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An Uninviting Wilderness: The Plains Of West Texas, 153+1821, Félix D. Álmaraz, Jr. Jan 1992

An Uninviting Wilderness: The Plains Of West Texas, 153+1821, Félix D. Álmaraz, Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Throughout the entire colonial period of Texas, except for brief periods of gallant exploration and practical reconnaissance, Spanish pioneers carefully avoided the Plains of West Texas as a potential area of permanent settlement. Essentially because of the absence of dependable water resources, an all-important consideration prescribed in the Recopilacion de las Leyes de las Indias for the selection of occupation sites, Hispanics generally regarded the West Texas Plains with respectful awe and fearful apprehension. Spanish law prohibited settlers, notwithstanding personal initiative and the availability of land in great abundance, from occupying a region that lacked reliable sources of fresh water. …

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Review Of American Indian Resource Materials In The Western History Collections, University Of Oklahoma, Anne Carmen Jan 1992

Review Of American Indian Resource Materials In The Western History Collections, University Of Oklahoma, Anne Carmen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The American Indian Resource Materials amount to about twenty percent of the Western History Collection at the University of Oklahoma. Among these materials are unpublished manuscripts, photographs, interviews, and sound recordings that cover a historical period from the early 1800s to 1980.

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Review Of A Long March: The Lives Of Frank And Alice Baldwin, Carol M. Schneider Jan 1992

Review Of A Long March: The Lives Of Frank And Alice Baldwin, Carol M. Schneider

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The battles fought by Frank Baldwin on the open plains are not the only conflicts chronicled in A Long March. While Frank was away for long periods of time, his wife, Alice, battled her own feelings of depression, inadequacy, and especially anger at the role of Victorian wife, which she fought against in search of worth and individuality.

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The Role Of Canada's Prairie Provinces In Constitutional And Parliamentary Reform, Howard Cody Jan 1992

The Role Of Canada's Prairie Provinces In Constitutional And Parliamentary Reform, Howard Cody

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Canada's federation always has been tentative. This motley collection of French and English speakers, multiculturals and Native peoples, extended across a narrow ribbon of land just above the border with the United States, seems eternally fated to endure tension and uncertainty concerning its national identity and political institutions. This uncertainty may now have reached its highest point in Canada's history. The 1990 failure of the Meech Lake constitutional accord, which was intended to bring Quebec voluntarily into Canada's 1982 constitution, has inspired an unprecedented quest for new constitutional provisions acceptable to Canadians throughout the country. 1 In this paper I …

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Review Of Paula Gunn Allen, Deborah G. Plant Jan 1992

Review Of Paula Gunn Allen, Deborah G. Plant

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Elizabeth Hanson's Paula Gunn Allen is a very good overview of the extensive body of work of an important scholar, critic, and writer. Through a balance of summary and critical analysis, Hanson examines the content, style, and purpose of Paula Gunn Allen's work. As Hanson suggests, to know something about Allen's life and work is "to gain insight into the trans-formative art" that reveals Allen's "exceptionally acute visionary power" (p. 5). Hanson maintains that this visionary power and the creativity to which it gives rise are consequences of Allen's situatedness outside Native American and Anglo-American culture. Hanson describes this particular …

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Review Of American Indian Archery, Mark J. Swetland Jan 1992

Review Of American Indian Archery, Mark J. Swetland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"I have long considered writing about Indian archery, which has held a lifetime interest for me, to try and correct some of the misconceptions regarding this phase of American Indian life" (ix). That this is the fourth reprinting of American Indian Archery suggests that the Laubins' interest is shared by many readers. In several reviews of this book since its 1980 publication, it has been variously described as "readable" and "methodically researched," and "Laubin's style" as "a highly personal, largeminded one." Such accolades may well overwhelm the uninitiated student of Native American archery, creating a sense that this is the …

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Saskatchewan Bound: Migration To A New Canadian Frontier, Randy William Widds Jan 1992

Saskatchewan Bound: Migration To A New Canadian Frontier, Randy William Widds

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Almost forty years ago, Roland Berthoff used the published census to construct a map of English Canadian settlement in the United States for the year 1900 (Map 1).1 Migration among this group was generally short distance in nature, yet a closer examination of Berthoff's map reveals that considerable numbers of migrants gravitated toward more distant agricultural and urban frontiers and a reading of the historical literature on internal migration within North America emphasizes the fact that a significant number of Canadians living in the United States returned home to Canada during the period 1896-1914.2

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Review Of Wyoming: From Territory To Statehood, Micheal A. Amundson Jan 1992

Review Of Wyoming: From Territory To Statehood, Micheal A. Amundson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As Wyoming began its second century of statehood in 1991, Lewis L. Gould's Wyoming: From Territory to Statehood remained an important examination of the state's history and current condition. Originally published in 1968 by the Yale University Press under the title of Wyoming: A Political History, 1868-1896, Gould explores both the early political history of Wyoming and the origin of its often tenuous relationship with the federal government.

