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Full-Text Articles in Social and Behavioral Sciences
Book Review: Stepping Twice Into The River: Following Dakota Waters, Gary Totten
Book Review: Stepping Twice Into The River: Following Dakota Waters, Gary Totten
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During his year-long journey along North Dakota's Sheyenne River, Robert King travels not merely for pleasure or personal fulfillment but to share "local truth true in general," in the process discovering how North Dakota's "Nowhere" becomes "Everywhere." The book's title and controlling metaphor come from Heraclitus, who insisted that one cannot step into the same river twice. King, however, seeks to do just that, claiming that he intends to "step into the same river" as did French geograpJoseph Nicollet, who crossed the Sheyenne in the 1830s while mapping the Mississippi waterway.
Book Review: The Railroad And The State: War, Politics, And Technology In Nineteenth-Century America, James A. Ward
Book Review: The Railroad And The State: War, Politics, And Technology In Nineteenth-Century America, James A. Ward
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Angevine's book is a thought-provoking new look at how the railroads affected the United States. Among other things, it promotes a fresh understanding of why the government took over the railways in 1917 to unsnarl traffic at eastern ports.
Book Review: Tell Me, Grandmother: Traditions, Stories, And Cultures Of Arapaho People, Loretta Fowler
Book Review: Tell Me, Grandmother: Traditions, Stories, And Cultures Of Arapaho People, Loretta Fowler
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Organized as a series of "imagined conversations" between Virginia Sutter and her great-grandmother Goes In Lodge (1830-76), Tell Me, Grandmother presents in alternating chapters Goes In Lodge's and Sutter's recollections of their life experiences.
Book Review: One Soldier's Story: A Memoir, Burdett A. Lewis
Book Review: One Soldier's Story: A Memoir, Burdett A. Lewis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Bob Dole's story is a familiar one, by dint of his long political career and three attempts to win the presidency. The Depression-era Kansas boy grows up in the Heartland and heads to the state university to pursue sports, academics, and ultimately a medical career. Drafted into the army, he's grievously wounded in the waning days of World War Two. After a remarkable and agonizing recovery, he enters politics and climbs the ladder to lead the Senate and come within a hairbreadth of the Oval Office.
Book Review: A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism And The Battle For Justice And Equality, 1854-1903, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Book Review: A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism And The Battle For Justice And Equality, 1854-1903, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Across the landscape of modern American politics, the "Populist moment," as Lawrence Goodwyn's 1976 study labeled it, has fascinated scholars. Indeed, late nineteenth-century Populism posed a vocal and effectual political voice for Gilded Age America's discontented. Since his original 1969 study, Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men, O. Gene Clanton has meticulously examined the fundamental role of Kansa, Populists in shaping local and national politics. A Common Humanity, with great efficacy, revisits and reinterprets Kansas's Populism as a fight for fundamental working-class rights and agrarian values, amidst industrialization gone awry.
Book Review: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl, Pamel Riney-Kehrberg
Book Review: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl, Pamel Riney-Kehrberg
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Egan's The Worst Hard Time is a literary and journalistic treatment of the Dust Bowl's impact on the southern Great Plains. He follows the history of the region from the agricultural development of the early twentieth century through the events of the 1930s, focusing on the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Book Review: Horizons West: Directing The Western From John Ford To Clint Eastwood, Joanna Hearne
Book Review: Horizons West: Directing The Western From John Ford To Clint Eastwood, Joanna Hearne
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
First published in 1969, Horizons West was one of the early structuralist treatments of a Hollywood genre and a pivotal text in American writing on the Western. Borrowing from anthropological studies of myth, Kitses outlined a series of binary oppositions between the individual and the community, nature and culture, the West and the East, and wedded this thematic outline to a stylistic exploration of three directors: Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher, and Sam Peckinpah. The book signaled serious academic consideration of Westerns not only as a legitimate art form but also as a complex and meaningful expression of American cultural history. …
Volume 26, Number 4 Editorial Matter
Volume 26, Number 4 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Table of Contents, News, and Notes.
