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Review Of "Our Purpose Is To Serve"; The First Century Of The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Peter D. Shemitz
Review Of "Our Purpose Is To Serve"; The First Century Of The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Peter D. Shemitz
Great Plains Quarterly
Danbom's exhaustive account of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at Fargo usefully fills a gap in the history of agriculture on the Great Plains. The author explains how the experiment station was founded and the development of the main interests of its scientists: breeding varieties of crops and livestock, diversifying production, and adopting modem agricultural and business practices.
More Names On Inscription Rock: Travel Writers On The Great Plains In The 1980s, Nancy Cook
More Names On Inscription Rock: Travel Writers On The Great Plains In The 1980s, Nancy Cook
Great Plains Quarterly
As in decades past, in the 1980s dozens of writers packed up their vehicles and headed west, notebooks handy. Several accounts that cover the Great Plains were published, including Mark Abley's account of the Canadian Plains, Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies (1986); Out West (1987), by Dayton Duncan; The Solace of Open Spaces (1985), by Gretel Ehrlich; Ian Frazier's Great Plains (1989); The Necessity of Empty Places (1988), by Paul Gruchow; British mountaineer Gwen Moffat's Hard Road West: Alone on the California Trail (1981); and The Hidden West (1983), by Rob Schultheis.
Climate And Vegetation In Central North America: Natural Patterns And Human Alterations, John A. Harrington Jr, Jay R. Harman
Climate And Vegetation In Central North America: Natural Patterns And Human Alterations, John A. Harrington Jr, Jay R. Harman
Great Plains Quarterly
The characteristic patterns of climate and natural vegetation in central North America are strongly interrelated and result from an atmospheric circulation system that responds to both global and continental scale mechanisms. Climatic patterns arise in the region between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes or Mississippi River from the interactions between two major components of the global atmospheric circulation system, the tropical Hadley Cell and the extratropical, upper-level Westerlies. The Westerlies, particularly, are influenced and steered by thermal inequalities over the earth's surface as well as by terrain barriers such as the Rocky Mountain Cordillera. In addition, both the …
Review Of Historians Of The American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Dan Flores
Review Of Historians Of The American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Dan Flores
Great Plains Quarterly
As those who know him will attest, John Wunder's most important attributes as a scholar are his ability to brainstorm and his talent at infecting colleagues and collaborators with a contagious enthusiasm for interesting projects. Historians of the American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook is a product of those abilities, plus the research and writing talents of the authors Wunder has assembled. What emerges is a most important work on the early historiography of America's interaction with the North American wilderness. And as a book written by third and fourth generation frontier historians about the works and careers of the two …
Review Of Caprock Canyonlands: Journey Into The Heart Of The Southern Plains, Rudolfo A. Anaya
Review Of Caprock Canyonlands: Journey Into The Heart Of The Southern Plains, Rudolfo A. Anaya
Great Plains Quarterly
In the spring of 1984 Shelley Armitage invited me to lecture at West Texas State in Canyon, Texas. She and a colleague met me, and after dropping off my bags, they asked if I wanted to go for a ride to see a special place. It was a beautiful spring afternoon and I was glad for the fresh air. I remember seeing two sights I will never forget: one was living Texas longhorns in the brush, and the other was the beauty of the descent and drive through Palo Duro Canyon.
