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Review Of Yanktonai Sioux Water Colors: Cultural Remembrances Of John Saul By Martin Brokenleg And Herbert T. Hoover, Mary Jane Schneider

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Unfortunately Yanktonai Sioux Water Colors is not what it could be. People unfamiliar with Plains Indian culture will not know how to interpret the water colors and the comments are not sufficiently detailed to overcome this problem. In 1971 James Howard published descriptions of some of the water colors in the Oklahoma Anthropological Society Newsletter. Howard combined a thorough knowledge of traditional Plains Indian culture with interviews with John Saul to give the average reader a good understanding of the paintings. Some other problems will be noticeable only to the professional. Although several people are given credit for the book …

Notes & News

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS STUDIES SYMPOSIA

BOOK AWARDS (David Wishart; John Wunder)

CALLS FOR PAPERS

CANADIAN STUDIES GRANT PROGRAMS, 1996-97

FROM THE ARCHIVES (Richard Popp)

ENCYCLOPEDIA OF AFRICAN AMERICAN ASSOCIATIONS

Review Of "A Funnie Place, No Fences": Teenagers' Views Of Kansas, 1867-1900 Edited By C. Robert Haywood And Sandra Jarvis, Carol Miles Petersen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For some time we have had accounts written by men of the early years in a new state; then women's diaries began to be discovered recording events from a woman's perspective. With this book, we now have a sense of what it was like to be a teenager who had moved from New York or Iowa into a prairie land with little broken ground and "no fences." "A Funnie Place" adds an important dimension to both our historical and sociological understanding of daily life on the Kansas Plains.

Review Of On Turner's Trail: 100 Years Of Writing Western History By Wilbur R. Jacobs, Mary Young

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When Frederick Jackson Turner retired, he took up residence at the Huntington Library in California. Turner left his papers to the Huntington, thus assuring that the Turner industry would flourish there. Wilbur Jacobs is among the resident senior scholars who have tended the flame. Jacobs is a long-time critic of Turner's imperialist celebrations of progress, dichotomous views of savagism and civilization, and anti-environmentalism. Turner ignored much of the development of social science in his own time and confused ruling theory with multiple working hypotheses. Jacobs repeats these criticisms in several contexts in the present volume, but champions Turner as a …

Review Of Isolation And Masquerade: Willa Cather's Women By Frances W. Kaye And Willa Cather By Sharon O'Brien, Lillian Faderman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In her introduction to Isolation and Masquerade Frances Kaye immediately establishes her disagreement with Sharon O'Brien's views of Willa Cather as they appear in O'Brien's 1987 work, Willa Cather: The Emerging Voice. O'Brien's 1995 book was written for the Chelsea House young adult Gay Men and Lesbians series, but though this work, unlike the 1987 book, takes the writer into her last days, O'Brien's perspective on Cather's accomplishments is essentially no different from what she has already revealed; so, we can be certain that Kaye's disagreements would also apply to O'Brien's more recent efforts. Two more different views of …

Index

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Index 279-286 (8 pages)

Notes And News

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

CALLS FOR PAPERS

NORTHERN GREAT PLAINS HISTORY CONFERENCE

GABRIELLE ROY INTERNATIONAL SYMPOSIUM

WESTERN HISTORY ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

GREAT PLAINS POPULAR CULTURE ASSOCIATION AND AMERICAN CULTURE ASSOCIATION CONFERENCE

CONFERENCE ON REGIONALISM IN CANADIAN AND AMERICAN WRITING

COMPARATIVE FRONTIER STUDIES SYMPOSIUM

Bison Ecology, Brule And Yankton Winter Hunting, And The Starving Winter Of 1832--33, Richmond Clow

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 6 February 1833, William Laidlow, the American Fur Company's leading official at Fort Pierre wrote that Brule (Sicangu) and Yankton (Ihanktonwan ) camps "have been in a state of starvation all winter, and have suffered most dreadfully." The entire winter of 1832-33 was a "starving time" on the middle Missouri River in present day south-central South Dakota because these skilled tribal hunters found no bison in a land where the herds were frequently described as "immense." Why knowledgeable and efficient professional tribal hunters, as well as post employees, were hungry that winter, in this apparent land of abundance, presents …

