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Book Review: The Making Of A Lynching Culture: Violence And Vigilantism In Central Texas, 1836-1916, Alwyn Barr
Book Review: The Making Of A Lynching Culture: Violence And Vigilantism In Central Texas, 1836-1916, Alwyn Barr
Great Plains Quarterly
This Volume focuses on extralegal violence and its Causes in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, The author is especially interested in the role of historical memory in sustaining the use of violence for a seven-county region in Central Texas on the edge of the Great Plains.
Book Review: Conversations With Texas Writers, Don B. Graham
Book Review: Conversations With Texas Writers, Don B. Graham
Great Plains Quarterly
This book contains fifty interviews with "Texas" writers, including one "interview" with a dead writer, the pulp hero Robert E. Howard (author of the Conan books, etc.). It's actually Howard's biographer who's interviewed, which is odd and conveys a significance that's unwarranted. The book is also a bit Austin-centric, as twenty of the authors live in the capital city.
Book Review: The Oregon Trail: An American Saga, Howard Jablon
Book Review: The Oregon Trail: An American Saga, Howard Jablon
Great Plains Quarterly
David Dary's The Oregon Trail is a pleasant excursion on a well-traveled road. His hook is not a trail-blazing work of the stature of such classics as Francis Parkman's The California and Oregon Trail (1849) and Bernard De Voto's The Year of Decision, 1846 (1943), nor is it as erudite as John D. Unruh's The Plains Across (1979) nor as encyclopedic as Merrill J. Matte's Platte River Road Narratives (1988); however, it remains a useful introduction to the subject.
Book Review: The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets, Judith Sornberger
Book Review: The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets, Judith Sornberger
Great Plains Quarterly
Kooser's Poetry Home Repair Manual goes a long way toward aiding poets in finding ways to reflect that "order beyond" with lots of practical advice from someone they will find delightful to hang out with.
Book Review: The Railroad And The State: War, Politics, And Technology In Nineteenth-Century America, James A. Ward
Book Review: The Railroad And The State: War, Politics, And Technology In Nineteenth-Century America, James A. Ward
Great Plains Quarterly
Angevine's book is a thought-provoking new look at how the railroads affected the United States. Among other things, it promotes a fresh understanding of why the government took over the railways in 1917 to unsnarl traffic at eastern ports.
Book Review: Indian Country: Essays On Contemporary Native Culture, William Asikinack
Book Review: Indian Country: Essays On Contemporary Native Culture, William Asikinack
Great Plains Quarterly
In examining this volume, I came to realize very quickly that Valaskakis is following the style of a traditional North American Indigenous person whom we are meeting for the first time. By way of introduction, she speaks about her family and family life, in a narrative style, in chapter 1. She finishes the book by going full circle and returning to how we are "all related."
Book Review: When Skins Were Money: A History Of The Fur Trade, Peter Bleed
Book Review: When Skins Were Money: A History Of The Fur Trade, Peter Bleed
Great Plains Quarterly
When Skins Were Money: A History of the Fur Trade is James A. Hanson's grand synthesis of the trade in furs and skins that is the focus of the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska. Like the museum itself, When Skins Were Money has a worldwide scope and a long view as it seeks to describe the evolution and impacts of the fur trade. Its basic premise, that the fur trade has been important to world history but underappreciated and misunderstood, is advanced in a well-produced volume filled with wonderful things. Most pages have handsome illustrations that support …
Book Review: Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux And The Canadian-American Borderlands, James T. Carroll
Book Review: Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux And The Canadian-American Borderlands, James T. Carroll
Great Plains Quarterly
The history of the Sioux people of the Northern Plains is complicated by the artificial boundary line between the United States and Canada. This division has prevented a complete and thorough treatment of Sioux history since most scholars focus on either the American or Canadian portions of the saga. David McCrady's Living with Strangers, however, fills this gap for the nineteenth-century portion of Sioux history. McCrady defines and develops a theory of borderlands and adroitly applies his ideas to the Sioux who ignored diplomatic boundaries and benefited from multiple illicit crossings. Native peoples were pragmatic, self-serving, and clever in manipulating …
Book Review: Learning To Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience And American Indian Literature, Bruce E. Johansen
Book Review: Learning To Write "Indian": The Boarding-School Experience And American Indian Literature, Bruce E. Johansen
Great Plains Quarterly
In a twist on assimilation, many boarding-school students used the English language, a primary tool of colonization, to "talk back" to the system. As surely as the boarding-schools' inventors understood that language is the vessel of culture, none of them gave much thought to the ways in which Native Americans would use English to critique the schools into which many of them had been unwillingly enrolled.