Climate Change On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Francis W. Kaye
Climate Change On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Francis W. Kaye
Great Plains Quarterly
In April of 1990 the Center for Great Plains Studies held its thirteenth annual symposium, entitled "Looking Back from the Twenty-First Century: Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Plains." Scholars from a number of fields, especially climatologists and geologists but also social scientists and literary critics, presented papers dealing with past evidence of climatic conditions and climate change, with present evidence of global warming and predictions about its consequences, and with human responses to weather and to climate change. In addition the symposium featured readings by poets and prose writers dealing with climate, weather, and perceptions of the Plains, …
Review Of Tum Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam And Mary Maverick, David J. Murrah
Review Of Tum Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam And Mary Maverick, David J. Murrah
Great Plains Quarterly
Paula Mitchell Marks's Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas is a dual biography of Sam and Mary Maverick, Texas pioneers who were eyewitnesses to the Texas Revolution and the exciting years that followed in its immediate aftermath. Based primarily on the personal diaries and papers of the Mavericks, Marks's work virtually personalizes the Revolution, beginning with Sam Maverick's arrival in San Antonio prior to its 1835 siege and the March, 1836 Battle of the Alamo. Even though he was a newcomer to Texas, Maverick played an important role in the San Antonio skirmishes and was elected by the Alamo garrison to …
Review Of The Cherokee, William L. Anderson
Review Of The Cherokee, William L. Anderson
Great Plains Quarterly
In The Cherokee Theda Perdue achieves superbly two goals-to give an accurate account of Cherokee history and culture from pre-white contact to the present while simultaneously dispelling any present misunderstanding derived from "unsympathetic, culturally biased and inaccurate reports."
Review Of The Voice In The Margin: Native American Literature And The Canon, Charles G. Ballard
Review Of The Voice In The Margin: Native American Literature And The Canon, Charles G. Ballard
Great Plains Quarterly
Readers will find this heady mixture of postmodernist ideas and qualifications, Indianist viewpoints, and generous helpings of Native American material quite enjoyable and informative. Perhaps in this scholarly book the hors d'oeuvres, or the first several chapters, are formidable enough to drop the reader to his or her knees, but the effort required is indeed worthwhile.
Review Of Farmers "Making Good": The Development Of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920, Thomas K. Baldwin D. Isern
Review Of Farmers "Making Good": The Development Of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920, Thomas K. Baldwin D. Isern
Great Plains Quarterly
Incidental to interpretation of the W. R. Motherwell home, in Saskatchewan, Canada Parks Service presents the community of regional historians with this excellent monograph by Lyle Dick, a historian at its Winnipeg offices. Farmers' 'Making Good" is local history of a high order, incorporating the best scholarship, rising to broadly regional significance.
Review Of The Middle West: Its Meaning In American Culture., David D. Van Tassel
Review Of The Middle West: Its Meaning In American Culture., David D. Van Tassel
Great Plains Quarterly
This book is a well-argued analysis of a variety of sources in the tradition of Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden. While Shortridge does not attempt to lay to rest the question of the objective existence of a midwestern culture or examine the nature of that culture and its origins, his work will nevertheless stimulate a good deal of debate and further research.
Review Of The Yankton Sioux, Micheal L. Tate
Review Of The Yankton Sioux, Micheal L. Tate
Great Plains Quarterly
Although numerous nonfiction works about American Indians fill juvenile sections of public libraries, most are written by educators who know little about the subtleties of Indian life. The result is a myriad of books that reflect a "Great Chiefs" approach, or worse yet, a type of composite Native American hero distilltribes for the young adult and general reading audience, Frank W. Porter III, DirectorofChelsea House Foundation for the Study of American Indians, has initiated a 53-volume series of tribally and topically organized books. The length of each volume is rigidly maintained at 111 pages, and the list of projected authors …
"Pap" Singleton's Dunlap Colony: Relief Agencies And The Failure Of A Black Settlement In Easter Kansas, Joseph V. Hickey
"Pap" Singleton's Dunlap Colony: Relief Agencies And The Failure Of A Black Settlement In Easter Kansas, Joseph V. Hickey
Great Plains Quarterly
"T here are gathered at Dunlap and vicinity at the present time between 275 and 300 families of colored people, all of whom are succeeding quite well and many of whom are on the road to prosperity. The plan of Dunlap Colony is very simple, the chief reason, probably, of the success met with, being the fact that every settler is compelled to own his property, no renting being permitted ... as Mr. Atchison expressed it, "everyone is fat and happy . . ."
