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Symbols Of German-Russsian Ethnic Identity On The Northern Plains, Timothy J. Kloberdanz Jan 1988

Symbols Of German-Russsian Ethnic Identity On The Northern Plains, Timothy J. Kloberdanz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the past two decades, the subject of ethnicity has provoked popular interest and a proliferation of research. Scholars from a variety of academic backgrounds have described, analyzed, and reassessed the importance of ethnic identity in our modern society. Yet in 1980, following the long-awaited appearance of theHarvard Encyclopedia of American Ethnic Groups, the basic question "What is ethnicity?" remained a perplexing one. The volume's editors admitted that "there is as yet no consensus about the precise meaning of ethnicity" since the distinguishing characteristics of ethnic groups seldom can be forced into neat conceptual categories. 1 While certain …

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Review Of Selling The Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 To 1960, Leslie T. Whipp Jan 1988

Review Of Selling The Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 To 1960, Leslie T. Whipp

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The title of this book is misleading for anyone who hasn't read the book. The book is not about the ways in which popular western fiction served to promote the West, nor even about the ways in which popular western fiction perpetuated the myth of the Wild West. The book is instead about the way the marketing of western formula fiction impinges upon the fiction; it argues that the conditions of composition, publication, and marketing exercise a shaping force on the details of the writing, and, more particularly, that the conditions of authorship for writers of popular western fiction often …

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Review Of Pahaska Tepee: Buffalo Bill's Old Hunting Lodge And Hotel, A History, 1901-1947, Joni Gilkerson Jan 1988

Review Of Pahaska Tepee: Buffalo Bill's Old Hunting Lodge And Hotel, A History, 1901-1947, Joni Gilkerson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Colonel William "Buffalo Bill" Cody's business ventures other than his Wild West' Show have received little attention from scholars. This book provides a history of one of Buffalo Bill's commercial establishments Pahaska Tepee, a hunting lodge and hotel located near the eastern boundary of Yellowstone National Park. Appropriately, the Sioux name means "Long Hair's Lodge."

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The Nebraska Capital Controversy, 1854-59, James B. Potts Jan 1988

The Nebraska Capital Controversy, 1854-59, James B. Potts

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Early in 1857 Mark W. Izard, in a letter to Senator Stephen A. Douglas, summed up the frustrations that marked his tenure as governor of Nebraska Territory. "If there is anything on earth I desire more than all others," he told the Illinois senator, "it is to make this the model territory, and my faith is that if Congress will extend her a moderate share of liberality, the sacred doctrine of popular rights will fully be vindicated in her example." "But," he continued, "the path of your humble servant is extremely narrow and thickly set with snares on every side."l …

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Review Of Hunting And Trading On The Great Plains, 1859-1875, Glen E. Lich Jan 1988

Review Of Hunting And Trading On The Great Plains, 1859-1875, Glen E. Lich

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Combining James R. Mead's published and unpublished materials, Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains is a carefully edited memoir from the Kansas prairie in the 1870s-1890s. Mead (1836-1910) ventured west with young friends who planned to look and return; he stayed. And as his life turned from the outdoors to business and politics, Mead saw a wide spectrum of the frontier. He met Jesse Chisholm and Kit Carson, learned to value Indian civilization, and lived long enough to record his memories of these experiences.

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Womens Culture In The Great Plains : An Introduction, Helen A. Moore Jan 1988

Womens Culture In The Great Plains : An Introduction, Helen A. Moore

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Women, including plains Indians, European immigrants, blacks, and Chicanas, have always been essential to the development of Great Plains culture. Bounded by the patriarchal traditions associated with "women's place" in western society, women's diverse experiences are refracted through prisms of class, race, family structure, and work to create women's cultural legacies. In March 1987, scholars and other conference participants gathered in Lincoln, Nebraska, at the eleventh annual symposium of the Center for Great Plains Studies to address the theme of women's culture.

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Review Of Edible Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide., Kathleen H. Keeler Jan 1988

Review Of Edible Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide., Kathleen H. Keeler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This wonderful and long overdue contribution to the regional literature provides a list of native edible plants of the prairie-grasslands and adjoining forest ecosystems. Kindscher is thorough and careful. She provides current and accurate scientific names of the plants as well as Indian and common names. Her detailed descriptions of the uses of the plants are taken from seventeen plains Indian tribes, from diverse settlers' journals, and in many cases from her own experiences of eating the plant. The line drawings are excellent and the helpful range maps make it easy to determine if a particular plant is likely to …

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Review Of The American Indian And The Problem Of History, Robert H. Keller Jan 1988

Review Of The American Indian And The Problem Of History, Robert H. Keller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Long before it became fashionable in the 1960s, John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, the life of an Oglala Sioux holy man, posed problems for historians and anthropologists. Questions of authenticity have been largely solved by scholars such as Raymond DeMallie, but not so the problem of whether historians can incorporate Black Elk's non-western, nonlipear concepts of the world and human affairs into their history. In short, how does a radically different native metaphysic influence writing about Indian-White relations?

