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The Fatal Fall Of Barrett Scott: Vigilantes On The Niobrara, James W. Hewitt Jan 1992

The Fatal Fall Of Barrett Scott: Vigilantes On The Niobrara, James W. Hewitt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Vigilante activity, in which a somewhat organized group takes the law into its own hands, has been extant in the United States since the 1700s and reached its zenith on the western frontier during the last half of the nineteenth century.1 Many a hapless horse thief, or careless cattle rustler, met his end in a hangman's noose, as those who had property sought to protect it from those who had none.

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Review Of Dance On The Earth: A Memoir., Micheal A. Peterman Jan 1992

Review Of Dance On The Earth: A Memoir., Micheal A. Peterman

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The train moves west

the American lady says

"are you native-born Canadian?"

Yes, I say, I'm surely that.

Well, she says, can I tell her

and her friend, Vancouver-bound,

when we'll reach

the more interesting country?

I smile gently I hope

because she couldn't have known

and say

"I was born and grew up

hereabouts

and for me this is

the more interesting country."

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Review Of Texas: A Modem History, Janet Schmelzer Jan 1992

Review Of Texas: A Modem History, Janet Schmelzer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Texas: A Modem History David G. McComb, professor of history at Colorado State University, wanted to provide the "adult reader" with a "brief, narrative history" that would capture the "ethos," "flavor," and "rhythm" of Texas (p. vii). He has succeeded. In seven short chapters (or 186 pages) he has spanned a myriad of historical subjects from the earliest Indian tribes, the Spanish conquest, the Alamo, and the cattle and oil industries to the present-day social, political, and "economic complexities. At the same time he has woven into his story the humanness of Texans and Texas. Moreover, he has enhanced …

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Review Of Manuel Alvarez, 1794-1856: A Southwestern Biography, Ralph H. Vigil Jan 1992

Review Of Manuel Alvarez, 1794-1856: A Southwestern Biography, Ralph H. Vigil

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The subject of this lively, well-written book is Manuel Alvarez, an important but neglected figure who played a key role in New Mexican and western affairs under the Mexican and U. S. government. A Spaniard by birth, a Mexican by expediency, and a trader by inclination, Alvarez was an avid reader, deeply interested in history, who believed that worldly happiness came to the man who thought justly, acted uprightly, and lived usefully

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Notes And News For Vol.12 No.1 Jan 1992

Notes And News For Vol.12 No.1

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No abstract provided.

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Review Of Winter Sports In The West., Benjamin G. Rader Jan 1992

Review Of Winter Sports In The West., Benjamin G. Rader

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A product of a conference sponsored by the history department of the University of Calgary and the Historical Society of Alberta in 1987, this set of ten papers treats aspects of the history of winter pastimes in western Canada. No single theme binds the collection together, though several authors try to assay the importance of the harsh climate and the rugged prairie/mountain terrain to western Canada's winter recreations. Their conclusions are not surprising. Climate and terrain prevented white settlers from replicating the rich village-centered pastimes of Europe. Instead, the settlers either had to abandon or adapt the traditional games or …

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Review Of Death Comes For The Chief Justice: The Sloughrynerson Quarrel And Political Violence In New Mexico., Harold J. Weiss Jan 1992

Review Of Death Comes For The Chief Justice: The Sloughrynerson Quarrel And Political Violence In New Mexico., Harold J. Weiss

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 15 December 1867, William Logan Rynerson, a member of the Legislative Council of the territory of New Mexico, fired a bullet from a revolver and killed the opinionated, fiery, and sharp-tongued chief justice of the supreme court-John Potts Slough. Before the shot, Slough exclaimed, "Shoot and be damned!" (p. 70). Mortally wounded, he pulled a derringer from his vest pocket and let it fall to the floor. So ended the career of Chief Justice Slough.

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Review Of Watt Matthews Of Lambshead, Margaret A. Mackichan Jan 1992

Review Of Watt Matthews Of Lambshead, Margaret A. Mackichan

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This handsome book relates the history of a Texas ranch from Comanche days to the present, through the life of one extraordinary man, ninety-year-old Watt Matthews. Laura Wilson's highly readable text speaks clearly and with immediacy about the man, his people, and the land. Throughout the text she allows the Texans to speak in their own voices, summing up pages in pithy witticism. Vignettes of Matthews family history read like a Victorian dime novel: interesting and amazing, truth become legend.

