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Review Of The Mounted Police And Prairie Society, 1873 - 1919, Edited By William M. Baker., Morris Mott

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

From its creation in 1873 until the end of the First World War, when it was given Dominion- wide responsibilities, the North West Mounted Police primarily enforced the law on the Canadian Prairies and in the Canadian North. By 1904, its reputation as an effective frontier Force was so positive it was designated the Royal North West Mounted Police. Until the 1970s, historical writing on the Force tended toward the antiquarian and overly reverential; since then it has become more searching. In this volume William M. Baker draws attention to some of the best work on the Force from the …

Review Of From Mountain Man To Millionaire: The “Bold And Dashing Life” Of Robert Campbell, By William R. Nester., Jay H. Buckley

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert Campbell's story has finally been told. Although at least three theses and one dissertation covering some aspect or period of his life (1804-1879) do exist, William Nester has now rendered an excellent full-dress biography of this Rocky Mountain entrepreneur, St. Louis businessman, and Indian commissioner.

Review Of Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience Edited By John R. Wunder, Frances W. Kaye, And Vernon Carstensen, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Americans View Their Dust Bowl Experience is a substantial compilation of primary and secondary materials related to the agricultural crisis of the 1930s. Begun in the 1960s by the late Vernon Carstensen, it has only recently been completed by his co-editors. The book contains a number of articles from the New York Times and other national publications related to various aspects of the farmers' plight during the Great Depression, as well as secondary articles reprinted from Great Plains Quarterly, North Dakota History, Annals of Iowa, Nebraska History, Agricultural History, South Dakota History, and Montana: The Magazine of Western History. …

Review Of The New Encyclopedia Of The American West Edited By Howard R. Lamar, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Reader's Encyclopedia of the American West, edited by Yale historian Howard Lamar and published by Thomas Y. Crowell Company in 1977, was a pretty good book, bringing to the American public the first comprehensive single-volume treatment of the history of the West. But that reference work has now been superseded-and dwarfed-by this new rendition, also edited by Lamar. More than 1250 pages of three-column text, 1.5 million words in all, are given over to 2400 alphabetically ordered entries written by more than three hundred scholars. Long thematic entries, on the fur trade or railroads, for example, are interspersed …

States Of Being In The Dark Removal And Survival In Linda Hogan's Mean Spirit, Eric Gary Anderson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1990, Chickasaw poet Linda Hogan published her first novel, Mean Spirit, a well-received and yet controversial account of the Osage oil boom of the 1920s and the subsequent rash of criminal conspiracies and murders that has come to be known as the "Osage Reign of Terror."² The story she tells is often grim and violent; it returns again and again to "states of being in the dark" (44), which Hogan depicts as a wide-ranging confusion and uncertainty that afflicts many of her characters and demonstrates the period's turbulence to her readers. But the story is also resolutely …

Changing The Pitch Americanism, Athleticism, And The Development Of Legion Baseball In Nebraska, Kent M. Krause

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Since its inception in 1928, American Legion Junior Baseball has been popular in Nebraska. Although originally started to advance the Legion's ideological agenda of Americanism, the primary factor in the success of Junior Baseball has been an active level of support from the citizens and businesses in the state's communities. The Legion's program acquired and maintained such support because of the variety of functions it served in towns and cities across the state. First and foremost, Junior Baseball teams were important sources of civic pride to Nebraskans who enthusiastically backed their local boys. The program also provided local businesses with …

Review Of The New Western History: The Territory Ahead Edited By Forrest O. Robinson, Cheryll Glotfelty

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"The New Western History is now old enough to have a history," observes Jerome Frisk, lead essayist of The New Western History: The Territory Ahead. Apparently it is also influential enough to interest scholars outside the discipline of history. The seven contributors to this volume, representing literary studies, American studies, and natural resource management, evaluate the core texts of the New Western History's "Gang of Four"; William Cronon, Patricia Limerick, Richard White, and Donald Worster. These historians are known for their objections to the work of Frederick Jackson Turner, whose "frontier thesis," they argue, told a one-sided story of …

Review Of The Caddo Chiefdoms: Caddo Economics And Politics, 700-1835 By David La Vere, Helen Hornbeck-Tanner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Caddos, to use their American-devised collective name, actually lived "from time immemorial" on the southeastern margin of the Great Plains. In the sixteenth century, their aboriginal territory of fifteen or twenty communities, with dispersed settlements, encompassed a vast area surrounding the middle course of the Red River in the present states of Oklahoma, Texas, Louisiana, and Arkansas. As the most western and longest-surviving of the great Mississippian states, Caddos provide a vantage point for viewing Great Plains history over many centuries. La Vere's interpretation of this lengthy saga appears to emphasize the long-lasting chiefdoms whose end he correlates with …