Notes And News

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS STUDIES SYMPOSIA

FREDERICK C. LUEBKE AWARD (David Murphy; Don D. Walker; Doreen Barrie; Howard R. Lamar; David Wishart)

CALLS FOR PAPERS

JOINT CONFERENCE

Review Of Chasing Rainbows: A Recollection Of The Great Plains, 1921-1975 By Gladys Leffler Gist, Deborah Fink

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Chasing Rainbows is the first-person story of Gladys Leffler Gist, a farm woman who was born in Iowa in 1898 and moved to South Dakota five years after her 1921 marriage. Although Gladys and her husband Ray had hard times in their first twenty years of farming and remained tenant farmers almost all their lives, the story is a happy one of a family well integrated into the dominant religious, social and political milieu of rural South Dakota and Iowa. James Marten, whose wife Linda is a granddaughter of the couple, has lovingly but conscientiously edited the work, providing context …

Review Of In The Kingdom Of Grass By Margaret A. Mackichan And Bob Ross, Bryan L. Jones

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Bob Ross does not directly explicate MacKichan's photographs. Rather he confronts us with his own sense of place, a place nearer the eastern edge of the hills where he grew up. The best sections of these superb essays feature Uncle Ozro-a humorous fellow who nurtured and drove Ross to manhood while harboring a weakness for strong drink and an unrewarding relationship with money-and a long series of hired men who gave employers and their nephews full measure of work and patient tutorial devotion in between weeklong benders in town. Uncles can break down under the constant vagaries of markets and …

Review Of A Generation Of Boomers: The Pattern Of Railroad Labor Conflict In Nineteenth-Century America By Shelton Stromquist, James W. Ely Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Stromquist concentrates on the western railroads, where labor conflict was most acute, saying little about eastern and southern lines. He perceptively treats the sometimes overlooked role of the railroads in promoting western settlement and in establishing a string of railroad towns to service trains. Carefully researched and persuasively argued, this volume would be of value to readers interested in railroad labor history, the settlement of the west, or the growth of industrial America.

Review Of Nebraskaland Magazine's The Cellars Of Time: Paleontology And Archaeology In Nebraska Vol. 72 No.1; January/February 1994. Lincoln: Nebraska Game And Parks Commission, Luann Wandsnider

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nebraska is blessed with amazing and bountiful, and often unheralded, fossil and artifact resources. No Great Plains library is complete without this volume, which does a wonderful job of proclaiming this rich heritage. For Nebraska archaeology, it represents the only current source that is accessible and engaging. Students of paleontology will be similarly entranced and enlightened. NEBRASKAland and Nebraska History are to be congratulated.

Review Of Into The Wilderness Dreams: Exploration Narratives Of The American West, 1500-1805 Edited By Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maquire, And Peter Wild, William J. Sheick

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although some readers may wish for annotations to help with occasional obscure moments in the passages, over all they will find this well-produced book to be at once entertaining and instructive. Moreover, Into the Wilderness Dream provides academic specialists in early American studies with a substantial resource for furthering their current interest in appreciating better the cultural diversity of colonial encounters with North America. In many respects, then, the editors have compiled an exemplary anthology.

Review Of The Sioux And Other Native American Cultures Of The Dakotas: An Annotated Bibliography Compiled By Herbert T. Hoover And Karen P. Zimmerman, Steve Potts

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This volume is an excellent supplement to Hoover and Jack Marken's 1980 Bibliography of the Sioux, and the two volumes can be used together for a thorough treatment of the Sioux. The title of this volume, however, is somewhat misleading. Material related to Sioux origins in Minnesota is included and recent materials on the Arikara, Hidatsa, Mandan, and Ojibway are omitted; after the first chapter, most annotations are on the Sioux. The authors note in their introduction that this volume complements South Dakota History, a 1993 bibliography of the state's history, and the two volumes share a common …

