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Climate Change On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Francis W. Kaye
Climate Change On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Francis W. Kaye
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In April of 1990 the Center for Great Plains Studies held its thirteenth annual symposium, entitled "Looking Back from the Twenty-First Century: Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Plains." Scholars from a number of fields, especially climatologists and geologists but also social scientists and literary critics, presented papers dealing with past evidence of climatic conditions and climate change, with present evidence of global warming and predictions about its consequences, and with human responses to weather and to climate change. In addition the symposium featured readings by poets and prose writers dealing with climate, weather, and perceptions of the Plains, …
Review Of The Arapaho, Lisa E. Emmerich
Review Of The Arapaho, Lisa E. Emmerich
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Among my treasured possessions is a photograph of three small children dressed in "Indian" regalia. The little boy and girl pictured wear fringed embroidered tunics and feathered headdresses; the baby-my father-sports a jaunty beaded headband with one feather. Taken in 1923, it captured their perception of Native American life: beads, bows and arrows, and buckskin. More than sixty years later, many children have a similar image of Indian culture. Native American historical revisionism may now be accepted in higher education but one look at primary school depictions of Thanksgiving suggests how little of the new scholarship has filtered down.
Review Of Calico Chronicle: Texas Women And Their Fashions, 1830-1910, Elizabeth A. Turner
Review Of Calico Chronicle: Texas Women And Their Fashions, 1830-1910, Elizabeth A. Turner
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Betty J. Mills, curator of costumes and textiles at the museum, Texas Tech University, has compiled a detailed and accessible study of Texas women's garments. Overcoming the obstacles of garment preservation and reconstruction, Mills uncovers information about clothing by studying photographs, museum collections, correspondence, diaries, magazines, and newspapers to determine how fabrics and garments were constructed and acquired. Often this side of history is lost, but Mills provides us with a conscientious study that presents cloth and garments as documents of the everyday kinds of lives of Texas people. Through this thoughtful research, Mills explores the symbolic role of fashion …
Review Of Historians Of The American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Dan Flores
Review Of Historians Of The American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Dan Flores
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As those who know him will attest, John Wunder's most important attributes as a scholar are his ability to brainstorm and his talent at infecting colleagues and collaborators with a contagious enthusiasm for interesting projects. Historians of the American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook is a product of those abilities, plus the research and writing talents of the authors Wunder has assembled. What emerges is a most important work on the early historiography of America's interaction with the North American wilderness. And as a book written by third and fourth generation frontier historians about the works and careers of the two …
More Names On Inscription Rock: Travel Writers On The Great Plains In The 1980s, Nancy Cook
More Names On Inscription Rock: Travel Writers On The Great Plains In The 1980s, Nancy Cook
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As in decades past, in the 1980s dozens of writers packed up their vehicles and headed west, notebooks handy. Several accounts that cover the Great Plains were published, including Mark Abley's account of the Canadian Plains, Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies (1986); Out West (1987), by Dayton Duncan; The Solace of Open Spaces (1985), by Gretel Ehrlich; Ian Frazier's Great Plains (1989); The Necessity of Empty Places (1988), by Paul Gruchow; British mountaineer Gwen Moffat's Hard Road West: Alone on the California Trail (1981); and The Hidden West (1983), by Rob Schultheis.
Shaping The Growth Of The Montana Economy:T.C. Power & Bro. And The Canadian Trade, 1869,93, Henry C. Klassen
Shaping The Growth Of The Montana Economy:T.C. Power & Bro. And The Canadian Trade, 1869,93, Henry C. Klassen
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The principal Fort Benton merchant houses that traded with the southwestern Canadian prairies from the late 1860s to the early 1890s helped determine the growth and vitality of the Montana economy. Particularly in north-central Montana, the region dominated by Fort Benton, the Montana-Canada commerce played a key role. Fort Benton's two largest merchant partnerships, T.e. Power & Bro. and 1.0. Baker & Co., became leaders among the pioneers in the big business of Canadian prairie trade during this period. They created international marketing and purchasing networks for importing buffalo robes and furs and for exporting foodstuffs, ready-made clothes, metal and …
Review Of Rich Grass And Sweet Water: Ranch Life With The Koch Matador Cattle Company, Albert T. Davis
Review Of Rich Grass And Sweet Water: Ranch Life With The Koch Matador Cattle Company, Albert T. Davis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Ranch life doesn't lend itself well to paper. The lifestyle of the cowboy or cowgirl is not something that can be reproduced easily. The subtleties of nature, its weather, beauty, ruthlessness, and its serenity are too complex for most authors to conquer easily. Too often ranching books become simple recitals of where, when, how much, how large, how many, how bad, or how good. John Lincoln's Rich Grass and Sweet Water is one of the few books that is able to portray successfully the life of the cowman.