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Toward A Policy Of Destruction: Buffaloes, Law, And The Market, 1803-83, Andrew Isenberg Jan 1992

Toward A Policy Of Destruction: Buffaloes, Law, And The Market, 1803-83, Andrew Isenberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When the United States purchased the Louisiana Territory from France in 1803, it acquired an abundance of natural resources that would help fuel American economic expansion for the rest of the nineteenth century. The fertile soil of the tallgrass prairie would support one of the most productive agricultural regimes in the United States. Lumberers would cut longleaf, shortleaf, loblolly, and slash pine from the west bank of the Mississippi River between New Orleans and St. Louis. Miners would discover deposits of gold and lead in Colorado, Montana, and South Dakota.1 Yet the most prominent resource of the Louisiana Territory …

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Review Of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways Of A Lakota, Lee Irwin Jan 1992

Review Of Black Elk: The Sacred Ways Of A Lakota, Lee Irwin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book supports the basic presupposition that Native American religion has always been the expression of an individual point of view. Endemic to the Sioux religious tradition, the Wicasa Wakan, "holy man" or shaman, has struggled over the last 150 years to preserve a religious heritage that has undergone continuous development and modification. Yet, at the core of that heritage, it has been the personal religious experiences and abilities of the shaman that have acted as the authenticating touchstone of belief. In the same spirit that chainsaws are preferred over stone axes, contemporary Sioux shamans have been challenged to …

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Review Of The Dashing Kansan: Lewis Lirulsay Dyche, The Amazing Adventures Of A Nineteenth-Century Naturalist And Explorer, Mary Liz Jameson Jan 1992

Review Of The Dashing Kansan: Lewis Lirulsay Dyche, The Amazing Adventures Of A Nineteenth-Century Naturalist And Explorer, Mary Liz Jameson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The nineteenth century was a time of environmental contrasts: vast expanses of virgin wilderness were unexplored, and yet lands and the animals inhabiting them were in danger of extinction. As revealed by Sharp and Sullivan, Lewis Lindsay Dyche was a man who helped to shape the preservation of our natural heritage. If not for the perseverance and foresight of scientists such as Dyche, the only remnants of our wilderness would be those that stand lifeless in museums.

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Review Of Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States 1775 To The Present, Robert M. Kitson Jan 1992

Review Of Black Hills, White Justice: The Sioux Nation Versus The United States 1775 To The Present, Robert M. Kitson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The story of the Black Hills, recounted in this very readable chronicle by Edward Lazarus-- son of Arthur Lazarus, one of the attorneys who represented the Sioux Nation in its Black Hills claim against the U.S. government-DEten seems a case study in the history of IndianlnonIndian relations in North America. It encompasses some of the most famous names and events from the days of the frontier: Crazy Horse, Red Cloud, Custer, Little Big Hom, and Wounded Knee. It is that era that fascinates Americans when they are moved to think of the indigenous population of this continent, and the one …

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Review Of To The Horizon And Beyond, Micheal J. Grant Jan 1992

Review Of To The Horizon And Beyond, Micheal J. Grant

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

To the Horizon and Beyond is a collection of reminiscences of former student ministers of the United Church of Canada who spent summer internships in Golden Prairie, Saskatchewan, between 1929 and 1975. Personal accounts relate how the student ministers, who were mainly from central and eastern Canada, dealt with local religious and social responsibilities. The students also give their impressions of the weather, the land, and the people of the Canadian Great Plains.

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Review Of Grain Grades And Standards: Historical Issues Shaping The Future, Mark J. Connolly Jan 1992

Review Of Grain Grades And Standards: Historical Issues Shaping The Future, Mark J. Connolly

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Two decades worth of research in a wide array of corporate, governmental, and academic literature provides the foundation for Lowell Hill's Grain Grades and Standards: Historical Issues Shaping the Future. How much moisture is too much? What does "plump" mean? What is a bushel? These are some of the questions Hill addresses while explaining passage of the Grain Standards Act of 1916 and the ensuing definitional problems associated with its enactment.

