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Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 2, August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804, The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 3, August 25, 1804-Apriz6, 1805, And The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 4, April7-July 27, 1805, Richard A. Bartlett
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1983 appeared Volume 1 of a projected eleven volume compilation of the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The first volume turned out to be an atlas, which came as something of a surprise to many scholars; yet the quality of the work-the editing, the annotations, and the incredible state-of-the-art graphics-commanded praise from the academic community. The thought that lay behind the atlas as Volume 1 was that it would furnish a working tool for those studying all the remaining ten volumes. The great question remaining was, what of the quality of the textual volumes to come?
Review Of The Dakota Or Sioux In Minnesota As They Were In 1854, Herbert T. Hoover
Review Of The Dakota Or Sioux In Minnesota As They Were In 1854, Herbert T. Hoover
Great Plains Quarterly
Gary Anderson introduces the reminiscence of a nineteenth-century missionary as a source "unrivaled today for its comprehensive discussion of Dakota material culture and social, political, religious, and economic institutions." With the term "unrivaled," evidently Professor Anderson assigns credence to the work of Pond, for he goes on to say that the missionary attempted "an objective assessment of the Dakota before their intercourse with whites· dramatically changed their society." Thus a prospective reader is likely to gain the impression that The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota is wholly reliable. A professional historian who has written two volumes on the history of …
Review Of Agricultural Distress In The Midwest, Past And Present, James Lowenberg-Debore
Review Of Agricultural Distress In The Midwest, Past And Present, James Lowenberg-Debore
Great Plains Quarterly
As Gelfand states in his foreword, the purpose of the four papers in this book is to examine the farm problems in the Midwest from the late nineteenth century through the present, comparing reasons for agricultural distress and responses to the problems. Part of that objective is achieved. The first two papers present reasonable overviews of farm problems through the 1930s, with some insights from recent research. The book's plan falters in description of events after 1940 and lacks almost entirely comparisons between past and present.
Review Of Ghost Towns Of Texas, Suzanne Lindau
Review Of Ghost Towns Of Texas, Suzanne Lindau
Great Plains Quarterly
T. Lindsay Baker, curator of agriculture and technology in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, brings back to life eighty-eight Texas ghost towns. In describing each town, Baker relates its founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. In addition, for each townsite he includes a map and full directions for reaching it.
The Nebraska Capital Controversy, 1854-59, James B. Potts
The Nebraska Capital Controversy, 1854-59, James B. Potts
Great Plains Quarterly
Early in 1857 Mark W. Izard, in a letter to Senator Stephen A. Douglas, summed up the frustrations that marked his tenure as governor of Nebraska Territory. "If there is anything on earth I desire more than all others," he told the Illinois senator, "it is to make this the model territory, and my faith is that if Congress will extend her a moderate share of liberality, the sacred doctrine of popular rights will fully be vindicated in her example." "But," he continued, "the path of your humble servant is extremely narrow and thickly set with snares on every side."l …
Review Of Pahaska Tepee: Buffalo Bill's Old Hunting Lodge And Hotel, A History, 1901-1947, Joni Gilkerson
Review Of Pahaska Tepee: Buffalo Bill's Old Hunting Lodge And Hotel, A History, 1901-1947, Joni Gilkerson
Great Plains Quarterly
Colonel William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's business ventures other than his Wild West' Show have received little attention from scholars. This book provides a history of one of Buffalo Bill's commercial establishments Pahaska Tepee, a hunting lodge and hotel located near the eastern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. Appropriately, the Sioux name means "Long Hair's Lodge."
Review Of Civilizing The West: The Galts And The Development Of Western Canada, Henry C. Klassen
Review Of Civilizing The West: The Galts And The Development Of Western Canada, Henry C. Klassen
Great Plains Quarterly
This book,·· published five years ago in hardcover, is now available in paperback. A. A. den Otter, a professor of history at Memorial University in Newfoundland who has written extensively on western Canada, deals with Sir Alexander T. Galt, his son Elliott, and Charles A. Magrath and the economic development of the southwest corner of the prairies from the early 1880s to 1906. In systematically examining the origins and growth of the Galt enterprises, the book makes a contribution to our knowledge of the southern Alberta economy and to Alberta-Montana commercial relations.
