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Review Of Cowboy And Gunfighter Collectibles: A Photographic Encyclopedia With Price Guide And Makers Index, Warren W. Caldwell Jan 1991

Review Of Cowboy And Gunfighter Collectibles: A Photographic Encyclopedia With Price Guide And Makers Index, Warren W. Caldwell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The title of this estimable (but expensive) volume carries connotations of shootouts, banditti, and the vivid color of the never-never world of the "Old West. H Perhaps some of that is here, but there is much more. In essence, it contains the portable memorabilia of the true West. There are Winchesters and Colts enough. These are predictable but perhaps other tools of the cowboy trade are not. The spurs, ropes, saddles, and even clothing are to be found here, including even the trappings of the occasional lady range rider. Much is omitted: no doubt the author had to make choices. …

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Review Of Land Of Bright Promise: Advertising The Texas Panhandle And South Plains 1870-1917, Douglas Francis Jan 1991

Review Of Land Of Bright Promise: Advertising The Texas Panhandle And South Plains 1870-1917, Douglas Francis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Land of Bright Promise is an account of the promotion propaganda of the Panhandle-South Plains area of Texas, one of the last areas of the American West to be settled. For decades, the region was seen as a desert area, part of the "Great American Desert," which from the early nineteenth century was believed to extend from the Gulf of Mexico north into British territory and eastward from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. It was also imagined as part of the "Wild West" with hostile Indians and desperados. Thus it took an extra effort on the part of …

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Review Of Beyond The Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism And A Sense Of Place, Barbara L. Imig Jan 1991

Review Of Beyond The Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism And A Sense Of Place, Barbara L. Imig

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Rather than embarking upon a quest for the ever-illusionary "new beginning" in a "new land," Harold P. Simonson in Beyond the Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism and a Sense of Place argues that the frontier metaphor has synthesized into a sense of place and that place is "home."

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Review Of The American West: A Twentieth-Century History., Peter Iverson Jan 1991

Review Of The American West: A Twentieth-Century History., Peter Iverson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"This is a little book about a big subject," wrote Gerald Nash in his introduction to The American West in the Twentieth Century (1973). Thanks to Michael Malone and Richard Etulain, we now have a second book on the same subject. The century is more advanced, but their volume is no bigger. Yet within the limits of a relatively brief text, the authors have provided us with an impressive survey of the region.

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Review Of Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope, Kelly Kindscher Jan 1991

Review Of Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope, Kelly Kindscher

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This flora of essentially the eastern half of Colorado provides keys to 2560 types of vascular plants found in this area. It provides useful information for those interested in the identification of plants in the central portion of the Great Plains because the work provides a thorough coverage of the area to the borders of Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, and New Mexico. Since the vegetation extends beyond these political borders, this work can be useful to those in nearby states.

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Review Of The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions Of Western Indians, Peter Maslowski Jan 1991

Review Of The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions Of Western Indians, Peter Maslowski

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Careful students of the American West have long realized that making valid generalizations about the officers who served in the frontier army is extraordinarily difficult. For example, a major theme in Soldier West: Biographies from the Military Frontier (1987), edited by Paul Andrew Hutton, was the rich variety in experiences, interests, and personalities among army officers. Now, Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, demonstrates how ambivalent and contradictory the officers were in their perceptions of virtually every aspect of Indian affairs. And, importantly, she recognizes that officers' wives also lived on "officers' …

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Review Of Siringo., Clare V. Mckanna Jan 1991

Review Of Siringo., Clare V. Mckanna

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Anyone who has seen Richard Farnsworth's portrayal of Bill Miner in the Grey Fox would identify with Charles A. Siringo: "a nineteenth- century man who had become an anachronism in a twentieth-century world that had passed him by." This is a sad story about a jackof- all-trades western character who tried his hand as a cowboy, detective, homesteader, and writer. After reading this book, one concludes that he was not particularly skilled in any of these professions-all of them brought him grief

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Review Of Son Of Old Jules: Memoirs Of Jules Sandoz, Jr., Barbara Wright Rippey Jan 1991

Review Of Son Of Old Jules: Memoirs Of Jules Sandoz, Jr., Barbara Wright Rippey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Readers of Son of Old Jules familiar with Mari Sandoz's biography of her Nebraska Sandhills father, Old Jules (1935), will be sharply aware of the references to this earlier published Sandoz and her book. So are the authors, who, from the first word of the introduction to the last chapter, continually evoke Mari's memory by specific reference to her work and by rounding out many of her vignettes of her Swiss immigrant family and their community.

