his photographic work of the 1940s when he and his publishers became frustrated with the expense and the aesthetic strain of his early books' photo-text format. But Morris's images of a premodern Nebraska, taken from the 1930s to the early 1950s, form an impressive body of work that is especially acute for its rendering of a …

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Harvest Of Grief: The Grasshopper Plagues And Public Assistance In Minnesota, 1873-78, Gary D. Olson Jan 1987

Harvest Of Grief: The Grasshopper Plagues And Public Assistance In Minnesota, 1873-78, Gary D. Olson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

From 1873 to 1878 there occurred one of the worst economic depressions in this country. The western frontier also experienced a second calamity that, with cruel irony, recurred each year for the duration of the depression. This calamity, the grasshopper infestation, is the subject of this book. The author has focused her attention upon the "grasshopper plagues and public assistance in Minnesota" from 1873-1878. It is her purpose to study "the response to the plagues personally, locally, and at the state and national levels" in order to understand attitudes, and to examine the relationship between farm people and their government. …

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Tribal Dispossession And The Ottawa Indian University Fraud., Thomas Burnell Colbert Jan 1987

Tribal Dispossession And The Ottawa Indian University Fraud., Thomas Burnell Colbert

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The story is complex with many actors-- white missionaries, church officials, land speculators, town boosters, government officials, and Ottawa Indian leaders from opposing factions. Good intentions are mixed with deceit. And in the final chapter, there is neither a happy nor a tragic ending, only a belated settlement. William E. Unrah and H. Craig Miner, two highly capable historians at Wichita State University, have produced this case study of the chicanery associated with the creation of Ottawa University in Ottawa, Kansas. They expose how the desire of Baptist missionaries to create a college for Ottawa Indians became entangled with land …

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Climate Of The Great Plains Region Of The United States, Norman J. Rosenberg Jan 1987

Climate Of The Great Plains Region Of The United States, Norman J. Rosenberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The climate of the Great Plains is extreme and variable. A wide range of weather conditions can occur within the period of a day, from one day to the next, from season to season, and from year to year. There are two key reasons for this situation: (1) the greatest portion of the Plains is remote from any major body of water and (2) air masses of differing characteristics alternate frequently in their dominance of the region.

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Farm Consolidation In The Northern And Central States Of The Great Plains, Bradley H. Baltensperger Jan 1987

Farm Consolidation In The Northern And Central States Of The Great Plains, Bradley H. Baltensperger

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the past half century, American agriculture has been revolutionized and rural America has been dramatically transformed. The industrial revolution had arrived in American agriculture in the 1840s when machines and animal power began replacing some hand tools wielded by humans. But not until the 1930s, when petroleum-driven machines rapidly displaced both animal and human power, did this revolution intensify sufficiently to have significant impacts on rural life and farm numbers. Since that time, reliance on farm-produced inputs-fertilizer, seed, energy-has given way to dependence on purchased factors of production. The commercial aspects of farming have nearly obliterated the subsistence components. …

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Adobe Walls: The History And Archeology Of The 1874 Trading Post, Anne M. Wolley Jan 1987

Adobe Walls: The History And Archeology Of The 1874 Trading Post, Anne M. Wolley

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With the ever increasing public interest in archaeology, especially in historic archaeology, books such as this one are in great demand. Adobe Walls is a good example of how historic archaeology should be done and how it can be presented to the general public as well as to the academic community. The format of the book allows the general reader to become involved in the history of the Adobe Walls Trading Post as well as the actual archaeological work that took place at the site. At the same time the book provides concise information useful to other historians and archaeologists.

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Prohibition And The Kansas Progressive Example, Patrick G. O'Brien Jan 1987

Prohibition And The Kansas Progressive Example, Patrick G. O'Brien

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Wets and drys freely exchanged epithets as Kansas began the twentieth century. They agreed only upon the fact of mass violations of prohibition. Kansas was dry in law and had local option in reality; and cities like Wichita, Kansas City, and Leavenworth had open saloons that conducted business on main streets in full public view. Kansas had a vast amount of "wet" territory, but estimates varied on exactly how much. One report of the Kansas Temperance Union stated that two thirds of the 129 cities and towns surveyed in 1900 ignored prohibition laws.1

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Review Of The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism., Paul Comeau Jan 1987

Review Of The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism., Paul Comeau