"The Greatest Thing I Ever Did Was Join The Union": A History Of The Dakota Teamsters During The Depression, Jonathan F. Wagner
"The Greatest Thing I Ever Did Was Join The Union": A History Of The Dakota Teamsters During The Depression, Jonathan F. Wagner
Great Plains Quarterly
During the Great Depression the Dakota Teamsters established themselves as the most important union on the northern Plains. 1 Their success involved struggle and sacrifice, with a full complement of setbacks and losses as well as advances and gains. From the 1930s on, the union has reflected certain of the general characteristics of the parent body, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. Like the International, the Dakota Teamsters was always basically a truck drivers' union, but also something more. As with the International, the concept of jurisdiction was elastic. "In our teamsters union," the Minot, …
Review Of Rethinking Regionalism: John Steuart Curry And The Kansas Mural Controversy And Grant Wood: A Study In American Art And Culture., Richard W. Etulain
Review Of Rethinking Regionalism: John Steuart Curry And The Kansas Mural Controversy And Grant Wood: A Study In American Art And Culture., Richard W. Etulain
Great Plains Quarterly
In the first of these two volumes, M. Sue Kendall treats the cultural contexts that helped shape the paintings of John Steuart Curry and sparked reactions to his murals at the Kansas statehouse in Topeka. Emphasizing the details of Curry's life and how they interlocked with national, historical, and political happenings between 1937 and 1942, Kendall focuses particularly on the ideological and cultural attitudes that embroiled Curry, newspaper editors, and thousands of Kansans in the mural controversy.
Review Of Cather's Kitchens: Foodways In Literature And Life., John P. Anders
Review Of Cather's Kitchens: Foodways In Literature And Life., John P. Anders
Great Plains Quarterly
As a cookbook, Cather's Kitchens is unexpectedly delightful. As a commentary on Cather's work, the Welsches could not have selected a more appropriate subject, as domestic art for Cather was art of the highest order. The authors expand upon Cather's domesticity by interpreting foodways as a pervasive motif in her plains fiction. For them, understanding Cather means understanding her food.
Prairie Schoolwomen, Mid-1850s To 1920s, In Iowa, Kansas, And Nebraska, Mary Hurlbut Cordier
Prairie Schoolwomen, Mid-1850s To 1920s, In Iowa, Kansas, And Nebraska, Mary Hurlbut Cordier
Great Plains Quarterly
The ideal schoolteacher of the mid-1800s was characterized by Catherine Beecher as an educated, unmarried lady who was "already qualified intellectually to teach, and possessed of missionary zeal and benevolence," she was ready to go "to the most ignorant portions of our land to raise up schools, to instruct in morals and piety, and to teach the domestic arts and virtues. I This description, as applied to the school women of Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas from the mid-1850s to the early 1900s, omits their unique characteristics and contributions. This article seeks to redefine the prairie schoolwomen as western women, both …
"There Is Some Splendid Scenery" Womens Responses To The Great Plains Landscape, Julie Roy Jeffrey
"There Is Some Splendid Scenery" Womens Responses To The Great Plains Landscape, Julie Roy Jeffrey
Great Plains Quarterly
During the decades of exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West, travelers and emigrants encountered a new kind of landscape on the Great Plains. Aside from dramatic geological formations like Courthouse Rock, this landscape lacked many of the visual qualities conventionally associated with natural beauty in the nineteenth century. "It may enchant the imagination for a moment to look over the prairies and plains as far as the eye can reach," Sarah Raymond wrote in her diary in 1865, "still such a view is tedious and monotonous. It can in no wise produce that rapturing delight, that pleasing variety of …
Review Of Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition And Change., Seena B. Kohl
Review Of Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition And Change., Seena B. Kohl
Great Plains Quarterly
This book adds to a neglected area of research, rural women. Through the use of reminiscence, census data, agricultural surveys, interviews, and observations during a year of residency in a rural Iowa county, Deborah Fink examines women's experience as members of a rural social system in which farming has been, until recently, considered a viable and valued opportunity, albeit a gender restricted occupation.