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Review Of Civilizing The West: The Galts And The Development Of Western Canada, Henry C. Klassen Jan 1988

Review Of Civilizing The West: The Galts And The Development Of Western Canada, Henry C. Klassen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book,·· published five years ago in hardcover, is now available in paperback. A. A. den Otter, a professor of history at Memorial University in Newfoundland who has written extensively on western Canada, deals with Sir Alexander T. Galt, his son Elliott, and Charles A. Magrath and the economic development of the southwest corner of the prairies from the early 1880s to 1906. In systematically examining the origins and growth of the Galt enterprises, the book makes a contribution to our knowledge of the southern Alberta economy and to Alberta-Montana commercial relations.

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Review Of The Cheyenne Nation: A Social And Demographic History., Russel Lawrence Barsh Jan 1988

Review Of The Cheyenne Nation: A Social And Demographic History., Russel Lawrence Barsh

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Like every nation in the world," John Moore argues in this exceptionally candid and respectful study, "the Cheyenne have cosmopolitan origins." Building on the Cheyenne case, Moore convincingly challenges the persistent characterization of tribal societies as static "crystals" shattered by their collision with European states.

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Review Of Plains Folk: A Commonplace Of The Great Plains, Roger L. Welsch Jan 1988

Review Of Plains Folk: A Commonplace Of The Great Plains, Roger L. Welsch

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Plains Folk is a compilation of ninety-six human- interest essays written for a syndicated column published in newspapers from Texas to North Dakota. The reprinted columns deal with tidbits of history, folklore, agriculture, and humor from the plains region. The columns are brief and without documentation, as one would expect from a newspaper column.

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Review Of Mapping The North American Plains: Essays In The History Of Cartography., Donna P. Koepp Jan 1988

Review Of Mapping The North American Plains: Essays In The History Of Cartography., Donna P. Koepp

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The adventure of exploration and discovery, as well as the history of mapping, inevitably comes through in this volume of eleven scholarly contributions to the history of the cartography of the North American Plains. The 8 1/2 x 11 inch size allows for an easy-toread two column format and excellent black and white map reproductions, most of which are full page size.

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Prairie Schoolwomen, Mid-1850s To 1920s, In Iowa, Kansas, And Nebraska, Mary Hurlbut Cordier Jan 1988

Prairie Schoolwomen, Mid-1850s To 1920s, In Iowa, Kansas, And Nebraska, Mary Hurlbut Cordier

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The ideal schoolteacher of the mid-1800s was characterized by Catherine Beecher as an educated, unmarried lady who was "already qualified intellectually to teach, and possessed of missionary zeal and benevolence," she was ready to go "to the most ignorant portions of our land to raise up schools, to instruct in morals and piety, and to teach the domestic arts and virtues. I This description, as applied to the school women of Iowa, Nebraska, and Kansas from the mid-1850s to the early 1900s, omits their unique characteristics and contributions. This article seeks to redefine the prairie schoolwomen as western women, both …

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Review Of On The Santa Fe Trail, Glen E. Lich Jan 1988

Review Of On The Santa Fe Trail, Glen E. Lich

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Twelve sketches populate this pleasant little volume about overland travel between central Missouri and central New Mexico from the 1840s through the 1860s. The informants include teenagers, military and government workers, an aristocrat, a European immigrant, an agent, and a peon. These travelers tell about hardships and danger as they crossed the "vast wild plain" in the years before 1880, when the railroad finally reached Santa Fe.