Review Of Ogallala: Water For A Dry Land: A Historical Study In The Possibilities For American Sustainable Agriculture By John Opie, James E. Sherow

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Opie presents a compelling story of maladapt ion on the Great Plains, along with great sympathy and understanding of the region's people. He draws his conclusions from a keen understanding of those who have used, and presently use, the aquifer, of the land and aquifer themselves, and of the economics and ecology encompassing and enveloping the regior His thoroughly researched book will stand as model for others to emulate and expand upor,

Review Of A Funny Bone That Was: Humor Between The Wars Edited By David C. Jones, Jeremy Wild

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Jones provides useful historical contexts for Terril's humor; painful details about the Depression, for example, explain why most of the "jokes" about it are subdued. As Ma Joad says, however, "We're the people that live ... we go on," and they did so, partly through laughter. "The reason there were fewer wrecks in the old horse-and-buggy days was because the driver didn't depend wholly upon his own intelligence." "Fifteen percent of school children are below normal mentally, we are told. That's too high a figure. We don't need that many members of Parliament." In giving "new edges to old saws," …

Review Of Preserving The Great Plains And Rocky Mountains By Elaine Freed, Amil Quayle

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The title is misleading. This is actually a book about preserving human-made structures and prehistory sites and artifacts in the region. There is no strong argument here against stopping the forces that lay waste to the landscape as the European onslaught continues to nullify the symbiotic relationships that Native American peoples practiced with their mother, the Earth, on this continent.

Index

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Index 294-301 (8 pages)

Review Of Singing An Indian Song: A Biography Of D' Arcy Mcnickle By Dorothy R. Parker, Robert F. Gish

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

D'Arcy McNickle occupies a position of relatively minor but increasing stature in American Indian history and literature. Dorothy R. Parker's volume is thus a welcome addition to the increasing number of monographs, critical studies, and general commentaries about this ordinary but successful individual.

Modern biography is characterized by a fascination with people who, although notable, are seldom as illustrious and "famous" as the figures who traditionally engaged the attention of earlier, particularly nineteenth-century, biographers. In this sense, McNickle is clearly a modern subject; and reader interest in him, although keen among enthusiasts, will probably be limited.

Review Of The Life And Legacy Of Annie Oakley By Glenda Riley, Donald Arthur Clark

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Riley proves an excellent writer, adeptly disclosing the personality of this private woman. Poverty ridden as a child, Oakley learned to hunt and became an expert markswoman. She married the first man she beat in a shooting competition, Frank Butler. Frank, perhaps the ideal husband, managed Annie and their engagements with Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show. Throughout the years they maintained high moral standards; neither smoked, drank or cursed. Annie, ever the Victorian lady, always wore a dress and always rode side-saddle while proving herself a worldclass sharpshooter. She never forgot those less fortunate than herself, providing gifts to orphanages …

Review Of Pioneer Woman Educator: The Progressive Spirit Of Annie Webb Blanton By Debbie Mauldin, Claudine Barnes

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Debbie Mauldin Cottrell has written a meticulously researched biography of the first woman to hold statewide office in Texas. Serving as state superintendent of public instruction from 1918-22, as well as President of the Texas State Teachers Association, Vice-president of the National Education Association, and a professor of education at the University of Texas at Austin, Annie Webb Blanton focused her life's work on the reform of rural education. She also labored tirelessly to promote the advancement and equality of women throughout professional education. By building on their traditional role as teachers, she opened new opportunities for women.

Review Of They Called It Prairie Light: The S Tory Of Chilocco Indian School By K. Tsianina Lomawaima, Matthew L. Jones

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

They Called it Prairie Light is the best book I have read recently about life in the boarding school system. The narration and interviews are interwoven into an easy readable style. Lomawaima has done an exceptional job of painting a very richly textured picture of Native peoples' undaunted spirit.

