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Book Review: Where Custer Fell: Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield Then And Now, Herman J. Viola
Book Review: Where Custer Fell: Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield Then And Now, Herman J. Viola
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the famed U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by the flamboyant George Armstrong Custer attacked a large Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. By day's end, Custer and more than two hundred of his men lay dead. More than a century later, the battle still remains a subject of controversy, debate, and fascination.
Book Review: Promise: Bozeman's Trail To Destiny, Michael Cassity
Book Review: Promise: Bozeman's Trail To Destiny, Michael Cassity
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The transformation of the area along the Bozeman Trail through Wyoming and Montana in the 1860s provides a key to understanding the larger forces at work reshaping the American West in the late nineteenth century. The complex dynamics at work within the Native American cultures in the area and between them and the intruders hold a great potential for substantive historical inquiry. The present volume is a broad collection, a miscellany, of historical documents, personal reminiscences, and oral histories, as well as observations by professional historians; it even contains some fictional narratives drawing on the events at hand. Not surprisingly, …
Alexandre Hogue's Passion: Ecology And Agribusiness In The Crucified Land, Mark Andrew White
Alexandre Hogue's Passion: Ecology And Agribusiness In The Crucified Land, Mark Andrew White
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1939, Texas artist Alexandre Hogue completed The Crucified Land (Fig. 1), a striking comparison of water erosion on a Denton, Texas, wheat farm to the martyrdom of Jesus of Nazareth. The Crucified Land was originally intended as the final canvas of Hogue's Erosion series, which the artist began in 1932 as a condemnation of the careless agricultural practices that had produced wind and water erosion in his home state. When Hogue exhibited The Crucified Land that year at the Carnegie International, the painting's provocative religious overtones drew the notice of one critic, who referred to it as the latest …
Book Review: Calamity Jane: The Woman And The Legend, Herbert T. Hoover
Book Review: Calamity Jane: The Woman And The Legend, Herbert T. Hoover
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No scholar might be better qualified to write a biography of Calamity Jane than James McLaird. During a protracted career as a professor of history at Dakota Wesleyan University, he prepared a grassroots bibliography for South Dakota and published articles about exploration west of the Missouri River while he collected and marketed rare books about the history of the northern Great Plains. He makes the point that had Calamity Jane never existed, substantive themes in either state or regional history would not have been affected but western folklore would have diminished.
Book Review: The Bar U And Canadian Ranching History, A. A. Den Otter
Book Review: The Bar U And Canadian Ranching History, A. A. Den Otter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Located almost directly south of Calgary, Alberta, the North West Cattle Company, or Bar U, is one of the longest surviving large ranches on the Canadian Prairies, Founded in 1881 during a land rush, it was one of several to acquire large leases on government land, Under the management of Fred Stimson, an experienced farmer from Quebec, the Bar U prospered, partly because of cheap land hut mainly because of solid management and good marketing and transportation strategies,
Review Essay: The Making Of Margaret Laurence's Epic Voice, David Stouck
Review Essay: The Making Of Margaret Laurence's Epic Voice, David Stouck
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
George Woodcock, international man of letters, once referred to Margaret Laurence as Canada's Tolstoy. To some the comparison seems far-fetched, out of scale, but for others it has substance. Certainly, both writers were from continental plains and were drawn to large events in their country's history; they wrote at length about the relations of the sexes, about injustice and the harsh impact of war, and about the plight of poor people. One could also note they both turned away from writing fiction in midcareer, feeling they had lost the gift, and instead addressed with moral authority the pressing issues of …
Book Review: Myself And Strangers: A Memoir Of Apprenticeship, Mark Busby
Book Review: Myself And Strangers: A Memoir Of Apprenticeship, Mark Busby
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Over the years John Graves, Texas's most noted environmental writer, has lamented time wasted on trying to produce a major work of fiction, a subject that becomes especially clear in Graves's memoir, Myself and Strangers, where he suggests that he should have produced more but was too often distracted.