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Review Of The Just Polity; Populism, Law, And Human Welfare., Peter H. Argersinger Jan 1988

Review Of The Just Polity; Populism, Law, And Human Welfare., Peter H. Argersinger

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Rejecting "political narrative" as "debilitating to historical scholarship.," Norman Pollack employs textual exegesis in this effort to construct a coherent intellectual history of Populism. Interspersing extensive quotations with his own paraphrases, elaborations, and inferences, Pollack examines a handful of Populist writings and extravagantly maintains that his work reconceptualizes both the nature and the study of Populism. After struggling through nearly 350 pages of opaque and often tumid prose, few historians will accept such claims. Even those sympathetic to this style of history, which ignores the specific political context of the documents analyzed, will worry about some issues that Pollack dismisses …

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Review Of Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard Jan 1988

Review Of Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This attractive book is perhaps the only one that has been written on the ecology of a single prairie study area; earlier classics such as J. E. Weaver's North American Prairie have dealt with North American prairies in general, and more recent titles, such as Terry Evans' Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky and Patricia Duncan's The Prairie World have typically attempted to show the often subtle and occasionally stark visual beauty of prairies, with an emphasis on color photography. By comparison, Konza Prairie approaches its subject (a protected area of about fourteen square miles in northern Kansas) as a …

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Review Of Rethinking Regionalism: John Steuart Curry And The Kansas Mural Controversy And Grant Wood: A Study In American Art And Culture., Richard W. Etulain Jan 1988

Review Of Rethinking Regionalism: John Steuart Curry And The Kansas Mural Controversy And Grant Wood: A Study In American Art And Culture., Richard W. Etulain

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the first of these two volumes, M. Sue Kendall treats the cultural contexts that helped shape the paintings of John Steuart Curry and sparked reactions to his murals at the Kansas statehouse in Topeka. Emphasizing the details of Curry's life and how they interlocked with national, historical, and political happenings between 1937 and 1942, Kendall focuses particularly on the ideological and cultural attitudes that embroiled Curry, newspaper editors, and thousands of Kansans in the mural controversy.

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Review Of Cather's Kitchens: Foodways In Literature And Life., John P. Anders Jan 1988

Review Of Cather's Kitchens: Foodways In Literature And Life., John P. Anders

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As a cookbook, Cather's Kitchens is unexpectedly delightful. As a commentary on Cather's work, the Welsches could not have selected a more appropriate subject, as domestic art for Cather was art of the highest order. The authors expand upon Cather's domesticity by interpreting foodways as a pervasive motif in her plains fiction. For them, understanding Cather means understanding her food.

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Review Of Closing The Frontier: Radical Response In Oklahoma, 1883-1923, Garin Burbank Jan 1988

Review Of Closing The Frontier: Radical Response In Oklahoma, 1883-1923, Garin Burbank

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Any historian declaring his commitment to the tradition of Frederick Jackson Turner must assume that he will encounter controversy and challenge. In Turner's own essays, and in all the durable arguments provoked by his grand thesis, the precise meaning of the rubbery term frontier has been a matter of much confusion and difficulty. John Thompson has made a fresh attempt to use Turner's theory to explain the spontaneity and effervescence of the agrarian and labor insurgencies so strikingly present in "progressive" Oklahoma.

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Review Of Prairie: Images Of Ground And Sky, Margaret A. Mackichan Jan 1988

Review Of Prairie: Images Of Ground And Sky, Margaret A. Mackichan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Prairie is the unlikely yet rather successful marriage of what a prairie looks like to a scientist and feels like to an artist. The sixtytwo photographs, nine of which are black and white, are . square in format and superbly printed in Japan. The imagery is divided among scientific illustrations of native grasses, insects, or mammals; expanses of sky and cloud or expanses of earth seen aerially; and landscapes. In spite of the diversity of intent and viewpoint, a sense of continuity and flow is achieved.

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Review Of The Cartography Of North America, 1500-1800, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1988

Review Of The Cartography Of North America, 1500-1800, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The main attraction of this stunning book is the series of 171 full color reproductions of many of the most important maps of North America fashioned by cartographers from 1500 to 1800. Each plate is accompanied by a brief description. The book also includes brief introductory essays on the history of cartography, the production of old maps, and a survey of North American exploration. These chapters include additional illustrations, many in color.

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"There Is Some Splendid Scenery" Womens Responses To The Great Plains Landscape, Julie Roy Jeffrey Jan 1988

"There Is Some Splendid Scenery" Womens Responses To The Great Plains Landscape, Julie Roy Jeffrey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the decades of exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West, travelers and emigrants encountered a new kind of landscape on the Great Plains. Aside from dramatic geological formations like Courthouse Rock, this landscape lacked many of the visual qualities conventionally associated with natural beauty in the nineteenth century. "It may enchant the imagination for a moment to look over the prairies and plains as far as the eye can reach," Sarah Raymond wrote in her diary in 1865, "still such a view is tedious and monotonous. It can in no wise produce that rapturing delight, that pleasing variety of …