Review Of Colorado: A Summer Trip, Kathleen A. Boardman
Review Of Colorado: A Summer Trip, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
When Bayard Taylor toured Colorado in 1866, he was a veteran travel writer; in the previous twenty years he had visited western Europe, central Africa, California, Egypt, Asia Minor, China, Japan, and Russia. Taylor considered himself a poet and translator, and he disliked the label "Great American Traveler." Nevertheless, he knew how to profit from his trips by publishing travel letters and scheduling lectures. Taylor's Colorado letters to the New York Tribune, later published in book form, describe the railroad and stagecoach trip across Kansas to Denver and into the Rockies, a horseback tour of the mountain parks, and …
Review Of The Complete Roadside Guide To Nebraska, Rosemary Thornton
Review Of The Complete Roadside Guide To Nebraska, Rosemary Thornton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Alan Boye's guide is complete in ways that Nebraskans and others who travel in Nebraska would find useful and interesting. I read with a map in one hand and felt a recurring urge to get on the road and verify the existence of these places. Being a native Nebraskan, I have visited, camped upon, canoed down, or hiked across much of Nebraska. Boye describes all the familiar places as I remember them and summarizes their history. The heart of the book is found in the historical trivia, however, the human interest anecdotes about local people from little known places. There …
Review Of The Comanche, Charles Kenner
Review Of The Comanche, Charles Kenner
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Comanches were the only tribe from the Pacific side of the Continental Divide to carve out a permanent niche for themselves on the Plains after the arrival of Europeans and horses in the region. Although they based their life almost totally on the horse, the Comanches remained unique in many ways among plains tribes. They neglected the annual Sun Dance rituals and communal buffalo hunts common to other tribes and failed to develop a system of soldier societies to regulate various tribal activities. Despite the many scholarly studies of them, much needs to be explained about their societies, such …
Review Of Elmer Kelton And West Texas: A Literary Relationship., Lawrence Clayton
Review Of Elmer Kelton And West Texas: A Literary Relationship., Lawrence Clayton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The University of North Texas Press has launched a new series of criticaVbiographical studies of Texas writers and has started, appropriately, with one of the best novelists writing today-in Texas or elsewhere. Elmer Kelton has published twenty-seven novels interpreting the development of Texas from the beginning of settlement by Anglos to the present.
Review Of The Choctaw, Clara Sue Kidwell
Review Of The Choctaw, Clara Sue Kidwell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Within the limitations imposed by writing a short book, Jesse McKee has presented a concise and readable history of the Choctaw Indians of both Oklahoma and Mississippi. Given the time period over which Choctaws came into contact with Europeans (beginning in 1541), the major political role they played in colonial conflicts among French, Spanish, and British, and the fact that they were effectively split into two groups after 1830, their history is very complex. McKee has managed to give a reasonable overview of the tribe, although his format leaves no space for highly sophisticated historical analysis
Review Of Colorado Catholicism And The Archdiocese Of Denver, 1857-1989, Denis R. Fournier
Review Of Colorado Catholicism And The Archdiocese Of Denver, 1857-1989, Denis R. Fournier
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The early sections of this very readable history of the Catholic Church in Colorado will be of special interest to fans of Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop who are interested in the historicity of her character Father Joseph Vaillant, based on Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, first bishop of Colorado. The author mines Howlett's Life of Bishop Machebeuf (one of Cather's sources), other ecclesiastical histories, and the local church archives for interesting information, some of it significant and some trivial, about Machebeuf and the problems he faced in Colorado. For instance, did you ever suspect that the effectiveness of Machebeuf's preaching …
Review Of Heaven Is Near The Rocky Mountains, Robin Ridington
Review Of Heaven Is Near The Rocky Mountains, Robin Ridington
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Thomas Woolsey was a Methodist missionary in the Edmonton region between 1855 and 1864. This book is a collection of his letters and journals, edited by historian Hugh Dempsey. Woolsey seems to have been concerned more with combating his Oblate "Romish" competitors than he was in understanding the Cree, Stoney, Blackfoot, and Sarcee Indians with whom he came into contact. Woolsey was thoroughly convinced of the superiority of his Methodism over heathenism and popery alike. He seems to have been a decent and articulate person, but not a particularly engaged observer of the Indian peoples to whom he ministered.