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Voyage Perilous: Willa Cather's Romanticism is a valuable and compelling addition to Cather criticism. Working from the late eighteenth century definition of romanticism-the process whereby the creative imagination locates meaning in the material world-Susan Rosowski demonstrates convincingly how the central tenets of romanticism informed the progress of Willa Cather's artistic vision as exemplified both in individual works and in the pattern of her canon. Accordingly, the possibility of discovering value in external objects is addressed in the optimistic early novels, of which Alexander's Bridge constitutes a romantic allegory of creativity, The Song of the Lark, Cather's Prelude, and A …

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Notes And News For Vol.7 No.3 Jan 1987

Notes And News For Vol.7 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice, Patricia L. Yongue Jan 1987

Review Of Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice, Patricia L. Yongue

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

I remain unconvinced that Willa Cather led even the emotional life of a lesbian. Cather, I think, communicates a sympathy for heterosexuality, an increasing remoteness from sexuality altogether, and a valuing of woman "unnatural" because "unAmerican." Cather early suspected-and regretted-that her intimidating reserve about sexuality, moderated by Victorian and Southern gender polity, prohibited the flowering of intimacy. Instead of the risky intimacies, Cather sought what an intellectually strong but sexually reticent woman might seek: stimulating or "useful" friendships-with women and with men. Her major characters repeat the pattern. They experience intense excitements; often they transform obvious sexual emotion into other …

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Testing Sociobiological Hypotheses Ethnographically, Patricia Draper Jan 1987

Testing Sociobiological Hypotheses Ethnographically, Patricia Draper

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Satisfactory tests of sociobiological theory using data on humans suffer from many problems, many of which are cogently argued by Kitcher. Other obstacles derive from the fact that cultural anthropology itself is undergoing a paradigm shift, in which people are no longer considered to be influenced by the normative environment with a high degree of predictability. Information about human behavior guided by this new set of assumptions is far more likely to yield the type of data necessary to test sociobiological ideas. Once the construct of culture is abandoned (or at least not assumed to have much power for predicting …

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Introduction To Perspectives On Archaeological Resources Management In The "Great Plains", Alan J. Osborn, Robert C. Hassler Jan 1987

Introduction To Perspectives On Archaeological Resources Management In The "Great Plains", Alan J. Osborn, Robert C. Hassler

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

The past two decades of archaeological investigations in the United States have been shaped significantly by cultural resource management (CRM) legislation. Although federal laws designed to protect the nation's archaeological record can be traced to the late 1800s, necessary funding was not made available for extensive work until 1974 with passage of the Moss-Bennett Bill (Judge 1982). The availability of federal monies for archaeological investigations at this time was unprecedented. Marked changes occurred in the discipline of archaeology that involved disruption of the traditional ties linking academic institutions and archaeological research throughout the country (Fowler 1982; Brose 1985).

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Scientific Research Programmes: Toward A Synthesis And Evaluation Of Crm Archaeology, Alan J. Osborn Jan 1987

Scientific Research Programmes: Toward A Synthesis And Evaluation Of Crm Archaeology, Alan J. Osborn

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Archaeologists involved in conservation archaeology and/or cultural resource management have frequently been confronted with the dilemma described by Fowler (1982). Cultural resource management projects most generally have to be conducted within a restricted geographical area within a specified period of time. Many archaeologists have chosen to deal with the resource management dilemma in one of three ways. First, there are those that have chosen to view cultural resource management primarily as a professional service. Practitioners of "service" archaeology conduct archaeological surveys and excavations in order to determine the frequency, location, and extent of cultural remains within a specified area. Investigations …

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Distribution Archaeology: Survey, Mapping, And Analysis Of Surface Archaeological Materials In The Green River Basin, Wyoming, James I. Ebert, Signa Larralde, Luann Wandsnider Jan 1987

Distribution Archaeology: Survey, Mapping, And Analysis Of Surface Archaeological Materials In The Green River Basin, Wyoming, James I. Ebert, Signa Larralde, Luann Wandsnider

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Archaeology in America today is in a quandary. This is especially true for that portion of the profession responsible for investigating and managing the surface archaeology of large tracts of land. The quandary concerns how to maximize the amount of information about the archaeology of an area given finite budgets. Predictive modeling, a technique for projecting knowledge derived from a sample to its universe, has been proposed as one response to this dilemma. We shall present another response, distributional archaeology, which is designed to collect quality information about the archaeological record and is consistent with the formation and structure of …

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"Preface" To Perspectives On Archaeological Resources Management In The "Great Plains", Alan J. Osborn, Robert C. Hassler Jan 1987

"Preface" To Perspectives On Archaeological Resources Management In The "Great Plains", Alan J. Osborn, Robert C. Hassler