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Review Of Astoria & Empire, I.S. Maclaren Jan 1992

Review Of Astoria & Empire, I.S. Maclaren

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James Ronda blends new documentation with older sources to provide an ample study of New York businessman John Jacob Astor's failed effort to spawn a transcontinental and transglobal fur trade enterprise in the second decade of the nineteenth century. The new interpretations include a view of Astor as capable of being, when pushed to the limit, a scoundrel and a liar (273, 274). Ronda also provides interesting discussions of the Russian connection, the relation between biologists and Astorians, and the political ramifications to the United States of Astor and Astoria. Meanwhile, the main narrative treats the rise and fall of …

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Review Of Dee Brown, Dean Knudsen Jan 1992

Review Of Dee Brown, Dean Knudsen

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Lyman B. Hagen, of Arkansas State University, has written a helpful aid for students of the writings of Dee Brown. Brown is best known as the author of non-fiction like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, but Hagen reminds us that Brown has also written novels, historical fiction, and children's books. Hagen combines quotations from various reviews of Brown's work with personal comments by Dee Brown himself to introduce the novice reader to the varied life and writings of this prolific and unconventional author. This book should prove very useful for all students of the American West.

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The Origins Of The Initiative And Referendum In South Dakota: The Political Context, Steven L. Plott Jan 1992

The Origins Of The Initiative And Referendum In South Dakota: The Political Context, Steven L. Plott

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In 1898 South Dakota became the first state to amend its constitution to give its citizens the option of the initiative-in which a given percentage of voters may propose a law, which then must be approved at the polls-and the referendum- in which a law proposed either by initiative or by the lawmaking body must then be approved by a given percentage of voters. These measures, also known as direct legislation, were seen by both voters and legislators as a way to reform democracy by making it more responsive to the people. Exactly what impetus propelled South Dakota to enact …

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The Legal Culture Of The Great Plains, Kermit L. Hall Jan 1992

The Legal Culture Of The Great Plains, Kermit L. Hall

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The great prairie lawyer Abraham Lincoln once said of an opposing legal counsel's argument, "He caught on to something, but only by the hind leg."l Lincoln's observation applies with equal force to our current understanding of the legal culture of the Great Plains, and even that characterization is generous. Take, for example, the literature on the region's history of public and private law and legal institutions. It is pitifully small. Bits and pieces are scattered through specialized journals and state history periodicals, but there is nothing like a systematic body of scholarship. 2

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Review Of Hurrah For My New Country!, Darlene Ritter Jan 1992

Review Of Hurrah For My New Country!, Darlene Ritter

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The best summary of the scope of the book is found in the foreword. Leon Fouquet as an immigrant helped settle two states-Kansas and Oklahoma. "Fouquet believed he was seeing a transplanted revolution-an appraisal of some merit-in this new country, which to him was very strange, wild, beautiful, and offered him unbelievable opportunities" (p. xxvii). Read the book with this in mind and appreciate the efforts of the family in presenting in a readable form the information preserved in journals, scrapbooks, and letters.

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Review Of Czech Voices: Stories From Texas In The Amerikán Národní Kalendář., Joseph G. Svoboda Jan 1992

Review Of Czech Voices: Stories From Texas In The Amerikán Národní Kalendář., Joseph G. Svoboda

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Clinton Machann and James W. Mendl are already known to readers interested in Czech ethnicity in Texas by a volume entitled Krasna Amerika published in 1983 and recounting the history of the Czech community in Texas, its social structure, religion, folk culture, literature, language, journalism, and eventual assimilation and retention of ethnic identity. The present volume brings the history of Texas Czechs to life by way of reminiscences of immigrants who settled in the Lone Star State.