British Remittance Men As Ranchers: The Case Of Coutts Marjoribanks And Edmund Thursby, 1884-95, Larry A. Mcfarlane
British Remittance Men As Ranchers: The Case Of Coutts Marjoribanks And Edmund Thursby, 1884-95, Larry A. Mcfarlane
Great Plains Quarterly
Frederick Jackson Turner's is only the most compelling of many accounts that portrayed the frontier West as a region of opportunity where sturdy individuals from modest social and economic backgrounds could get a leg up o~ the ladder of success. This frontier was a healthier place than longer settled areas because westerners valued newcomers for their hard work, for what they could do, not for their family status or wealth, and individuals achieved whatever level of success their own abilities and motivations allowed. But as British and even eastern travelers to the frontier often reported, this egalitarianism often had a …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1991 Vol. 11 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1991 Vol. 11 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Review Of Ronald Reagan And The Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984, William D. Rowley
Review Of Ronald Reagan And The Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984, William D. Rowley
Great Plains Quarterly
The Reagan years, having magically passed into history, are now the subjects of articles and books by historians, political scientists, and in this case an academic journalist, who builds a tightly constructed book out of the press releases of the period.
Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.
Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
For most Americans, "The Great Plains" evokes images of grasslands, dust storms, prairie fires, Indians on horseback, cowboys and wheat lands, and perhaps flat valleys crossed by braided rivers carrying a heavy load of sand and gravel, extremes of weather, and a climate typified by an alternation of droughts and wetter periods. Geologists picture such general images, too, but they also see radical changes in the landscape over periods expressed in millions rather than hundreds of years. Geologically speaking, human activities on the Great Plains are too recent to have much of a place in the broad geologic history of …
Male Teachers, Male Roles: The Progressive Era And Education In Oklahoma, Courtney Ann Farr, Jeffrey A. Liles
Male Teachers, Male Roles: The Progressive Era And Education In Oklahoma, Courtney Ann Farr, Jeffrey A. Liles
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1975 a total of sixty-seven Anglo men responded to a letter sent to all its members by the Oklahoma Retired Teachers Association (ORTA), asking them to record in autobiographical sketches their reasons for becoming teachers and the benefits that they had derived from that choice. l A collective portrait of these transitional professional men spans the Progressive Era, the 1920s, and the Great Depression and, in so doing, describes two sets of phenomena: first, the social context within which the men became teachers and administrators-- communities' willingness to pay men more and to exclude women from so-called "male" positions-and …
Willard Kimball: Music Educator On The Great Plains, Marilyn Hammond, Raymond Haggh
Willard Kimball: Music Educator On The Great Plains, Marilyn Hammond, Raymond Haggh
Great Plains Quarterly
Histories of American music are largely histories of that part of the United States that lies east of the Mississippi, especially of the eastern seaboard. H. Wiley Hitchcock in his Music in the United States tends to dismiss the area to the west of such cities as Chicago, Kansas City, and St. Louis as of little importance for American music history, but because almost no research has been done on the music of that area, he has nothing on which to base his assumptions. For the researcher who troubles to look for it, there is ample evidence in the periodicals …
Index To Fall 1991 Vol.11 No.4
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1991 Vol. 11 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1991 Vol. 11 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Review Of Ojibway Music From Minnesota: Continuity And Change., Kenton Bales
Review Of Ojibway Music From Minnesota: Continuity And Change., Kenton Bales
Great Plains Quarterly
According to an old Native American axiom cited by Jamake Highwater, "An ear of corn is a very complicated organism. But for the corn plant, it is simple." Likewise, much Native American music seems mysterious and exotic, since it comes from a culture vastly dissimilar to that of Anglo- and Afro-Americans. This book and the accompanying tape do a great deal to clarify the role of music among the organism we call the Ojibways.
