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Review Of The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History By Catherine Price, Matthew G. Hannah

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a thorough history of official relations between the Oglala Lakota and the US Government during the mid-nineteenth century, with a special eye to the impact of these relations on the political structures that had been characteristic of Oglala society before significant white contact. The book's structure is straightforward: an introductory chapter draws on early ethnographic data and related scholarship to layout the political anatomy of Oglala society in the early nineteenth century, while the following six chapters cover Oglala-white relations from 1841 to 1879. Each of the six historical chapters not only recounts important events but also …

Review Of Cheyennes At Dark Water Creek: The Last Fight Of The Red River War. By William Y. Chalfant, James Briscoe

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

William Chalfant presents a fairly detailed and objective history of the attack on Little Bull's encampment on Sappa Creek in 1875. Father Powell, an honorary Peace Chief of the Cheyenne Tribe and prominent Cheyenne historian, praises Chalfant's efforts in presenting an impartial and objective recounting of the events. More detached readers, however, will find a vein of sympathy in Chalfant's writing for the Cheyenne side of the story.

Chalfant provides a detailed background of the events leading up to and surrounding the Cheyenne involvement in the Buffalo or Red River Wars of 1872-74. This was a period of raiding and …

Review Of Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers And The Medal Of Honor, 1870-1898 By Frank N. Schubert, Cornel Pewewardy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Copyright 1998 by the Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska- Lincoln

Review Of Larry Mcmurtry And The West: An Ambivalent Relationship By Mark Busby, Clay Reynolds

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In this thorough look at McMurtry's canon through 1995, Mark Busby asserts that the novelist deliberately escaped from his southwestern roots and Texas's mythic past, then made a spiritual and triumphant return to them. But Busby insists that the novelist's return to western themes and stories represents not a "coming home" but rather a continuing ambivalence that is worked out to some degree in every work he has completed, regardless of setting.

Beginning with McMurtry's youth in Archer City, Busby explores McMurtry's attempts to break out of the "minor regional novelist" mold. Busby begins with McMurtry's earliest writings, then searches …

Review Of Wounded Knee Ii By Rolland Dewing, Todd Kerstetter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The occupation of Wounded Knee, South Dakota, in 1973 by members of the American Indian Movement (AIM) and Lakota supporters and their seventy-one day standoff against the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Pine Ridge Reservation police provides a rich medium to study social movements, tribal politics, and federal policy. Its complexity, controversial nature, and relative temporal proximity have contributed to the "second Wounded Knee" receiving less attention than it deserves. In Wounded Knee II, Rolland Dewing has provided a serviceable foray into the event’s complexities. Dewing, Professor of History at Chadron State College in Nebraska, long-time resident of the …

Review Of Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections Of Laban S. Records By Laban S. Records, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Cowboy memoirs are not all that rare nor are they all that common. Thus, the reflections of Laban S. Records about his life working on the cattle trails and ranches of south central Kansas and northern Oklahoma during the last twenty years of the nineteenth century are of some inherent value. He worked as a freighter, a cowpuncher, a line rider, and a foreman. The book begins in the 1870s with memories of freighting on the Santa Fe Trail and concludes with Records converting to "the Gospel of Christ in its fullness" at a Methodist revival meeting in Kansas. It …

Review Of To Change Them Forever: Indian Education At The Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893- 1920 By Clyde Ellis, David W. Adams

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A central element of late nineteenth-century Indian policy was the use of schools as instruments of forced acculturation. Toward this end, a three-tiered system of education emerged consisting of day schools, reservation boarding schools, and off-reservation boarding schools. In recent years historians have paid increased attention to the educational story, with most of the focus being on schools of the off-reservation variety. What has been missing is a first-rate study of a reservation school. Thanks to Clyde Ellis's exceptionally fine study of the Rainy Mountain boarding school, we now have one.

One of the most distinctive aspects of this book …

Review Of No End Of Grief: Indian Residential Schools In Canada By Agnes Grant, Celia Haig-Brown

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Agnes Grant's work is a useful and interesting addition to the literature on residential schools in Canada. As a clearly written synthesis of a selection of existing works, it provides an introduction to the schools which would be useful as an undergraduate class reading. The book's thirteen chapters are divided into four sections: Introduction, History, Conditions, and Consequences. Each section is introduced with a tantalizing photograph of the former Birtle Residential School taken in 1990. These prompted me to make comparisons to schools that I know and left me wanting to know more about Birtle.