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Review Of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy Of Conflict, F. Arturo Rosales Jan 1991

Review Of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy Of Conflict, F. Arturo Rosales

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This unique work by a pioneer in Chicano history is perhaps one of the most inspiring works to date on the subject of Mexicans in the United States, a contention to which I will return. The study contains a brief history of the end of the Mexican American War in 1847 and the negotiations between the two warring nations that were concurrent with the period.

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Review Of From The Pecos To The Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography., Bob Ross Jan 1991

Review Of From The Pecos To The Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography., Bob Ross

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This paperback edition of a twenty-five-yearold classic is packed with anecdotes from the ranch country of Texas (1890-97) and Montana (1897-1929). Bob Kennon, who got his schooling in the saddle as a working cowboy, evidently knew how to spin a tale; his yarns, mostly brief, are told in to-the-point detail, down to the names and manners of horses he rode and quips and quirks of the men he worked with. He watched everything, from domestic quarrels and camp-cook rivalries to range accidents and saloon riots, with a merry storyteller's eye; he reports fights and shootings without making them epic or …

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Review Of "Our Purpose Is To Serve"; The First Century Of The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Peter D. Shemitz Jan 1991

Review Of "Our Purpose Is To Serve"; The First Century Of The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Peter D. Shemitz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Danbom's exhaustive account of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at Fargo usefully fills a gap in the history of agriculture on the Great Plains. The author explains how the experiment station was founded and the development of the main interests of its scientists: breeding varieties of crops and livestock, diversifying production, and adopting modem agricultural and business practices.

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Review Of The Two Psychiatries: The Transformation Of Psychiatric Work In Saskatchewan, 1905-1984, Will Spaulding Jan 1991

Review Of The Two Psychiatries: The Transformation Of Psychiatric Work In Saskatchewan, 1905-1984, Will Spaulding

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Great Plains region has a history of producing innovations in mental health. This book, an historical account and sociological analysis of the evolution of the Saskatchewan public mental health system, describes one Great Plains phenomenon that at times during this century has been remarkably progressive. The book began as the author's dissertation in the sociology of health care and was made possible by his fortuitous access to confidential government archives, primarily in the form of interoffice correspondence, in addition to the public historical record. Dickenson evaluates several hypotheses generated by sociologies of labor and professions. The brief and succinct …

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Review Of Political Bossism In Mid-America: Tom Dennison's Omaha 1900-1933, Frederick M. Spletstoser Jan 1991

Review Of Political Bossism In Mid-America: Tom Dennison's Omaha 1900-1933, Frederick M. Spletstoser

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Orville D. Menard's Political Bossism in MidAmerica is an in-depth account of the political machine that controlled Omaha, Nebraska, during the first third of the twentieth century. Thomas Dennison, the man who stood at the helm of that machine, is the book's central character, and the author scrutinizes Dennison's long and colorful career from almost every imaginable angle. Furthermore, Menard keeps Dennison and his city in their national context. Tom Dennison was one of many pragmatic urban bosses who came to power in cities filled with immigrants needing powerful friends who could help them in times of need. In return …

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Review Of Images Of The West: Changing Perceptions Of The Prairies, 1690-1960., Robert Thacker Jan 1991

Review Of Images Of The West: Changing Perceptions Of The Prairies, 1690-1960., Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Over the past several years, Western Producer Prairie Books has published volumes that demonstrate-quite apart from the materials they offer and the arguments they advancethe enduring "lure of the land" felt by English-Canadians (both prairie dwellers and those living elsewhere) toward their prairie as an evocative and formative landscape. Ronald Rees's Land of Earth and Sky: Landscape Painting of Western Canada (1984) and New and Naked Land: Making the Prairies Home (1988), from the same press, and now R. Douglas Francis's Images of the West, suggest that Western Producer is tapping a general interest in the Canadian prairie landscape …

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Review Of Great Plains Patchwork: A Memoir, Kathleene K. West Jan 1991

Review Of Great Plains Patchwork: A Memoir, Kathleene K. West

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Great Plains Patchwork is an uneven, at times disturbing book, but like Grace Paley's "little disturbances" it is the moments that unsettle, that jar the reader a bit that make this book worthwhile.

