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Review Of Hoofbeats And Society: Studies Of Human-Horse Interactions, Susanne Lindau

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Taking her 1982 book, Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame, a step further, cultural anthropologist and practicing veterinarian Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence here concentrates on the universal appeal of the horse. Horses, she states, "can be vivid images in human cognitive processes, and frequently serve as meaningful constructs in ordering social relations between people and the work around them" (p. ix). She explores various facets of the human-horse relationship to discover the special appeal and significance of horses in diverse societies.

Review Of Agricultural Distress In The Midwest, Past And Present, James Lowenberg-Debore

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As Gelfand states in his foreword, the purpose of the four papers in this book is to examine the farm problems in the Midwest from the late nineteenth century through the present, comparing reasons for agricultural distress and responses to the problems. Part of that objective is achieved. The first two papers present reasonable overviews of farm problems through the 1930s, with some insights from recent research. The book's plan falters in description of events after 1940 and lacks almost entirely comparisons between past and present.

Review Of Historical Atlas Of Oklahoma, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This new edition, which draws upon the 1980 census, updates an excellent historical atlas that was first published in 1%5. It includes eighty-three maps, of which perhaps a dozen incorporate new data. Each map is accompanied by a page of text that elucidates the map and often presents additional information. Besides standard historical topics,other subjects such as physiography, natural resources, population, and education are treated cartographically.

Review Of Sam Shepard, Carolyn Perry

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As Shepard creates myths of the modern world in his plays, Patraka and Siegel use these myths to categorize Shepard's works. Thus, their pamphlet systematically describes each plays it contributes to Shepard's unique portrayal of Western America. Realizing the complexity of each Shepard play, Patraka and Siegel do not attempt detailed textual analysis, but rather offer pertinent insights and explanations where most useful. Also, their explication is often enhanced by Shepard's own comments, which illuminate both the works and the playwright himself. Anyone interested in the works of Sam Shepard, and especially those unaccustomed to his ingenious, eccentric style, will …

"The Greatest Thing I Ever Did Was Join The Union": A History Of The Dakota Teamsters During The Depression, Jonathan F. Wagner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the Great Depression the Dakota Teamsters established themselves as the most important union on the northern Plains. ¹ Their success involved struggle and sacrifice, with a full complement of setbacks and losses as well as advances and gains. From the 1930s on, the union has reflected certain of the general characteristics of the parent body, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, Chauffeurs, Warehousemen and Helpers of America. Like the International, the Dakota Teamsters was always basically a truck drivers' union, but also something more. As with the International, the concept of jurisdiction was elastic. "In our teamsters union," the Minot, …

Notes & News (Great Plains Quarterly 7:2 [Spring 1987])

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

IN MEMORIAM Margaret Laurence

Twelfth annual conference, to be held 16-18 March 1988, will be "The Arts on the Plains: The Role of Institutions."

Western Literature Association will hold its annual meeting at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln 15-17 October 1987

Baylor University will hold a national symposium entitled "Regionalism: Concepts and Applications" 1-3 October 1987.

Many back issues of Great Plains Quarterly are still available

ERRATA -- Prairie Politics and Society: Regionalism in Decline, by Roger Gibbins, was attributed to the wrong publisher in a review

Song Texts And Their Performers: The Centerpiece Of Contemporary Lakota Identity Formulation, R. D. Theisz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the 1960s and 1970s both American Indians and non-Indians showed intense interest in and awareness of the Indian world, and many traditional activities became more popular. This boom atmosphere has waned in the late 1980s, and Indian youths and young adults have therefore changed the focus of their search for identity formulation. In this article, I have been concerned with an aspect of Lakota traditionalism that is being granted more and more significance in the Lakota scheme of things-traditional song and dance. I have based the article on my readings in ethnomusicological literature, my informal observations over many years …