Review Of Redefining The American Dream: The Novels Of Willa Cather By Sally Peltier Harvey, Evelyn I. Funda

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Harvey's book will be of interest not only to Cather scholars, but to an audience more widely concerned with literature as an expression of culture. By citing some of Cather's contemporaries (Andrew Carnegie's exegesis of the "Gospel of Wealth" and William James's identification of success as the country's "bitch-goddess," for instance) as well as her literary peers (Howells, Dreiser, Fitzgerald, and Steinbeck among them), then complementing this with more recent cultural studies of the early twentieth century (such as Jackson Lears's examination of intellectual transformation and Warren Sussman's study of the changing perceptions of the individual), Harvey gives us a …

Table Of Contents

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

THE PROGRESSIVE CONTEXT OF THE NEBRASKA CAPITOL: THE COLLABORATION OF GOODHUE AND TACK (Frederick C. Luebke)

THE 1992 SECESSION MOVEMENT IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS (Peter J. McCormick)

BISON ECOLOGY, BRULE AND YANKTON WINTER HUNTING, AND THE STARVING WINTER OF 1832-33 (Richmond Clow)

BOOK REVIEWS

An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians

The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull

Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents among the Indian Campaigners

On Turner's Trail: 100 Years of Writing Western History

The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley

Redefining the American Dream

Where the …

Review Of Soils In Archaeology: Landscape Evolution And Human Occupation Vance T. Holliday, William C. Johnson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Soils in Archaeology consists of papers representing the proceedings of the Fryxell Symposium held at the annual meetings of the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) in Phoenix during April 1988. This is a volume that deals with soil science applications to archaeology: the various papers discuss the application of soils science to reconstruction of past landscapes and their evolution, estimation of surface age and depositional episodes, and provide physical and chemical indications of human presence. The volume provides good examples of archaeological geology (geoarchaeology) as executed by four physical geographers, two geologists, an archaeologist and a soil scientist.

The 1992 Secession Movement In Southwest Kansas, Peter J. Mccormick

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In May of 1992 the Kansas state legislature approved and Governor Joan Finney signed into law a new school finance formula that adversely affected several southwest Kansas counties. The new bill provided for a blanket mill levy of 32 mills ($32 in taxes for every $1000 assessed valuation) to be spread across the state. It also restricted funding to a maximum of $3600 per student. The effects in the southwest were drastic. Many districts there, accustomed to setting their own tax rates and to retaining all monies collected, spent upward of $5000 per student on tax levies below 20 mills. …

Review Of A Vast Amount Of Trouble: A History Of The Spring Creek Raid By John W. Davis, David A. Wolff

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

What of the wider significance? Here Davis only meekly treads. The convictions seemingly changed the dynamics on the range, with the cattlemen subdued. But the trial did not do this alone. The changing power relationship had been a long time coming. Sheep had dominated the range for years before the raid, and in 1905 the Wyoming Wool Growers Association organized as an effective political agent. Davis touches on these points but does not stress them as vital to the success of the prosecution. At times, the sheriff and the county attorney seem to be battling everyone else in the county. …

Review Of The Wealth Of Nature: Environmental History And The Ecological Imagination By Donald Worster, Andrew C. Isenberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On its surface, Donald Worster's collection of forceful and eloquent essays appears to revisit the subjects and themes he has explored in his previous books. There are sixteen essays in Wealth of Nature. The first three and the last one explore the concerns and practice of environmental history. Five essays investigate the ecological consequences of American agriculture, particularly in the Great Plains. Worster explored this subject in his Bancroft Prize-winning book, Dust Bowl. The next three essays primarily concern the economic and ecological irrationalities of irrigation in the West, a subject that Worster previously investigated in his book, …

Review Of What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology At A Wahpeton Dakota Village By Janet D. Spector, Jennifer S. H. Brown

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Spector provides the basic information needed to help general readers understand the site and its people. She also does more, offering thoughtful reflections on issues that she has faced as a professional archaeologist and on the ethical problems that confront the field, given its past lack of communication and dialogue with the peoples whose histories it has excavated and appropriated.

This book may break the trail for a new genre of archaeological site report. Reading it, I was led to reflect on my own first summer field school experience, and on the report that our director ultimately published. I recall …