Their writings, examined by Amelia Katanski, indicate that the boarding-school students were unwilling to surrender as victims. Learning English describes how Native American students in boarding schools often forged new identities, taking a degree …
Book Review: Mirror To America: The Autobiography Of John Hope Franklin, Ben Keppel
Book Review: Mirror To America: The Autobiography Of John Hope Franklin, Ben Keppel
Great Plains Quarterly
With Mirror to America John Hope Franklin has given his colleagues an extremely valuable document for understanding American society in his lifetime. Franklin grew up in the segregated West. To those who see in segregation a lost world of unity and cohesion, Franklin offers up his account of a boyhood in Rentiesville, Oklahoma. His account leaves no doubt that so-called "black towns" were as prone to deep divisions founded in prejudice and profound pettiness masquerading as high principle as any other congregation of humans. His experiences as an adolescent in "T-Town" (Tulsa) also argue powerfully against the notion that virulent …
Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman
Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman
Great Plains Quarterly
During World War I a crowd in Lewistown, Montana, removed all German language textbooks from the high school and burned them while forcing the principal to kiss the American flag. Elsewhere in Montana, residents were convicted of sedition for uttering casual remarks about the inefficiencies of wartime food rationing or refusing to buy Liberty Bonds. German-speaking residents of Montana were fined and imprisoned for voicing their pacifism, socialism, or even their skepticism, whether in a beer hall or from the pulpit. With newspapers declaring that there were "but two classes of citizens: patriots and traitors," the state and the nation …
Book Review: America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life And Works, Leroy L. Panek
Book Review: America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life And Works, Leroy L. Panek
Great Plains Quarterly
Mignon Eberhart occupies a singular place in the history of American crime fiction. She began writing in 1923, at the beginning of what would become known as the "golden age" of detective fiction. The age was golden both because of the quality of some of the writers who took up and reshaped the form and because publishers discovered that marketing detective stories could make them a lot of money. Eberhart became one of the best-known mystery writers of her times. H. R. F. Keating called her a "star writer" and Gertrude Stein described her as one of the "best mystifiers …
Book Review: The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans And Whites In The Progressive Era, Mark R. Scherer
Book Review: The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans And Whites In The Progressive Era, Mark R. Scherer
Great Plains Quarterly
The notion that the federal government's relationship with Native American nations has been chronically "confused" is one of the most familiar truisms in American history. Countless commentators have chronicled the ebb and flow of federal Indian policy among the wildy disparate goals of extinguishment, displacement, assimilation, and self-determination. Given the widespread acceptance of that fundamental premise, Tom Holm's The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs may at first glance appear to offer only superfluous support for an already obvious point. Fortunately, however, Holm's work offers a good deal more than mere reiteration, providing subtly significant new insights into the nuances of …
Book Review: Stepping Twice Into The River: Following Dakota Waters, Gary Totten
Book Review: Stepping Twice Into The River: Following Dakota Waters, Gary Totten
Great Plains Quarterly
During his year-long journey along North Dakota's Sheyenne River, Robert King travels not merely for pleasure or personal fulfillment but to share "local truth true in general," in the process discovering how North Dakota's "Nowhere" becomes "Everywhere." The book's title and controlling metaphor come from Heraclitus, who insisted that one cannot step into the same river twice. King, however, seeks to do just that, claiming that he intends to "step into the same river" as did French geograpJoseph Nicollet, who crossed the Sheyenne in the 1830s while mapping the Mississippi waterway.
Book Review: Shadows On The Rock, Steven Trout
Book Review: Shadows On The Rock, Steven Trout
Great Plains Quarterly
As James Woodress, Willa Cather's foremost biographer, remarks, "An historical novel laid in Quebec in the seventeenth century seems an unlikely product from the pen of Willa Cather." Unlikely and unwelcome, some readers might add. Indeed, Shadows on the Rock (1931) is perhaps the most forbidding of Cather's works. Plotless, slowly paced, and indifferent to the conventions of standard historical fiction, the novel focuses on a single year in the lives of two fictional characters-Euclide Auclair, an apothecary who has left his practice in Paris for the wilds of French Canada, and Cecile, his twelve-year-old daughter. Real-life figures, such as …
Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander
Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander
Great Plains Quarterly
As a biologist, Theodore Sargent has taken a different approach to the life and work of Massachusetts writer Elaine Goodale Eastman. For instance, he admires her childhood poetry published when she was living at Sky Farm in the Berkshires. He likes her "eye for detail and skill with words," although many literary scholars have dismissed her verse as conventional in form and sentimental in content.
Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker
Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker
Great Plains Quarterly
In the culture of the American West, the term "authenticity" comes close to "frontier" in its ubiquity, resonance, and elusiveness. The fifteen essays in this outstanding collection clarify how authenticity has functioned in cultural and literary settings. Instead of simply distinguishing the "fake" from the "authentic," they explore the nature and consequences of quests for and claims to authenticity. Readers interested in the Great Plains will find rewarding essays on literature, environment, and the uses of American Indian history.
Book Review: The Children's Blizzard, Gwen K. Bedient
Book Review: The Children's Blizzard, Gwen K. Bedient
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1888 a blizzard of epic proportions hit a broad swath of the Dakota Territory, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota. In many areas a mild winter day changed to a total whiteout in a matter of minutes just as schools were dismissing for the day, resulting in a disproportionate number of children dying. The blizzard came to be known as the schoolchildren's blizzard and is still talked about today. My own grandfather as a nine-year-old schoolboy was caught in the storm near Columbus, Nebraska, and saved by an older brother who led his siblings along a creek to their farmstead. David …
Book Review: Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing In The North American West, Larry Ellis
Book Review: Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing In The North American West, Larry Ellis
Great Plains Quarterly
Prior to the middle of the twentieth century, North American autobiography was defined largely by chronological, full-life narratives written by and about "great men." Since then, the canons of "self-lifewriting" have expanded to include not only memoir, diary, and correspondence, but also genres as far afield as autoethnography, oral tradition, and pictography. In Western Subjects: Autobiographical Writing in the North American West, editors Kathleen A. Boardman and Gioia Woods chart contemporary theoretical and critical approaches to North American autobiography in an anthology of intriguing, cogent essays that explore how autobiographers construct, communicate, and perform self in relation to its …
Book Review: The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight And Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856, Mark R. Ellis
Book Review: The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight And Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856, Mark R. Ellis
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1855, General William S. Harney's Sioux Expedition smashed into Little Thunder's Lakota village along Blue Water Creek (Ash Hollow) in western Nebraska. The attack was in retaliation for the killing of Lt. John Grattan and twenty-nine soldiers near Fort Laramie the year before. When the shooting stopped, at least eighty-six Lakotas, including many women and children, lay dead or dying. The violence at Blue Water Creek was part of what both R. Eli Paul and Paul N. Beck call "The First Sioux War." While Red Cloud's War, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee Massacre are …
"Just Following The Buffalo": Origins Of A Montana Métis Community, Martha Harroun Foster
"Just Following The Buffalo": Origins Of A Montana Métis Community, Martha Harroun Foster
Great Plains Quarterly
By 1879 the vast buffalo herds were all but gone from the Great Plains. Many of the remaining animals had moved south from the Milk River of northern Montana and Alberta into the Judith Basin of central Montana. In these rich grasslands, for a few more years, life went on as it had for centuries. Following the buffalo came many Indian bands, as well as Métis who had been hunting on the Milk River for decades. A buffalo~based economy had brought prosperity to the Native people of the Plains. The animals provided essential food and materials in addition to products …
Book Review: The Fred Jones Jr. Museum Of Art At The University Of Oklahoma: Selected Works, Gary Hood
Book Review: The Fred Jones Jr. Museum Of Art At The University Of Oklahoma: Selected Works, Gary Hood
Great Plains Quarterly
In an effort to outline the depth of the collections of the University of Oklahoma Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art, Selected Works is a genuine mix of many varying styles and media. After gifts of Asian art formed the beginnings of the OU art collection in the 1930s, a significant acquisition was made by founding director Oscar Jacobson in 1948 consisting of 117 American paintings from the "Advancing American Art" exhibition organized by the u.s. Department of State. Many of the works are illustrated. The paintings cover the gamut of American Modernism, including work by Georgia O'Keeffe, Romare Bearden, …
Book Review: A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism And The Battle For Justice And Equality, 1854-1903, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Book Review: A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism And The Battle For Justice And Equality, 1854-1903, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Great Plains Quarterly
Across the landscape of modern American politics, the "Populist moment," as Lawrence Goodwyn's 1976 study labeled it, has fascinated scholars. Indeed, late nineteenth-century Populism posed a vocal and effectual political voice for Gilded Age America's discontented. Since his original 1969 study, Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men, O. Gene Clanton has meticulously examined the fundamental role of Kansa, Populists in shaping local and national politics. A Common Humanity, with great efficacy, revisits and reinterprets Kansas's Populism as a fight for fundamental working-class rights and agrarian values, amidst industrialization gone awry.
