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Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt Jan 1992

Review Of The Painting & Politics Of George Caleb Bingham., Stephen C. Behrendt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nancy Rash's superb study exemplifies the sort of reevaluation that results from tearing down the artificial walls of the gallery and the salon and relocating an artist within an accurate historical and cultural context. Rash introduces Bingham the total person: artist, certainly, but also writer, politician, legislator, polemicist, and social activist. Indeed, Bingham considered himself a public servant who just happened to be also a painter. This important distinction has been blurred by generations of critics who refused to see the "whole" Bingham and who consequently constructed an image of an artist depicting-in the scenes of Missouri life that form …

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Review Of The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions & Government Policies And Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers And Government Policy, Paul A. Olson Jan 1992

Review Of The Invented Indian: Cultural Fictions & Government Policies And Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers And Government Policy, Paul A. Olson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Both of these books concern the force of myth. James Clifton's The Invented Indian, a book put together by Clifton with sixteen other authors, represents an account of the collaboration between Native Americans and whitesanthropologists, poets, do-gooders, and government policymakers-to create a stereotypical "Indian" and an equally stereotypical history of Indians. The stereotypes are conveyed as "facts" in school texts, the media, and "scholarship," i.e., that perhaps hundreds of millions of Indians lived in America when Columbus came, that Pocahontas saved the Virginians and Squanto the Pilgrims, that the United States Constitution derives from the Iroquois, that Indians worshipped Mother …

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Review Of Historical Atlas Of The American West, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1992

Review Of Historical Atlas Of The American West, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is another in the well-known series of historical atlases published by the University of Oklahoma Press. Most are defined by states; this one attempts the huge task of treating the entire western half of the United States, including the Great Plains.

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Willa Cather's Women: Gender, Place, And Narrativity In O Pioneers! And My Antonia, David Laird Jan 1992

Willa Cather's Women: Gender, Place, And Narrativity In O Pioneers! And My Antonia, David Laird

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In a dissertation submitted to the Department of Rhetoric and Oratory at the University of Wisconsin in 1895, Zona Gale argued that American writers were a timid lot, lacking originality and unwilling or unable to see what was happening around them, the harsher truths of a social reality. They drew their material from art rather than from nature, books rather than life. "They had," she said, "all drawn from the same sources, imitated the same models and had not won their material so much from men as from books. "1 Like Zona Gale, Willa Cather was critical of writers …

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Law On The Great Plains: An Introduction, John R. Wunder Jan 1992

Law On The Great Plains: An Introduction, John R. Wunder

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Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka is one of the most important cases in American jurisprudence. Almost everyone recognizes the name of the case and its importance for ending legal segregation in the United States, but almost no one pays any attention to its setting, Kansas and the Great Plains. Does this case represent part of a distinctive legal culture of the Great Plains? Until recently, we have had no way to answer this question because no one has ever attempted a systematic study of law on the Great Plains. This issue of the Great Plains Quarterly is the …

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Review Of Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin On The Santa Fe Trail, 1856~57., Michael A. Amundson Jan 1992

Review Of Reluctant Frontiersman: James Ross Larkin On The Santa Fe Trail, 1856~57., Michael A. Amundson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the fall of 1856, wealthy James Ross Larkin of St. Louis joined a wagon train headed by William Bent, bound for the trader's post on the Santa Fe Trail. Seeking relief from chronic health problems, Larkin instead found adventure. His heretofore unpublished journal of his trip and subsequent travels in New Mexico provides a rare glimpse into antebellum southwestern life. Besides the extensively annotated diary, Barbour also includes background introductions to Larkin, the Santa Fe Trail, the frontier of health seekers, and an 1856 comparison between the trail's endpoints of St. Louis and Santa Fe.

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Review Of Word Ways: The Novels Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Alanna Kathleen Brown Jan 1992

Review Of Word Ways: The Novels Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Alanna Kathleen Brown

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

D'Arcy McNickle is best known for his ethnohistorical works, They Came Here First (1949), Indians and Other Americans (1959), and Native American Tribalism: Indian Survival and Renewals (1973). He also is recognized for his extraordinary efforts on behalf of Indian self-determination while a member ofJohn Collier's Bureau of Indian Affairs staff. Yet in reading John Purdy's thorough and sensitive analysis of McNickle's three novels, The Surrounded (1936), Runner in the 'Sun (1954), and Wind from an Enemy Sky (1978), it may ultimately be McNickle's work in fiction that most effectively preserves Indians' social and spiritual values while stimulating Euro-Americans to …

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Notes And News For Vol.12 No.3 Jan 1992

Notes And News For Vol.12 No.3

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No abstract provided.

