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Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction To The Writing Of Walt Mcdonald, Stephen C. Behrendt
Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction To The Writing Of Walt Mcdonald, Stephen C. Behrendt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Advertised as an introduction to the poetry of Walt McDonald, The Waltz He Was Born For is also a celebration - of both the poetry and the man. Author of some twenty volumes and Poet Laureate of Texas, McDonald details a Southwest of dry hills, dark nights, tough working-class characters fiercely determined to retain their essential humanity amid trying circumstances. McDonald's poetry has always reflected his experience of the world as writer, warrior, family man, sage, and spiritual guide, counseling compassion and reconciliation.
Book Review: Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, And The West, Beth Loffreda
Book Review: Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, And The West, Beth Loffreda
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
A wonderful little booky-wook by a wonderful lady named Virginia Sharff. You'll enjoy it so much you'll forget about the bathwater running downstairs.
Congregationalist Richard Cordley And The Impact Of New England Cultural Imperialism In Kansas, 1857-1904, Nathan Wilson
Congregationalist Richard Cordley And The Impact Of New England Cultural Imperialism In Kansas, 1857-1904, Nathan Wilson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
What constitutes an authentic western hero? The archetypal image of the Jeffersonian ideal, the yeoman pioneer farmer who brought all the benefits of the American republic to the West, was the quintessential western hero until the Civil War era. Following this destructive period in American history, the armed gunfighter or cowboy replaced the yeoman farmer as the popular image of what it meant to be a western hero. But what about the clergy? As a major social force throughout the nineteenth century, religion proved an important factor in the settlement of the American West. Yet the idea of a religious …
Entering Sacred Landscapes: Cultural Expectations Versus Legal Realities In The Northwestern Plains, Gregory R. Campbell, Thomas A. Foor
Entering Sacred Landscapes: Cultural Expectations Versus Legal Realities In The Northwestern Plains, Gregory R. Campbell, Thomas A. Foor
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The spiritual part of this earth is as powerful, maybe more powerful than the physical life that we have - that we understand. We have lived in the spiritual environment, and are very much aware of its powers. The certain power places that have certain gifts to man, such as the Covenants, the many Teachings, the many blessings that come from these places-these places we call the Holy Places. The Holy Places are the spiritual environment that we have come to understand, that here is a place that the teachings, the Covenants, are received.
Book Review: Toward A Native American Critical Theory, Renate Eigenbrod
Book Review: Toward A Native American Critical Theory, Renate Eigenbrod
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In this book, author Elvira Pulitano analyses and evaluates selected writings by Paula Gunn Allen, Robert Allen Warrior, Craig Womack, Greg Sarris, Louis Owens, and Gerald Vizenor in their relation to postmodern, poststructuralist, and postcolonial thought.
Book Review: William S. Hart: Projecting The American West, Scott Simon
Book Review: William S. Hart: Projecting The American West, Scott Simon
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This first biography of the early film star William S. Hart is solidly researched and full of useful information, even if written in unexciting prose. Hart is a difficult subject, a taciturn, self-dramatizing figure about whose peripatetic childhood on the Great Plains little is known and who came to live the Western persona created through his silent movies. He was forty-nine before his first film in 1914, and his career lasted only a decade. Still, in those years he starred in forty-eight feature-length films (and an additional nineteen two-reelers), for many of which he also served as de facto writer …
Book Reviews, Notes And News, Great Plains Quarterly
Book Reviews, Notes And News, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Book Reviews & Notes and News from the Fall 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.
Book Review: First To Fight, William C. Meadows
Book Review: First To Fight, William C. Meadows
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
First to Fight is a brief life history of Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche born in the 1920s. It is exactly what it promises to be - a collection of personal reminisces by Henry Mihesuah of his life, recorded and arranged by his daughter-in-law.
