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Notes And News For Vol.14 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly

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Walking The Sky: Visionary Traditions Of The Great Plains, Lee Irwin

Great Plains Quarterly

The shared worldviews of the indigenous peoples of North America are rooted and linked in a rich pre-Columbian artifactual and oral past that is still highly active today. One perspective into these worlds is obtained by understanding the nature of dreams and visions. In traditional Native American cultures, such a perspective is an essential part of the search for spiritual knowledge where dreams and visions represent contacts with primordial sources of empowerment. To perceive this search for empowerment requires an appreciation of the visionary experience, an experience which has often been denied or marginalized in the dominant cultures.¹

Review Of Pike's Peak Vision: The Broadmoor Art Academy , 1919-1945, Barbara Racker

Great Plains Quarterly

Pike's Peak Vision: The Broadmoor Art Academy, 1919-1945 is a catalog for a 1989/90 exhibition organized by the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Co-curators and authors Stanley L. Cuba and Elizabeth Cunningham state that the exhibition was the first survey of the collections of the Broadmoor Art Academy and its successor, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

"A Gof-Forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology And The Dust Bowl, Brad Lookingbill

Great Plains Quarterly

On an idyllic Sunday in April 1935, people from Lubbock, Texas, to Topeka, Kansas, went on picnics, planted gardens, visited neighbors, and attended church. Communities had been punished with depression and drought, yet on that spring day Plains men and women felt assured that peace and safety had returned. Suddenly in midafternoon the air turned cold, and people noticed then that the sky had become filled with birds, fleeing from some unseen force. Fifteen-year-old Ida Mae Norman, driving home from a Palm Sunday church service with her family, saw a thin strip of black on the horizon north of Guymon, …

Writing The Little House: The Architecture Of A Series, Ann Romines

Great Plains Quarterly

Laura Ingalls Wilder's perennially popular Little House series takes as its central motif the invention, abandonment, and perpetuation of a series of Great Plains houses. In large part Wilder tells the autobiographical story of her childhood and adolescence through a plot of housing, a risky competition and collaboration of male traditions of buying and building and female traditions of furnishing, arrangement, preservation, and housekeeping. With her series, Wilder made Great Plains houses a central metaphor of U. S. culture, one that we continue to rethink and retell, as the Little House books proliferate, spawning everything from television reruns to porcelain …

Review Of The Home Plot: Women, Writing And Domestic Ritual, Evelyn I. Funda

Great Plains Quarterly

In entitling her book The Home Plot, Ann Romines refers not to a literal territory or the locus of domesticity, nor even to the Aristotelian, linear movement toward a denouement. "Plot," in the sense in which Romines uses it, is rather an on-going process akin to the daily routine of domestic ritual. The "home plot" is the rhythmic movement of the fiction as it is inspired by the nonprogressive, static, repetitive, non...linear domestic rituals of women's traditional lives. The term "domestic ritual," then, is especially significant because "Ritual implies repetition because the repeated act has or creates meaning, which …

Review Of A Nebraska Portfolio, Howard Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly

During a year spent driving around Nebraska, Robert Hanna would pull up in front of a deserted barber shop or an old country schoolhouse or a round barn and take out his sketchbook and pen. A Nebraska Portfolio is a collection of the sketches he made.

The Mediator Is The Message: Anna Dawe, Cana-Dawe, And Bad Lands As A State Of Mind, Bruce A. Butterfield

Great Plains Quarterly

As Hodgins's novel [The Invention of the World] eventually tells us, when you begin to disbelieve in external authority "you can begin to believe in yourself."-Frank Davey

Regionalism, Postmodernism, And Robert Kroetsch: An Introduction, Robert Kroetsch

Great Plains Quarterly

What is the discourse of region? How, in the complexity of our experience of the Great Plains, do we turn that experience, that place, that posture, into words?

The answers are many. And yet they cohere into something we call community. Discourse, in a way, is what enables us to tell each other that we recognize, that we care.

On the Great Plains, we garden. We garden against the odds. I recognized this one afternoon in Nebraska, standing in Frances W. Kaye's garden. We were watching a crow.

Review Of The Sternberg Fossil Hunters: A Dinosaur Dynasty., Gregory Brown

Great Plains Quarterly

Dinosaur! One hundred and fifty years after being coined by Sir Richard Owen, that word still evokes wonder. Every so often, the world seems to enter into a period of dinosaur hysteria. In case you've failed to notice, we're in one now, and it's a whopper. A well..placed dinosaur can sell anything: hamburgers, pencil boxes, movies, and of course, books. But make no mistake, this is not just another book about dinosaurs. It is a classic work about exploration, discovery, and growth.