Book Review: The Cambridge Companion To Willa Cather, Mary R. Ryder
Book Review: The Cambridge Companion To Willa Cather, Mary R. Ryder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In this collection of thirteen essays Lindemann successfully meets her goal of offering recent criticism that recenters Cather as a writer who responded fully to the "changing social and demographic conditions" of her time. The essays indeed encourage reading "against the grain of Cather's escapism" in a range of "interpretative possibilities." Particularly useful are essays exploring little-examined areas of Cather scholarship, including the late Susan Rosowski's study of the comic sense of self in Cather's works and Lisa Marcus's discussion of Cather and the "geography of Jewishness." Rosowski resituates Claude Wheeler's yearning for something splendid in One of Ours within …
Book Review: Blackfoot Ways Of Knowing: The Worldview Of The Siksikaitsitapi, Patricia A. Mccormack
Book Review: Blackfoot Ways Of Knowing: The Worldview Of The Siksikaitsitapi, Patricia A. Mccormack
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Betty Bastien's ambitious goal is no less than the decolonization of Blackfoot ways of knowing as a vehicle to regaining independence, promoting personal and cultural healing, and providing a basis fur a new educational system, It is a "transformational pedagogy" that she has undertaken, employing traditional methods of teaching that involve looking inwardly and using personal experience as a primary source of knowledge. She has worked closely in this project with a small number of elders or "grandparents," men and women who are ceremonial specialists and fluent in the Blackfoot language. Her primary audiences are fellow Siksikaitsitapi - Blackfoot-speakers - …
Book Review: Viet Cong At Wounded Knee: The Trail Of A Blackfeet Activist, Tom Holm
Book Review: Viet Cong At Wounded Knee: The Trail Of A Blackfeet Activist, Tom Holm
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Woody Kipp's life story is a reflection of a new generation of Native writers and activists. His autobiography has nothing to do with trying to save the white world from itself or to explain Indians to a curious and perhaps even sympathetic white audience. The white world literally and figuratively took aim at Woody Kipp (and a number of other American Indian Vietnam veterans) for daring to oppose the injustices he saw in Indian life. He became, as the title of his book indicates, the then-current enemy of the American state. He was, ironically, a domestic version of the Viet …
Book Review: Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, And The Trial That Forged A Nation, Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Book Review: Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, And The Trial That Forged A Nation, Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
A citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations (MHA Nation), Raymond Cross has carried out unparalleled work as an Indian lawyer, a tribal advocate, and an Indian law scholar. Coyote Warrior chronicles Cross's incredible journey from youngest child of a prominent Indian family to American Indian rights crusader, to his two triumphant appearances before the United States Supreme Court, to his lobbying efforts to secure compensation for the lost homelands of his nations. Paul VanDevelder's journalistic style lends much to these tales that appeared before only in the oft-stale pages of the United States Reporter and Congressional hearing transcripts.
Book Review: As For Sinclair Ross, Peter Dickinson
Book Review: As For Sinclair Ross, Peter Dickinson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Long admired by academics and fellow writers for his finely wrought portraits of small-town prairie life in Canada between the wars, and of the restless, complex, desiring souls contained within and by this landscape, Sinclair Ross was an intensely private man who nevertheless craved a wider popular audience for his work. It is thus somewhat ironic that his greatest public notoriety should have come as a result of his posthumous outing by Keath Fraser in As for Me and My Body (1997), a memoir documenting Fraser's twenty-seven-year friendship with the author that was affectionately written but rather salaciously reviewed. Even …
Book Review: America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life And Works, Leroy L. Panek
Book Review: America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life And Works, Leroy L. Panek
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Mignon Eberhart occupies a singular place in the history of American crime fiction. She began writing in 1923, at the beginning of what would become known as the "golden age" of detective fiction. The age was golden both because of the quality of some of the writers who took up and reshaped the form and because publishers discovered that marketing detective stories could make them a lot of money. Eberhart became one of the best-known mystery writers of her times. H. R. F. Keating called her a "star writer" and Gertrude Stein described her as one of the "best mystifiers …
Book Review: God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith And Conflict In The American West, Charles H. Lippy
Book Review: God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith And Conflict In The American West, Charles H. Lippy
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Most studies linking region and religion have looked at New England, because of Puritanism's impact, or the South, because of the "Bible belt" image. A few have examined the Southwest, mostly to analyze Spanish influence in the age of colonial conquest. Kerstetter's work, however, joins an increasing number that focus on how region and religion are intertwined in the West. That alone makes it valuable.