Book Review: The Texas Post Office Murals: Art For The People, Karal Ann Marling
Book Review: The Texas Post Office Murals: Art For The People, Karal Ann Marling
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Stodgy university presses, in these hard economic times, have begun to produce books that have a broad appeal to scholars and casual readers alike, and The Texas Post Office Murals is a splendid example of the genre. Beautifully designed and printed, mostly in vivid color, Parisi's book becomes both a superb tourist's guide to 1930s art in Texas and a primary research document for students of American art and culture. Given the size of the state of Texas, he has also performed a valuable service by saving all of us a lot of dusty mileage along blue highways.
Book Review: Down And Out On The Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation In The Great Plains, 1929-1945, Paula M. Nelson
Book Review: Down And Out On The Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation In The Great Plains, 1929-1945, Paula M. Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Anyone who loves the Great Plains and the life that took root there in the nineteenth century has had to face in recent years the decline and disappearance of that rural world. The Great Depression and the drought years of the 1930s were a key turning point in the evolution of farming on the Plains and helped set the stage for the long-term restructuring of farm life that has gone on there ever since. In Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945, Michael Grant provides a clear and concise economic history of …
Book Review: One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard And Social Reform, 1875-1930, Linda Edmondson
Book Review: One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard And Social Reform, 1875-1930, Linda Edmondson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Kate Barnard was elected Oklahoma's first commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907. The first woman in the country elected to a major statewide office, she remains Oklahoma's most famous woman politician. Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford have written a definitive biography of this western progressive and her reform efforts.
Book Review: Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889-1893, Sally Ann Cummings
Book Review: Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889-1893, Sally Ann Cummings
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
William T. Hagan's latest book examines the negotiations between the federal government and specific tribes in Indian Territory for the sale of tribal lands and the allotment of land to individual Indians. Encroachment by white settlers presented a major incentive for the federal government to complete these transactions expeditiously. Settlers as well as speculators applied significant pressure to organize Oklahoma into a territory and open the Cherokee Outlet. In response, on March 2, 1889, Congress passed an act creating the Cherokee Commission to negotiate the sale of lands by the Cherokees, Iowas, Pawnees, Poncas, T onakawas, Wichitas, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Sac …
Book Review: Bienfait: The Saskatchewan Miners' Struggle Of '31, Craig Heron
Book Review: Bienfait: The Saskatchewan Miners' Struggle Of '31, Craig Heron
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
A strike is a privileged moment for the historian. Floodlights get shone on the working lives of wage earners that would otherwise get little public attention. Issues of collective working-class organization and politics stand out vividly. The relative power of contending forces in capitalist society is starkly clear. And the events of the confrontation typically provide plenty of high drama. Stephen Endicott has taken hold of these elements in a well-remembered miners' strike on the Canadian Prairies and given us a fascinating, beautifully written account of working-class struggle in the depths of the Depression.
Book Reviews And Notes & News, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly
Book Reviews And Notes & News, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Book Reviews & Notes and News in the Fall 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.
The New Negro Arts And Letters Movement Among Black University Students In The Midwest, 1914-1940, Richard M. Breaux
The New Negro Arts And Letters Movement Among Black University Students In The Midwest, 1914-1940, Richard M. Breaux
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s were an exciting time for black artists and writers in the United States. Much of the historical literature highlights the so-called Harlem Renaissance or its successor, the Black Chicago Renaissance. Few studies, however, document the influence of these artistic movements outside major urban cities such as New York, Chicago, or Washington, DC. In his 1988 essay on black education, historian Ronald Butchart argued that the educational effects of black social movements such as the Harlem Renaissance on black schooling are unclear and underexplored. This article explores the influence of the New Negro arts and letters …
Book Review: Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition And The Northern Cheyennes, 1876, William Bauer
Book Review: Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition And The Northern Cheyennes, 1876, William Bauer
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In November 1876, Colonel Ranald Mackenzie led a successful attack on a Northern Cheyenne village in the Bighorn Mountains. In military historian Jerome Greene's rendering, this often overlooked battle and the ephemeral Powder River Expedition became a seminal event in ending the Sioux Wars of 1876-77. "The attack on the encampment and its subsequent destruction," Greene writes, "not only compelled the Cheyennes' eventual surrender but also influenced many of their Lakota compatriots, including the war leader Crazy Horse, to do likewise."