Which Place, What Story?: Cultural Discourses At The Border Of The Blackfeet Reservation And Glacier National Park, Donal Carbaugh, Lisa Rudnick
Which Place, What Story?: Cultural Discourses At The Border Of The Blackfeet Reservation And Glacier National Park, Donal Carbaugh, Lisa Rudnick
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Among every known people, places are named, and in every known place, stories are told. Yet as one place, Jerusalem, makes so abundantly clear, the meanings of the place and the variety of stories attached to it can derive from a variety of traditions and can lead in many different directions. Just as various pilgrims are drawn to some sacred places, so do all people, in all places, come to know the meanings of at least some places through names, with the stories about them capturing their deeper significance, from the sacred to the mundane. Yet for each such place, …
Book Review: At Home On This Moveable Earth, David R. Pichaske
Book Review: At Home On This Moveable Earth, David R. Pichaske
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In this third of a projected four-book memoir, William Kloefkorn examines his late high school and early college years, a time of physical growth and intellectual exploration, of redefining relationships with parents and community, and of laying the foundation for his career as a teacher, scholar, and Nebraska State Poet. Adolescence is the time for what Robert Bly aptly calls "the road of ashes," a period of metaphorical "basement work in the kitchen" (Iron John: A Book About Men). Kloefkorn's reminiscences focus on basement and earth and tedious physical exertion: excavating a foundation for the Zenda Co-op Grain …
Great Plains Quarterly Spring 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly Spring 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Great Plains Quarterly Spring 2006 Editorial Manner, Table of Contents, and Book Notes.
Book Review: True Women And Westward Expansion, Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.
Book Review: True Women And Westward Expansion, Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
With True Women and Westward Expansion, Adrienne Caughfield examines the contributions that Texas women made to the meanings and achievement of U.S. expansion between 1820 and 1860. She argues that they did so in two ways. First, they embraced nineteenth-century ideas of feminine domesticity with which they sought to civilize the wilderness. Second, a select few like Jane McManus Storm Cazeneau, Mary Austin Holley, and Lucy Holcombe Pickens supported expansion with their public writings. ''At its heart," Caughfield explains, "expansionist philosophy closely paralleled domesticity so that adherents to the latter tended to accept the former. The true woman, then, …
Book Review: Approaches To Teaching Louise Erdrich, Julie Barak
Book Review: Approaches To Teaching Louise Erdrich, Julie Barak
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
That a critical vocabulary has been established for addressing Louise Erdrich's body of work is quite evident in Approaches to Teaching Louise Erdrich. Key words in the Erdrich lexicon- syncretic, hybridize, amalgamate, mediate, integrate, dialogic, accretive, connective, merging, blurring, webbed, multivoiced, transformative- echo throughout the collection and stamp the text's theoretical approach to her oeuvre. There are two common pedagogical themes that dominate the essays. Teachers elaborate on ways to help students understand the challenges to hegemonic views of culture, history, gender, and religion that Erdrich, drawing upon an imagination nourished by her ethnic and cultural identity as a …
Book Review: The Western Pursuit Of The American Dream: Selections From The Collection Of Kenneth W. Rendell, Ron Tyler
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Like many other lovers of the West, collector and dealer Kenneth Rendell was inspired by his childhood experiences in nature-in his case, his family's annual summer stay at a lakeside cabin sans utilities north of Boston. It was nurtured by his firsthand acquaintance with the original materials of history when he began his dealership in 1959, flourished in his friendship with historian Stephen Ambrose, and reaches its zenith with the stunning collection of materials he shared in a 2004-05 exhibition at the National Heritage Museum in Lexington, MA, and published in this book.
