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Review Of The American Indian And The Problem Of History, Robert H. Keller
Review Of The American Indian And The Problem Of History, Robert H. Keller
Great Plains Quarterly
Long before it became fashionable in the 1960s, John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, the life of an Oglala Sioux holy man, posed problems for historians and anthropologists. Questions of authenticity have been largely solved by scholars such as Raymond DeMallie, but not so the problem of whether historians can incorporate Black Elk's non-western, nonlipear concepts of the world and human affairs into their history. In short, how does a radically different native metaphysic influence writing about Indian-White 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 Selling The Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 To 1960, Leslie T. Whipp
Review Of Selling The Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 To 1960, Leslie T. Whipp
Great Plains Quarterly
The title of this book is misleading for anyone who hasn't read the book. The book is not about the ways in which popular western fiction served to promote the West, nor even about the ways in which popular western fiction perpetuated the myth of the Wild West. The book is instead about the way the marketing of western formula fiction impinges upon the fiction; it argues that the conditions of composition, publication, and marketing exercise a shaping force on the details of the writing, and, more particularly, that the conditions of authorship for writers of popular western fiction often …
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 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 …
Plains Women, Dorothy Schwieder, Deborah Fink
Plains Women, Dorothy Schwieder, Deborah Fink
Great Plains Quarterly
During the Great Depression, farm families throughout the nation experienced severe economic difficulties. Since then, historians and other scholars have analyzed and reanalyzed the basic problems of American agriculture and the solutions offered to those problems. Only recently, however, have the scholars begun to take a wide view of rural society during the 1930s and begun to look at the dynamics of the farm family: the roles, influences, and contributions of farm women and the work roles and treatment of farm children. 1
"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 …
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.
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 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 …
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; …
Elaine Goodale Eastman And The Failure Of The Feminist Protestant Ethic, Ruth Ann Alexander
Elaine Goodale Eastman And The Failure Of The Feminist Protestant Ethic, Ruth Ann Alexander
Great Plains Quarterly
Elaine Goodale Eastman's childhood dreams of becoming a writer were not to be fulfilled as she imagined them. Her literary talent was subverted by conflicting forces in her life to which she also subscribed but that thwarted the artistic development of that talent. Although she wrote throughout her ninety years and couldn't remember a time that she wouldn't rather write than eat, she never satisfied "the notion ... unreasonably in the back of my head that someday I might write a book that would live."! If she is remembered at all it is as the wife of the Sioux physician …
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.
Review Of The Women's West., Suzanne L. Bunkers
Review Of The Women's West., Suzanne L. Bunkers
Great Plains Quarterly
The twenty-one essays in this collection represent some of the finest work being done in the ongoing re-examination of the American West through women's eyes. Based on papers presented at the first Women's West conference in 1983, these articles analyze faulty assumptions and omissions in earlier histories of the West; they examine the ways in which gender roles shaped western women's lives; and they formulate new methodologies for the analysis of women's private writings as vital historical records.
Review Of Emily: The Diary Of A Hard-Worked Woman, Alice Hall Petry
Review Of Emily: The Diary Of A Hard-Worked Woman, Alice Hall Petry
Great Plains Quarterly
Diaries are among the most unpredictable of literary genres: they can be fascinating, vivid renderings of what life was truly like during key periods in history, or they can be oddly flat, even tedious affairs-especially when they deal with the daily routines of obscure lives. Some diaries, such as Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman, manage somehow to be both. Emily Louisa Rood, born in Michigan in 1843, was raised in middle-class surroundings and thus accustomed to some of the finer things in western life, including her own home and her own horse and buggy. But after bearing …
Review Of Mapping The North American Plains: Essays In The History Of Cartography., Donna P. Koepp
Review Of Mapping The North American Plains: Essays In The History Of Cartography., Donna P. Koepp
Great Plains Quarterly
The adventure of exploration and discovery, as well as the history of mapping, inevitably comes through in this volume of eleven scholarly contributions to the history of the cartography of the North American Plains. The 8 1/2 x 11 inch size allows for an easy-toread two column format and excellent black and white map reproductions, most of which are full page size.
