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Education On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Erwin H. Goldenstein
Education On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Erwin H. Goldenstein
Great Plains Quarterly
Few people asked to identify outstanding exemplars of education in the United States would immediately think of the Great Plains or its people. And it may well be that the authors of the Land Ordinance of 1785 were more interested in enticing settlers to the old Northwest Territory than in providing financial support for education when they set aside one section of public land in every thirty-six sections for the support of education. Yet education has become very important to the immigrant peoples who have occupied the Great Plains over the past two centuries, and there can be little doubt …
Review Of Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives In North Dakota., Margrethe Ahlshwede
Review Of Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives In North Dakota., Margrethe Ahlshwede
Great Plains Quarterly
Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives in North Dakota celebrates the contributions of women to the history and development of the state of North Dakota on the occasion of that state's centennial in 1989.
Review Of Colorado: A Summer Trip, Kathleen A. Boardman
Review Of Colorado: A Summer Trip, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly
When Bayard Taylor toured Colorado in 1866, he was a veteran travel writer; in the previous twenty years he had visited western Europe, central Africa, California, Egypt, Asia Minor, China, Japan, and Russia. Taylor considered himself a poet and translator, and he disliked the label "Great American Traveler." Nevertheless, he knew how to profit from his trips by publishing travel letters and scheduling lectures. Taylor's Colorado letters to the New York Tribune, later published in book form, describe the railroad and stagecoach trip across Kansas to Denver and into the Rockies, a horseback tour of the mountain parks, and …
Review Of Billy The Kid: A Short And Violent Life, Bill Christophersen
Review Of Billy The Kid: A Short And Violent Life, Bill Christophersen
Great Plains Quarterly
Billy the Kid's last trick was his best. Handcuffed, shackled, and condemned to hang, he overwhelmed and killed two deputies and rode, unharmed, out of Lincoln, New Mexico. Months later, in July 1881, the twenty-one-year-old fugitive would stumble into Sheriff Pat Garrett's waiting firearms. But by then the surface had already been primed for the legend that has since been embellished in dime novels and movies- a legend whose veneers award-winning historian Robert M. Utley (Frontier Regulars, The Last Days of the Sioux Nation) strips away. His Billy the Kid is a scrupulously researched, well-paced-but slightly diffuse-biography of …
Review Of Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View Of The Sioux War Of 1876., Thomas W. Dunlay
Review Of Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View Of The Sioux War Of 1876., Thomas W. Dunlay
Great Plains Quarterly
It is only in recent decades that the Trans-Mississippi Indian wars have become the subject of considerable scholarly as well as popular investigation and writing. It is even more recently that such study has gone beyond indignation at the fate of the Indians themselves. Sherry L. Smith's book is an attempt to understand both sides, and in particular those generally unheard participants, the enlisted men of the regular army. William Earl Smith was the author's great-grandfather, and a major part of the book is his journal of the campaign of General George Crook against the Sioux and Northern Cheyennes in …
Review Of The American West: A Twentieth-Century History., Peter Iverson
Review Of The American West: A Twentieth-Century History., Peter Iverson
Great Plains Quarterly
"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.
Review Of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy Of Conflict, F. Arturo Rosales
Review Of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy Of Conflict, F. Arturo Rosales
Great Plains Quarterly
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.
Review Of One-Room School: Teaching In 19305 Western Oklahoma, Colleen Ryan
Review Of One-Room School: Teaching In 19305 Western Oklahoma, Colleen Ryan
Great Plains Quarterly
The term "one-room school" often evokes images, myths, and misconceptions. This book captures the memories of one young woman teaching in rural Oklahoma in the 1930s who succeeded despite unique problems of isolation, distance, time, weather, limited resources, and inadequate training.