The Life And Times Of James Willard Schultz (Apikuni)., Starr Jenkins

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Warren Hanna h ere gives us a splendid, complete biography of James Willard Schultz (1 859-1947), a not-so-well -known but excellent writer on the America n West. In 1877, at seventeen, Schultz arrived in Montana Territory and "began to live intimately the life of an Indian [among the Blackfeet] almost from the day he arrived in the West. He ate their food, slept in their lodges , and began to learn the difficult Blackfoot language; he eventually was able not only to speak it well but to think as the Indians did. He began to see the world through the …

West Of Wichita: Settling The High Plains Of Kansas, 1865-1890., David M. Emmons

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Craig Miner's new book is a social history of the settlement of a specific Western region. In methodology and manner of presentation it resembles other "new" social histories. It is interdisciplinary and based on the social scientists' modeling techniques. Miner cites European historians and, what is more remarkable, one can imagine them citing him. He uses unconventional primary materialsmanuscript censuses, tax records, and the reminiscences of the "ordinary" people whose story he tells; he concentrates on the material lives of those people, "the fellows at the bottom," Bertolt Brecht called them, the ones, according to T. E. Lawrence who "did …

The Expeditions Of John Charles Fremont, John L. Allen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With the publication of this third volume in the Expeditions of John Charles Fremont series, a massive compilation and editing task begun in 1965 has come to an end. The first volume and accompanying map portfolio, published in 1970, dealt with Fremont's travels between 1838 and 1844, focusing on the first and second expeditions into the American West which secured his fame as an explorer. The second, published in 1973, was devoted to Fremont's third expedition, his participation in the Bear Flag Revolt and subsequent court martial. Finally, the present work covers Fremont's travels between 1848 and 1854, encompassing the …

Political Prairie Fire: The Nonpartisan League, 1915-1922 And The Nonpartisan League, 1915-22: An Annotated Bibliography, Kathleen Moum

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Nonpartisan League was a post-Populist movement of farmers that arose in North Dakota in 1915 and rapidly spread throughout the Upper Midwest. Within a few years the League won primary elections against candidates of the established parties and gained control of the North Dakota government. Massive numbers of North Dakota farmers voted to bring in the League and its radical platform. The goal of the League was to alleviate the economic suffering of North Dakota farmers caused by outside forces over which they had no control, and to that end it sponsored a program of progressive legislation that included …

Notes And News For Vol.7 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Index To Vol 7

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Coxey's Army: An American Odyssey., Robert W. Cherny

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Carlos Schwantes tells us in Coxey's Army that the 1894 "petition in boots" aroused greater fears of social disorder than any event since the disputed election of 1876, although he also makes clear that such fears were largely groundless. The march on Washington to demand federal jobs for the unemployed was the brain child of Jacob Coxey, a prosperous Ohio quarry-owner, and Carl Browne, an itinerant panorama-painter who joined marches of the unemployed in Chicago in 1893. Coxey hoped not only to eliminate unemployment and create good roads but also to inflate the currency bv paying workers in legal tender …

Review Of More True Tales Of Old-Time Kansas, Amil Quayle

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Henry Born married Ida Dillabaugh from Montague, Michigan, in July, 1900. They had four children-two boys and two girls. They lived beside a beautiful trout lake in the San Juan Mountains about twenty miles above Pagosa Springs during the spring, summer, and early fall. They spent their winters in town." If this type of clean, factual, detailed historical writing appeals to you, I'd recommend More True Tales of Old-Time Kansas by David Dary for your reading pleasure.

Comparative Frontier Scoial Life: Western Saloons And Argentine Pulperias, Richard W. Slatta

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In sparsely populated cattle frontier regions of the nineteenth century, only a limited number of social institutions functioned. The ranch, as a central socioeconomic complex, took on added importance. Ranch owners often took upon themselves political and legal powers exercised by civic officials in more settled areas. In the cattle regions of the American West and the pampas of Argentina, taverns were important local institutions. A comparison of social activities in the western saloon and the Argentine pulperi'a-a combination country store and tavern-reveals strong similarities. As frontier institutions, they served analogous multiple functions, and their cowboy and gaucho patrons behaved …