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Review Of The American West: A Narrative Bibliography And A Study In Regionalism, Patricia Nelson Limerick Jan 1992

Review Of The American West: A Narrative Bibliography And A Study In Regionalism, Patricia Nelson Limerick

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Legal scholar Charles Wilkinson reads and recommends books as if the Video Age were not upon us and as if the ideal of an educated, reflective citizenry might be within reach. In the four hundred and eighty-eight items listed in this bibliography, writers have done their part "in defining a geographical region, in giving the West a sense of place, a sense of itself. " If Westerners say yes to the invitation these writers offer, then the consequences could be direct and practical: "When a people gains a sense of itself, wise decisions are likely to follow" (p. 90), wise …

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Review Of Dreams In Dry Places, Dale L. Gibbs Jan 1992

Review Of Dreams In Dry Places, Dale L. Gibbs

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In the summer of 1936 after weeks of scorching heat, my parents decided to visit my grandparents in Neligh and Clearwater, Nebraska. We got into the 1932 Terraplane which my dad had bought with his veteran's bonus from World War I and headed out through Seward, Columbus, Norfolk, Oakdale, to Neligh. My grandmother's big Victorian house was on North Main Street at the foot of Standpipe Hill and its big yard and porches did, in fact, seem cooler after the 100 degree heat in Lincoln

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Review Of Tomahawk And Cross; Lutheran Missionaries Among The Northern Plains Tribes, 1858-1866, Christopher Pippert Jan 1992

Review Of Tomahawk And Cross; Lutheran Missionaries Among The Northern Plains Tribes, 1858-1866, Christopher Pippert

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In his most recent work Gerhard Schmutterer recounts the failure of a German-Lutheran mission located between the Yellowstone River and Deer Creek Stations (in present-day Wyoming) between 1858 and 1866. This particular attempt to Christianize the Indians of the American West was a joint venture between Germans and German-Americans of the German- Lutheran church, who wished to maintain the ties between pioneers and their church as well as save the souls of Native Americans. Approximately half the book is appendices that reprint the diary of Jacob Schmidt and the autobiography of Carl Krebs, both members of the mission. The author …

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Review Of Natural History Of The Black Hills And Badlands, Dan Flores Jan 1992

Review Of Natural History Of The Black Hills And Badlands, Dan Flores

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a revised edition of a volume that in original form did not include the present section on the South Dakota Badlands, here written by Ronald Weedon, a biologist at Chadron State College. Also added to this revised version is a treatise on the environmental situation of the Black Hills as of 1990. This essay, as well as essays on the topography, geology, biology, and history of the Black Hills, is by biologist Sven Froiland of Augustana College. The book also features long pages of quoted material from various kinds of technical sources (soil profiles, checklists of mammals …

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Review Of Pipe, Bible, And Peyote Among The Oglala Sioux: A Study In Religious Identity, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith Jan 1992

Review Of Pipe, Bible, And Peyote Among The Oglala Sioux: A Study In Religious Identity, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Pipe, Bible, and Peyote among the Oglala Sioux is a republication of a 1980 manuscript published in the Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion. Steinmetz, a Jesuit priest, spent twenty years (1961-1981) on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where he served as clergyman and participated, observed, and reflected on the unique constellation of modem Lakota religion. Steinmetz outlines the complexity of different religious identities among the Sioux, to include: the traditional "pure" non-acculturative beliefs and its practitioners, reflected in the American Indian Movement's political emphasis on a return to indigenous practices; "Ecumenist I," designating Lakota Christians who practice both …

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1992 Vol. 12 No. 3 Jan 1992

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1992 Vol. 12 No. 3

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No abstract provided.

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Review Of Fort Supply Indian Territory: Frontier Outpost On The Plains, Jean E. Atterbury Jan 1992

Review Of Fort Supply Indian Territory: Frontier Outpost On The Plains, Jean E. Atterbury

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This paperback, with a new introduction, reprints Carriker's 1970 text chronicling Fort Supply from 1868 to 1894 as a hub for distributing both supplies and personnel throughout the southern Plains. Drawing from both personal and public documents, Carriker presents a journal-like account of western history in microcosm: the subduing and sequestering of Indians on reservations, the negotiations for herds' passage along the famous cattle trails, the maneuvering of boomers and others as they settled what had been Indian Territory. This useful reference, including little analysis or interpretation, provides an intimate glimpse of the life of this integral outpost on the …

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When East Meets West: The Passions Of Landscape And Culture In Gretel Ehrlich's Heart Mountain, Gregory L. Morris Jan 1992

When East Meets West: The Passions Of Landscape And Culture In Gretel Ehrlich's Heart Mountain, Gregory L. Morris

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Gretel Ehrlich is a writer who has taken for the subject of her art-and who has taken for her home-the Big Hom Basin of northern Wyoming. That particular extension of plains landscape, stretched between the Big Horn Mountains to the east (a sort of geological intrusion upon an otherwise Great Plains terrain) and the Absarokas to the west, has provided both an intensely personal and a brilliantly imaginative source of inspiration for Ehrlich's fiction and non-fiction. What on one hand has been a distinctly restorative (and even erotic) landscape for Ehrlich also has proven to be a potently politicized landscape.