Review Of The Just Polity; Populism, Law, And Human Welfare., Peter H. Argersinger
Review Of The Just Polity; Populism, Law, And Human Welfare., Peter H. Argersinger
Great Plains Quarterly
Rejecting "political narrative" as "debilitating to historical scholarship.," Norman Pollack employs textual exegesis in this effort to construct a coherent intellectual history of Populism. Interspersing extensive quotations with his own paraphrases, elaborations, and inferences, Pollack examines a handful of Populist writings and extravagantly maintains that his work reconceptualizes both the nature and the study of Populism. After struggling through nearly 350 pages of opaque and often tumid prose, few historians will accept such claims. Even those sympathetic to this style of history, which ignores the specific political context of the documents analyzed, will worry about some issues that Pollack dismisses …
Reservation Policy And The Economic Position Of Wichita Women, Carolyn Garrett Pool
Reservation Policy And The Economic Position Of Wichita Women, Carolyn Garrett Pool
Great Plains Quarterly
Early anthropological studies addressed the economic position of women as one component of women's "status"-a construct used to examine a variety of gender-based social distinctions. These distinctions were conceptualized as the opposing domains of "domestic" and "public." The association of women with the domestic domain was viewed as the critical factor in understanding asymmetrical relations of power and authority. Since status has generally been defined in terms of participation in the public, economic, and political sectors dominated by men, anthropologists have proposed alternatives to the strict association of power with public roles. They used the term "influence" to mean the …
Review Of Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke And His American West, Thomas William Dunlay
Review Of Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke And His American West, Thomas William Dunlay
Great Plains Quarterly
John Gregory Bourke (1846-1896) is best known to students of the American West as the author of On the Border with Crook, a classic record of frontier military life. He was also, like certain other army officers, among the pioneers of American anthropology. Like his commanding officer, General George Crook, he was a critic of federal Indian policy and an advocate of the rights of American Indians. His biography is, therefore, much more than the record of a frontier soldier. He is worthy of study as a chronicler of Western campaigns, a dedicated scholar of Indian culture, and a …
Review Of Little Crow: Spokesman For The Sioux, Herbert T. Hoover
Review Of Little Crow: Spokesman For The Sioux, Herbert T. Hoover
Great Plains Quarterly
This readable narrative chronicles the life of the eastern Sioux leader whose name has been associated with the Minnesota Sioux War for a role he accepted reluctantly. A genealogy and some· background information explain why he assumed a moderate posture as non-Indians flocked into southern Minnesota during the 1850s. Resentment changed to bitterness around him as eastern Sioux people exchanged some 10,000,000 acres for a narrow strip of land along the upper St. Peter's River that could not sustain them. When finally they took up arms in the early 186Os, Little Crow became their symbol of resistance. At length, more …
Ethnicity, Religion, And Gender: The Women Of Block, Kansas, 1868-1940, Carol K. Coburn
Ethnicity, Religion, And Gender: The Women Of Block, Kansas, 1868-1940, Carol K. Coburn
Great Plains Quarterly
Ethnicity, religion, and gender shape our past, providing a richness and texture to individual and group experience. This experience creates identities and communities that in tum educate the young and ensure the transmission of values, beliefs, and culture across generations. The women of Block, Kansas, provide an opportunity to examine the complex relationship of ethnicity, religion, and gender. Beginning in the late 1860s, this German Lutheran enclave used its ethnic heritage and its religious doctrine to create a separate, distinct community in south central Miami County, Kansas. Trinity Lutheran Church and School served as focal points in the development of …
Review Of The Cheyenne Nation: A Social And Demographic History., Russel Lawrence Barsh
Review Of The Cheyenne Nation: A Social And Demographic History., Russel Lawrence Barsh
Great Plains Quarterly
"Like every nation in the world," John Moore argues in this exceptionally candid and respectful study, "the Cheyenne have cosmopolitan origins." Building on the Cheyenne case, Moore convincingly challenges the persistent characterization of tribal societies as static "crystals" shattered by their collision with European states.