Review Of Mangas Coloradas: Chief Of The Chiricahua Apaches By Edwin R. Sweeney, H. Henrietta Stockel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Inch by inch Sweeney drags readers through the military life and times of one of the Chiricahua Apaches' most noted leaders Mangas Coloradas. With certain exceptions noted below, the author describes what quite possibly was every major event in this famous chief's life from cradle to grave. Here briefly are stories of his youth, the Native customs applied to children, the activities and the lessons all Chiricahua children learn in growing up. Here too are descriptions of later battles led by Mangas Coloradas and fought in two countries, the attempts to make peace, the successes and failures of those arrangements, …

Review Of To Show Heart: Native American Self-Determination And Federal Indian Policy, 1960-1975 By George Pierre Castile, Larry Burt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Since the 1970s self-determination has been the dominant theme of federal Indian policy. The general concept goes back to President Woodrow Wilson's proposed principles to govern the post-World War I world. In Indian affairs it has come to mean a government-to government relationship managed largely by the federal government's contracting with tribal governments to carry out many administrative functions.

This important new work traces the development of self-determination. It has something of an "insider" perspective because George Pierre Castile, an anthropologist, served in the Indian division of President Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity (OEO). Castile finds the first stirrings …

The Influence Of Willa Cather's French-Canadian Neighbors In Nebraska In Death Comes For The Archbishop And Shadows On The Rock, Kathleen Danker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Willa Cather's high regard for French traditions and culture is reflected in many of her writings, including the novels O Pioneers! (1913), One of Ours (1922), The Professor's House (1925), Death Comes for the Archbishop (1927), Shadows on the Rock (1931), and her last, unfinished narrative set in Avignon. Of these works, readers sometimes think of Death Comes for the Archbishop and Shadows on the Rock as her French Catholic novels because of the heritage and faith of their main characters. Edith Lewis, Cather's long-time companion, recorded that, for Cather herself, writing the second of these two books served as …

Review Of Montana Ghost Dance: Essays On Land And Life By John B. Wright, Larry Watson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Late in the nineteenth century, Native Americans of the Plains attempted, through a sacred dance, to bring back a time before the bison all but vanished, before whites came with diseases, greed, and guns, before treaties evicted Indians from ancestral lands. When John B. Wright alludes to the Ghost Dance in his collection of essays, he knows his readers will make connections with that earlier, desperate attempt to restore the past. In Wright's version, however, that past would be before mining companies stripped mountains and polluted rivers and streams, before loggers denuded forests, and before developers converted wilderness to condominium …

Review Of The Plains Indians By Paul H. Carlson, Colin G. Calloway

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The enormous increase in ethnohistorical studies over the past generation or two has made room for a new overview of Plains Indian history. Paul Carlson's The Plains Indians provides an overview but falls short of filling the niche.

The book is dated in some of its approaches, stereotypical in some of its descriptions, and uneven in its incorporation of recent literature. Its title should include dates since the book concentrates on the period 1750-1890. Chapter one, "The People and the Plains," locates the various tribes in their nineteenthcentury positions, and chapter two, "First Arrivals," surveys ancient America via the standard …

Title And Contents- Winter 2000

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 20/ Number 1/ Winter 2000

CONTENTS

"THE BOY'S MOTHER": NINETEENTH-CENTURY DRUG DEPENDENCE IN THE LIFE OF KATE M. CLEARY Susanne George Bloomfield

CHANGING THE PITCH: AMERICANISM, ATHLETICISM, AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF LEGION BASEBALL IN NEBRASKA Kent M. Krause

THE INFLUENCE OF WILLA CATHER'S FRENCH-CANADIAN NEIGHBORS IN NEBRASKA IN DEATH COMES FOR THE ARCHBISHOP AND SHADOWS ON THE ROCK Kathleen Danker

STATES OF BEING IN THE DARK: REMOVAL AND SURVIVAL IN LINDA HOGAN'S MEAN SPIRIT Eric Gary Anderson

BOOK REVIEWS

Ward Churchill A Little Matter of Gerwcide: Holocaust and Denial in the Americas, 1492 to the Present …