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Development Of The Appropriation Docterine: Adapting Water Allcoation Policies To Semiarid Environs, J. David Aiken Jan 1988

Development Of The Appropriation Docterine: Adapting Water Allcoation Policies To Semiarid Environs, J. David Aiken

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

One hallmark of economic development, and indeed of civilization itself, may be found in the rules men devise to order their access to resources. When ambitious men began to develop the West, they found English common law deficient in many respects. It failed to provide workable rules among men as they struggled to get, develop, and use water where water was relatively scarce and often vital to life itself. So new laws and new institutions had to be developed. They are still developing. 1

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Review Of Emily: The Diary Of A Hard-Worked Woman, Alice Hall Petry Jan 1988

Review Of Emily: The Diary Of A Hard-Worked Woman, Alice Hall Petry

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Diaries are among the most unpredictable of literary genres: they can be fascinating, vivid renderings of what life was truly like during key periods in history, or they can be oddly flat, even tedious affairs-especially when they deal with the daily routines of obscure lives. Some diaries, such as Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman, manage somehow to be both. Emily Louisa Rood, born in Michigan in 1843, was raised in middle-class surroundings and thus accustomed to some of the finer things in western life, including her own home and her own horse and buggy. But after bearing …

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Review Of The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins., Robert Nespor Jan 1988

Review Of The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins., Robert Nespor

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Karl Schlesier contends that the Cheyennes (or, as he prefers, the Tsistsistas, excluding the Suhtai branch of Northern Cheyennes) made their "perfect adaptation" to the northern Plains long before the 1700s. Indeed, he argues that the T sistsistas emerged as an ethnic group on the Plains about 500 B.C., attaining an identity through observances of a ceremony, the Massaum, which continued to be celebrated into the early twentieth century. The Massaum is represented as having constituted the set of sacred relations between the people and the universe. With respect to the plains environment in particular, Schlesier represents the Massaum as …

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The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge Jan 1988

The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although the words Great Plains imply a physical region, they have been increasingly used to describe a distinctive set of cultural traits and values. The tone was set in 1931 when Walter Prescott Webb argued that attitudes and land uses brought to the Plains from humid lands would fail. Aridity, he said, was the central fact of existence in this place; it demanded a new approach to life. 1

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Review Of Ghost Towns Of Texas, Suzanne Lindau Jan 1988

Review Of Ghost Towns Of Texas, Suzanne Lindau

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T. Lindsay Baker, curator of agriculture and technology in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, brings back to life eighty-eight Texas ghost towns. In describing each town, Baker relates its founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. In addition, for each townsite he includes a map and full directions for reaching it.

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Ethnicity, Religion, And Gender: The Women Of Block, Kansas, 1868-1940, Carol K. Coburn Jan 1988

Ethnicity, Religion, And Gender: The Women Of Block, Kansas, 1868-1940, Carol K. Coburn

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Ethnicity, religion, and gender shape our past, providing a richness and texture to individual and group experience. This experience creates identities and communities that in tum educate the young and ensure the transmission of values, beliefs, and culture across generations. The women of Block, Kansas, provide an opportunity to examine the complex relationship of ethnicity, religion, and gender. Beginning in the late 1860s, this German Lutheran enclave used its ethnic heritage and its religious doctrine to create a separate, distinct community in south central Miami County, Kansas. Trinity Lutheran Church and School served as focal points in the development of …

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Structure Of Agriculture And Women's Culture In The Great Plains, Cornella Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora Jan 1988

Structure Of Agriculture And Women's Culture In The Great Plains, Cornella Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T he family farm has prevailed as a bastion of petty capitalism in the Great Plains. Although capital and labor are highly differentiated in the larger society, they are combined in the family production unit in Great Plains agriculture. In addition to being the economic base for much of the Great Plains from the settlement period onward, the family farm provided a cultural base from which a series of values emerged. Women were important in reproducing this culture that tended to stress agrarian values and the primacy of the family as building blocks for a community based on the values …

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Review Of Life Of Bishop Machebeuf., Lance Larsen Jan 1988

Review Of Life Of Bishop Machebeuf., Lance Larsen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Original editions of this obscure diocesan biography, the major source of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, are all but inaccessible. The present reprint, an exact facsimile of the 1908 version, introduces to a wider audience the lively and memorable Joseph P. Machebeuf, first vicar apostolic of Colorado and Utah. To aid readers, the editors have included a bibliography, an index, and marginal asterisks pointing interested readers to a special notes section.

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