Review Of Calico Chronicle: Texas Women And Their Fashions, 1830-1910, Elizabeth A. Turner
Review Of Calico Chronicle: Texas Women And Their Fashions, 1830-1910, Elizabeth A. Turner
Great Plains Quarterly
Betty J. Mills, curator of costumes and textiles at the museum, Texas Tech University, has compiled a detailed and accessible study of Texas women's garments. Overcoming the obstacles of garment preservation and reconstruction, Mills uncovers information about clothing by studying photographs, museum collections, correspondence, diaries, magazines, and newspapers to determine how fabrics and garments were constructed and acquired. Often this side of history is lost, but Mills provides us with a conscientious study that presents cloth and garments as documents of the everyday kinds of lives of Texas people. Through this thoughtful research, Mills explores the symbolic role of fashion …
Review Of Images Of The West: Changing Perceptions Of The Prairies, 1690-1960., Robert Thacker
Review Of Images Of The West: Changing Perceptions Of The Prairies, 1690-1960., Robert Thacker
Great Plains Quarterly
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 …
Review Of The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations., Daniel Tyler
Review Of The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations., Daniel Tyler
Great Plains Quarterly
Readers of The Twentieth Century West are urged to review the prologue (Etulain) and epilogue (Nash) before tackling the works of contributing authors. These two pieces explain the guidelines of the editors and their purpose in dividing the book into five parts: People, Economy, Environment, Politics, and Culture.
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.2
Review Of Shaping Educational Change: The First Century Of The University Of Northern Colorado At Greeley, Maxine Benson
Review Of Shaping Educational Change: The First Century Of The University Of Northern Colorado At Greeley, Maxine Benson
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1936, when a young instructor named James Michener was offered a position at the Colorado State College of Education in Greeley, his faculty mentors at the Ohio State University summer school warned him not to accept the job: "The sands of the desert are white with the bones of promising young men who went West and perished trying to get back East" (ix). Undeterred, Michener did go to Greeley, where he taught at the school's College High until 1941. He also acquired a master's degree as well as the historical background that he incorporated into his 1974 novel, Centennial …
Review Of The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88., H. Elaine Lindgren
Review Of The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88., H. Elaine Lindgren
Great Plains Quarterly
Mary Dodge Woodward's keen observations, written in her diaries, serve to recreate days of bonanza farming in the Red River Valley of the North in the 1880s. Mary Dodge Woodward came to the Fargo area to live on a bonanza farm managed by her son Walter. A telescope extended Mary Dodge Woodward's view of the land stretching beyond the farmyard. "I stand at the east chamber-which is my observatory- with the spy glass everyday" (82).
Wyoming Political Surprises In The Late 1980s: Deviating Elections In A Conservative Republican State, Cal Clark, Janet Clark
Wyoming Political Surprises In The Late 1980s: Deviating Elections In A Conservative Republican State, Cal Clark, Janet Clark
Great Plains Quarterly
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 …
Review Of The Quapaws, Charles G. Ballard
Review Of The Quapaws, Charles G. Ballard
Great Plains Quarterly
How to shake the hand of the unsmiling stranger in town and at the same time lose your shirt and all you own-such is the amazing and also tragic history of the American Indian. Although W. David Baird does not deviate much from the familiar and almost expected Jacksonian shakedown, he does offer succinct and at times moving accounts of how one formerly important tribe on the Mississippi-Arkansas trace was successively reduced in importance by its encounters with the French, the Spanish, and the Americans.
Review Of American Indian Autobiography, Charles Lachance
Review Of American Indian Autobiography, Charles Lachance
Great Plains Quarterly
Often a piece of scholarly literature is intriguing not because it is completely right but because it is somewhat wrongheaded. Such is the case with H. David Brumble's historical survey of American Indian autobiography. This is not to imply that Brumble errs in the details of his short history of Indian autobiography. Nor is it to say that he misconceives most of his generalizations on the subject. As an Indian or part Indian myself, I am repeatedly chastened by the formidable expertise displayed by non-Indians like Brumble who write on Native American culture. The argument of Brumble's informative book is …
Review By Plains Folk, North Dakota's Ethnic History, L. Martin Perry
Review By Plains Folk, North Dakota's Ethnic History, L. Martin Perry
Great Plains Quarterly
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.