Review Of The Cheyenne, Gregory R. Campbell
Review Of The Cheyenne, Gregory R. Campbell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Cheyenne by Stan Hoig is one volume in Chelsea House Publishers' series on Indians of North America. The purpose of these volumes, according to general series editor Frank W. Porter III, is to examine the problems that developed as a result of Native American-European contact and to provide all Americans with a greater comprehension of the issues and conflicts involving American Indians today. If we evaluate this work against the series' goals, we must conclude that The Cheyenne is a somewhat disappointing effort.
Continuity And Change On The Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists Of South Dakota, 1921-71, James Marten
Continuity And Change On The Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists Of South Dakota, 1921-71, James Marten
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
When Gladys Leffler Gist remarked in her reminiscences that she and her husband Ray had witnessed "considerable 'for better and for worse'" during their forty years together, she could just as well have been describing the "marriage" between farmers and the agricultural economy during the same period. Depression and drought, of course, challenged those people making their livings from the land and in many ways dominated their impressions of those years. Of more long-term importance, however, were the "vast and fundamental changes" that, according to Gilbert Fite, stemmed from the "application of new technology, chemistry, and plant and animal sciences" …
Review Of Farmers "Making Good": The Development Of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920, Thomas K. Baldwin D. Isern
Review Of Farmers "Making Good": The Development Of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920, Thomas K. Baldwin D. Isern
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Incidental to interpretation of the W. R. Motherwell home, in Saskatchewan, Canada Parks Service presents the community of regional historians with this excellent monograph by Lyle Dick, a historian at its Winnipeg offices. Farmers' 'Making Good" is local history of a high order, incorporating the best scholarship, rising to broadly regional significance.
Review Of The Cherokee, William L. Anderson
Review Of The Cherokee, William L. Anderson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In The Cherokee Theda Perdue achieves superbly two goals-to give an accurate account of Cherokee history and culture from pre-white contact to the present while simultaneously dispelling any present misunderstanding derived from "unsympathetic, culturally biased and inaccurate reports."
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1991 Vol. 11 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1991 Vol. 11 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Crow, W. Raymond Wood
Review Of The Crow, W. Raymond Wood
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This volume is not simply a review of Crow lifeways, but it also provides a history of the group from its first contact with Euro-Americans to the present day. White actions, so consistently at odds with Indian self-determination, are neither condoned nor scourged but are viewed within the framework of government and private Indian policy, the actions of wellmeaning as well as greedy individuals, and the often diametrically opposed world views of the Crows and the whites.
Lowry Charles Wimberly And The Retreat Of Regionalism, Kathleen A. Boardman
Lowry Charles Wimberly And The Retreat Of Regionalism, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"The New Regionalism," an essay by Lowry Charles Wimberly, appeared in the summer 1932 issue of Prairie Schooner, already well known as a midwestern literary magazine. Wimberly, an English professor at the University of Nebraska, had been the magazine's editor since its 1927 founding (and would continue in the post until 1956). As editor and teacher, he unfailingly encouraged potential writers to "leave trace of themselves" and their region by using local materials. 1
Review Of The Quapaws, Charles G. Ballard
Review Of The Quapaws, Charles G. Ballard
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
How to shake the hand of the unsmiling stranger in town and at the same time lose your shirt and all you own-such is the amazing and also tragic history of the American Indian. Although W. David Baird does not deviate much from the familiar and almost expected Jacksonian shakedown, he does offer succinct and at times moving accounts of how one formerly important tribe on the Mississippi-Arkansas trace was successively reduced in importance by its encounters with the French, the Spanish, and the Americans.