Book Review: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis In A Canadian Family, 1660 -1900, Frits Pannekoek
Book Review: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis In A Canadian Family, 1660 -1900, Frits Pannekoek
Great Plains Quarterly
The current historiography of the Great Plains Metis finds its roots in the work of Sylvia Van Kirk, Jennifer Brown, Jacqueline Petersen, and to a lesser degree John Foster. These and other contributions have been outlined in my "Metis Studies: The Development of a Field and New Directions" in From Rupert's Land to Canada: Essays in Honor of John E Foster (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001).
Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins
Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins
Great Plains Quarterly
This is an important book if only for the reason that it will make many reconsider what they think they know about the Cherokees. Their early history, like that of any people, is obscured in the dimness of the past. While some of the early story may be reconstructed through surviving myth and modern theory, much uncertainty clouds origins and early migration patterns. After white contact and the chronicles and accounts of traders, missionaries, and adventurers are written, the veil isn't entirely lifted. Many written records pose more questions than they answer. For example, when the British first came upon …
Which Place, What Story?: Cultural Discourses At The Border Of The Blackfeet Reservation And Glacier National Park, Donal Carbaugh, Lisa Rudnick
Which Place, What Story?: Cultural Discourses At The Border Of The Blackfeet Reservation And Glacier National Park, Donal Carbaugh, Lisa Rudnick
Great Plains Quarterly
Among every known people, places are named, and in every known place, stories are told. Yet as one place, Jerusalem, makes so abundantly clear, the meanings of the place and the variety of stories attached to it can derive from a variety of traditions and can lead in many different directions. Just as various pilgrims are drawn to some sacred places, so do all people, in all places, come to know the meanings of at least some places through names, with the stories about them capturing their deeper significance, from the sacred to the mundane. Yet for each such place, …
Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert
Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert
Great Plains Quarterly
Judging from the title, one might expect this book to offer some resolution to America's ongoing debate regarding the teaching of evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. It is, instead, Janovy's attempt to shake higher education by the shoulders and bring it to its senses, asking that university instruction shift its focus from content to larger questions of process and values (for want of a better term: liberal arts and sciences). As Janovy states, "I contend that the arts and sciences ideals - breadth of understanding, courage to explore anywhere, patience with disagreement - are the best antidotes to our current …
Book Review: Prairie Gothic: The Story Of A West Texas Family, Paul H. Carlson
Book Review: Prairie Gothic: The Story Of A West Texas Family, Paul H. Carlson
Great Plains Quarterly
The upper West Texas area is a huge region of the southern Great Plains. Including the Rolling Plains, the South Plains, the Texas Panhandle, and more, it is, except for Amarillo and Lubbock, mostly an empty country, characterized by cattle raising and wheat and cotton growing. Big operations with extensive fields and large pastures seem to dominate the agricultural economy. Partly as a result, rural populations, except for the big cities, are in decline, railroads are shutting down, county governments are going broke, and school districts are consolidating.
Volume 26, Number 4 Editorial Matter
Volume 26, Number 4 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly
Table of Contents, News, and Notes.
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Great Plains Quarterly
Located at the crossroads of America, Kansas had long experience of interstate migrants. For many decades armies of workers had entered the state to pursue the harvest of a number of crops, or to pick up whatever work was available on their way west in pursuit of a more rewarding life. The U.S. population was highly mobile and migration played an essential role in a vigorously expanding economy. Ailing transients, especially tubercular cases, had as their destination the pure, dry air of the Southwest. To these we can add indeterminate numbers of seasonal workers, ex-veterans, homeless boys, peddlers, beggars, and …