The text follows the increasingly …

Review Of Dancing On Common Ground: Tribal Cultures And Alliances On The Southern Plains By Howard Meredith, Victoria Lindsay Levine

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Howard Meredith has produced an ambitious and thoughtful study of cultural interaction and exchange among Southern Plains tribes in Dancing on Common Ground. The project emerged from discussions in an American Indian Studies course taught at the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma. Meredith demonstrates that the concept and practice of alliance-between individuals, between tribes, and between tribes and larger environmental and spiritual systems-has dominated Southern Plains cultural perspectives.

Using ceremonial dance as a metaphor for native systems of governance, the author examines the ideas of reciprocity and cooperative interaction in Southern Plains myth and religion. He even …

Review Of Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks By Carol Roark, James Wright-Steely

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Few substantial cities in the United States can boast of such an impressive aggregate of preserved pre-Second World War architectural wealth as Fort Worth, Texas. Downtown "Cow town" is largely intact, featuring block after block of continuous shop fronts, brick streets, and terra cotta details scraping the sky. Business and nightlife abound in this vintage precinct, whose century-old courthouse still houses county courts. A secondary downtown at the Stockyards Historic District is past its prime as a sprawling slaughterhouse but today is the thriving destination for herds of tourists. Even close-in historic neighborhoods remain vibrant, although their occupants long ago …

Review Of Building South Dakota: A Historical Survey Of The State's Architecture To 1945 By David Erpestad And David Wood, Elaine Freed

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

South Dakota's architectural legacy bears close resemblance to that of other prairie and Plains states, with one colorful exception: the use of the region's reddish stones, quartzite and sandstone. These bright pink rocks bring a distinctive glow to communities in which they are concentrated, notably Dell Rapids, Sioux Falls, and Hot Springs. How fortunate that this material was locally available and affordable at a time of extensive building around the turn of the century when talented designers Wallace L. Dow and Henry Schwartz put their stamp on the region's architecture.

David Erpestad and David Wood begin their survey with several …

Review Of Roadside History Of Wyoming By Candy Moulton, Duane A. Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Wyoming is a large state with a history, geography, and reputation to match. It takes a person with a great deal of vim and vigor to tackle a Roadside History of Wyoming. Third generation Wyoming native, writer, and journalist Candy Moulton took on the task with an enthusiasm and interest that comes out in almost every page of the book.

She covers the whole state, divided into five parts, with a mixture of history, legend, stories, and undoubted appreciation for her beloved Wyoming. The reader will meet a wide cast of individuals who have traveled through or lived there. …

Review Of Texas Oil, American Dreams: A Study Of The Texas Independent Producers And Royalty Owners Association. By Lawrence Goodwyn, George N. Green

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is a history of the independent oilmen of Texas, whose money financed the book. The great oil discoveries in Texas-Anthony Lucas's at Spindletop, 1901, and C. M. "Dad" Joiner's in the East Texas field, 1930, among others-were made and developed by small operators because the major companies did not believe the oil was there. Many farmers' lands remained unleased until oil had already been discovered nearby. Thus oil production and royalties, especially in Texas, the author asserts, were "massively democratized."

Eventually the small operators organized the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association, whose policies sometimes deviated from those …

Review Of Willa Cather And The Myth Of American Migration By Joseph Urgo, Becky Faber

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If we think of America simply as a land of migration and settlement, we are missing the broader picture, the one Joseph Urgo draws so clearly. Urgo analyzes more than a westward movement of settlers, concentrating instead on the concepts of the movement of ideas and cultures between a variety of old worlds and . new, and making the point that Willa Cather "is a comprehensive resource for the demarcation of an empire of migration in U.S. culture." As he explains, his interest in Cather's work lies in "the aesthetics of migration." Willa Cather certainly knew migration, from her move …

Review Of Ghost Settlement On The Prairie: A Biography Of Thurman, Kansas By Joseph V. Hickey, James R. Shortridge

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

To label a book as local history is often to discredit it as solid scholarship. No one should make this mistake in the case of Joseph Hickey's fine study of a tiny settlement in the Flint Hills of Kansas. Hickey, in fact, displays here a remarkable combination of deep local knowledge and theoretical underpinnings. His work sheds important light on what William Least Heat-Moon has called "the perils of excessive individualism," that most American of processes in which community life is gradually undermined by the forces of large-scale capitalism. Concurrently, Hickey also provides critical new information on the evolution of …

Review Of Alias Frank Canton By Robert K. Dearment, Phil Roberts

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert K. DeArment renders an engaging, readable portrait of Frank Canton. In the course of his research, he uncovered numerous previously unused sources which help to explain how this former Texas convict could "change sides" and become a legendary lawman in Wyoming and Oklahoma.