Plains Indian Agrariaism And Class Conflict, Russel Lawrence Barsh

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Relatively little has been done to trace the political structures of American Indians through the years 1890 to 1940, when reservation economics were undergoing their most dramatic changes. That failure has left the false impression of a fifty-vear institutional vacuum. In fact, the middle years were times of complex reJisrrihutions of power ;md the emergence of indigellous socioeconomic classes. It was also perhaps the earliest period in which Plains Indians enjoyed anything like an Americanstyle, decentralized elective democracy. Federal programs shifted the control of the Indians' food supply. From being skilled hunter- organizers they became recipients of gc)\"ernnwnt patronage, heelme …

Review Of Prohibition In Kansas: A History, Patrick G. O'Brien

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Owner of the prohibition longevity record, Kansas has a history that in large part focuses on the suppression of intoxicating beverages. Prohibition divided Kansans longer and deeper than any other issue, and none is better to explain the social texture and personality of the state. Eschewing that opportunity, historians have tended to minimize its importance and treat it in a cursory fashion. This book is the first scholarly and comprehensive analysis of prohibition from inception to demise in the purportedly driest state iIi America. The examination of Kansas in a broad context also adds a dimension to prohibition as a …

The Indians Of Texas: An Annotatcd Research Bibliography., Joseph B. Herring

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Michael Tate has provided scholars and students alike with a valuable and comprehensive bibliography of the various Indian tribes that once lived within the boundaries of the present state of Texas. Included are 3,796 citations on the native Coahuiltecan, Karankawa, Tonkaw'a, Jumano, \X/ichita, Caddo, Atakapa, Comanche, and Kiowa peoples a:; well as the emigrant Cherokees, AlabamaCoushattas, Seminoles, and Kickapoos who moved to Texas during the first half of the nineteenth century. The work is divided into two books. The first is a tribal arrangement focusing on Indian cultures, and the second is a chronological arrangement of Indian-white rclations from the …

State And Local Regulations For Reducing Agricultural Erosion And Ecological Planning For Farmland Preservation, Charles Deknatel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The authority to plan and regulate land use in the U.S. belongs to the states and is largely delegated to local governments. Agricultural policy is defined at the national level. These reports introduce planners to two major conservation problems in agriculture-soil erosion and conversion of farmland to other uses. Both documents offer guidance, methods and strategies aimed primarily at local and state action. Neither report offers conclusive analysis nor addresses the national and international market influences on agriculture policy.

Leadership Selection In Canadian Indian Communities, Reforming The Present And Incorporating The Past, J Anthony Long, Menno Boldt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

With improving prospects of achieving a greater measure of political autonomy for their governments, native Indian leaders in Canada are beginning to look seriously at reforming internal tribal/band political structures. Their objectives arc to establish band governments that meet the present social and economic needs of Indian peoples as well as reflect traditional political values. A "hand" is a legal entity specified in the Indian Act, a federal statute that has governed Indians in Canada since shortly after Confederation. In most instances the band corresponds to traditional tribal social and political organization, and these concepts are now often used interchangeably. …

Review Of Union Busting In The Tri-State: The Oklahoma, Kansas, And Missouri Metal Workers' Strike Of 1935., Arrell Morgan Gibson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The National Industry Recovery Act (1933) and National Labor Relations Act (1935) substantially improved the lot of most American workers by assuring their federally-mandated right to organize and engage in collective bargaining. Union Busting reveals a worker community-the Tri-State District (Southwest Missouri centering on Joplin, Southeast Kansas centering on Galena/Baxter Springs, and Northeast Oklahoma centering on Picher/ Commerce/Miami)-that was denied the benefits of that reform legislation. Opened in the 1840s, by 1900 this bonanza was rated the richest lead and zinc mining region in the world, and the industry it sustained was valued at one billion dollars.