Book Review: Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West, Molly P. Rozum
Book Review: Challenging Frontiers: The Canadian West, Molly P. Rozum
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"To me what is most important is to come to grips with both colonial history and contemporary life," writes Emma LaRocque in her essay, "When the 'Wild West' Is Me," on de-mythologizing the cowboys and Indians of popular culture. What makes this new collection fresh is its emphasis on connections between past and present communities in the Canadian West. Eighteen thought-provoking articles are organized in three parts: "Images of the West," "Challenging Western History and Frontier Myth-Making," and "New Frontiers." A scholarly introduction and editorial analyses between the various sections bind the articles to key themes of community building and …
Fields Of Opportunity: Wind Machines Return To The Plains, Jacob Sowers
Fields Of Opportunity: Wind Machines Return To The Plains, Jacob Sowers
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The last two decades have seen a rebirth of wind machines on the rural landscape. In ironic fashion the wind's kinetic energy has grown in significance through its ability to generate commercial amounts of electricity, the commodity that a few generations earlier hastened the demise of the old Great Plains windmill. Yet the reemergence of wind machines on the landscape has been slowed by local opposition. Many places across the country have seen resistance to the construction of vast wind turbine arrays. Although wind energy fulfills both the businessman's requirement for profit and the environmentalist's desire for clean electrical production, …
Book Review: Travelling Knowledges: Positioning The Immigrant Reader Of Aboriginal Literatures In Canada, Rob Appleford
Book Review: Travelling Knowledges: Positioning The Immigrant Reader Of Aboriginal Literatures In Canada, Rob Appleford
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Canadian Aboriginal writing has blossomed in the past two decades and made a major contribution to the cultural life of both Aboriginal peoples and the general public. Given this wealth, it becomes necessary for the non-Aboriginal literary critic to develop sensitive models for approaching this creative and critical work, both in the classroom and in academic research. The question becomes: how can a non-Aboriginal critic use her "outsider" status in an enabling way when teaching and studying this culturally-specific material? In Travelling Knowledges: Positioning the 1m/Migrant Reader of Aboriginal Literatures in Canada, Renate Eigenbrod has attempted to use her …
Book Review: No One Ever Asked Me: The World War Ii Memoirs Of An Omaha Indian Soldier, Kenneth W. Townsend
Book Review: No One Ever Asked Me: The World War Ii Memoirs Of An Omaha Indian Soldier, Kenneth W. Townsend
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No One Ever Asked Me is the memoir of a rather typical American Indian veteran of World War II. Like most of the 25,000 Native American servicemen, Hollis Stabler was not a code talker. His reasons for enlistment mirrored the diverse motivations found among Indians spread across the Great Plains and Southwest, and the acceptance he received from non-Indians and his record of service were equally representative. Common to most Native American servicemen, Stabler walked in two worlds. His spirit was that of an Omaha Indian, and he cherished his cultural values and traditions; his daily existence, however, was in …
Great Plains Quarterly Winter 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly Winter 2006 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Great Plains Quarterly Winter 2006 Editorial Matter, Table of Contents, and Book Notes.
Book Review: Indian Country: Essays On Contemporary Native Culture, William Asikinack
Book Review: Indian Country: Essays On Contemporary Native Culture, William Asikinack
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In examining this volume, I came to realize very quickly that Valaskakis is following the style of a traditional North American Indigenous person whom we are meeting for the first time. By way of introduction, she speaks about her family and family life, in a narrative style, in chapter 1. She finishes the book by going full circle and returning to how we are "all related."
Book Review: Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux And The Canadian-American Borderlands, James T. Carroll
Book Review: Living With Strangers: The Nineteenth-Century Sioux And The Canadian-American Borderlands, James T. Carroll
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The history of the Sioux people of the Northern Plains is complicated by the artificial boundary line between the United States and Canada. This division has prevented a complete and thorough treatment of Sioux history since most scholars focus on either the American or Canadian portions of the saga. David McCrady's Living with Strangers, however, fills this gap for the nineteenth-century portion of Sioux history. McCrady defines and develops a theory of borderlands and adroitly applies his ideas to the Sioux who ignored diplomatic boundaries and benefited from multiple illicit crossings. Native peoples were pragmatic, self-serving, and clever in manipulating …
Book Review: Western Traditions: Contemporary Artists Of The American West, Reece Summers
Book Review: Western Traditions: Contemporary Artists Of The American West, Reece Summers
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
American western art is experiencing an astonishing resurgence in quantity and popularity. The Los Angeles Times recently reported that "Americans are buying Western art (pictures and sculptures of cowboys, Indians, ranch animals and the landscapes that sustain them) at a startling rate, paying prices that stretch into six and seven figures." Modern-day critics of traditional western art are not as enthusiastic, pointing to its male-centered tradition celebrating violence and overlooking the devastation of indigenous cultures and the environment caused by European settlement.
Book Review: Washita: The U.S. Army And The Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869, Bill Corbett
Book Review: Washita: The U.S. Army And The Southern Cheyennes, 1867-1869, Bill Corbett
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
At dawn on November 27, 1868, Lt. Col. George A. Custer led troopers of the Seventh U.S. Cavalry in an attack on the village of Black Kettle, a Southern Cheyenne peace chief. Custer's men thundered across the frozen, snow encrusted bottom land of the Washita River in what is now Roger Mills County, Oklahoma, surprising and defeating the Cheyennes. In this book the author describes the circumstances that led to this pivotal event and its consequences.