Review Of Prince Charming Goes West: The Story Of The E. P. Ranch., Larry A. Mcfarlane

Great Plains Quarterly

This book is a history of the E. P. (Edward Prince) Ranch intertwined with a selective biography of H. R. H. Edward Windsor (Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor) during the forty.-three years he owned the property. Edward arranged for the purchase of the ranch after a visit to the Pekisko Creek district in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains' front ranges of southern Alberta in 1919. The author discusses Edward's motives for acquiring and retaining the 1440 acres and additional leased land and identifies the evolving management strategies and personnel connected with the ranch. In …

Notes And News For Vol.14 No.1

Great Plains Quarterly

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1994 Vol. 14 No. 1

Great Plains Quarterly

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Review Of The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts Told By Angeline Williams, Paul C. Brooke

Great Plains Quarterly

This book is tremendously valuable as a tool for understanding not only linguistic research but for understanding the life and culture of an Ojibwe woman. Angeline Williams, Biidaasigekwe or "Sunlight Woman," came to Virginia in 1941 from Sugar Island on the St. Mary's River to teach the Ojibwe language to Leonard Bloomfield. Bloomfield's subsequent translations and understanding of the Algonquian language family led to significant advances and changes in the study of linguistics. This series of Ojibwe stories and their up-todate translations to English illustrate the thoroughness of Bloomfield's linguistic research.

Review Of The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply And Demand, 1866-1890., Kenneth Dagel

Great Plains Quarterly

From Zane Grey novels to the television series Rawhide, the cattle-trailing period has always fascinated Americans. Jimmy M. Skaggs presents a very readable account of this brief but very important period in the settlement of the American West. Skaggs an economic historian structures his work as a study of the activities of Great Plains cattle-trailing contractors. First published in 1973 and now reprinted the book also includes information on the establishment of stockyards and commission companies. These were vital to the efficient handling of the tremendous influx of beef cattle being trailed up from Texas following the Civil War.

Review Of Homesteading Women: An Oral History Ofcolorado, 1890-1950, Evelyn I. Funda

Great Plains Quarterly

Julie Jones-Eddy has compiled her interviews with forty-seven women from northwestern Colorado into a work that preserves the women's perspective of homesteading. Like many oral histories, this one divides excerpts of the interviews thematically into subjects such as "Home and Family," "Marriage, Pregnancy, and Childbirth," and "Working Women." The excerpts address a range of women's homesteading experiences, from the art and precision of soap-making to the sorrow of nursing children during the 1918 flu epidemic. Although this format does not always allow the reader to see the pattern of an individual life, such groupings do recreate the pattern of women's …

Review Of Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story, Beatrice Medicine

Great Plains Quarterly

This book joins the burgeoning personal document data on Lakota women. The book, another as-told-to life history on Lakota women as in Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes and Cante ohitika Win (Bravehearted Women) by Carolyn Reyer, centers upon life on Cheyenne River reservation and presents another facet of feminine experiences. Collections of this genre-though often getting rave reviews in publications of the dominant society-evoke certain cautionary appraisals from persons in their natal communities. Perhaps many collectors of biography/ autobiography forget that the so-called target populations from which their subjects stem are literate.

Review Of Farmers, Hunters, And Colonists: Interaction Between The Southwest And Southern Plains, Russell M. Magnaghi

Great Plains Quarterly

The idea for this monograph goes back to September 1987 when the editor, Katherine Spielman, organized a meeting of scholars. A series of formal papers and discussions on the interaction of the Southwest and Plains Indians resulted, forming the basis of this work.

Review Of A Dakota-English Dictionary And An English-Dakota Dictionary, Allan R. Taylor

Great Plains Quarterly

There has been a good deal of interest in the Dakota dialects in recent years, due no doubt to a general increase in interest in American ethnicities since the 1960s. There has been even more interest in the language since the appearance of the film Dances with Wolves.