Review Of Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography And Checklist., Harvey L. Gunderson
Review Of Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography And Checklist., Harvey L. Gunderson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Oklahoma Mammalogy is a very thorough annotated bibliography and checklist for the rich mammal life of that state. Oklahoma has eastern, western, southern, and northern species and a varied topography, emphasized by the Wichita Mountains. Many mammalogists have studied and collected there.
Review Of One-Room School: Teaching In 19305 Western Oklahoma, Colleen Ryan
Review Of One-Room School: Teaching In 19305 Western Oklahoma, Colleen Ryan
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The term "one-room school" often evokes images, myths, and misconceptions. This book captures the memories of one young woman teaching in rural Oklahoma in the 1930s who succeeded despite unique problems of isolation, distance, time, weather, limited resources, and inadequate training.
Review Of The Yankton Sioux, Micheal L. Tate
Review Of The Yankton Sioux, Micheal L. Tate
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Although numerous nonfiction works about American Indians fill juvenile sections of public libraries, most are written by educators who know little about the subtleties of Indian life. The result is a myriad of books that reflect a "Great Chiefs" approach, or worse yet, a type of composite Native American hero distilltribes for the young adult and general reading audience, Frank W. Porter III, DirectorofChelsea House Foundation for the Study of American Indians, has initiated a 53-volume series of tribally and topically organized books. The length of each volume is rigidly maintained at 111 pages, and the list of projected authors …
Willard Kimball: Music Educator On The Great Plains, Marilyn Hammond, Raymond Haggh
Willard Kimball: Music Educator On The Great Plains, Marilyn Hammond, Raymond Haggh
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Histories of American music are largely histories of that part of the United States that lies east of the Mississippi, especially of the eastern seaboard. H. Wiley Hitchcock in his Music in the United States tends to dismiss the area to the west of such cities as Chicago, Kansas City, and St. Louis as of little importance for American music history, but because almost no research has been done on the music of that area, he has nothing on which to base his assumptions. For the researcher who troubles to look for it, there is ample evidence in the periodicals …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1991 Vol. 11 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1991 Vol. 11 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Schoolmarms On The Upper Missouri, Kathleen Underwood
Schoolmarms On The Upper Missouri, Kathleen Underwood
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Margery Jacoby was a child of twelve when she moved with her sister and their aunt from Wisconsin to the Montana frontier in 1883. Three years later, with the encouragement of the county superintendent of schools, she attempted the county exam that was necessary for a teaching job. With a first-class certificate (good for three years) in hand, she began teaching, in large part to supplement her family's income. She taught for the next seven years at several rural schools near Fort Benton and Great Falls.
Review Of Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives In North Dakota., Margrethe Ahlshwede
Review Of Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives In North Dakota., Margrethe Ahlshwede
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives in North Dakota celebrates the contributions of women to the history and development of the state of North Dakota on the occasion of that state's centennial in 1989.
Review Of Cheyennes And Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition And The Battle Of Solomon's Fork, Donald J. Berthrong
Review Of Cheyennes And Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition And The Battle Of Solomon's Fork, Donald J. Berthrong
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During the summer of 1857, Colonel Edwin Vos Sumner and his troops invaded Cheyenne and Arapaho land. By the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie the two tribes were recognized as the occupants of western Kansas and eastern Colorado between the Platte and Arkansas rivers. The treaty also tried to prevent intertribal warfare and to protect emigrants and commerce over the platte River road and the Santa Fe Trail. After a conflict in 1856 at the Upper Platte bridge, Cheyenne war parties attacked wagon trains on the Platte River road. Whether the raiders were all Southern Cheyennes or if they were …