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Review Of The Middle West: Its Meaning In American Culture., David D. Van Tassel
Review Of The Middle West: Its Meaning In American Culture., David D. Van Tassel
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This book is a well-argued analysis of a variety of sources in the tradition of Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden. While Shortridge does not attempt to lay to rest the question of the objective existence of a midwestern culture or examine the nature of that culture and its origins, his work will nevertheless stimulate a good deal of debate and further research.
Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart
Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The objectives of this encyclopedia, as explained by the author in the introduction, are "to present the widest possible body of reference material on the Central West" and also "to offer a readable work, one to be dipped into for enjoyment as well as information" (5). There is no disputing the breadth of the coverage, which extends geographically from North Dakota to Texas and from Nebraska to western Colorado and topically from geology to tourism. Nor can it be denied that the entries are interesting. But conceptually the choice of area is open to dispute, and a close reading of …
Standing Traditions On Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples, Janet Mancini Billson
Standing Traditions On Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples, Janet Mancini Billson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The woman is the foundation on which nations are built.
She is the heart of her nation.
If that heart is weak the people are weak.
If her heart is strong and her mind is clear
then the nation is strong and knows its purpose.
The woman is the centre of everything.
But equally, women must honour men;
If not, then everything is out of balance
and we can have nothing but chaos and pain.
These are the first elements that must be
put back together
or nothing, but nothing
can come right again. 1
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.1
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.1
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
British Remittance Men As Ranchers: The Case Of Coutts Marjoribanks And Edmund Thursby, 1884-95, Larry A. Mcfarlane
British Remittance Men As Ranchers: The Case Of Coutts Marjoribanks And Edmund Thursby, 1884-95, Larry A. Mcfarlane
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Frederick Jackson Turner's is only the most compelling of many accounts that portrayed the frontier West as a region of opportunity where sturdy individuals from modest social and economic backgrounds could get a leg up o~ the ladder of success. This frontier was a healthier place than longer settled areas because westerners valued newcomers for their hard work, for what they could do, not for their family status or wealth, and individuals achieved whatever level of success their own abilities and motivations allowed. But as British and even eastern travelers to the frontier often reported, this egalitarianism often had a …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1991 Vol. 11 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1991 Vol. 11 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim
Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The definition, surveying, and particularly the marking, with quartzite monuments, of the state boundary between North and South Dakota provide the major themes for this study. It is obvious that the author, who was born and raised in South Dakota and now teaches history in North Dakota, has a special fondness for these monuments. While the study will be of primary interest to North and South Dakota state and local history enthusiasts, the book will also interest political geographers and historians (as a case study in the establishment of two states and their boundary) and cartographic historians (as an example …
Review Of Ronald Reagan And The Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984, William D. Rowley
Review Of Ronald Reagan And The Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984, William D. Rowley
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Reagan years, having magically passed into history, are now the subjects of articles and books by historians, political scientists, and in this case an academic journalist, who builds a tightly constructed book out of the press releases of the period.
"Proving Up And Moving Up": Jewish Homesteading Activity In North Dakota, 1900-1920, Janet E. Schulte
"Proving Up And Moving Up": Jewish Homesteading Activity In North Dakota, 1900-1920, Janet E. Schulte
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the spring of 1908, Morris Zemsky, a Russian- Jewish immigrant homesteading in Ashley, North Dakota, sent a letter to the Industrial Removal Office (IRO) of the Baron de Hirsch Fund in New York. Joseph Kaminer, Secretary of the Ashley Farmer's Bureau, wrote the note for Zemsky, who spoke only Yiddish. The letter requested advice on the condition of Zemsky's parents "who are now in New York and are actually starving to death. As they are several in the family and no one of them can find work."1 Zemsky requested the IRO to send his parents to his North …
The Segesser Hide Paintings: History, Discovery, Art, Thomas E. Chávez
The Segesser Hide Paintings: History, Discovery, Art, Thomas E. Chávez
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
T here is no doubt that the Segesser hide paintings are among the most novel and important artifacts of the Spanish Colonial history of New Mexico. As aesthetic works they are striking and as hide paintings they are unique. As historical documents they have already sparked revisions in historical interpretation of the period, providing valuable information on significant factors such as modes of warfare, uniforms and clothing, and the war panoply of the Plains Indians. As artifacts, they are among the most valuable acquisitions made by the Museum of New Mexico. Most important, their presence in the Palace of the …
Review Of Hasinai: A Traditional History Of The Caddo Confederacy, Dee Ann Story
Review Of Hasinai: A Traditional History Of The Caddo Confederacy, Dee Ann Story
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This slender but far ranging volume presents the modem Hasinai Caddo view of their origin and traditional lifeways. It is based primarily on oral traditions and secondarily on published and archival material. The information culled from these sources is woven into a framework of twelve chapters, each of which is introduced by a description of a dance. All but one of the dances make up a night's cycle of ceremonial song and dance that reenact the tribal history.
