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Review Of Hollywood's West: The American Frontier In Film, Television, And History Edited By Peter C. Rollins And John E. O'Connor & Making The White Man's Indian: Native Americans And Hollywood Movies By Angela Aleiss, Armando Jose Prats

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Western, yet again, lies dormant. The revival that began in the late eighties with the greatest of adventures on the Great Plains, Lonesome Dove, and peaked some years later with Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (followed closely by George Cosmatos's Tombstone), announced that the gente had reclaimed its luminous moral core, even if it would henceforth cast its light in chiaroscuros of regret and remorse. Released in late 1990, Kevin Costner's Dances with Wolves revitalized the Indian Western, though in doing so it also revived the rancid myth of the Vanishing American. Whatever else may be said about it, …

"Whores And Other Feminists" Recovering Deadwood's Unlikely Feminisms, Anne Helen Petersen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The very first vision of the female form in Deadwood is one of ultimate despair: the woman sits alone in the corner of a room, hysterically weeping, her face swollen and bruised with beating. A man sits across the room, a bullet through the temple, barely alive. He was beating her; she responded with a Derringer shot to the head. Moments later, the woman is on the ground in her pimp's office, his boot square on her neck. She writhes beneath him, nearly strangling to death before whispering through bloodied lips: "I'll be good." Meanwhile, the other prominent female character …

"Gold Is Every Man's Opportunity" Castration Anxiety And The Economic Venture In Deadwood, Kyle Wiggins, David Holmberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In one of the most famous and quoted passages from The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Karl Marx observes, "Men make their own history, but not spontaneously, under conditions they have chosen for themselves; rather on terms immediately existing, given and handed down to them." While the historical conditions that engendered the Black Hills gold rush of the mid-1870s were more "forced" by and upon the participants than "handed" to them, Marx's argument resonates loudly with the anti-romantic project of HBO's critically acclaimed Western, Deadwood. Series creator David Milch makes a similar point about the town of Deadwood: …

Through The Unknown Pamirs; The Second Danish Pamir Expedition, 1898-99 (1904) , Ole Olufsen

Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection

Tajiks - Pamir - Description and travel Asia, Central - Description and travel

Kalid-I Afghan-I (1893), Thomas Patrick Hughes, Trevor Chichele Plowden

Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection

Translation of the Kalid-i-Afghani, the text book for the Pakkhto examination, with notes, historical, geographical, grammatical, and explanatory by Trevor Chichele Plowden.

Pt.I. Prose: 1. The garj-i-Pakkhto or treasury of Pakkhto/ [Maulavi Ahmad]--2. Tarikh-i-Mahmud-i-Ghaznavi, or the history of Mahmud the Ghazvide--3. Tarikh-i-Murass a, or the Be-jewelled Chronicle--Pt. II. Poetry: 4. The Ballad of Prince Bahram and the Fair Gul-andama--5. Collection of Odes selected from the Diwan of Mulla Abd-ur-Rahman--6. Collection of Odes selected from the Diwan of Khush-hal Khan, Khatak--7. The Chaman-i-Be Nazir, or the Unrivalled Parterre.

Effects Of Habitat Management Treatments On Plant Community Composition And Biomass In A Montane Wetland, Jane E. Austin, Janet R. Keough, William H. Pyle

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

Grazing and burning are commonly applied practices that can impact the diversity and biomass of wetland plant communities. We evaluated the vegetative response of wetlands and adjacent upland grasslands to four treatment regimes (continuous idle, fall prescribed burning followed by idle, annual fall cattle grazing, and rotation of summer grazing and idle) commonly used by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Our study area was Grays Lake, a large, montane wetland in southeastern Idaho that is bordered by extensive wet meadows. We identified seven plant cover types, representing the transition from dry meadow to deep wetland habitats: mixed deep marsh, …

The Russo-Afghan Question And The Invasion Of India (1885), George Bruce Malleson

Digitized Afghanistan Materials in English from the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection

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Title And Contents- Summer 2007

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 27 / Number 3 / Summer 2007

Contents

How William F. Cody Helped Save The Buffalo Without Really Trying

Imagining Kansas: Place, Promotion, And Western Stereotypes In The Art Of Henry Worrall (1825-1902)

"Young Poets Write What They Know": William Reed Dunroy, Poet Of The Plains'