Admiring Advocate Of The Great Plains: Father Pierre, Jean De Smet, S. J., On The Middle Missouri, Robert Carriker

Great Plains Quarterly

The Great Plains fascinated Pierre-Jean De Smet. When describing his favorite haunts in the broad trans-Mississippi West, De Smet's letters bulged with superlatives. He used only grand and eloquent adjectives to describe the celestial peaks of the Rocky Mountains, the spewing geysers in the Yellowstone basin, The Dalles of the Columbia River, and the freeform, contorted rock formations that sprawled across the White Cliffs of the upper Missouri River. It was the Great Plains, however, that received from Father De Smet not only some of his most dramatic prose, but also some of his most perceptive comments regarding the future …

Index To Vol.14 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly

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Review Of A Prairie Populist: The Memoirs Of Luna Kellie., Susan Sessions Rugh

Great Plains Quarterly

Jane Taylor Nelsen has performed a great service for scholars of agrarian life by making available the autobiographical writings of Luna Kellie. Kellie, who migrated from Minnesota to the Nebraska frontier as a young wife in 1877, played an active part in Populist politics beginning in the 1890s. The awakening of her political consciousness grew out of her own experience as a farm wife struggling to wrest a living from the Nebraska soil while she and her husband raised a large family. Catapulted to the position of secretary to the state league by the popularity of a song she wrote, …

Review Of The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History, Harold J. Weiss Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly

From his home base in the English isles, Frederick Nolan has produced a first-rate source book on the Lincoln County War in New Mexico Territory (1878-1881). His encyclopedic coverage can be seen from two vantage points: as a study of the events themselves and as a research tool for academics and history buffs. As a documentary history the author's use of primary sources is-to say the least-impressive. In addition, his nearly 100 biographical sketches of participants in an appendix add depth to his analysis, and his inclusion of rare photographs, ample notations, and extensive bibliographical citations (with a listing of …

Jejich Antonie: Czechs, The Land, Cather, And The Pavelka Farmstead, David Murphy

Great Plains Quarterly

The literature of Willa Cather has long been praised for its rich and evocative description of place. Her raw material was drawn primarily from personal experiences in late nineteenth- century Webster County, Nebraska, during the period of initial settlement, and renewed by frequent visits home the first decades of this century. The Pavelka farmstead was one of the important places in her life; it was used as the setting for Book V of My Antonia and for "Neighbour Rosicky," a later short story.¹

Review Of Deer Women And Elk Men: The Lakota Narra... Tives Of Ella Deloria., Holly Rae Boomer

Great Plains Quarterly

Julian Rice presents Ella Deloria's work as part of the landscape of American literature without presenting an argument as to why the question of its noticeable absence exists and has never been answered. Although Rice does compare the conflict in Shakespearean plays to conflict in Deloria's collected stories to emphasize Lakota values and help contextu- alize her work as wholly American, the ques- tion remains as to why Deloria has to be justified.

Review Of Nebraska Diamonds: A Brief History Of Baseball Major Leaguers From The Cornhusker State, Stu Fliger Burns

Great Plains Quarterly

Has Nebraska produced baseball players of major league quality? The answer, according to Jerry Clark, is "Over a hundred, thank you." Nebraska Diamonds is a collection of biogra.. phies of major leaguers hailing from the Corn.. husker State. I t does not discriminate according to player quality, detailing the ca.. reers of both Sam Crawford, who had a hall of fame career, and John Sanders, who appeared in one game. Nor does it exclude non..lifetime Nebraska residents like Wade Boggs, born in Nebraska but raised in Florida. Some sketches include personal details, but most concentrate on each athlete's baseball career.

Review Of Writing Western History: Essays On Major Western Historians, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly

After a couple of decades adrift in the horse latitudes, western history and attendant historiographical debates have sailed smartly into the port of popular interest. Scholars have produced their books and articles; the popular press, sensitive to issues that touch ideas and images of national identity and culture, has given them unprecedented publicity.

Review Of The Eagle Bird: Mapping A New West, Francis Moulton

Great Plains Quarterly

In the coming battles over land, wilderness, water, and the quality of life in the West, how are we to reach a compromise and community of interests among all the contending parties? A good place to start, on all sides, would be to read this slim book of essays by one of the West's leading legal minds, Charles Wilkinson.

Review Of Under Western Skies: Nature And History In The American West, Donald J. Pisani

Great Plains Quarterly

No one is a more powerful spokesman for the New Western History than Donald Worster, and no western historian is a better storyteller. He writes with passion and eloquence, with deep concern for the future of the region as well as its past. Readers will find these essays thoughtful, stimulating, and contentious.

Review Of Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts By Don Hampton Biggers, Bob Ross

Great Plains Quarterly

The killing of the buffalo herds and introduction of domestic livestock was the pivotal ecological event in the recent history of the Great Plains. Don Biggers, a pioneer West Texas journalist, collected eyewitness accounts and produced History That Will Never Be Repeated and Pictures of the Past, published in 1901 and 1902 respectively. These valuable and lively books are now republished, along with diamond..sharp photographs from the same era, an introduction, and a brief biography of Biggers, under the title Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire.