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Review Of Czech Voices: Stories From Texas In The Amerikán Národní Kalendář., Joseph G. Svoboda Jan 1992

Review Of Czech Voices: Stories From Texas In The Amerikán Národní Kalendář., Joseph G. Svoboda

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Clinton Machann and James W. Mendl are already known to readers interested in Czech ethnicity in Texas by a volume entitled Krasna Amerika published in 1983 and recounting the history of the Czech community in Texas, its social structure, religion, folk culture, literature, language, journalism, and eventual assimilation and retention of ethnic identity. The present volume brings the history of Texas Czechs to life by way of reminiscences of immigrants who settled in the Lone Star State.

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Review Of The American West: A Narrative Bibliography And A Study In Regionalism, Patricia Nelson Limerick Jan 1992

Review Of The American West: A Narrative Bibliography And A Study In Regionalism, Patricia Nelson Limerick

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Legal scholar Charles Wilkinson reads and recommends books as if the Video Age were not upon us and as if the ideal of an educated, reflective citizenry might be within reach. In the four hundred and eighty-eight items listed in this bibliography, writers have done their part "in defining a geographical region, in giving the West a sense of place, a sense of itself. " If Westerners say yes to the invitation these writers offer, then the consequences could be direct and practical: "When a people gains a sense of itself, wise decisions are likely to follow" (p. 90), wise …

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Review Of Dreams In Dry Places, Dale L. Gibbs Jan 1992

Review Of Dreams In Dry Places, Dale L. Gibbs

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the summer of 1936 after weeks of scorching heat, my parents decided to visit my grandparents in Neligh and Clearwater, Nebraska. We got into the 1932 Terraplane which my dad had bought with his veteran's bonus from World War I and headed out through Seward, Columbus, Norfolk, Oakdale, to Neligh. My grandmother's big Victorian house was on North Main Street at the foot of Standpipe Hill and its big yard and porches did, in fact, seem cooler after the 100 degree heat in Lincoln

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Review Of Tomahawk And Cross; Lutheran Missionaries Among The Northern Plains Tribes, 1858-1866, Christopher Pippert Jan 1992

Review Of Tomahawk And Cross; Lutheran Missionaries Among The Northern Plains Tribes, 1858-1866, Christopher Pippert

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In his most recent work Gerhard Schmutterer recounts the failure of a German-Lutheran mission located between the Yellowstone River and Deer Creek Stations (in present-day Wyoming) between 1858 and 1866. This particular attempt to Christianize the Indians of the American West was a joint venture between Germans and German-Americans of the German- Lutheran church, who wished to maintain the ties between pioneers and their church as well as save the souls of Native Americans. Approximately half the book is appendices that reprint the diary of Jacob Schmidt and the autobiography of Carl Krebs, both members of the mission. The author …

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Review Of Natural History Of The Black Hills And Badlands, Dan Flores Jan 1992

Review Of Natural History Of The Black Hills And Badlands, Dan Flores

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a revised edition of a volume that in original form did not include the present section on the South Dakota Badlands, here written by Ronald Weedon, a biologist at Chadron State College. Also added to this revised version is a treatise on the environmental situation of the Black Hills as of 1990. This essay, as well as essays on the topography, geology, biology, and history of the Black Hills, is by biologist Sven Froiland of Augustana College. The book also features long pages of quoted material from various kinds of technical sources (soil profiles, checklists of mammals …

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Review Of Pipe, Bible, And Peyote Among The Oglala Sioux: A Study In Religious Identity, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith Jan 1992

Review Of Pipe, Bible, And Peyote Among The Oglala Sioux: A Study In Religious Identity, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Pipe, Bible, and Peyote among the Oglala Sioux is a republication of a 1980 manuscript published in the Stockholm Studies in Comparative Religion. Steinmetz, a Jesuit priest, spent twenty years (1961-1981) on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where he served as clergyman and participated, observed, and reflected on the unique constellation of modem Lakota religion. Steinmetz outlines the complexity of different religious identities among the Sioux, to include: the traditional "pure" non-acculturative beliefs and its practitioners, reflected in the American Indian Movement's political emphasis on a return to indigenous practices; "Ecumenist I," designating Lakota Christians who practice both …