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

When faced with compiling an edited volume addressing cultural resources management the overriding problem is to maintain some resemblance of contemporanity with the current status of the field. Major changes have occurred over the last decade within "contract", "salvage" or "conservation" archaeology, now commonly referred to as cultural resources management. Some of these changes are due to additional state, provincial and federal rules, regulations and statutes requiring consideration of cultural materials to be affected by public "undertakings" in North America. Other changes are resultant of the boom and bust cycle of public-licensed private developments. The constant state of flux in …

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Nebraska Settlements: Status, Trends, And Policy Choices, David R. Dimartino, Russell L. Smith Jan 1987

Nebraska Settlements: Status, Trends, And Policy Choices, David R. Dimartino, Russell L. Smith

Center for Public Affairs Research (UNO): Publications

This chapter looks at historical and contemporary trends in Nebraska's system of incorporated places. Particular attention is given to changes in the number and proportion of places in different population size categories, the movement of places between different size categories, and what Nebraska's settlement system is likely to look like in the future. A review of past and recent trends, together with forecasts about the future, indicates a likely increase in the number of very small places, major shifts for middle-sized places, and continued growth in the number of places over 5,000 population. Based upon these trends, three separate needs …

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The Macroeconomics Of Nebraska's Competitiveness World Agricultural Markets, Frank Zahn Jan 1987

The Macroeconomics Of Nebraska's Competitiveness World Agricultural Markets, Frank Zahn

Center for Public Affairs Research (UNO): Publications

Nebraska faces a cyclical and a secular decline in its competitiveness in world agricultural markets. Economic instability and technological advances account for much of the decline, along with unfair trade practices and counterproductive government intervention. The short-term forecasts for the U.S. economy are fairly bright, but the farm economy, particularly in Nebraska, is gloomy. Because it is unlikely that government price and income supports will continue at current levels, Nebraska must take some bold steps to provide a healthier farm sector. Policy choices for state action include supporting federal policies that promote domestic and international economic stability, fair international trade, …

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Archaeological Conservation As Process And Product: A Federal Perspective, Ronald D. Anzalone Jan 1987

Archaeological Conservation As Process And Product: A Federal Perspective, Ronald D. Anzalone

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

Countless books and articles have either explored in some depth, or at least touched upon, the conservation of our cultural heritage. For the purposes of this volume, it would be an exercise in futility to attempt to detail current procedural requirements for historic preservation through various federal statutes and regulations. A number of sources have attacked this task in the past (e.g., Scovill, Gordon and Anderson 1977; King, Hickman, and Berg 1977). None has managed to provide completely up-to-date information on even the regulatory oscillations current that year, and there have been a myriad of changes since 1977. If there …

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Knife River Indian Villages Archaeological Program: An Overview, F. A. Calabrese Jan 1987

Knife River Indian Villages Archaeological Program: An Overview, F. A. Calabrese

Department of Anthropology: Faculty Publications

The Knife River Indian Villages are located in North Dakota near the confluence of the Knife and Missouri Rivers, just north of the contemporary town of Stanton, North Dakota. They lie within the area between the Garrison Dam to the north and the Oahe Reservoir to the south, the last remaining unflooded segment of the Missouri River valley in the Dakotas. Within the area are river floodplains, terraces, dissected breaks and upland rolling terrain. Forests occur on the floodplain and lower terraces with a variety of native and exotic grasses found on the breaks and uplands. A number of relatively …

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Physically Disabled Women And New Directions In Public Policy, 1977-1987., Mary Jo Deegan Jan 1987

Physically Disabled Women And New Directions In Public Policy, 1977-1987., Mary Jo Deegan

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Women with physical disabilities now demand new directions in public policy. Starting a mere decade ago, in 1977, a driving momentum redefined the self-concepts, expectations, and united actions of disabled women. This burgeoning social movement is documented here through the geometric growth of writings articulating the vision of a more active and independent group. An overview of this Iiterature and its policy implications is provided.