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Review Of Gennans In The New World: Essays In The History Of Immigration, Jorg Nagler Jan 1992

Review Of Gennans In The New World: Essays In The History Of Immigration, Jorg Nagler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a collection of nine essays Frederick C. Luebke published between 1965 and 1985 and one essay specifically written for this volume dealing with German-American historiography of the last decades. The essays-including revisions and addenda-reflect Luebke's impressive contribution to the social, political, and cultural history of German Americans and provide an overview of the substantial German immigration to the United States. The essays also delineate Luebke's changing focus from the Great Plains and Midwest of the nineteenth century to an enlarged nationwide perspective of Germans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. To go even beyond this agenda, Luebke …

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Review Of Texans In Revolt: The Battle For San Antonio, 1835, Charles Kenner Jan 1992

Review Of Texans In Revolt: The Battle For San Antonio, 1835, Charles Kenner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Unless they take special note of the date in the title, many readers will assume this is yet another rehash of the siege of the Alamo. Instead, it is the first monograph-if scarcely seventy pages of text can be called that---devoted to the opening campaign of the Texas Revolution. In the autumn of 1835 several hundred Texas volunteers gathered before San Antonio, elected officers, and began a haphazard series of events that ended with a Mexican capitulation in early December.

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Review Of Lone Stars: A Legacy Of Texas Quilts, 1936-1986 And Nem-Aska Quilts And Quiltmakers, Lynn White Jan 1992

Review Of Lone Stars: A Legacy Of Texas Quilts, 1936-1986 And Nem-Aska Quilts And Quiltmakers, Lynn White

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

These lovely volumes are celebrations of quilts, of women, and of the states they represent. They are intended for a lay audience of quilters and quilt collectors and, more broadly, anyone interested in graphic arts.

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Frontier Solons: Nebraska's Territorial Lawmaker, 1854-1867, James B. Potts Jan 1992

Frontier Solons: Nebraska's Territorial Lawmaker, 1854-1867, James B. Potts

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the thirty-seven years since Earl Pomeroy maintained that the political history of the midnineteenth century American West needed "further study and clarification," Howard R. Lamar, Lewis Gould, Clark Spence, and other specialists have produced detailed studies of politicallife in the western territories. Their works have shed light on the everyday workings and failures of the American territorial system and have elucidated the distinctive political and economic conditions that shaped local institutions in Dakota, Wyoming, and other western regions and influenced what Kenneth Owens has labelled "the pattern and structure of western politics."1

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Review Of Campaigning With King, Joseph G. Dawson Iii Jan 1992

Review Of Campaigning With King, Joseph G. Dawson Iii

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For half a century the name of Charles King meant entertaining fiction about the institution that he knew and revered-the United States Army. King was a graduate of the U.S. Military Academy (Class of 1866), a professional soldier, and veteran of the Civil War, Reconstruction duty in the South, the Indian Wars, National Guard assignments, the Spanish-American War, and the Philippine campaign. His writings revealed much about the life of soldiers and officers during the late nineteenth century.

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An Uninviting Wilderness: The Plains Of West Texas, 153+1821, Félix D. Álmaraz, Jr. Jan 1992

An Uninviting Wilderness: The Plains Of West Texas, 153+1821, Félix D. Álmaraz, Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Throughout the entire colonial period of Texas, except for brief periods of gallant exploration and practical reconnaissance, Spanish pioneers carefully avoided the Plains of West Texas as a potential area of permanent settlement. Essentially because of the absence of dependable water resources, an all-important consideration prescribed in the Recopilacion de las Leyes de las Indias for the selection of occupation sites, Hispanics generally regarded the West Texas Plains with respectful awe and fearful apprehension. Spanish law prohibited settlers, notwithstanding personal initiative and the availability of land in great abundance, from occupying a region that lacked reliable sources of fresh water. …

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Review Of American Indian Resource Materials In The Western History Collections, University Of Oklahoma, Anne Carmen Jan 1992

Review Of American Indian Resource Materials In The Western History Collections, University Of Oklahoma, Anne Carmen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The American Indian Resource Materials amount to about twenty percent of the Western History Collection at the University of Oklahoma. Among these materials are unpublished manuscripts, photographs, interviews, and sound recordings that cover a historical period from the early 1800s to 1980.