Review Essay: Ghost Dancing Anew

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Review Of The Borderlands Of The American And Canadian Wests: Essays On Regional History Of The Forty~ Ninth Parallel Edited By Sterling Evans, Phil Bellfy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Before getting into my admittedly narrowly constructed remarks, I wish the reader to understand that overall this volume is a good and useful one. Despite its claim to be an examination of the "Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel," most of the nineteen essays focus exclusively on Great Plains history (about six have a decidedly non-Plains focus, while a few address more general area-wide topics). The value of the book is in its commitment to exploring how the imposition of the border affected people throughout the region, given the reality that no natural physical features exist to mark such an …

Review Of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge: The Life And Times Of A Career Army Officer By Wayne R. Kime, Charles Robinson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Richard Irving Dodge was a soldier and author whose diaries and published works on the Great Plains have served as primary sources for many years. Four of Dodge's Great Plains journals were edited for publication by Wayne R. Kime, who now caps that achievement with a long-awaited biography.

As Kime notes in his introduction, reprints of Dodge's works during the twentieth century maintained his reputation as an author, "but the facts of his military career were all but forgotten." In Colonel Richard Irving Dodge: The Life and Times of a Career Army Officer, he has successfully resurrected Dodge's military career. …

Review Of Riding For The Brand: 150 Years Of Cowden Ranching By Michael Pettit, D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As a family of ranchers, there is little doubt that the Cowdens have contributed to 150 years of the history of the western fringe of the Great Plains in Texas and New Mexico. As descendent and author Michael Pettit suggests, the Cowdens arrived in Texas approximately five years after the state was admitted to the Union. To add an additional perspective, Quanah Parker's band of Comanches were twenty-five years away from accepting reservation life at Fort Sill in Oklahoma Territory as William Hamby Cowden settled in Palo Pinto County, Texas. He clashed with bands of Comanches, . but in the …

How William F. Cody Helped Save The Buffalo Without Really Trying, David Nesheim

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although Leopold's aphorism refers to the common response to human suffering, it also reflects the way many historical accounts of the restoration of the American bison omit an important piece of that phenomenon. Most historians have focused their attention on two elements: western ranchers who started the earliest private herds and eastern conservationists who raised funds and lobbied for the creation of the first national preserves. However, the perpetuation of the image of buffalo in the hearts and minds of Americans was equally important in the eventual recovery of the species. No one was a more effective popularize than William …

Review Of American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle In The Twentieth Century By Richard Lowitt, Debbie Colson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Richard Lowitt's look at the Oklahoma Panhandle in American Outback is one of the first books documenting the area's recent history. Authors usually focus on the cattle operations prior to 1900 or solely on the Dust Bowl era of the 1930s. Ironically, not much is written in Oklahoma history books that specifically focuses on the Panhandle's history, so Lowitt's attention to its contemporary history is rewarding. He includes details about significant subjects such as the Dust Bowl; agricultural, oil and gas development; and the Optima Dam. In referencing farmer and magazine contributor Caroline Henderson, Lowitt recognizes her role in drawing …

Review Of The Broidered Garment: The Love Story Of Mona Martinsen Andlohn G. Neihardt By Hilda Martinsen Neihardt, Timothy G. Anderson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1907, John G. Neihardt published A Bundle of Myrrh, his first volume of lyric poetry, thirty-three poems of often frank sexuality and longing. Reviewers found the book daring-the New York Times noted its "riotous joy of the flesh"-and occasionally crude. But it won Neihardt the ultimate rave review when it was read by a young American sculptress then studying with Auguste Rodin in Paris. When twenty-three-year-old Mona Martinsen read the poems, she was moved to write to the twenty-six-year-old Nebraska poet, beginning a correspondence that would culminate in a marriage proposal. In November 1908, when Mona Martinsen stepped …

Book Notes- Summer 2007

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nebraska 1875: Its Advantages, Resources, and Drawbacks. By Edwin A. Curley

From Lead Mines to Gold Fields: Memories of an Incredibly Long Life. By Henry Taylor

Sunshine Always: The Courtship Letters of Alice Bower and Joseph Gossage of Dakota Territory. Edited by Paula M. Nelson

New Mexico Past and Future. By Thomas E. Chavez

Marc Simmons of New Mexico: Maverick Historian. By Phyllis S. Morgan

A Song for the Horse Nation: Horses in Native American Cultures. Edited by George Horse Capture and Emil Her Many Horses