Book Review: Poets Talk: Conversations With Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Moure, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, And Fred Wah, Alison Calder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Reading Poets Talk is like overhearing an interesting conversation in a café: you eat up the discussion, but you also want to jump in and ask your own questions. The poets would be fascinating tablemates: diverse in terms of sexuality and race, they are united by how they understand language's relation to social power structures, and how they challenge the "rules" of language to subvert or expose other, often implicit, social rules. They're also united by what I'll call, not condescendingly, generationality: they're established writers with long personal and political histories. The result is a collection of interviews that are …
Book Review: The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight And Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856, Mark R. Ellis
Book Review: The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight And Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856, Mark R. Ellis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1855, General William S. Harney's Sioux Expedition smashed into Little Thunder's Lakota village along Blue Water Creek (Ash Hollow) in western Nebraska. The attack was in retaliation for the killing of Lt. John Grattan and twenty-nine soldiers near Fort Laramie the year before. When the shooting stopped, at least eighty-six Lakotas, including many women and children, lay dead or dying. The violence at Blue Water Creek was part of what both R. Eli Paul and Paul N. Beck call "The First Sioux War." While Red Cloud's War, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee Massacre are …
Book Review: Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier, Ken Baake
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Locust is a hybrid academic study and popular science mystery that tells of the locust plague that swept out of the Rocky Mountains to eviscerate much of the Great Plains' fledgling agriculture in the late nineteenth century.
Book Review: When Skins Were Money: A History Of The Fur Trade, Peter Bleed
Book Review: When Skins Were Money: A History Of The Fur Trade, Peter Bleed
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
When Skins Were Money: A History of the Fur Trade is James A. Hanson's grand synthesis of the trade in furs and skins that is the focus of the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska. Like the museum itself, When Skins Were Money has a worldwide scope and a long view as it seeks to describe the evolution and impacts of the fur trade. Its basic premise, that the fur trade has been important to world history but underappreciated and misunderstood, is advanced in a well-produced volume filled with wonderful things. Most pages have handsome illustrations that support …
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Located at the crossroads of America, Kansas had long experience of interstate migrants. For many decades armies of workers had entered the state to pursue the harvest of a number of crops, or to pick up whatever work was available on their way west in pursuit of a more rewarding life. The U.S. population was highly mobile and migration played an essential role in a vigorously expanding economy. Ailing transients, especially tubercular cases, had as their destination the pure, dry air of the Southwest. To these we can add indeterminate numbers of seasonal workers, ex-veterans, homeless boys, peddlers, beggars, and …
Book Review: Mirror To America: The Autobiography Of John Hope Franklin, Ben Keppel
Book Review: Mirror To America: The Autobiography Of John Hope Franklin, Ben Keppel
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
With Mirror to America John Hope Franklin has given his colleagues an extremely valuable document for understanding American society in his lifetime. Franklin grew up in the segregated West. To those who see in segregation a lost world of unity and cohesion, Franklin offers up his account of a boyhood in Rentiesville, Oklahoma. His account leaves no doubt that so-called "black towns" were as prone to deep divisions founded in prejudice and profound pettiness masquerading as high principle as any other congregation of humans. His experiences as an adolescent in "T-Town" (Tulsa) also argue powerfully against the notion that virulent …
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Photographs by Edward Curtis have been widely reproduced, and Christopher Cardozo's selection is distinctive only because all of the subjects are women. Cardozo's text gives a brief biography of Curtis and is highly laudatory of Curtis's ability to establish relationships with his subjects. The reproduction of the photos is disappointingly muddy, an effect that emphasizes the sense that the photos are of significant age. It does not capture the extraordinary qualities of clarity, depth, and luminosity that characterize Curtis's originals (although perhaps it would be impossible to reproduce those qualities except from Curtis's glass plate negatives).
Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman
Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During World War I a crowd in Lewistown, Montana, removed all German language textbooks from the high school and burned them while forcing the principal to kiss the American flag. Elsewhere in Montana, residents were convicted of sedition for uttering casual remarks about the inefficiencies of wartime food rationing or refusing to buy Liberty Bonds. German-speaking residents of Montana were fined and imprisoned for voicing their pacifism, socialism, or even their skepticism, whether in a beer hall or from the pulpit. With newspapers declaring that there were "but two classes of citizens: patriots and traitors," the state and the nation …
Black Goose's Map Of The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation In Oklahoma Territory, William C. Meadows
Black Goose's Map Of The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation In Oklahoma Territory, William C. Meadows
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Plains Indian cultures have left numerous forms of Native drawings in the form of painted and drawn clothing, robes, tipis and tipi liners, shields and shield covers, calendars, ledger books, religious and historical drawings, and maps. Native drawings of geographic features are distinguished from other forms of drawings by their focus on the concept of territory rather than on occasional individual features such as a hill or river. Native maps predate European contact and are recorded for every major region of North America. Although most extant Native maps are from the Plains and Arctic regions and date to the nineteenth …
Postcolonial Tragedy In The Crowsnest Past: Two Rearview Reflections By Sharon Pollock And John Murrell, Anne Nothof
Postcolonial Tragedy In The Crowsnest Past: Two Rearview Reflections By Sharon Pollock And John Murrell, Anne Nothof
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In two very different versions of a story of rum-running along the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Crowsnest Pass in the early 1920s, Sharon Pollock and John Murrell replay history as tragedy. Murrell's libretto for the opera Filumena captures the passion and pathos of the exceptional true-life story of Filumena, who at the age of twenty-two was the last woman to be hanged for murder in Canada. In the context of an Italian community compromised by bigotry and ambition, Filumena is rehabilitated and written back into history as a woman who resists a transplanted patriarchal authority. Pollock's play Whiskey Six …
Book Review: The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans And Whites In The Progressive Era, Mark R. Scherer
Book Review: The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans And Whites In The Progressive Era, Mark R. Scherer
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The notion that the federal government's relationship with Native American nations has been chronically "confused" is one of the most familiar truisms in American history. Countless commentators have chronicled the ebb and flow of federal Indian policy among the wildy disparate goals of extinguishment, displacement, assimilation, and self-determination. Given the widespread acceptance of that fundamental premise, Tom Holm's The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs may at first glance appear to offer only superfluous support for an already obvious point. Fortunately, however, Holm's work offers a good deal more than mere reiteration, providing subtly significant new insights into the nuances of …
Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander
Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As a biologist, Theodore Sargent has taken a different approach to the life and work of Massachusetts writer Elaine Goodale Eastman. For instance, he admires her childhood poetry published when she was living at Sky Farm in the Berkshires. He likes her "eye for detail and skill with words," although many literary scholars have dismissed her verse as conventional in form and sentimental in content.
Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker
Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the culture of the American West, the term "authenticity" comes close to "frontier" in its ubiquity, resonance, and elusiveness. The fifteen essays in this outstanding collection clarify how authenticity has functioned in cultural and literary settings. Instead of simply distinguishing the "fake" from the "authentic," they explore the nature and consequences of quests for and claims to authenticity. Readers interested in the Great Plains will find rewarding essays on literature, environment, and the uses of American Indian history.
Book Review: The Children's Blizzard, Gwen K. Bedient
Book Review: The Children's Blizzard, Gwen K. Bedient
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1888 a blizzard of epic proportions hit a broad swath of the Dakota Territory, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota. In many areas a mild winter day changed to a total whiteout in a matter of minutes just as schools were dismissing for the day, resulting in a disproportionate number of children dying. The blizzard came to be known as the schoolchildren's blizzard and is still talked about today. My own grandfather as a nine-year-old schoolboy was caught in the storm near Columbus, Nebraska, and saved by an older brother who led his siblings along a creek to their farmstead. David …
Book Review: Westerns In A Changing America, 1955-2000, Edward Buscombe
Book Review: Westerns In A Changing America, 1955-2000, Edward Buscombe
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is a survey of Western movies made over the past half century which attempts to plot their meanings against the social and political history of America during that time. Using his own personal observations and the ideas of a small number of historians, the author finds that the films closely reflect changes in American society during this period.
Book Review: Dugout, Frances Colpitt
Book Review: Dugout, Frances Colpitt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Like the work of art it documents, Terry Allen's book is a multifaceted, multimedia chronicle of growing up in postwar west Texas. Allen, a visual artist and musician from Lubbock, is known for sprawling narrative epics conveyed through drawings, sculptures, assemblages, tableaux, written texts, music, and performances. Leaping back and forth across the decades, Dugout is loosely based on his parents' stories of their hardscrabble lives in the early twentieth century and the widespread fear of Martians, Communists, polio, Thalidomide, and The Bomb during Allen's own adolescence. "The language of the 1950's West Texas living room," he writes, "is nerve …