Structure Of Agriculture And Women's Culture In The Great Plains, Cornella Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora
Structure Of Agriculture And Women's Culture In The Great Plains, Cornella Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora
Great Plains Quarterly
T he family farm has prevailed as a bastion of petty capitalism in the Great Plains. Although capital and labor are highly differentiated in the larger society, they are combined in the family production unit in Great Plains agriculture. In addition to being the economic base for much of the Great Plains from the settlement period onward, the family farm provided a cultural base from which a series of values emerged. Women were important in reproducing this culture that tended to stress agrarian values and the primacy of the family as building blocks for a community based on the values …
Review Of Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard
Review Of Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard
Great Plains Quarterly
This attractive book is perhaps the only one that has been written on the ecology of a single prairie study area; earlier classics such as J. E. Weaver's North American Prairie have dealt with North American prairies in general, and more recent titles, such as Terry Evans' Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky and Patricia Duncan's The Prairie World have typically attempted to show the often subtle and occasionally stark visual beauty of prairies, with an emphasis on color photography. By comparison, Konza Prairie approaches its subject (a protected area of about fourteen square miles in northern Kansas) as a …
Review Of Edible Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide., Kathleen H. Keeler
Review Of Edible Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide., Kathleen H. Keeler
Great Plains Quarterly
This wonderful and long overdue contribution to the regional literature provides a list of native edible plants of the prairie-grasslands and adjoining forest ecosystems. Kindscher is thorough and careful. She provides current and accurate scientific names of the plants as well as Indian and common names. Her detailed descriptions of the uses of the plants are taken from seventeen plains Indian tribes, from diverse settlers' journals, and in many cases from her own experiences of eating the plant. The line drawings are excellent and the helpful range maps make it easy to determine if a particular plant is likely to …
Review Of Life Of Bishop Machebeuf., Lance Larsen
Review Of Life Of Bishop Machebeuf., Lance Larsen
Great Plains Quarterly
Original editions of this obscure diocesan biography, the major source of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, are all but inaccessible. The present reprint, an exact facsimile of the 1908 version, introduces to a wider audience the lively and memorable Joseph P. Machebeuf, first vicar apostolic of Colorado and Utah. To aid readers, the editors have included a bibliography, an index, and marginal asterisks pointing interested readers to a special notes section.
Review Of The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins., Robert Nespor
Review Of The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins., Robert Nespor
Great Plains Quarterly
Karl Schlesier contends that the Cheyennes (or, as he prefers, the Tsistsistas, excluding the Suhtai branch of Northern Cheyennes) made their "perfect adaptation" to the northern Plains long before the 1700s. Indeed, he argues that the T sistsistas emerged as an ethnic group on the Plains about 500 B.C., attaining an identity through observances of a ceremony, the Massaum, which continued to be celebrated into the early twentieth century. The Massaum is represented as having constituted the set of sacred relations between the people and the universe. With respect to the plains environment in particular, Schlesier represents the Massaum as …
The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge
The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge
Great Plains Quarterly
Although the words Great Plains imply a physical region, they have been increasingly used to describe a distinctive set of cultural traits and values. The tone was set in 1931 when Walter Prescott Webb argued that attitudes and land uses brought to the Plains from humid lands would fail. Aridity, he said, was the central fact of existence in this place; it demanded a new approach to life. 1
Review Of The West Of The Imagination, Robert Thacker
Review Of The West Of The Imagination, Robert Thacker
Great Plains Quarterly
This is--in every meaning of the word-a wonderful book. Historian William H. Goetzmann, the author ofExploration and Empire, Karl Boomer's America, and New Lands, New Men has collaborated with his art historian son, William N. Goetzmann, to produce this volume, a companion to the Public Broadcasting System series of the same name. Focused on the illustrators, painters, and photographers of the American West, it offers a stunning overview of their histories, actions, and, most especially, their images. The reader, like the artist;s .and the Goetzmanns themselves, is awed by the felt pull of the West on the imagination; …
Review Of Plains Folk: A Commonplace Of The Great Plains, Roger L. Welsch
Review Of Plains Folk: A Commonplace Of The Great Plains, Roger L. Welsch
Great Plains Quarterly
Plains Folk is a compilation of ninety-six human- interest essays written for a syndicated column published in newspapers from Texas to North Dakota. The reprinted columns deal with tidbits of history, folklore, agriculture, and humor from the plains region. The columns are brief and without documentation, as one would expect from a newspaper column.