A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise …

Review Of Making Home Work: Domesticity And Native American Assimilation In The American West, 1860-1919 By Jane E. Simonsen, Susan Bernardin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

While the fields of western women's history and American Indian history have flourished in recent years, rarely have the two been brought together in such fruitful fashion as in Simonsen's remarkable study, Making Home Work. As her title suggests, Simonsen takes as her subject "the deliberate, arduous, and often self-conscious production of domesticity" in western spaces of cross-cultural "encounter." In doing so, she dramatically extends previous scholarly attention to the centrality of "women's work" to both the broad "mission" of indigenous assimilation and the particular project of Native women's "uplift." This book pursues the workings of white women's domestic discourse …

Review Of The Ambivalent Art Of Katherine Anne Porter By Mary Titus, James T.F. Tanner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Mary Titus's The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter is an original, serious, feminist study of Porter's ever-shifting and problematic self-analysis respecting the proper roles of women in modern culture. According to Titus, Porter rebelled against her upbringing yet never relinquished the belief that her work as an artist was somehow unnatural, unbecoming in view of the conventional notion of woman as child bearer. Yet Titus is certain that Porter overcame such notions, or at least ambivalently tempered them, to create her· memorable fiction.

In her fiction, Katherine Anne Porter (1890- 1980) provides varied treatments of the Great Plains areas …

Review Of Railwayman's Son: A Plains Family Memoir By Hugh Hawkins, Carlos A. Schwantes

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Railwayman's Son is a lovingly crafted memoir of growing up in small-town Kansas and Oklahoma during the 1930s and 1940s. For this reviewer, who grew up in small-town Indiana during the 1940s and 1950s, Hugh Hawkins's evocative recollection inspired a flood of memories. The author is professor emeritus of history and American studies at Amherst College. Though we have never met, and though the particulars of Hawkins family life differ noticeably from mine, the process of coming of age in a Midwestern town in the years that bracket World War II would seem to offer us considerable common ground to …

Review Of In The Shadow Of Wounded Knee: The Untold Final Story Of The Indian Wars By Roger L. Di Silvestro, Bruce Johansen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The U.S. Army excused the killing of one of its officers, Lt. Edward W. Casey, by Plenty Horses, an Oglala Lakota, to maintain its official position that the "incident" at Wounded Knee was a battle, not a massacre. Roger Di Silvestro's In the Shadow of Wounded Knee is the first full-dress history of this coda to the event at Wounded Knee during which between two hundred and three hundred and fifty Native peoples died, as well as forty-nine soldiers, many of whom were killed by friendly fire.

Casey, ironically, was himself something of an Indian rights defender. He recruited scouts, …

Imagining Kansas Place, Promotion, And Western Stereotypes In The Art Of Henry Worrall (1825-1902), Karen De Bres

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In May of 1876 three men took a private Santa Fe railroad car from Topeka, Kansas, ro the Philadelphia Centennial Exposition. One was the Santa Fe land commissioner and the director of the railroad's exhibit, another was secretary of state for the Kansas Board of Agriculture. The third was a self-trained artist in the railroad's employ, and the designer of both the Kansas and Santa Fe exhibits. Fifty-one year old Henry Worrall lifted himself from a boyhood in the back streets of Liverpool to a comfortable life, and this journey in a company car, through artistic endeavors that helped support …

Review Of Hostiles?: The Lakota Ghost Dance And Buffalo Bill's Wild West By Sam A. Maddra & Ghost Dances And Identity: Prophetic Religion And American Indian Ethnogenesis In The Nineteenth Century By Gregory E. Smoak, Todd Kerstetter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GHOST DANCING ANEW

The history and significance of the Ghost Dance received renewed scholarly attention in 2006, as these two fine but very different works attest. Sam A. Maddra's study adds new material to the significant literature about the bestknown incarnation of the Ghost Dance, which flourished among the Lakotas and gained infamy by association with 1890's tragedy at Wounded Knee. Gregory E. Smoak's book proceeds in a much different direction by examining Ghost Dances among the Shoshones and Bannocks, along with those groups' changing identities during the late 1800s and early 1900s. Together they not only enrich our understanding …

Review Of The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, And The Making Of The Alberta-Montana Borderlands. By Sheila Mcmanus, Lissa Wadewitz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Drawing upon the writings of post-structuralists, cultural geographers, and feminist post-colonial scholars, Sheila McManus illustrates that although the West was critical to American and Canadian nation building, the late nineteenth-century Alberta-Montana border remained tenuous and challenged national consolidation on both sides of the line. Three pairs of chapters outline how Canada and the United States tried to incorporate their respective Wests into larger visions of nationhood and make the forty-ninth parallel a meaningful marker for regional residents.