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1992 Vol. 12 No. 3 Jan 1992

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1992 Vol. 12 No. 3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Fort Supply Indian Territory: Frontier Outpost On The Plains, Jean E. Atterbury Jan 1992

Review Of Fort Supply Indian Territory: Frontier Outpost On The Plains, Jean E. Atterbury

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This paperback, with a new introduction, reprints Carriker's 1970 text chronicling Fort Supply from 1868 to 1894 as a hub for distributing both supplies and personnel throughout the southern Plains. Drawing from both personal and public documents, Carriker presents a journal-like account of western history in microcosm: the subduing and sequestering of Indians on reservations, the negotiations for herds' passage along the famous cattle trails, the maneuvering of boomers and others as they settled what had been Indian Territory. This useful reference, including little analysis or interpretation, provides an intimate glimpse of the life of this integral outpost on the …

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When East Meets West: The Passions Of Landscape And Culture In Gretel Ehrlich's Heart Mountain, Gregory L. Morris Jan 1992

When East Meets West: The Passions Of Landscape And Culture In Gretel Ehrlich's Heart Mountain, Gregory L. Morris

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Gretel Ehrlich is a writer who has taken for the subject of her art-and who has taken for her home-the Big Hom Basin of northern Wyoming. That particular extension of plains landscape, stretched between the Big Horn Mountains to the east (a sort of geological intrusion upon an otherwise Great Plains terrain) and the Absarokas to the west, has provided both an intensely personal and a brilliantly imaginative source of inspiration for Ehrlich's fiction and non-fiction. What on one hand has been a distinctly restorative (and even erotic) landscape for Ehrlich also has proven to be a potently politicized landscape.

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Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition Volume 6: November 2, 180s-March 22, 1806., Gerald M. Parsons Jan 1992

Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition Volume 6: November 2, 180s-March 22, 1806., Gerald M. Parsons

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This latest edition of the Journals represents the midpoint of an eleven-volume project sponsored by the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska and co-sponsored by the American Philosophical Society, to publish a completely reedited version of all extant materials relating to the famous expedition of 1804-1806. Nine volumes (2-10) will contain all extant journal writings, while Volume 1 (1983) is already acknowledged a magnificently produced edition of the cartographic history of the trip, and Volume 11 will contain natural history materials, including reproductions of the herbarium sheets that Lewis gathered during the journey.

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Review Of Kansas Governors, Lynwood E. Oyos Jan 1992

Review Of Kansas Governors, Lynwood E. Oyos

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Kansas Governors began more than a decade ago when Homer Socolofsky provided the information on Kansas governors for the Biographical Directory of the Governors of the United States and the Biographical Directory of American Territorial Governors. In the current volume, he brings together a much more complete treatment of both the territorial and state governors of Kansas. A long-time Kansas historian, Socolofsky was well qualified to enter into this project. In addition to examining primary source material within Kansas, he used relevant resources found in the Newberry Library and the Library of Congress.

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Index To Vol.12 No.4 Jan 1992

Index To Vol.12 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Notes And News For Vol.12 No.4 Jan 1992

Notes And News For Vol.12 No.4

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No abstract provided.

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Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt Jan 1992

Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This rich collection of essays is intellectually substantial, culturally significant, and much overdue. One of the least appreciated phenomena of American culture is its remarkable history of self-fashioning. The American continent was settled by European immigrants for a variety of reasons over some four centuries, and each wave of settlers contributed to the burgeoning mythology of the New World its own set of self-fulfilling prophecies. "America" was--and to a significant extent still is--a largely European construct, a cultural matrix whose outlines emerged and evolved often re-actively as individuals and groups found their expectations challenged by the stark realities of the …

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Review Of Kansas Wildlife, Don Cunningham Jan 1992

Review Of Kansas Wildlife, Don Cunningham

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A catchword current among naturalists is "biodiversity," a term used to describe the variety and number of organisms present in an area. Biodiversity is one measure of the "health" of an environment, and the term itself is probably a useful one, as 1t can efficiently suggest environmental quality and the complex interrelationship among living things, plant and animal.

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Review Of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Politics Of Indian Affairs, Sharon M. Harris Jan 1992

Review Of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Politics Of Indian Affairs, Sharon M. Harris

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Removals Maddox exposes the complicity of many of our most treasured nineteenth-century American authors in the figurative-and consequently, quite literal-removal of American Indians from constructions of nineteenth century culture. That some of these authors viewed themselves as sympathetic to the "Indian question" merely demonstrates (as Maddox extends Roland Barthes' argument) how the myth of apoliticized discourse can result in the transformation of "history into nature."

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The Railroad Question Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee And St. Paul Railway V. Minnesota And Constitutional Limits On State Regulations, James W. Ely Jr. Jan 1992

The Railroad Question Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee And St. Paul Railway V. Minnesota And Constitutional Limits On State Regulations, James W. Ely Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Few issues more vexed Americans during the Gilded Age than the regulation of railroads. America's first big business, the railroads wielded enormous economic power and by the end of the nineteenth century represented 10 percent of national wealth. 1 Farmers and other local shippers often viewed railroads as an exploitative monopoly and blamed them for excessive and discriminatory charges. They repeatedly clamored for regulation of the freight and passenger rates fixed by railroad companies. Agricultural interests in the Great Plains states were particularly active in seeking regulatory legislation. Railroad investors and managers, on the other hand, opposed regulatory laws and …

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The "Poison Porridge" Case: Chinese And The Administration Of Justice In Early Saskatchewan, Ken Leyton Brown Jan 1992

The "Poison Porridge" Case: Chinese And The Administration Of Justice In Early Saskatchewan, Ken Leyton Brown

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On the morning of 8 August 1907 a number of patrons were taking breakfast in the Capital Restaurant on Lome Street in Regina. The restaurant had not been in operation long but was apparently doing a good business, so it must have been somewhat disturbing to Mr. Steele, the owner and manager, when shortly after beginning their morning meal a number of his patrons became ill. The symptoms included quite severe abdominal pains so the decision was taken to send for a doctor who arrived to find nine people suffering from what was obviously something rather more serious than indigestion. …

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Notes And News For Vol.12 No.2 Jan 1992

Notes And News For Vol.12 No.2

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No abstract provided.

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1992 Vol. 12 No. 2 Jan 1992

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1992 Vol. 12 No. 2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Sterling's Carrie: Mrs. J. Sterling Morton, Polly P. Duryea Jan 1992

Review Of Sterling's Carrie: Mrs. J. Sterling Morton, Polly P. Duryea

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Margaret V. Ott has given a valuable gift to the pioneer descendants living close to the banks of the Big Muddy. From detailed journals, letters, and diaries, she traces the lives of the J. Sterling Morton family as they construct their home, Arbor Lodge, on the Morton Ranch near Nebraska City. Many in my transitional generation will find elements of their own history in Mrs. Ott's fictionalized biography, Sterling's Carrie.

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Review Of Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters Of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919, Michael J. Grant Jan 1992

Review Of Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters Of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919, Michael J. Grant

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The experiences of a single female homesteader on the Great Plains of South Dakota are revealed in Bachelor Bess. This collection of letters spanning 1909-19 was written by Elizabeth Corey to her family in Iowa. The letters focus primarily on the social activities of Corey, who worked as a schoolteacher while homesteading in the West River country of South Dakota.

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Review Of Cather Studies Volume 1, Susan A. Hallgarth Jan 1992

Review Of Cather Studies Volume 1, Susan A. Hallgarth

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Cather Studies is a new biennial series intended to display the quality and diversity of current scholarship on Cather. This first volume showcases papers presented at the Third National Seminar on Willa Cather (1987). Future volumes no doubt will continue to incorporate essays from these educational events and address, as they do, a broad audience. Contributors to this volume include teachers from all levels of the educational system (high school, junior college, four-year professional and liberal arts colleges, and state and research universities) and all parts of the United States (both coasts, the South, the Northeast, the Midwest, and the …

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Review Of The Trial Of Leanard Peltier., John Krejci Jan 1992

Review Of The Trial Of Leanard Peltier., John Krejci

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 26 June 1975 in a firefight on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation between the FBI and AIM, two FBI agents were killed. AIM member Leonard Peltier and three other Indians were arrested. Only Peltier was convicted. The Trial of Leanard Peltier carefully documents the trial in its social and historical context.

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Review Of Women Of The New Mexico Frontier 1846-1912, Janet E. Schulte Jan 1992

Review Of Women Of The New Mexico Frontier 1846-1912, Janet E. Schulte

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Historians of the women's west have centered their analysis around the extent to which Victorian culture shaped women's experience on the frontier. Cheryl Foote's collective biography of white women in New Mexico territory supports the argument that the Victorian cultural values, especially the cult of domesticity, were transferred with few mutations from the East to the Southwest during the nation's westward expansion.

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Having Babies Or Not: Household Composition And Fertility In Rural Iowa And Nebraska, 1900,1910, Deborah Fink, Alicia Carriquiry Jan 1992

Having Babies Or Not: Household Composition And Fertility In Rural Iowa And Nebraska, 1900,1910, Deborah Fink, Alicia Carriquiry

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

How did life change for people from the eastern prairie or forest regions when they crossed the Missouri River to settle in the Plains of Nebraska? The land presented its own social, economic, and environmental problems for the settlers. While some historians have emphasized the resourcefulness with which settlers adapted to maintain the life ways of the rural regions to the east, others have pointed to the cultural and social shifts effected by the plains environment. Considerable social divergence occurred within the plains population, even within the dominant northern European American ethnicity. This study addresses the lives of rural women …

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Review Of Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Lyn Ellen Bennett Jan 1992

Review Of Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Lyn Ellen Bennett

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Storti's account of the 1885 Rock Springs, Wyoming, riot adds a twist to previous interpretations, incorporating the legacy of unionism by laying part of the blame for this grisly massacre at the feet of the Knights of Labor, whose struggle for power with railroad management caught the Chinese in a crossfire. The author focuses briefly on United States immigration policy, the influx of Chinese labor, construction of the transcontinental railroad, and the rise of western unionism, all of which culminated in the Rock Springs massacre.

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Review Of Fox At The Wood's Edge: A Biography Of Loren Eiseley, Kathleen A. Boardman Jan 1992

Review Of Fox At The Wood's Edge: A Biography Of Loren Eiseley, Kathleen A. Boardman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Loren Eiseley, anthropologist and essayist,created his own persona in his essays and autobiography. Reluctant to have his self-portrait examined, he snubbed at least one biographer who became too curious about the facts. Several years after Eiseley's death, but still in time to conduct fruitful interviews with Eiseley's wife, Mabel, and many friends and associates, biographer Gale Christianson arrived at the right moment, with the technique and discernment to produce a fine biography that provides a new perspective on Eiseley's self-portrayal. Not that Christianson's version is better or even truer than Eiseley's-but it makes possible a deeper, more complex view of …

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Review Of Cante Ohitika Win (Brave-Hearted Women): Images Of Lakota Women From The Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota., Holly Rae Boomer Jan 1992

Review Of Cante Ohitika Win (Brave-Hearted Women): Images Of Lakota Women From The Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota., Holly Rae Boomer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Carolyn Reyer's book, Cante ohitika Win (Brave-hearted Women), the words of Debra Lynn White Plume best characterize the content of oral stories, poetry, and photographs. "I would say that there are two revolving themes that live in what I write: resistance and celebration." Reyer's book, with additional writings by White Plume and Dr. Beatrice Medicine, uses the sub~ title, "Images of Lakota Women from the Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota," and this phrasing gives an accurate description of the resistance that the Lakota face in expressing their culture through both liturature and his~ tory. The images evoked …

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Review Of Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail, Rex Buchanan Jan 1992

Review Of Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail, Rex Buchanan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Sam Arnold's Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail is a gustatorial revisiting of mealtime along the old trail. Using various travel accounts, Arnold provides directions for making camp meals and for recreating dinners provided along the way at stops such as Bent's Fort and the Hays House at Council Grove. The recipes, written in a clear and entertaining style, cover everything from moose nose to Turkish pilaf for one hundred; Arnold helpfully suggests modem substitutes for ingredients that are no longer easily available. For readers who want to experience the pleasures and surprises of eating on the nineteenth- century Great …

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