Review Of Prairie Women: Images In American And Canadian Fiction, Susan J. Rosowski

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Prairie Women: Images in American and Canadian Fiction, Carol Fairbanks has taken materials suitable for a fine annotated bibliography, then, disappointingly, presented them in the guise of critical interpretation.

From Wasteland To Utopia: Changing Images Of The Canadian In The Nineteeth Century, R. Douglas Francis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is common knowledge that what one perceives is greatly conditioned by what one wants or expects to see. Perception is not an objective act that occurs independently of the observer. One is an active agent in the process and brings to one's awareness certain preconceived values, or a priori assumptions, that enable one to organize the deluge of objects, experiences, and impressions into some meaningful and comprehensive world view. Perception changes as new information or altered perspectives are integrated and thus, one's view of the "objective" external world is affected.

Acculturation By Design: Architectural Determinism And The Montana Indian Reservations, 1870-1930, Carroll Van West

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Everything the Power of the World docs is done in a circle. The sky is round like a hall, and [ have heard that the earth is round like a ball, and so are all the stars. The wind in its greatest power, whirls. Birds make their nests in circles, for theirs i, the same religion ;1S ours. The sun comes forth and goes down again in a circle. The moon docs the same, and both arc round. Even the seasons form a great ,circle from childhood to childhood, and so it is in everything where power moves. Our teepees …

Review Of The Prairie West: Historical Readings, John C. Scott O.S.B.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Prairie West makes available thirty-two essays which provide "both overview interpretations and current research" on the history of the Canadian Prairie West. Although the book lacks an index (which would make its content more easily accessible for readers with very specific interests), each of the volume's fourteen sections is preceded by a very competent and instructive introduction as well as a "Selected Bibliography."

The Indian Reorganization Act And The Loss Of Tribal Sovereignty: Constitutions On The Rosebud And Pine Ridge Reservations, Richmond L. Clow

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The rhetoric of the Indian New Deal has directed scholars to study tribal political activities only after the Indian Reorganization Act of 1934. Graham D. Taylor expressed the prevailing opinion when he claimed that "the tribal governments established under the Indian Reorganization Act constitute a totally new and unfamiliar level of organization for many Indian groups.'" Although the flurry of new tribal constitutions adopted after 1934 overshadowed previous constitutional activities, Taylor and others overstate the case. Indian tribes had always had the right to determine their own form of government, and many tribes, beginning with the Cherokee in 1827, had …

Baronets And Buffalo: The British Sportsman In The American West, 1833-1881, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book, "a narrative history of the American West as seen through the eyes and exploits of British sportsmen," begins with an epigraph from George Frederick Ruxton: "Although liable to an accusation of barbarism, I must confess that the very happiest moments of my life have been spent in the wilderness of the Far West" (v,iv). Ruxton was but one of scores of British sportsmen who wandered through the American plains during the nineteenth century-killing buffalo and elk, seeing (and sometimes fleeing) Indians, undergoing hardships, and generally revelling in the wildness they found beyond the frontier. After spending 1846-47 in …

Nowhere Left To Go: Montana's Crees, Metis, And Chippewas And The Creation Of Rocky Boy's Resevation, Larry Burt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the last third of the nineteenth century, the federal governments of Canada and the United States asserted their jurisdiction over the Great Plains through a series of treaties that established reservations for the various Indian tribes of the area. By the turn of the century, three small native groups found themselves homeless relics of a distant past long after other peoples had moved to their reservations. Several bands of Cree Indians and a number of mixed-bloods, who called themselves Metis, had used lands on both sides of the line that had become the border between the state of Montana …

Thunderstorm Morphology And Dynamics, Second Edition, Revised And Enlarged., Alec H. Paul

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is Volume 2 in the three-volume series Thunderstorms: A Social, Scientific, and Technological Documentary. The first, The Thunderstorm in Human Affairs, was reviewed in Great Plains Quarterly, Summer 1984. This second offering is also a fine product but is highly technical in places, much larger, more detailed, and considerably more expensive. It is a book for the thunderstorm specialist rather than for the general reader.