The first two chapters illustrate how both governments sought to know and manage their western regions through surveys, maps and land policies. The …

"Young Poets Write What They Know" William Reed Dun Roy, Poet Of The Plains, Carrie Shipers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In a column for the Lincoln Courier, a newspaper that actively covered the city's political and artistic scenes in the mid-1890s, William Reed Dunroy writes, "Young poets write what they know; what life has taught them." If his own poetry and imaginative prose are any indication, what Dunroy himself knew best, and cared about most deeply, is the Great Plains region-its weather, landscape, and the lives of its people. Dunroy's career as a poet and a reporter began in Nebraska, and his work is most remarkable when he is writing about the place he loved.

Dunroy has not been overlooked …

Review Of Captain Lack And The Dalton Gang: The Life And Times Of A Railroad Detective By John J. Kinney, Paul T. Hietter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The evening of July 14, 1892, a train carrying a heavily-armed posse passed slowly through Adair, Indian Territory. Also on board was John J. "Captain Jack" Kinney Jr, who headed the Missouri, Kansas, and Texas {"Katy"} Railroad detectives. Their presence resulted from a tip that the Dalton gang planned to rob the Katy near Pryor Creek. Perhaps as a result of this apparent false alarm, the posse was unprepared as the train passed through Adair. It was here that the gang successfully robbed the Katy. It was also here that Kinney became "a part of history-a parenthetical person, a human …

Review Of An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration And The Farm Policy Debate By Virgil W. Dean, Kristin L. Ahlberg

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

America's second "agricultural revolution" had unintended consequences as a result of postwar prosperity. Virgil Dean offers a clear and straightforward examination of the Truman administration's attempts to devise a new farm policy and situate it within the larger context of the Fair Deal, analyzing the extent to which these attempts often complemented and challenged solutions proposed by Congress and agricultural organizations. Federal officials possessed a limited time frame during the postwar era within which to institute an agricultural program that secured fairer prices for producers, protected natural resources, minimized rural and urban conflict, and avoided the scourge of surpluses. Partisan …

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Review Of The World We Used To Live In: Remembering The Powers Of The Medicine Men By Vine Deloria Jr., Tink Tinker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This potent volume was Deloria's final gift to his readers. He completed the final editing during a stay in the hospital a few days before his passing into the spirit world of his ancestors. He had made a career out of demonstrating the greater plausibility of Indian traditions and historical memories over against the usually dismissive explanations offered by colonial white academics, missionaries, and government officials. This volume carries on that work with aplomb.

Here Deloria has collecled stories from a wide variety of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century ethnographies, stories of the wonderful accomplishments of Indian medicine men from …

Review Of Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, The Sioux, And The Panic Of 1873 By M. John Lubetkin, Carroll Engelhardt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Jay Cooke's Gamble engagingly chronicles the banker's failure in financing a transcontinental railroad built through northern forests and Plains largely unsettled by Europeans. The book details how negative publicity constricted bond sales at a critical juncture. News of construction difficulties, cost overruns, and suspected chicanery spread after 1870 as the Northern Pacific edged westward from Duluth, Minnesota, to Bismarck, Dakota Territory. Survey expeditions into the Yellowstone Valley, escorted by the United States Army, sparked Lakota Sioux resistance. George Armstrong Custer's exaggerated press accounts of these skirmishes further eroded investor confidence and frightened Cooke's partners. They forced the closure of Jay …

Review Of Between Heaven And Texas Photographs By Wyman Meinzer, Roy Flukinger

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Colors, textures, lines, shapes, and forms are all rich visual elements-and, perhaps, no more honestly open to discovery than in the seeming infinity of the heavens above. But if one stares at the sky uninterruptedly for a long time, things may seem to start to come unbuttoned. No matter what riches nature provides for the human eye or the camera lens, it is always important to recognize the human perspective in the process. By paying heed to the horizon line and constantly referencing the fact that one's feet (or the camera's tripod) are planted firmly upon the earth, Wyman Meinzer …