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Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition Volume 6: November 2, 180s-March 22, 1806., Gerald M. Parsons Jan 1992

Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition Volume 6: November 2, 180s-March 22, 1806., Gerald M. Parsons

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This latest edition of the Journals represents the midpoint of an eleven-volume project sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska and co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Society, to publish a completely reedited version of all extant materials relating to the famous expedition of 1804-1806. Nine volumes (2-10) will contain all extant journal writings, while Volume 1 (1983) is already acknowledged a magnificently produced edition of the cartographic history of the trip, and Volume 11 will contain natural history materials, including reproductions of the herbarium sheets that Lewis gathered during the journey.

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Review Of Kansas Governors, Lynwood E. Oyos Jan 1992

Review Of Kansas Governors, Lynwood E. Oyos

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Kansas Governors began more than a decade ago when Homer Socolofsky provided the information on Kansas governors for the Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States and the Biographical Directory of American Territorial Governors. In the current volume, he brings together a much more complete treatment of both the territorial and state governors of Kansas. A long-time Kansas historian, Socolofsky was well qualified to enter into this project. In addition to examining primary source material within Kansas, he used relevant resources found in the Newberry Library and the Library of Congress.

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Index To Vol.12 No.4 Jan 1992

Index To Vol.12 No.4

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No abstract provided.

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Notes And News For Vol.12 No.4 Jan 1992

Notes And News For Vol.12 No.4

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No abstract provided.

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Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt Jan 1992

Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This rich collection of essays is intellectually substantial, culturally significant, and much overdue. One of the least appreciated phenomena of American culture is its remarkable history of self-fashioning. The American continent was settled by European immigrants for a variety of reasons over some four centuries, and each wave of settlers contributed to the burgeoning mythology of the New World its own set of self-fulfilling prophecies. "America" was--and to a significant extent still is--a largely European construct, a cultural matrix whose outlines emerged and evolved often re-actively as individuals and groups found their expectations challenged by the stark realities of the …

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Review Of Kansas Wildlife, Don Cunningham Jan 1992

Review Of Kansas Wildlife, Don Cunningham

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A catchword current among naturalists is "biodiversity," a term used to describe the variety and number of organisms present in an area. Biodiversity is one measure of the "health" of an environment, and the term itself is probably a useful one, as 1t can efficiently suggest environmental quality and the complex interrelationship among living things, plant and animal.

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Review Of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Politics Of Indian Affairs, Sharon M. Harris Jan 1992

Review Of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Politics Of Indian Affairs, Sharon M. Harris

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In Removals Maddox exposes the complicity of many of our most treasured nineteenth-century American authors in the figurative-and consequently, quite literal-removal of American Indians from constructions of nineteenth century culture. That some of these authors viewed themselves as sympathetic to the "Indian question" merely demonstrates (as Maddox extends Roland Barthes' argument) how the myth of apoliticized discourse can result in the transformation of "history into nature."

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The Railroad Question Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee And St. Paul Railway V. Minnesota And Constitutional Limits On State Regulations, James W. Ely Jr. Jan 1992

The Railroad Question Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee And St. Paul Railway V. Minnesota And Constitutional Limits On State Regulations, James W. Ely Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Few issues more vexed Americans during the Gilded Age than the regulation of railroads. America's first big business, the railroads wielded enormous economic power and by the end of the nineteenth century represented 10 percent of national wealth. 1 Farmers and other local shippers often viewed railroads as an exploitative monopoly and blamed them for excessive and discriminatory charges. They repeatedly clamored for regulation of the freight and passenger rates fixed by railroad companies. Agricultural interests in the Great Plains states were particularly active in seeking regulatory legislation. Railroad investors and managers, on the other hand, opposed regulatory laws and …

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