Review Of Views From The Apache Frontier: Report On The Northern Provinces Of New Spain, Ralph H. Vigil
Review Of Views From The Apache Frontier: Report On The Northern Provinces Of New Spain, Ralph H. Vigil
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This report on the northern provinces of New Spain was written in 1799 by Jose Maria Cortes, a lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Engineers.Cortes, an intelligent and keen observer, relied on personal observations and archival research to describe the Apaches and other Indian groups of the trans-Mississippi West.
Review Of Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet, George A. Schultz
Review Of Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet, George A. Schultz
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Increasingly historians who write about leadership in the American Indian resistance movements argue that the typical leader was not the standard war chief. R. David Edmunds in his books on the Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa focuses not on their military acumen but on their unique diplomatic and political skills. Similarly, Joseph B. Herring's biography of Kenekuk, the Kickapoo prophet, reveals a rare blend of leadership skills that Kenekuk employed to unite the Vermillion band, first in Illinois and then in Kansas. Using a variety of stratagems, Kenekuk, sometimes with reason and other times with bluster, fenced with politicians and …
Oglala Sioux Use Of Medical Herbs, George Robert Morgan, Ronald R. Weedon
Oglala Sioux Use Of Medical Herbs, George Robert Morgan, Ronald R. Weedon
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Despite the turmoil of Sioux cultural losses since contact with Anglo-European culture, the Oglala Sioux have maintained an interest in herbal medicines, although with each passing generation the number of plants actively used for curing has diminished. Fewer people have been learning the identification of plant medicines and their uses, the procedures for preparing plants, and the techniques of herbal cures. Many of the older Sioux blame reservation boarding schools for the disruption of cultural transmission, but other factors have been at work as well.
Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Michael L. Tate
Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Michael L. Tate
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
More than a century has elapsed since George Armstrong Custer led his command into a military disaster on the hills above the Little Big Horn River. Yet public fascination with this man and his immortalized "Last Stand" has never waned as each new generation hungers for definitive explanations of his enigmatic life.
Spanish Exploration And The Great Plains In The Age Of Discovery: Myth And Reality, Ralph H. Vigil
Spanish Exploration And The Great Plains In The Age Of Discovery: Myth And Reality, Ralph H. Vigil
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
T his essay attempts to place Spanish exploration on the Great Plains within the context of the temper and feelings prevailing in the first century of the "discovery" of the West. 1 Because many writers of texts and more specialized works view the past in the light of the present, European expansion in the sixteenth century appears to be more modem than it was. This paper views Spaniards of the early colonial period as more medieval than modem in outlook; it also suggests that mythological geography and mixed spiritual and worldly motives, considered incompatible in our day, were as important …
Review Of The Shortgrass Prairie, James H. Locklear
Review Of The Shortgrass Prairie, James H. Locklear
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Perhaps the most poorly known and least appreciated ecosystem in all of the U.S. is the shortgrass prairie. It is not as though this vegetation type only occurs in a limited area of the country. Shortgrass prairie dominates the landscape of an enormous region stretching from Canada to New Mexico. Why is there so little understanding of this expansive grassland? Perhaps it is because few people have bothered to write about it. Ruth Cushman and Stephen Jones took on this task and we may be thankful to have their book, The Shortgrass Prairie.
Review Of Home Town News: William Allen White & The Emporia Gazette, William R. Elkins
Review Of Home Town News: William Allen White & The Emporia Gazette, William R. Elkins
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Sally Foreman Griffith uses the life of William Allen White, noted editor of The Emporia Gazette, as the vehicle for an insightful examination into the "role of journalism in American culture." Acknowledging that her book is a biography, Griffith nevertheless makes clear that she uses White's career "as a window, or perhaps . . . a prism to observe the communication process as a complex interaction among communicator, audience, and medium, involving many different facets, including the psychological, social, cultural, economic, technological, and political." Put more simply, Griffith gives us a fascinating look into small-town (Emporia, Kansas) America and …
Review Of The Windmill Turning; Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, And Other Expressions Of Western Canadian Mennonites, Victor Peters
Review Of The Windmill Turning; Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, And Other Expressions Of Western Canadian Mennonites, Victor Peters
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Canada and the United States provide the home for two basic types of Mennonites who have little more than their beliefs in common. The older group settled mainly in the east and came to America directly from various German states. Their immigration began in 1683 and initiated the broader stream of German immigration. The other group were the West Prussian Mennonites who left their homes in Russia and came to Canada and the United States in the 1870s.
Homestead On The Range: The Emergence Of Community In Eastern Montana, 1900-1925, Rex C. Myers
Homestead On The Range: The Emergence Of Community In Eastern Montana, 1900-1925, Rex C. Myers
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Mary Tanner saw homesteading as "a togetherness" learned from neighbors. 1 In 1915 she and thirty-two families shared that togetherness at Round Butte, Dawson County, Montana, clustered around a school and post office that bore the same name. Neighbors got together and threshed grain, raised barns, or brought in crops for neighbors "laid up" by accident or illness. That same cooperative effort extended to the formation of the Round Butte school and post office, to community social organizations, and ultimately to the creation of a new county, Garfield, in 1919.