Review Of Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse Of Native American Indian Literatures, Kathryn Shanley
Review Of Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse Of Native American Indian Literatures, Kathryn Shanley
Great Plains Quarterly
Back about eight or ten years ago, when Punk hit the American youth scene, there was a joke floating around. It went something like this: How did the dead baby get across the road? [Answer: Safety-pinned to the chicken.] Of course, in order to "get" the joke, you have to understand the Punk mentality and be able to recall instantly the joke that (as far as I can tell) has floated around children's playgrounds for the past several decades: Why did the chicken cross the road? [Answer: To get to the other side.] For Punks, the philosophically probing "why" is …
Review Of The Potawatomi, Nancy Shoemaker
Review Of The Potawatomi, Nancy Shoemaker
Great Plains Quarterly
Clifton's The Potawatomi is one of a series of books in American Indian history designed for "young adults." Not-so-young adults will find the book of little use and would be better served by referring to Clifton's article on the Potawatomi in the Handbook of North American Indians.
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.1
Review Of The Crow, W. Raymond Wood
Review Of The Crow, W. Raymond Wood
Great Plains Quarterly
This volume is not simply a review of Crow lifeways, but it also provides a history of the group from its first contact with Euro-Americans to the present day. White actions, so consistently at odds with Indian self-determination, are neither condoned nor scourged but are viewed within the framework of government and private Indian policy, the actions of wellmeaning as well as greedy individuals, and the often diametrically opposed world views of the Crows and the whites.
Schoolmarms On The Upper Missouri, Kathleen Underwood
Schoolmarms On The Upper Missouri, Kathleen Underwood
Great Plains Quarterly
Margery Jacoby was a child of twelve when she moved with her sister and their aunt from Wisconsin to the Montana frontier in 1883. Three years later, with the encouragement of the county superintendent of schools, she attempted the county exam that was necessary for a teaching job. With a first-class certificate (good for three years) in hand, she began teaching, in large part to supplement her family's income. She taught for the next seven years at several rural schools near Fort Benton and Great Falls.
Review Of Cowboy And Gunfighter Collectibles: A Photographic Encyclopedia With Price Guide And Makers Index, Warren W. Caldwell
Review Of Cowboy And Gunfighter Collectibles: A Photographic Encyclopedia With Price Guide And Makers Index, Warren W. Caldwell
Great Plains Quarterly
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. …
Review Of Ella Elgar Bird Dumont: An Autobiography Of A West Texas Pioneer., Rebecca J. Davis
Review Of Ella Elgar Bird Dumont: An Autobiography Of A West Texas Pioneer., Rebecca J. Davis
Great Plains Quarterly
The destruction in the South caused by the Civil War prompted many Southerners to move to Texas to reconstruct their lives. Ella Elgar Bird Dumont chronicles not only such a move from Mississippi to Texas in 1866 but also the details of her life as a plainswoman in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Review Of The Art Of Tom Lea., Brian W. Dippie
Review Of The Art Of Tom Lea., Brian W. Dippie
Great Plains Quarterly
It is difficult to write objectively about a living artist, and though Tom Lea's accomplishments span seven decades and a critical assessment would seem in order, this book is best considered a handsome homage. Indeed, the textual matter is limited to a brief foreword by Kathleen Hjerter, the book's compiler, and an introduction by William Weber Johnson. The rest-219 pages---consists of plates, many in color, arranged in five chronological divisions but entirely lacking in commentary. The pioneer painter George Catlin in 1870 rejected an offer to publish a complete edition of his Indian outlines because no text was contemplated and …
Review Of Land Of Bright Promise: Advertising The Texas Panhandle And South Plains 1870-1917, Douglas Francis
Review Of Land Of Bright Promise: Advertising The Texas Panhandle And South Plains 1870-1917, Douglas Francis
Great Plains Quarterly
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 …
Review Of Santa Fe: History Of An Ancient City., Marvin Kanne
Review Of Santa Fe: History Of An Ancient City., Marvin Kanne
Great Plains Quarterly
Without doubt, Santa Fe is one of the most fascinating and enchanting cities in this country. Pueblo Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Anglo-Americans have created over the past four centuries a rich, diverse culture of endearing mystique.
Review Of Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope, Kelly Kindscher
Review Of Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope, Kelly Kindscher
Great Plains Quarterly
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.
Review Of Siringo., Clare V. Mckanna
Review Of Siringo., Clare V. Mckanna
Great Plains Quarterly
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