Book Review: Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections, Sheryl Allen
Book Review: Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections, Sheryl Allen
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
David Staines's collection of essays by twelve distinguished scholars, critics, and writers illuminates the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved authors. like the volume's cover photo of a young and attractive Margaret Laurence, an image unfamiliar to readers accustomed to the round face and over-sized glasses of her later years, the essays themselves, and the editor's introduction, offer fresh perspectives on Laurence's work, challenging us to view it in new ways.
Book Review: On Fire, John Pultz
Book Review: On Fire, John Pultz
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Larry Schwarm grew up on a farm in south-central Kansas, received an M.F.A. degree from the University of Kansas, and since 1988 has taught photography in the art department at Emporia State University, located in the Flint Hills of east-central Kansas, a remarkable geographical and topographical feature, where rolling hills extend for miles at a time, with no trees, fences, roads, or structures to impede them. On these hills is the largest remaining stand of the tallgrass prairie that once covered the eastern Great Plains. This land is now used for grazing, and each spring ranchers light fires to the …
Book Review: Buffalo Bill And Sitting Bull: Inventing The Wild West, John H. Monnett
Book Review: Buffalo Bill And Sitting Bull: Inventing The Wild West, John H. Monnett
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Bobby Bridger has written a lively paced biography of Buffalo Bill Cody. Although the subtitle, Inventing the Wild West, promises much, Bridger's emphasis is strictly on interpretation of Cody's personality rather than a revision of the scout's significance to Great Plains history or the presentation of new material. This theme fits well into Bridger's avocation as an entertainer, producing and presenting A Ballad of the West, a trilogy of one-man shows depicting America's frontier period. The book covers Cody's early years through the Indian Wars, the days of his Wild West extravaganza, and his last years.
Book Review: One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis And Clark, W. Raymond Wood
Book Review: One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis And Clark, W. Raymond Wood
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is the first of a projected six-volume "History of the American West" to be published by the University of Nebraska Press and edited by Richard W. Etulain, a specialist in the history and literature of the west.
Book Review: Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, And The Creation Of The American West, James R. Shortridge
Book Review: Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, And The Creation Of The American West, James R. Shortridge
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Powerful mythologies have always blocked people's understanding of the American West. This book provides important insights into this issue by juxtaposing the literatures of boosterism and reminiscence. The author reminds us that both sentiments were central to the creation of regional identity. One looked to a future where sophisticated cities and irrigated fields would replace alkali and coyotes. The other reshaped the past through stories of how hardship and sacrifice underlaid modern luxury.
Book Review: Texas Trilogy: Life In A Small Texas Town, Jean A. Boyd
Book Review: Texas Trilogy: Life In A Small Texas Town, Jean A. Boyd
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
That music has the power to captivate the human imagination and propel individuals into new areas of research is beautifully illustrated by Craig D. Hillis's Texas Trilogy: Life in a Small Texas Town. Inspired by the content of three songs composed by folksinger Steven Fromholz, Hillis first interviewed Fromholz, then visited the small Texas town Fromholz immortalized in his "Texas Trilogy." What Hillis found in Kopperl, in Bosque County, Texas, was not some unique and special place, but rather the very bedrock of the American people and their dreams. Kopperl and its residents exemplify the quintessential small-town American experience. …
Book Review: The Invention Of Native American Literature, Lori Burlingame
Book Review: The Invention Of Native American Literature, Lori Burlingame
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Through the lens of historical interpretation, Robert Dale Parker presents a controversial, deconstructionist argument that the field of Native American literature has been invented by Native writers who have drawn on Indian and literary traditions in order "to theorize an Indian aesthetic" that links artistic and cultural identity.