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Review Of A Long March: The Lives Of Frank And Alice Baldwin, Carol M. Schneider Jan 1992

Review Of A Long March: The Lives Of Frank And Alice Baldwin, Carol M. Schneider

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The battles fought by Frank Baldwin on the open plains are not the only conflicts chronicled in A Long March. While Frank was away for long periods of time, his wife, Alice, battled her own feelings of depression, inadequacy, and especially anger at the role of Victorian wife, which she fought against in search of worth and individuality.

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The Role Of Canada's Prairie Provinces In Constitutional And Parliamentary Reform, Howard Cody Jan 1992

The Role Of Canada's Prairie Provinces In Constitutional And Parliamentary Reform, Howard Cody

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Canada's federation always has been tentative. This motley collection of French and English speakers, multiculturals and Native peoples, extended across a narrow ribbon of land just above the border with the United States, seems eternally fated to endure tension and uncertainty concerning its national identity and political institutions. This uncertainty may now have reached its highest point in Canada's history. The 1990 failure of the Meech Lake constitutional accord, which was intended to bring Quebec voluntarily into Canada's 1982 constitution, has inspired an unprecedented quest for new constitutional provisions acceptable to Canadians throughout the country. 1 In this paper I …

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Review Of Paula Gunn Allen, Deborah G. Plant Jan 1992

Review Of Paula Gunn Allen, Deborah G. Plant

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Elizabeth Hanson's Paula Gunn Allen is a very good overview of the extensive body of work of an important scholar, critic, and writer. Through a balance of summary and critical analysis, Hanson examines the content, style, and purpose of Paula Gunn Allen's work. As Hanson suggests, to know something about Allen's life and work is "to gain insight into the trans-formative art" that reveals Allen's "exceptionally acute visionary power" (p. 5). Hanson maintains that this visionary power and the creativity to which it gives rise are consequences of Allen's situatedness outside Native American and Anglo-American culture. Hanson describes this particular …

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Review Of American Indian Archery, Mark J. Swetland Jan 1992

Review Of American Indian Archery, Mark J. Swetland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"I have long considered writing about Indian archery, which has held a lifetime interest for me, to try and correct some of the misconceptions regarding this phase of American Indian life" (ix). That this is the fourth reprinting of American Indian Archery suggests that the Laubins' interest is shared by many readers. In several reviews of this book since its 1980 publication, it has been variously described as "readable" and "methodically researched," and "Laubin's style" as "a highly personal, largeminded one." Such accolades may well overwhelm the uninitiated student of Native American archery, creating a sense that this is the …

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Saskatchewan Bound: Migration To A New Canadian Frontier, Randy William Widds Jan 1992

Saskatchewan Bound: Migration To A New Canadian Frontier, Randy William Widds

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Almost forty years ago, Roland Berthoff used the published census to construct a map of English Canadian settlement in the United States for the year 1900 (Map 1).1 Migration among this group was generally short distance in nature, yet a closer examination of Berthoff's map reveals that considerable numbers of migrants gravitated toward more distant agricultural and urban frontiers and a reading of the historical literature on internal migration within North America emphasizes the fact that a significant number of Canadians living in the United States returned home to Canada during the period 1896-1914.2

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Review Of Wyoming: From Territory To Statehood, Micheal A. Amundson Jan 1992

Review Of Wyoming: From Territory To Statehood, Micheal A. Amundson

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As Wyoming began its second century of statehood in 1991, Lewis L. Gould's Wyoming: From Territory to Statehood remained an important examination of the state's history and current condition. Originally published in 1968 by the Yale University Press under the title of Wyoming: A Political History, 1868-1896, Gould explores both the early political history of Wyoming and the origin of its often tenuous relationship with the federal government.

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Toward A Policy Of Destruction: Buffaloes, Law, And The Market, 1803-83, Andrew Isenberg Jan 1992

Toward A Policy Of Destruction: Buffaloes, Law, And The Market, 1803-83, Andrew Isenberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, it acquired an abundance of natural resources that would help fuel American economic expansion for the rest of the nineteenth century. The fertile soil of the tallgrass prairie would support one of the most productive agricultural regimes in the United States. Lumberers would cut longleaf, shortleaf, loblolly, and slash pine from the west bank of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and St. Louis. Miners would discover deposits of gold and lead in Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota.1 Yet the most prominent resource of the Louisiana Territory …

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Review Of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways Of A Lakota, Lee Irwin Jan 1992