In The Footsteps Of The Third Spanish Expedition: James Mackay And John T. Evans' Impact On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Kevin C. Witte
In The Footsteps Of The Third Spanish Expedition: James Mackay And John T. Evans' Impact On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Kevin C. Witte
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The odyssey that was the Lewis and Clark Expedition continues to capture the hearts of those who love tales of adventure and unknown lands. In light of the current bicentennial celebration that began in 2003 and will continue through 2006, the popularity and aggrandizement of Meriwether Lewis, William Clark, and their Corps of Discovery has never been greater. Clearly, none can deny that they were essential to expanding the geographical horizons of a fledgling nation coming to grips with the rich resources that the vast expanse of the Louisiana Territory would offer. However, lost in the glorification of these intrepid …
Book Review: Imagining The African American West, Jere W. Roberson
Book Review: Imagining The African American West, Jere W. Roberson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Blake Allmendinger invites us into an old/new West that is not a place on a map, but rather a place in the psyche-always imagined, out there, over there, someplace, not here. He challenges us to cease thinking of the West only in geographic terms and to envision it as an image, this time with black figures in it and writing about it.
Book Review: The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets, Judith Sornberger
Book Review: The Poetry Home Repair Manual: Practical Advice For Beginning Poets, Judith Sornberger
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Kooser's Poetry Home Repair Manual goes a long way toward aiding poets in finding ways to reflect that "order beyond" with lots of practical advice from someone they will find delightful to hang out with.
Book Review: Alberta Premiers Of The Twentieth Century, Rod Macleod
Book Review: Alberta Premiers Of The Twentieth Century, Rod Macleod
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Province of Alberta has had an even dozen premiers in the century since its creation in 1905. The body of historical and biographical writing on the political history of the province is uneven, to put it mildly. Only five of the province's political leaders have been the subject of biographies. Curiously, the current premier, Ralph Klein, has the most (three), while Ernest Manning, arguably the most important Alberta political figure of the century, has none. Five premiers have not so much as an article or chapter published on them. This collection thus fills a large gap and, on the …
Book Review: Treasures Of Gilcrease: Selections From The Permanent Collection, Janet Catherine Berlo
Book Review: Treasures Of Gilcrease: Selections From The Permanent Collection, Janet Catherine Berlo
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
All who study the visual culture of the American West are familiar with the vast holdings of the Gilcrease Museum. This excellent introduction to the museum consists of five essays on its component collections. The introduction to Thomas Gilcrease himself (1890-1962) chronicles his mixed ethnicity (born of European and Muskogee-Creek heritage, he was enrolled as a Creek) and his success in the oil business. His several decades of avidly collecting the American objects, paintings, and manuscripts that would become the Gilcrease Museum (which initially opened in San Antonio, before moving to Tulsa in 1949) is told in a lively though …
Book Review: The Captured: A True Story Of Abduction By Indians On The Texas Frontier, Gary L. Ebersole
Book Review: The Captured: A True Story Of Abduction By Indians On The Texas Frontier, Gary L. Ebersole
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is a well-researched and well-written study of a handful of Indian captivities on the Texas frontier in the 1870s. Its author was motivated by the desire to know more about the life of Adolph Korn (1859-1895), his distant relative, who was captured at the age of ten by Comanche Indians. The Indian captivity tale has been a staple of the literature of the Americas since the publication of Mary Rowlandson's account from Puritan New England in 1682. Hundreds of accounts - factual, fictional, and fictionalized - have told the tale of the innocent abducted and carried off to the …
Book Review: Horizons West: Directing The Western From John Ford To Clint Eastwood, Joanna Hearne
Book Review: Horizons West: Directing The Western From John Ford To Clint Eastwood, Joanna Hearne
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The new edition is a useful overview of six major directors, a densely descriptive homage to the genre, and a touchstone in the history of film genre criticism. Critics familiar with the 1969 edition will appreciate the way Kitses has updated and elaborated on his initial premises. Readers new to Western genre criticism should see the work as an important strand in a broad range of critical discourses that now includes, among others, studies of gender in Westerns by Lee Clark Mitchell and Jane Tompkins, materialist, industry-based analyses by Peter Stanfield, Peter Lehman's extensive readings and re-readings of John Ford's …