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 …
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 Emil Loriks: Builder Of A New Economic Order, Jonathan F. Wagner
Review Of Emil Loriks: Builder Of A New Economic Order, Jonathan F. Wagner
Great Plains Quarterly
The author of Emil Loriks: Builder of a New Economic Order wrote the book in order to do justice to the life of her fellow South Dakotan Emil Loriks (1895-1985). Elizabeth Williams, an instructor of journalism and speech at South Dakota State University, has succeeded in producing a eulogy of an interesting and active farm leader. Her biographical portrait loudly praises Loriks for the variety of roles he played: as state legislator and Farm Holiday leader from 1927-34, as unsuccessful liberal Democratic candidate running against Republican Karl Mundt in 1938, as South Dakota Farmer's Union president during the later Depression, …
Review Of America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America, Carroll Van West
Review Of America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America, Carroll Van West
Great Plains Quarterly
America's Architectural Roots is an introduction to the remarkable diversity of ethnic building traditions that have shaped the American landscape. Dell Upton takes a broad view of the tricky term "ethnic" and includes selections on Native American, English, midwestern German, and French architecture, along with eighteen other examples of ethnic architecture. Chronologically organized, the book first looks at groups that have influenced American architecture nationwide, then surveys groups that shaped regional architectures. Most of the book's Great Plains selections focus on the vernacular architecture of the region's many ethnic groups.
Review Of After The West Was Won: Homesteaders And Town-Builders In Western South Dakota, 1900-1917, Joseph S. Wood
Review Of After The West Was Won: Homesteaders And Town-Builders In Western South Dakota, 1900-1917, Joseph S. Wood
Great Plains Quarterly
After the West Was Won is about pioneering in western South Dakota on land unsettled by agriculturalists before 1900. Lakota hunters and Texas ranchers had lived successfully in this land of bountiful grass. Agricultural settlement, however, was a story "of dreams and ambitions thwarted" as farmers and townspeople alike learned "to make a virtue of living with less" than did those who had pioneered earlier frontiers.
Review Of Closing The Frontier: Radical Response In Oklahoma, 1883-1923, Garin Burbank
Review Of Closing The Frontier: Radical Response In Oklahoma, 1883-1923, Garin Burbank
Great Plains Quarterly
Any historian declaring his commitment to the tradition of Frederick Jackson Turner must assume that he will encounter controversy and challenge. In Turner's own essays, and in all the durable arguments provoked by his grand thesis, the precise meaning of the rubbery term frontier has been a matter of much confusion and difficulty. John Thompson has made a fresh attempt to use Turner's theory to explain the spontaneity and effervescence of the agrarian and labor insurgencies so strikingly present in "progressive" Oklahoma.
Review Of Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions Of A Texas Experience, Robert A. Calvert
Review Of Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions Of A Texas Experience, Robert A. Calvert
Great Plains Quarterly
Alamo Images is a catalog to accompany an exhibition of artifacts, artworks, books, broadsides, ephemera, memorabilia, pamphlets, motion picture posters, and other items relating to the Alamo that were displayed at Southern Methodist University in 1985 and 1986. The stated purpose of the book and of the exhibition was to "help explain both the Alamo of historical fact and the Alamo of our imagination" (p. 17). The general intellectual assumption behind the book was that the myth of the Alamo had evolved into such a historical icon of patriotism that any attempt at sorting out truth from fanciful fiction would …
Review Of The Mythic West In Twentieth-Century America, Brian W. Dippie
Review Of The Mythic West In Twentieth-Century America, Brian W. Dippie
Great Plains Quarterly
Robert G. Athearn's The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America is the capstone to a distinguished career in Western history. It is also a considerable departure from his other work. Athearn began with frontier military history, wrote extensively on railroads and the history of the High Country Empire, and delved into the exodus of blacks into Kansas at the end of the 1870s. His West, the Plains, began one tier of states west of the Mississippi and stopped one short of the Pacific.
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 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 Buckskins, Bullets, And Business: A History Of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Andrew Gulliford
Review Of Buckskins, Bullets, And Business: A History Of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Andrew Gulliford
Great Plains Quarterly
Of all the popular culture heroes of the American West, Buffalo Bill stands out as the quintessential frontiersman, hunter, Indian scout, cattle rancher, land speculator, and showman par excellence. The subject of countless dime novels, plays, melodramas, and no fewer than thirty five films, Colonel W. F. Cody was a living legend whose expertise in organizing and touring "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" made it one of the largest and longest running outdoor entertainments in history. For more than thirty years, between 1882 and 1913, the Wild West Show toured America and …
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 …