Notes And News- Winter 2000

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Notes And News

New Editor Of Great Plains Quarterly

Bison: The Past, Present, And Future Of The Great Plains

Plains Symposium

International Cather Seminar 2000

Summer Seminar For Teachers

"The Boy's Mother" Nineteenth-Century Drug Dependence In The Life Of Kate M. Cleary, Susanne George Bloomfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Beginning at age fourteen, Kate McPhelim Cleary published voluminously in turn-of-the century American periodicals and newspapers. The daughter of Irish immigrants, she was born in New Brunswick, Canada, in 1863. Her father died when she was young, and her mother moved the family back to Ireland for a short time before immigrating to Philadelphia. In 1880 the McPhelim family-Kate, her mother Margaret, and her two brothers-relocated to Chicago where they supported themselves by writing. There, Kate McPhelim met and married Michael Cleary. In 1884 the newlyweds, along with Kate's mother, moved to recently established Hubbell, Nebraska, where they lived for …

Review Of Gilbert Hitchcock Of Nebraska: Wilson's Floor Leader In The Fight For The Versailles Treaty By Thomas W. Ryley, Harl A. Dalstrom

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As acting Senate minority leader in 1919- 1920, Gilbert M. Hitchcock worked for ratification of the Versailles Treaty, but the famous battle between President Woodrow Wilson and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge left him in the shadows. Thomas Ryley has attempted to explain Hitchcock's role in the Versailles drama.

Most of the first half of this book treats Hitchcock's life prior to 1919. Son of a Republican US Senator, Democrat Gilbert Hitchcock founded the Omaha World-Herald and served three terms in the House of Representatives and two in the Senate. As a Senator, Hitchcock was sometimes at odds with the Wilson …

Book Notes- Winter 2000

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Book Notes

Charlie Russell Roundup: Essays on America's Favorite Cowboy Artist

The Western Horse: A Photographic Anthology

In the Words of Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition

The Competitive Struggle: America's Western Fur Trading Posts, 1764-1865

When Panthers Roared: The Fort Worth Cats and Minor League Baseball

The Exploits of Ben Arnold: Indian Fighter, Gold Miner, Cowboy, Hunter, and Army Scout

Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore

A Dispatch to Custer: The Tragedy of Lieutenant Kidder

The American West: The Reader

Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945

Riders of the West: Portraits from Indian Rodeo

Review Of Fifty Years A Country Doctor By Hull Cook, Kathryn A. Bellman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is a book about an endangered, soon to be extinct species: the country doctor who was also a neighbor and friend and a familiar feature of rural life on the Great Plains in the earlier part of this century. Doctor Hull Cook became a physician in the early twentieth century and practiced medicine in Colorado, Texas, and Nebraska, where he served the residents of the Sidney area for many years.

Dr. Cook delivered babies at home, made house calls in all weather, and drove to some of those houses in a wagon, later in a Model T. He did …

Review Of Dimensions Of Native America: The Contact Zone An Exhibition At The Museum Of Fine Arts, Florida State University, P. Jane Hafen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The purpose of the Florida State University art exhibit and its accompanying catalogue is to offer an examination of "acculturated art forms made by both Native Americans and Euroamericans that deliberately converge with and often appropriate each other's cultural properties." This ambitious project was launched in Florida in the spring of 1998 with an amazing spectrum of representative works from pre-Columbian contact to the present. The listing of displayed works is a mere appendix to a broad range of essays that explore issues of "Artification of the Indigenous Artifact," "Blurred Boundaries," "Misconceptions," "Photographs," and "Contemporary Native and Non-Native Artists."

Co-curator …

Review Of Edward S. Curtis And The North American Indian, Incorporated By Mick Gidley, Martha H. Kennedy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This important book by the leading authority on Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) has been awaited with high expectations. Gidley, a Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds, has published extensively on many aspects of Curtis's work. In this outstanding new volume, he illuminates the multi-faceted nature of the photographer's enterprise, reprints original documents relating to the project, analyzes with insight some of the best known images and accompanying texts, and thereby places Curtis's opus within its complex historical context.

For nearly thirty years Curtis studied and photographed more than eighty tribal groups living west of the Mississippi and …

Review Of Frontier Soldier: An Enlisted Man's Journal Of The Sioux And Nez Perce Campaigns, 1877 By Private William F. Zimmer, Wayne R. Kime

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The two journals of Private Zimmer presented here add substantially to the documentary record of Army operations on the Northern Plains during the final months of the Sioux War and its immediate aftermath. Zimmer's unit, Company F, Second Cavalry, took part in the Lame Deer fight against the Sioux on 7 May 1877, and the battle of Bear's Paw Mountains against the fleeing Nez Perce between 30 September and 5 October of the same year. The journals, dated 31 March-31 July and 1 August-31 December, 1877, include accounts of these engagements and of much else their author saw, reflected on, …

Review Of West-Fever By Brian W. Dippie, Joni L. Kinsey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