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'Asking Directions’ And Pedestrian Wayfinding, Michael R. Hill Jan 1987

'Asking Directions’ And Pedestrian Wayfinding, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This paper reports a study of the social ecology and systemic aspects of "asking for directions" in an urban area. Interviews were conducted with 100 randomly selected pedestrians at spatially stratified locations representing a variety of urban environments in Lincoln, Nebraska. The interviewer, posing as a "lost" pedestrian, asked respondents to give directions to local landmarks and then unobtrusively recorded their responses on a concealed tape recorder. Respondents generally provided accurate, distance-conserving directions with low levels of spatial complexity. Responses were friendly and often tailored to the unique environmental attributes characterizing each location. An outline of the process whereby a …

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Novels, Thought Experiments, And Humanist Sociology In The Classroom: Mari Sandoz And Capital City, Michael R. Hill Jan 1987

Novels, Thought Experiments, And Humanist Sociology In The Classroom: Mari Sandoz And Capital City, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Based upon teaching Mari Sandoz' allegorical novel, Capital City, as part of Introduction to Sociology for three semesters, this report outlines the characteristics of sociologically useful novels from a humanist perspective. A key characteristic is the extent to which novelists not only conduct thought experiments but also stimulate student thinking and research. The pedagogical dimensions of thought experiments are explicated and the positive outcomes of using a novel-and group study projects based on a novel-are reported.

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The Sociology And Experiences Of Pedestrians, Michael R. Hill Jan 1987

The Sociology And Experiences Of Pedestrians, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This paper introduces the sociological and experiential studies included in this special issue of Man-Environment Systems. Sociological and experiential perspectives and their interconnections are briefly explored. A sociology of sociology perspective is adopted and argues that architects, planners, engineers and other managers of vested, status guo interests fail to systematically incorporate the burgeoning social scientific work on pedestrianism due to the inherent and unavoidable political character of walking.

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A Cross-Cultural Analysis Of Several Forms Of Parenting: Mother, Genitrix, And Mater, Michael R. Hill Jan 1987

A Cross-Cultural Analysis Of Several Forms Of Parenting: Mother, Genitrix, And Mater, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Melissa Stern was born March 27, 1986, in New Jersey. For one so young, she has experienced or been the subject of interstate flight and fugitive hegira, legal battles involving her own court-appointed attorney, social controversy, the voracious attention of an insensitive media industry, and a place in history as the famous Baby "M". Judge Sorkow (1987: 26-27), in his opinion awarding custody of Melissa to her genetic father and terminating all parental rights of her genetic mother, notes professional evaluations indicating Melissa to be a "a mellow, alert, easy-to-care-for child who is blessed with a 'sunniness of disposition that …

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The Effects Of Infections By Pyrenophora Teres And Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus On The Freezing Hardiness Of Winter Barley, Leslie M. Delserone, H. Cole Jr., J. A. Frank Jan 1987

The Effects Of Infections By Pyrenophora Teres And Barley Yellow Dwarf Virus On The Freezing Hardiness Of Winter Barley, Leslie M. Delserone, H. Cole Jr., J. A. Frank

University of Nebraska-Lincoln Libraries: Faculty Publications

Single and mixed infections by Pyrenophora teres and two isolates of barley yellow dwarf virus (BYDV) were evaluated for their effects on the resistance to freezing stress of crowns of the winter barley cultivar Pennrad. Plants received one of several treatments: P. teres; either the RMV-NY or PAV-NY isolate of BYDV; RMV + P. teres; PAV + P. teres; or infestation with either nonviruliferous Rhopalosiphum maidis or R. padi. After the treatments, foliage and roots were harvested from 4-wk-old plants to evaluate the effects of infection(s) on top and root growth before freezing. The crowns were subjected to a controlled …

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Book Review: Statistics In Omithology, Douglas H. Johnson Jan 1987

Book Review: Statistics In Omithology, Douglas H. Johnson

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

This book, the 29th in Springer-Verlag's Lecture Notes in Statistics series, arose from a one-day meeting held in London in 1982. All but two of the papers presented at that meeting are included, as are additional papers not given in London. Refereeing was done by the two editors.

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Are Mallards Declining In North America?, Douglas H. Johnson, Terry L. Shaffer Jan 1987

Are Mallards Declining In North America?, Douglas H. Johnson, Terry L. Shaffer

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Whether mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) numbers have declined in recent years has been a subject of concern and debate among waterfowl biologists, wildlife managers, and administrators. Further controversy surrounds the reason for the presumed decline. One opinion holds that the decline, if it exists, is simply a reflection of a dry period, with fewer ponds available to support mallards. The opposing view is that mallards have declined more severely than wetland numbers, and have not responded to subsequent improvements in wetlands.

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Helminth Parasites Of Coprolites, Scott Lyell Gardner, Karen H. Clary Jan 1987

Helminth Parasites Of Coprolites, Scott Lyell Gardner, Karen H. Clary

Harold W. Manter Laboratory of Parasitology: Faculty Publications

Parasites from Bighorn Sheep Cave coprolites were examined for the presence of parasites using standard methods. Both Toxascaris and Enterobius were identified from coprolites recovered from the cave. Both human and non-human coprolites were identified.

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