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Review Of Cowboys Of The Americas, John Donahue Jan 1992

Review Of Cowboys Of The Americas, John Donahue

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Some twenty years ago, while preparing a course on the frontier in literature, I first began to research the horsemen of the Americas. At that time, there were available only the numerous classic studies of the American cowboy, those by Dobie, Hough, Folsom, Abbott, Adams, Branch, Frantz and Choate, Santee, to name a few, but on the charro (vaquero), the llanero, the gaucho, or the huaso (guaso), very little was to be found. The few books, articles, extracts from travel logs that existed offered casual observations of these horsemen rather than a focused, coherent study. Only Edward Larocque Tinker's seminal …

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Review Of Bighorse The Warrior, Marc Becker Jan 1992

Review Of Bighorse The Warrior, Marc Becker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Bighorse The Warrior recounts the story of Gus Bighorse, a Navajo warrior who lived through attacks by Kit Carson and the United States Army, the Navajos' Long Walk, and the death of thousands of his people in the nineteenth century. In the oral history tradition of the Navajo people, Bighorse passed his stories on to his children, and this book stands as a tribute to the clarity and accuracy of that tradition. In this interesting and readable personal account, his daughter Tiana Bighorse gives voice to his memory. This book is not the story of a tragic victimization of the …

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Review Of The Custer Album: A Pictorial Biography Of General George, Sherry L. Smith Jan 1992

Review Of The Custer Album: A Pictorial Biography Of General George, Sherry L. Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This pictorial biography of General George A. Custer was first published in 1964. Now, the University of Oklahoma Press has brought it out in paperback. Its attractive cover plus the plethora of photographs, which constitute the bulk of the book, bode well for the book's popularity.

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The Fatal Fall Of Barrett Scott: Vigilantes On The Niobrara, James W. Hewitt Jan 1992

The Fatal Fall Of Barrett Scott: Vigilantes On The Niobrara, James W. Hewitt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Vigilante activity, in which a somewhat organized group takes the law into its own hands, has been extant in the United States since the 1700s and reached its zenith on the western frontier during the last half of the nineteenth century.1 Many a hapless horse thief, or careless cattle rustler, met his end in a hangman's noose, as those who had property sought to protect it from those who had none.

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Review Of Dance On The Earth: A Memoir., Micheal A. Peterman Jan 1992

Review Of Dance On The Earth: A Memoir., Micheal A. Peterman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The train moves west

the American lady says

"are you native-born Canadian?"

Yes, I say, I'm surely that.

Well, she says, can I tell her

and her friend, Vancouver-bound,

when we'll reach

the more interesting country?

I smile gently I hope

because she couldn't have known

and say

"I was born and grew up

hereabouts

and for me this is

the more interesting country."

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Review Of Texas: A Modem History, Janet Schmelzer Jan 1992

Review Of Texas: A Modem History, Janet Schmelzer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Texas: A Modem History David G. McComb, professor of history at Colorado State University, wanted to provide the "adult reader" with a "brief, narrative history" that would capture the "ethos," "flavor," and "rhythm" of Texas (p. vii). He has succeeded. In seven short chapters (or 186 pages) he has spanned a myriad of historical subjects from the earliest Indian tribes, the Spanish conquest, the Alamo, and the cattle and oil industries to the present-day social, political, and "economic complexities. At the same time he has woven into his story the humanness of Texans and Texas. Moreover, he has enhanced …

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Review Of Manuel Alvarez, 1794-1856: A Southwestern Biography, Ralph H. Vigil Jan 1992

Review Of Manuel Alvarez, 1794-1856: A Southwestern Biography, Ralph H. Vigil

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The subject of this lively, well-written book is Manuel Alvarez, an important but neglected figure who played a key role in New Mexican and western affairs under the Mexican and U. S. government. A Spaniard by birth, a Mexican by expediency, and a trader by inclination, Alvarez was an avid reader, deeply interested in history, who believed that worldly happiness came to the man who thought justly, acted uprightly, and lived usefully

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Notes And News For Vol.12 No.1 Jan 1992

Notes And News For Vol.12 No.1

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Winter Sports In The West., Benjamin G. Rader Jan 1992

Review Of Winter Sports In The West., Benjamin G. Rader

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A product of a conference sponsored by the history department of the University of Calgary and the Historical Society of Alberta in 1987, this set of ten papers treats aspects of the history of winter pastimes in western Canada. No single theme binds the collection together, though several authors try to assay the importance of the harsh climate and the rugged prairie/mountain terrain to western Canada's winter recreations. Their conclusions are not surprising. Climate and terrain prevented white settlers from replicating the rich village-centered pastimes of Europe. Instead, the settlers either had to abandon or adapt the traditional games or …