Born Joe Horner and sentenced to the Texas State Prison in Huntsville for robbery under that name in 1877, he escaped from a work gang after two years, turning up in Wyoming with a new name, Frank Canton, and soon a new occupation-lawman. After service as sheriff of Johnson County, Canton threw in with the so-called …

Review Of The Hog Ranches Of Wyoming: Liquor, Lust, And Lies Under Sagebrush Skies By Larry K. Brown, Rebecca Howard

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas by Larry L. King and Peter Masterson, the titled place of ill-repute was nicknamed the Chicken Ranch. In Wyoming locals referred to such places as Hog Ranches. Established to supply wine, women, and song to military outposts in the nineteenth century, the history of the Hog Ranches has received little attention until now. It is the story of these dens which Larry K. Brown pursues here. The book has the cover of a dime store novel and a title that draws immediate attention. For these reasons readers might approach the work looking for …

Review Of Our Hearts Fell To The Ground: Plains Indian Views Of How The West Was Lost Edited With An Introduction By Colin G. Calloway, Emily Greenwald

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The latest entry in the Bedford Series in History and Culture combines primary documents with Colin Calloway's contextual commentary to produce a readable, informative glimpse into Plains Indians' experiences in the nineteenth century, easily accessible to the non-specialist. The documents (mostly textual with some visual sources) are drawn from a spectrum of observers from a wide variety of tribes. The volume lends itself nicely to teaching, particularly because Calloway ably instructs readers how to dissect complex historical sources.

Following a quick survey of Plains history, Calloway ends his introduction by discussing the various types of sources compiled in the book …

Review Of Our Landlady By L. Frank Baum, John E. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It is widely known that L. Frank Baum spent several years in South Dakota before moving to Chicago, where he wrote the Oz books that made him famous. And since the publication of Henry M. Littlefield's American Quarterly article in 1964 suggesting that the Populist movement of the 1890s inspired many of the characters and scenes in The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, it has been widely assumed that Baum drew directly upon his South Dakota experience while writing his beloved popular classic. Yet no one until now has systematically investigated the attitudes and opinions that Baum held while in Dakota, …

The Great Depression Two Kansas Diaries, C. Robert Haywood

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the decade of the 1930s the nation plunged from prosperity and great expectations into a sharp decline that adversely affected a greater percentage of people than any economic crisis before or since. During the Great Depression 25 percent of the nation's work force became unemployed. No state was unaffected, and both cities and farms suffered, although each section of the economy displayed a different set of problems. For most urban dwellers the extent and depth of the crisis was measured by employment. Studs Terkel found the clearest, most succinct definition of the Depression when a once unemployed laborer said: …

Review Of The Prairie Schoolhouse By John Martin Campbell, Sally Salisbury Stoddard

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Martin Campbell, in this fine book consisting of sixty black and white, well conceived photographic plates and explicative text, has created an evocative picture of the prairie schoolhouses, the age from which they sprang, their environment, and the people for whom these formulaic structures fulfilled many functions. Older folks who grew up in the largely poor, rural areas of the vast American prairies will easily identify with Tony Hillerman's anecdote in the foreword, and they will surely experience a deep nostalgia and a profound sadness for the decay of the schoolhouse concept as well as the decay of the …

Title And Contents- Winter 1998

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

WINTER 1998 VOL. 18 NO.1

CONTENTS

THE LUBBOCK CHAMBER OF COMMERCE, THE NEW DEAL, AND THE ROPESVILLE RESETTLEMENT PROJECT William Clayson

THE GREAT DEPRESSION: TWO KANSAS DIARIES C. Robert Haywood

HUMANITARIANS ON THE FRONTIER: EXAMPLES FROM

NORTHEASTERN LOGAN COUNTY, OKLAHOMA TERRITORY Leslie Hewes

Book Reviews

Writings in Indian History, 1985-1990

Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost

The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History ......... 48 Now the Wolf Has Come: The Creek Nation in the Civil War