Review Of Ernest Haycox, Jon Nelson
Review Of Ernest Haycox, Jon Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
It can be posited that each western author has written at least one memorable short story or novel. Ernest Haycox, the subject of this pamphlet in the Boise State University series on western fiction, is best remembered for his short story "Stage to Lordsburg" that John Ford made into the classic film Stagecoach in 1939 with John Wayne and Claire Trevor. Since then the story has been refilmed twice, once by Gordon Douglas in 1966 with Bing Crosby and Ann Margaret, and again in 1988 for television with Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash.
Review Of Raising Less Com And More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out, Deborah Fink
Review Of Raising Less Com And More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out, Deborah Fink
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Raising Less Corn and More Hell will be inspiring reading for the political advocates organized around the Save the Family Farm Act; others will find insights on the symbols and themes that lie behind a highly visible rural movement of the 1980s. The bulk of the book, consisting of excerpts of interviews with fortytwo farmers and nonfarmers, mostly from Iowa and bordering states, gives vivid personal stories of the hard times of the 1980s. Pictures of many of the persons, set in the context of their daily work, help us to hear and understand the messages.
Review Of South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., To Oscar Howe And Over A Century Of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial & State Governors, Gilbert C. Fite
Review Of South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., To Oscar Howe And Over A Century Of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial & State Governors, Gilbert C. Fite
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Special events in the history of a state have customarily stimulated an unusual variety of commemorative writings. Such is the case with the books under review, both of which grew out of South Dakota's centennial in 1989. Moreover, both books deal with one theme-leadership. One concentrates on political leadership while the other includes a broader representation.
Review Of Route 66: The Highway And Its People, Richard P. Horwitz
Review Of Route 66: The Highway And Its People, Richard P. Horwitz
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Quinta Scott and Susan Croce Kelly have crafted an affectionate contribution to the mythology of Route 66, the U. S. highway stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles. Kelly's eight chapters provide a detailed, illustrated chronology of the highway, from its "birth" in the 1920s through its decommission in 1985. The narrative cruises from humble beginnings and heroic visions, through hard times, to jubilation and inevitable decline. This saga frames the series of documentary photographs by Scott who features crisp views of roadside relics, cafes, and billboards from the route's golden age, and textured portraits of their aging owners. Both photographs …
Review Of Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Richard K. Sutton
Review Of Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Richard K. Sutton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Popularized books on wildflowers are not hard to find, though it seems the prairie has been nearly ignored. This is perhaps because there is less of that original biome left than any other and the particular comeliness of the individual wildflower is diluted by a matrix of grass. Runkel and Roosa have produced an excellent picture book, with readable text, in which they cover derivation of Latin names, ecological and botanical descriptions, and anecdotal information on plant use by Native Americans. Its interesting organization follows the bloom sequence of more than 130 dicots and monocots throughout the year, though the …
Review Of The American West In Film: Critical Approaches To The Western, Terry Nygren
Review Of The American West In Film: Critical Approaches To The Western, Terry Nygren
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
German filmmaker Fritz Lang once observed that the Western is to America what the Niebelungen Saga is to Germany. Set during a relatively brief period in American history, the Western genre mythologized America's confrontation with a vast frontier. Themes center on the conflict between savagery and civilization, community and the rugged individual, lawlessness and social order. Many critics have argued that the Western is primarily a vehicle for American imperialist ideology, and thus, only peripherally about the historical settlement of the West.
Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough
Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian West is a fine example of a department's contribution to regional studies. The eight essays from six contributors in an attractive, readable, and well-bound monograph are a useful addition to western Canadian studies. The essays (Darby, "From River Boat to Raillines: Circulation Patterns in the Canadian West during the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century"; Holmes, "The Canmore Corridor, 1880-1914: A Case Study of the Selection and Development of a Pass Site"; Hadley, "Photography, Tourism and the CPR: Western Canada, 1884- 1914"; Evans, "The Origin of Ranching in Western Canada: American Diffusion …
Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés
Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The sugar beet industry was in the forefront of the opening of the northern Great Plains to commercial agriculture. At the end of the nineteenth century, massive expanses of cheap land with ideal climatic and soil conditions were available on the Plains, but the sparse population afforded few farmers or field workers to block, thin, hoe, and top the sugar beets. Between 1890 and World War II, the sugar corporations devised three labor recruitment strategies that created classes of settlers, sojourners, and proletarians on the Great Plains. This essay examines the interaction between the sugar beet industry and its field …
Review Of Historical Atlas Of Kansas, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Historical Atlas Of Kansas, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The University of Oklahoma Press, which has published a series of state historical atlases, has now issued a revision of its Kansas atlas, first published in 1972. The authors, historian Homer Socolofsky and geographer Huber Self, have updated their earlier work on the basis of 1984 state and federal government estimates.