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Review Of Death Comes For The Chief Justice: The Sloughrynerson Quarrel And Political Violence In New Mexico., Harold J. Weiss Jan 1992

Review Of Death Comes For The Chief Justice: The Sloughrynerson Quarrel And Political Violence In New Mexico., Harold J. Weiss

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 15 December 1867, William Logan Rynerson, a member of the Legislative Council of the territory of New Mexico, fired a bullet from a revolver and killed the opinionated, fiery, and sharp-tongued chief justice of the supreme court-John Potts Slough. Before the shot, Slough exclaimed, "Shoot and be damned!" (p. 70). Mortally wounded, he pulled a derringer from his vest pocket and let it fall to the floor. So ended the career of Chief Justice Slough.

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Review Of Watt Matthews Of Lambshead, Margaret A. Mackichan Jan 1992

Review Of Watt Matthews Of Lambshead, Margaret A. Mackichan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This handsome book relates the history of a Texas ranch from Comanche days to the present, through the life of one extraordinary man, ninety-year-old Watt Matthews. Laura Wilson's highly readable text speaks clearly and with immediacy about the man, his people, and the land. Throughout the text she allows the Texans to speak in their own voices, summing up pages in pithy witticism. Vignettes of Matthews family history read like a Victorian dime novel: interesting and amazing, truth become legend.

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Review Of Astoria & Empire, I.S. Maclaren Jan 1992

Review Of Astoria & Empire, I.S. Maclaren

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

James Ronda blends new documentation with older sources to provide an ample study of New York businessman John Jacob Astor's failed effort to spawn a transcontinental and transglobal fur trade enterprise in the second decade of the nineteenth century. The new interpretations include a view of Astor as capable of being, when pushed to the limit, a scoundrel and a liar (273, 274). Ronda also provides interesting discussions of the Russian connection, the relation between biologists and Astorians, and the political ramifications to the United States of Astor and Astoria. Meanwhile, the main narrative treats the rise and fall of …

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Review Of Dee Brown, Dean Knudsen Jan 1992

Review Of Dee Brown, Dean Knudsen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Lyman B. Hagen, of Arkansas State University, has written a helpful aid for students of the writings of Dee Brown. Brown is best known as the author of non-fiction like Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, but Hagen reminds us that Brown has also written novels, historical fiction, and children's books. Hagen combines quotations from various reviews of Brown's work with personal comments by Dee Brown himself to introduce the novice reader to the varied life and writings of this prolific and unconventional author. This book should prove very useful for all students of the American West.

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The Origins Of The Initiative And Referendum In South Dakota: The Political Context, Steven L. Plott Jan 1992

The Origins Of The Initiative And Referendum In South Dakota: The Political Context, Steven L. Plott

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1898 South Dakota became the first state to amend its constitution to give its citizens the option of the initiative-in which a given percentage of voters may propose a law, which then must be approved at the polls-and the referendum- in which a law proposed either by initiative or by the lawmaking body must then be approved by a given percentage of voters. These measures, also known as direct legislation, were seen by both voters and legislators as a way to reform democracy by making it more responsive to the people. Exactly what impetus propelled South Dakota to enact …

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The Legal Culture Of The Great Plains, Kermit L. Hall Jan 1992

The Legal Culture Of The Great Plains, Kermit L. Hall

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The great prairie lawyer Abraham Lincoln once said of an opposing legal counsel's argument, "He caught on to something, but only by the hind leg."l Lincoln's observation applies with equal force to our current understanding of the legal culture of the Great Plains, and even that characterization is generous. Take, for example, the literature on the region's history of public and private law and legal institutions. It is pitifully small. Bits and pieces are scattered through specialized journals and state history periodicals, but there is nothing like a systematic body of scholarship. 2

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Review Of Hurrah For My New Country!, Darlene Ritter Jan 1992

Review Of Hurrah For My New Country!, Darlene Ritter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The best summary of the scope of the book is found in the foreword. Leon Fouquet as an immigrant helped settle two states-Kansas and Oklahoma. "Fouquet believed he was seeing a transplanted revolution-an appraisal of some merit-in this new country, which to him was very strange, wild, beautiful, and offered him unbelievable opportunities" (p. xxvii). Read the book with this in mind and appreciate the efforts of the family in presenting in a readable form the information preserved in journals, scrapbooks, and letters.

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