Custer and the Cheyennes: George Armstrong Custer's Winter Campaign on the …

Giants On The Plains: Grain Elevators And The Making Of Enid, Oklahoma, Blake Gumprecht

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Driving west from Interstate 35 on US Highway 64, the grain elevators of Enid, Oklahoma, first become visible when the town is still twenty miles away. Disappearing and reappearing behind gently rolling hills, it is initially unclear what they might be. Even when they are little more than white specks on the horizon, they are plainly too large and numerous to represent some distant farmstead. They are too long to suggest the form of a far-off skyscraper. Little by little they grow larger in the windshield, and as the stony hills begin to give way to the wheat-covered plains of …

Index- Fall 1998

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Index pp. 361-368 (8 pages)

Notes And News- Fall 1998

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

1999 CATHER SYMPOSIUM

MISSOURI VALLEY HISTORY CONFERENCE

CLAY EXHIBITS

NEW FELLOWSHIP

RURAL WOMEN MEET

Table Of Contents- Fall 1998

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

Volume 18/ Number 4 / Fall 1998

CARNIVAL AND CEREMONY AT WRIGHT MORRIS'S LONE TREE HOTEL

GIANTS ON THE PLAINS: GRAIN ELEVATORS AND THE MAKING OF ENID, OKLAHOMA

SEXUALITY, GENDER, AND IDENTITY IN GREAT PLAINS HISTORY AND MYTH

BOOK REVIEWS

NOTES AND NEWS

INDEX

Review Of My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections Of The Depression By Eddie Stimpson Jr., Alwyn Barr

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This volume recalls experiences during the 1930s and 1940s on farms in the Plano, Texas, area north of Dallas. Frances Wells, a local Plano historian, helped Eddie Stimpson organize into a book his written memories, intended originally for descendants. In the introduction James W. Byrd, a literary scholar, suggests the influence of African American folk culture on the writing style and on some activities described in the volume, such as yard sweeping. Popular culture phrases also appear occasionally, and the author's phonetic spelling has been retained throughout.

After an opening summary of his life, Stimpson presents short chapters on a …

Review Of For God And Mammon: Evangelicals And Entrepreneurs, Masters And Slaves In Territorial Kansas, 1854-1860 By Gunja Sengupta, Peter Knupfer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is the first detailed examination of conditions in Kansas Territory in almost forty years. Although library shelves are crowded with dramatic accounts of border warfare, until now few scholars have ventured into the manuscript and census materials to profile all the groups represented among migrants to the territory during this turbulent period. Gunja SenGupta has produced an intriguing and well researched portrait of life in the territory which will invite future scholars to delve even further into the subject.

SenGupta argues that the free state and slave state forces in Kansas acted out of mixed motives with mixed results. …

Review Of Sixty Miles From Contentment: Traveling The Nineteenth-Century American Interior By M. H. Dunlop, Jon Lauck

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

One of the last unexplored areas of the globe, Dunlop explains, was the American interior. Unable to make the exotic journey to unexplored areas like the polar icecaps, world travelers set out for America. What they saw-what their impressions were-is the subject of Dunlop's book. She uses 300 travel records, most written by Europeans, as representative of the travelers' impressions. The study is thematically organized around such issues as impressions of Native Americans and reactions to the food and food service of the interior; it is rich in synecdoche and benefits from Dunlop's masterful weaving together of various similar and …

Review Of Dutch Farmer In The Missouri Valley: The Life And Letters Of Ulbe Eringa, 1866-1950 By Brian W. Beltman, Royden Loewen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

How large should an immigrant community be to shed light effectively on the wider immigrant experience? This is a subject of frequent debate. Here is an excellent study of immigration to the American Midwest based on a single person, a Dutch farmer, Ulbe Eringa. And for the better part of the book, Eringa himself speaks through memoir and letter, translated from the Dutch by a daughter.

The narration and reproduced texts recreate Eringa's life story. It begins with his birth in 1866 to a dairy farming family in western Friesland and continues through his early formative years in Calvinist schools …