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Review Of The Selected Letters Of Frederick Manfred, 1932- 1954., Leslie Whipp Jan 1991

Review Of The Selected Letters Of Frederick Manfred, 1932- 1954., Leslie Whipp

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is an impressive piece of work by the University of Nebraska Press, by Arthur R. Huseboe and Nancy Owen Nelson, and of course by Frederick Manfred, and it will prove to be useful to scholars and critics of midwestern literature and more broadly as well.

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Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr. Jan 1991

Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For most Americans, "The Great Plains" evokes images of grasslands, dust storms, prairie fires, Indians on horseback, cowboys and wheat lands, and perhaps flat valleys crossed by braided rivers carrying a heavy load of sand and gravel, extremes of weather, and a climate typified by an alternation of droughts and wetter periods. Geologists picture such general images, too, but they also see radical changes in the landscape over periods expressed in millions rather than hundreds of years. Geologically speaking, human activities on the Great Plains are too recent to have much of a place in the broad geologic history of …

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Climate And Vegetation In Central North America: Natural Patterns And Human Alterations, John A. Harrington Jr, Jay R. Harman Jan 1991

Climate And Vegetation In Central North America: Natural Patterns And Human Alterations, John A. Harrington Jr, Jay R. Harman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The characteristic patterns of climate and natural vegetation in central North America are strongly interrelated and result from an atmospheric circulation system that responds to both global and continental scale mechanisms. Climatic patterns arise in the region between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes or Mississippi River from the interactions between two major components of the global atmospheric circulation system, the tropical Hadley Cell and the extratropical, upper-level Westerlies. The Westerlies, particularly, are influenced and steered by thermal inequalities over the earth's surface as well as by terrain barriers such as the Rocky Mountain Cordillera. In addition, both the …

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Notes And News For Vol.11 No.2 Jan 1991

Notes And News For Vol.11 No.2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Caprock Canyonlands: Journey Into The Heart Of The Southern Plains, Rudolfo A. Anaya Jan 1991

Review Of Caprock Canyonlands: Journey Into The Heart Of The Southern Plains, Rudolfo A. Anaya

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the spring of 1984 Shelley Armitage invited me to lecture at West Texas State in Canyon, Texas. She and a colleague met me, and after dropping off my bags, they asked if I wanted to go for a ride to see a special place. It was a beautiful spring afternoon and I was glad for the fresh air. I remember seeing two sights I will never forget: one was living Texas longhorns in the brush, and the other was the beauty of the descent and drive through Palo Duro Canyon.

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Review Of Buffalo Bill And His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography., Richard W. Ethulain Jan 1991

Review Of Buffalo Bill And His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography., Richard W. Ethulain

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Novels and histories of the American West have always attracted a large, varied audience. Some readers, preferring stirring adventure narratives of the Old West, have bought Louis L'Amour Westerns by the hundreds of thousands, collected Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell prints, and mourned the apparent demise of TV and cinematic Westerns. Others, drawn to a regional West, have devoured Walter Prescott Webb's histories, the historical fiction of Willa Cather, A. B. Guthrie, and Wallace Stegner, and the regional paintings of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry. Still others, viewing the West as a significant global subregion, are …

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Review Of A Life With The Union Pacific: The Autobiography Of Edd H. Bailey, H.Roger Grant Jan 1991

Review Of A Life With The Union Pacific: The Autobiography Of Edd H. Bailey, H.Roger Grant

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As the title of this modest volume suggests, Edd H. Bailey, the late president of the Union Pacific Company, has written for us his life story. Like typical railroad officials of the past, Bailey climbed the corporate ladder by moving through various positions in the operating department. After a youth spent on a woebegone homestead in eastern Colorado, he joined the Union Pacific in 1922 as a helper in the car department in Cheyenne, Wyoming; by 1965, he was the president and director. Although Bailey lacked a college education, his various "hands-on" experiences made possible his rise to industry-wide prominence. …

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Review Of The Plains Of North America And Their Inhabitants, James H. Gunnerson Jan 1991