Review Of Cheyennes And Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition And The Battle Of Solomon's Fork, Donald J. Berthrong
Review Of Cheyennes And Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition And The Battle Of Solomon's Fork, Donald J. Berthrong
Great Plains Quarterly
During the summer of 1857, Colonel Edwin Vos Sumner and his troops invaded Cheyenne and Arapaho land. By the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie the two tribes were recognized as the occupants of western Kansas and eastern Colorado between the Platte and Arkansas rivers. The treaty also tried to prevent intertribal warfare and to protect emigrants and commerce over the platte River road and the Santa Fe Trail. After a conflict in 1856 at the Upper Platte bridge, Cheyenne war parties attacked wagon trains on the Platte River road. Whether the raiders were all Southern Cheyennes or if they were …
Review Of "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" And Other Songs Cowboys Sing, Rick Cypert
Review Of "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" And Other Songs Cowboys Sing, Rick Cypert
Great Plains Quarterly
Readers whose sensibilities allow them to get beyond this book title and songs like "Peter Pullin' Blues" and "Honky-Tonk Asshole" (two of my favorites) will recognize what a valuable contribution Logsdon has made to the fields of folklore, history, and sociolinguistics. As he suggests in the preface, part of his purpose in this book is to place the romanticized image of the cowboy in its proper perspective. And despite the appeal of B-grade Western characters, as Logsdon says, there is a difference between what he calls "fake-lore" and "folklore."
Review Of Rich Grass And Sweet Water: Ranch Life With The Koch Matador Cattle Company, Albert T. Davis
Review Of Rich Grass And Sweet Water: Ranch Life With The Koch Matador Cattle Company, Albert T. Davis
Great Plains Quarterly
Ranch life doesn't lend itself well to paper. The lifestyle of the cowboy or cowgirl is not something that can be reproduced easily. The subtleties of nature, its weather, beauty, ruthlessness, and its serenity are too complex for most authors to conquer easily. Too often ranching books become simple recitals of where, when, how much, how large, how many, how bad, or how good. John Lincoln's Rich Grass and Sweet Water is one of the few books that is able to portray successfully the life of the cowman.
Review Of Colorado Catholicism And The Archdiocese Of Denver, 1857-1989, Denis R. Fournier
Review Of Colorado Catholicism And The Archdiocese Of Denver, 1857-1989, Denis R. Fournier
Great Plains Quarterly
The early sections of this very readable history of the Catholic Church in Colorado will be of special interest to fans of Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop who are interested in the historicity of her character Father Joseph Vaillant, based on Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, first bishop of Colorado. The author mines Howlett's Life of Bishop Machebeuf (one of Cather's sources), other ecclesiastical histories, and the local church archives for interesting information, some of it significant and some trivial, about Machebeuf and the problems he faced in Colorado. For instance, did you ever suspect that the effectiveness of Machebeuf's preaching …
Review Of An Illustrated History Of The Arts In South Dakota, Norman A. Geske
Review Of An Illustrated History Of The Arts In South Dakota, Norman A. Geske
Great Plains Quarterly
In the concluding pages of this nearly fourhundred- page volume the author acknowledges previous attempts to write the history of the arts in South Dakota and concludes, quite properly, that "the large task lies ahead." One wonders how much larger the task might be in the light of the present work, which covers the performing arts, the visual arts, and the literary arts, with a special section devoted to the arts of the Sioux. It appears in a review of the 132 chapters, many of them dealing with single individuals and organizations, that a conscious effort was made to leave …
Review Of Beyond The Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism And A Sense Of Place, Barbara L. Imig
Review Of Beyond The Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism And A Sense Of Place, Barbara L. Imig
Great Plains Quarterly
Rather than embarking upon a quest for the ever-illusionary "new beginning" in a "new land," Harold P. Simonson in Beyond the Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism and a Sense of Place argues that the frontier metaphor has synthesized into a sense of place and that place is "home."
Review Of The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions Of Western Indians, Peter Maslowski
Review Of The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions Of Western Indians, Peter Maslowski
Great Plains Quarterly
Careful students of the American West have long realized that making valid generalizations about the officers who served in the frontier army is extraordinarily difficult. For example, a major theme in Soldier West: Biographies from the Military Frontier (1987), edited by Paul Andrew Hutton, was the rich variety in experiences, interests, and personalities among army officers. Now, Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, demonstrates how ambivalent and contradictory the officers were in their perceptions of virtually every aspect of Indian affairs. And, importantly, she recognizes that officers' wives also lived on "officers' …