West-Fever is a large-format, glossy book published to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. In its first decade the Autry has emerged as a growing presence in western history and art through an impressive record of acquisitions. (Its collection now numbers some 40,000 pieces, including some truly major objects: John Gast's 1872 painting, American Progress, and Thomas Moran's Mountain of the Holy Cross, 1874, to name just two.) The museum has sponsored and participated in a variety of important exhibitions, and now, it seems, it aspires to enhance its reputation through a new …

Review Of A Little Matter Of Genocide: Holocaust And Denial In The Americas, 1492 To The Present By Ward Churchill, Susan A. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Ward Churchill opens the X-Files of American history to examine the phenomenon of genocide in eight essays (some published previously) prefaced by a statement by David Stannard. In American historiography, discussions of genocide float unreally, separated and unanchored in any systematic, analytic context: discussion of the Nazi holocaust over here, denial of the American genocide over there, humanitarian bombings somewhere else. Churchill has prowled disparate literatures human rights, American frontier history, Native American history, history of the Nazi holocaust-to bring back the information relevant to American history and build it into a single comparative discussion set in a single analytic …

Table Of Contents- Fall 1999

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Contents

"The Silent Artillery Of Time": Understanding Social Change In The Rural Midwest

Community Dreaming In The Rural Northwest: The Montana Study, 1944-47

Romantic Women And La Lucha: Denise Chavez's Face Of An Angel

Whither Cowboy Poetry?

Book Reviews

Book Notes

From The Editor

Notes And News

Index

Review Of By Grit And Grace: Eleven Women Who Shaped The American West Edited By Glenda Riley And Richard W. Etulain, Ruth Ann Alexander

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The biographical essays in this volume present a spectrum of diverse women to illustrate the mythical as well as the actual image of women in the American West. Some are flamboyant and unconventional like Santa Fe's gambling businesswoman Gertrude Barcelo ("La Tules") in the 1840s or Martha Canary (Calamity Jane) whose real and imagined exploits in Dakota and Wyoming Territory thirty years later were the stuff of dime novels. Some sketches characterize more typically "pioneer" types. Seventeen-year-old Abigail Scott Duniway followed the Oregon Trail west from Illinois with her family in 1852. The harsh experience became the basis for her …

A Town Of The Mind" Margaret Laurence's Mythical Microcosm Ofmanawaka, Nora Foster Stovel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This passage introduces "Where the World Began," the concluding piece in Margaret Laurence's 1976 collection of travel essays, Heart of a Stranger, which functions as an autobiography, charting her life journey. Laurence wrote a preface to this collection that exists in manuscript at McMaster University, but which was never published-unfortunately, because it illuminates the autobiographical import of the essays-perhaps because the pattern of her life was clear to her by the time she wrote it in 1976: "I saw, somewhat to my surprise, that they are all, in one way or another, travel articles. And by travel, I mean …

Review Of Legends Of Our Times: Native Cowboy Life By Morgan Baillargeon And Leslie Tepper, Peter Iverson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Growing out of work for a major exhibition at the Canadian Museum of Civilization, where Morgan Baillargeon (Metis) is Curator of Plains Ethnology and Leslie Tepper is Curator of Plateau Ethnology, Legends of Our Times centers on the Native people of the Northern Plains and Plateau. The project, say Baillargeon and Tepper, began with two goals: "to help break the stereotype of 'the Indian versus the cowboy' and through remaking that image to bring to people's attention an entire field of western history and Native culture that remains largely unknown"; and "to acknowledge the contributions Native people have made to …

Review Of The Workers' Revolt In Canada, 1917-1925 Edited By Craig Heron, Bryan D. Palmer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Working class history is more often than not the calm before the storm. But the storms do come. With striking regularity, the quietude of class relations is shattered as workers mobilize and challenge employers and the state.

A central chapter in this narrative of class struggle is the tumultuous period of 1917-1925, which saw the rise and fall of a particular in ternational "revolt" that, in its Canadian par~ ticulars, is admirably explored in this series of essays edited by Craig Heron. Once conceptu~ alized as a western upheaval, the centerpiece of which was the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike, the …

Review Of Discover Saskatchewan: A Guide To Historic Sites By Meika Lalone And Elton Laclare, Warren Clubb

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Discover Saskatchewan provides insights into the fascinating history of Canada's third westernmost province by identifying the historic sites and buildings, plus the museums, that record and present the province's storied past.

A project of the University of Regina, provincial government departments, and history/ heritage organizations, the book presents itself as a travel guide, offering quick access to information on historic sites and heritage institutions for anyone traveling by road. The information is arranged by tourism regions, eleven at the time of printing. Each chapter contains a map of the travel region covered and brief descriptions of its sites, markers, heritage …