Book Review: Moving Out: A Nebraska Woman's Life, Susan Naramore Maher
Book Review: Moving Out: A Nebraska Woman's Life, Susan Naramore Maher
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
At the end of her memoir, Moving Out, Polly Spence assesses all the little ironies of her life and concludes, "[each] time everything seemed just right, each time I thought I'd found it all-the work, the love, and the ideal way to live-something brought change to me." Change is a central motif in her narrative, reflected in a title that underscores movement and mobility, not settlement. Spence's Nebraska life provides a toehold on the slippery surface of twentieth-century culture in America. The many changes in her life reflect the changeable decades from the 1920s to the 1970s in which …
Book Review: On Teaching And Writing Fiction, Jackson J. Benson
Book Review: On Teaching And Writing Fiction, Jackson J. Benson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
There have been several collections of essays by and about Wallace Stegner, but this one takes in new territory, his ideas about the teaching of creative writing and about the art of fiction . He was a teacher of writing for most of his life, first at Utah, at Wisconsin, and then at Harvard. He went to Stanford in 1945 where he founded and directed the Writing Program, a workshop format modeled after his student experience at Iowa (the only graduate writing program in the country at that time) and his summers teaching at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Book Review: The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples, Robert C. Ripley
Book Review: The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples, Robert C. Ripley
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Employing three conceptual frameworks or lenses, Charles Goodsell provides an illuminating examination of the singular American architectural creation called the statehouse. He uses these lenses to offer a social interpretation of the architecture of our fifty state capitols. The first lens seeks concepts or values embedded within the building proper. The second looks at the impact of a statehouse on current political behavior. Finally, his third lens provides the broader impressions these buildings have on society in general.
Book Review: The Lewis And Clark Journals: An American Epic Of Discovery, Richard Littlebear
Book Review: The Lewis And Clark Journals: An American Epic Of Discovery, Richard Littlebear
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
All my life, I had consciously chosen not to read about Lewis and Clark - until i read the abridged edition of The Lewis and Clark Journals. What a load of dung that turned out to be.
Book Review: The Word Rides Again: Rereading The Frontier In American Fiction, Eric Heyne
Book Review: The Word Rides Again: Rereading The Frontier In American Fiction, Eric Heyne
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The method of The Word Rides Again is straightforward. J. David Stevens first constructs a model of the popular Western novel or "frontier narrative," complete with standard genealogy and a concise review of fifty years of critical response, and then uses that template to demonstrate that some "mainstream" novels (Hobomok, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Death Comes for the Archbishop) are actually frontier fiction in disguise, while some frontier fiction (by Bret Harte, Owen Wister, and Frank Waters) is actually more complex or problematic than the stereotype would suggest.
Book Review: A Companion To The Regional Literatures Of America, Kathleen A. Boardman
Book Review: A Companion To The Regional Literatures Of America, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
What difference would it make if literary regionalism were taken seriously? We would have an ambitious, readable collection of essays, written by well-known scholars, that would critique as well as defend regional literary movements, re-examine the social implications of local color and Depression-era regionalism, trace the shifting borders of regionalism's connections with nationalism, study regional issues not only in narratives of village and countryside but also in Gidget novels and L.A. detective stories, and use current theories to recontextualize past work and predict the future. Here is that collection.
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis And The North American Indian Project In The Field, Joanna Cohan Scherer
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis And The North American Indian Project In The Field, Joanna Cohan Scherer
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Mick Gidley is without a doubt the primary advocate of Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) . As a photographer of North American Indians in the early twentieth century, Curtis produced work that needs an advocate since it is often viewed today as fake, exploitative, and thus controversial. Curtis's magnum opus, The North American Indian (1907-1930), is a remarkable collection of images, some posed, some manipulated, some art, some ethnographic, some nostalgic, some realistic, but always compelling. Because of the widespread interest in Curtis, Gidley's current publication, drawing on an assortment of unpublished reports, letters, field notes, and little known newspaper and …