Review Of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways Of A Lakota, Lee Irwin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book supports the basic presupposition that Native American religion has always been the expression of an individual point of view. Endemic to the Sioux religious tradition, the Wicasa Wakan, "holy man" or shaman, has struggled over the last 150 years to preserve a religious heritage that has undergone continuous development and modification. Yet, at the core of that heritage, it has been the personal religious experiences and abilities of the shaman that have acted as the authenticating touchstone of belief. In the same spirit that chainsaws are preferred over stone axes, contemporary Sioux shamans have been challenged to …

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Review Of The Dashing Kansan: Lewis Lirulsay Dyche, The Amazing Adventures Of A Nineteenth-Century Naturalist And Explorer, Mary Liz Jameson Jan 1992

Review Of The Dashing Kansan: Lewis Lirulsay Dyche, The Amazing Adventures Of A Nineteenth-Century Naturalist And Explorer, Mary Liz Jameson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The nineteenth century was a time of environmental contrasts: vast expanses of virgin wilderness were unexplored, and yet lands and the animals inhabiting them were in danger of extinction. As revealed by Sharp and Sullivan, Lewis Lindsay Dyche was a man who helped to shape the preservation of our natural heritage. If not for the perseverance and foresight of scientists such as Dyche, the only remnants of our wilderness would be those that stand lifeless in museums.

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Review Of Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States 1775 To The Present, Robert M. Kitson Jan 1992

Review Of Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States 1775 To The Present, Robert M. Kitson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The story of the Black Hills, recounted in this very readable chronicle by Edward Lazarus-- son of Arthur Lazarus, one of the attorneys who represented the Sioux Nation in its Black Hills claim against the U.S. government-DEten seems a case study in the history of IndianlnonIndian relations in North America. It encompasses some of the most famous names and events from the days of the frontier: Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Custer, Little Big Hom, and Wounded Knee. It is that era that fascinates Americans when they are moved to think of the indigenous population of this continent, and the one …

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Review Of To The Horizon And Beyond, Micheal J. Grant Jan 1992

Review Of To The Horizon And Beyond, Micheal J. Grant

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

To the Horizon and Beyond is a collection of reminiscences of former student ministers of the United Church of Canada who spent summer internships in Golden Prairie, Saskatchewan, between 1929 and 1975. Personal accounts relate how the student ministers, who were mainly from central and eastern Canada, dealt with local religious and social responsibilities. The students also give their impressions of the weather, the land, and the people of the Canadian Great Plains.

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Review Of Grain Grades And Standards: Historical Issues Shaping The Future, Mark J. Connolly Jan 1992

Review Of Grain Grades And Standards: Historical Issues Shaping The Future, Mark J. Connolly

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Two decades worth of research in a wide array of corporate, governmental, and academic literature provides the foundation for Lowell Hill's Grain Grades and Standards: Historical Issues Shaping the Future. How much moisture is too much? What does "plump" mean? What is a bushel? These are some of the questions Hill addresses while explaining passage of the Grain Standards Act of 1916 and the ensuing definitional problems associated with its enactment.

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Review Of Cowboys Of The Americas, John Donahue Jan 1992

Review Of Cowboys Of The Americas, John Donahue

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Some twenty years ago, while preparing a course on the frontier in literature, I first began to research the horsemen of the Americas. At that time, there were available only the numerous classic studies of the American cowboy, those by Dobie, Hough, Folsom, Abbott, Adams, Branch, Frantz and Choate, Santee, to name a few, but on the charro (vaquero), the llanero, the gaucho, or the huaso (guaso), very little was to be found. The few books, articles, extracts from travel logs that existed offered casual observations of these horsemen rather than a focused, coherent study. Only Edward Larocque Tinker's seminal …

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Review Of Bighorse The Warrior, Marc Becker Jan 1992

Review Of Bighorse The Warrior, Marc Becker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Bighorse The Warrior recounts the story of Gus Bighorse, a Navajo warrior who lived through attacks by Kit Carson and the United States Army, the Navajos' Long Walk, and the death of thousands of his people in the nineteenth century. In the oral history tradition of the Navajo people, Bighorse passed his stories on to his children, and this book stands as a tribute to the clarity and accuracy of that tradition. In this interesting and readable personal account, his daughter Tiana Bighorse gives voice to his memory. This book is not the story of a tragic victimization of the …

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Review Of The Custer Album: A Pictorial Biography Of General George, Sherry L. Smith Jan 1992

Review Of The Custer Album: A Pictorial Biography Of General George, Sherry L. Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This pictorial biography of General George A. Custer was first published in 1964. Now, the University of Oklahoma Press has brought it out in paperback. Its attractive cover plus the plethora of photographs, which constitute the bulk of the book, bode well for the book's popularity.

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