Review Of The Plains Of North America And Their Inhabitants, James H. Gunnerson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge wrote with the easy style of an experienced raconteur, drawing on twenty years of first-hand experience on the Plains. Most of his numerous anecdotes, however, date from the late 1860s and early 1870s. During this period he met an English promoter who encouraged Dodge to write the book. First published in 1876 it quickly went through two editions in England and two in the United States, all substantially edited. The present version, with only errors of spelling and punctuation corrected, is based on an unedited manuscript by Dodge and presents the work as he had …

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Review Of Tum Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam And Mary Maverick, David J. Murrah Jan 1991

Review Of Tum Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam And Mary Maverick, David J. Murrah

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Paula Mitchell Marks's Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas is a dual biography of Sam and Mary Maverick, Texas pioneers who were eyewitnesses to the Texas Revolution and the exciting years that followed in its immediate aftermath. Based primarily on the personal diaries and papers of the Mavericks, Marks's work virtually personalizes the Revolution, beginning with Sam Maverick's arrival in San Antonio prior to its 1835 siege and the March, 1836 Battle of the Alamo. Even though he was a newcomer to Texas, Maverick played an important role in the San Antonio skirmishes and was elected by the Alamo garrison to …

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Review Of Canyon Visions: Photographs And Pastels Of The Texas Plains, John R. Wunder Jan 1991

Review Of Canyon Visions: Photographs And Pastels Of The Texas Plains, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is a beautiful book. Its beauty is fourfold. There is an allusive introduction by Archer City native, West Texas novelist Larry McMurtry, and lyrical words and phrases in an introduction and photo/portrait captions by Texas Tech University history professor Dan L. Flores. Then there are forty magnificent photos of the canyons of the Texas Plains taken by Flores and thirty-nine reproductions of pastels of the canyon landscapes of West Texas by Amarillo artist Amy Gormley Winton. The photographs and pastels are very effectively organized on separate pages facing each other and are arranged in five sections-"Elements," "Forms," "Texture," "Color," …

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Wyoming Political Surprises In The Late 1980s: Deviating Elections In A Conservative Republican State, Cal Clark, Janet Clark Jan 1991

Wyoming Political Surprises In The Late 1980s: Deviating Elections In A Conservative Republican State, Cal Clark, Janet Clark

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Wyoming is typical of the states in the upper Great Plains region (Montana, Kansas, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota) in many but not all aspects. In socioeconomic terms, the Great Plains are basically agricultural and rural with fewer prominent urban centers than elsewhere in the nation. Politically the region is generally viewed as conservative and Republican, but this image is subject to several important caveats. First, agrarian crises have periodically fueled insurgent political movements, such as the Populism of the 1890s, Progressivism in the early twentieth century, strong support for Roosevelt's New Deal, and support for populist or liberal …

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Review Of The Kiowa, Maurice Boyd Jan 1991

Review Of The Kiowa, Maurice Boyd

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This brief and easily readable summary about the Kiowas from their early known beginnings to the present should be welcomed by Kiowa and non-Kiowa alike. Any general reader seeking an overview of the tribe will also find it helpful.

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Review Of The Bpi Companion To The Western, Richard W. Ethulain Jan 1991

Review Of The Bpi Companion To The Western, Richard W. Ethulain

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Of the numerous volumes claiming to be guides to the cinematic Western, this book is by far the best. For once a jacket blurb is exactly correct when it reads: "Unsurpassed in scope and scholarship, [this volume] sets a new standard for reference books about the [Western]."

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Review Of The Seminole, Susan A. Miller Jan 1991

Review Of The Seminole, Susan A. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The series Indians of North America, intended to introduce various U.S. Indian groups to an audience of young adults, features eyecatching design, tough construction, short bibliographies, boxed treatments of appealing topics, and short four-color photo essays. Although the Florida Seminoles merit such a study, The Seminole is too flawed to fill that niche.

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Review By Plains Folk, North Dakota's Ethnic History, L. Martin Perry Jan 1991

Review By Plains Folk, North Dakota's Ethnic History, L. Martin Perry

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Plains Folk essentially completes its 1983 predecessor, Prairie Mosaic, authored by sociologist William Sherman. The earlier work outlined the landscape of ethnic groups that composed North Dakota, the state with the highest proportion of foreign-born residents prior to the Second World War. For the sequel, Sherman teamed up with a handful of ethnic historians to give extended treatment to the same folks: "Yankees," Germans from Germany and eastern Europe, Scandinavians, Slavs, and those with a more limited presence.

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