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Review Of Perilous Voyages: Czech And English Immigrants To Texas In The 1870s By Lawrence H. Konecny And Clinton Machann, Eva Eckert
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Perilous Voyages exemplifies the fact that one can learn much about immigration by focusing on specific journeys. As Konecny and Machann show, this focus enables readers to view immigration as a set of complex decisions of troubled individuals rather than as a movement of masses. The authors have unearthed critical historical materials that shed new light on Texas immigration. The book communicates not only valuable facts but also excitement over discovering previously unpublished materials of narrative interest and historical power: Texas travel adventure in the diary of William Wright (April-May 1879), oral history about the voyage of thirty-six Moravians (1873), …
Review Of Deep In The Heart: The Texas Tendency In American Politics By James Mcenteer, Gary A. Keith
Review Of Deep In The Heart: The Texas Tendency In American Politics By James Mcenteer, Gary A. Keith
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
George W. Bush has spawned a cottage industry of publications about his success in politics. One of the latest entries is James McEnteer's Deep in the Heart: The Texas Tendency in American Politics. In the 1990s, McEnteer wrote Fighting Words about firebrand journalists who challenged and shook up the Texas Establishment. Now McEnteer has penned his own fighting words about Bush's America. Like others, McEnteer retraces the Bushes' shady business deals. But it is the Alamo, rather than Bush, that serves as McEnteer's touchstone. McEnteer argues that the myth of the Alamo reflects a deep-seated cultural Texanism that has …
Optimum Windbreak Spacing In Great Plains Agriculture, Glenn A. Helmers, James Brandle
Optimum Windbreak Spacing In Great Plains Agriculture, Glenn A. Helmers, James Brandle
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Integer programming techniques were used to determine the optimal windbreak pattern for corn and soybean production over a 70-year planning horizon. Field windbreaks provide numerous benefits to agricultural producers, including increased crop yields, erosion control, and wildlife habitat. However, windbreaks involve costs of establishment, maintenance, removal, localized yield reductions, and a loss of income resulting from cropland dedicated to windbreaks. As with any farm investment, windbreaks must be economically viable if they are to be adopted by producers. In addition to the direct costs of establishment, maintenance, and removal, yield increases must be large enough to replace opportunity costs of …
Nebraska’S Tiger Beetle, Cincindela Nebraskana Casey, Mathew L. Brust, W. W. Hoback
Nebraska’S Tiger Beetle, Cincindela Nebraskana Casey, Mathew L. Brust, W. W. Hoback
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Named for the state where it was discovered, Cicindela Nebraskana Casey is among the rarest insects in Nebraska. Although this beetle was described in 1909, only nine specimens had been collected in Nebraska in the 95 years before we conducted surveys in 2003 and 2004 in the extreme western portion of the state. Because of scant records, little was known about the Nebraska populations relative to populations of the species in the remainder of the western United States. We discovered two populations in Sioux and Scotts Bluff counties. We review the taxonomy of this species and document its habitat and …
Preliminary Assessment Of Sand Dune Stability Along A Bioclimatic Gradient, North Central And Northwestern Oklahoma, Carlos Cordova, Jess Porter, Kenneth Lepper, Regina Kalchgruber, Gregory Scott
Preliminary Assessment Of Sand Dune Stability Along A Bioclimatic Gradient, North Central And Northwestern Oklahoma, Carlos Cordova, Jess Porter, Kenneth Lepper, Regina Kalchgruber, Gregory Scott
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Sandhills of eolian origin and currently active dunes in Oklahoma are located mainly on the northern side of the main rivers. Their longitudinal distribution spans a gradient of annual precipitation ranging from 914 mm in the east to 403 mm in the west. Vegetation types along this gradient include cross-timbers woodlands in the east and sand-sage and short grasses in the west. The information presented here is a preliminary assessment of sand dune dynamics and morphology, soils, and vegetation as the basis for an ongoing study on past and present processes of sand dune stability. For this purpose, six areas …
Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - News And Notes
Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - News And Notes
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
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Breeding Bird Communities In Riparian Forests Along The Central Platte River, Nebraska, Craig Davis
Breeding Bird Communities In Riparian Forests Along The Central Platte River, Nebraska, Craig Davis
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The Platte River has changed from a nearly treeless prairie river to a heavily forested river. These habitat changes have likely benefited many woodland birds, but have harmed other migratory birds such as cranes. In response to this impact on migratory birds, conservation groups implemented a tree-clearing program to enhance habitat for these species. This practice is not without controversy because of concerns about its effect on woodland birds. The goal of this study was to determine the composition and abundance of breeding birds that use these forests and discuss the potential impacts of tree clearing on woodland birds. Surveys …
Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - Frontmatter
Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - Frontmatter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
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Language Skills Of Elementary-Aged Children With Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Gregory Benner
Language Skills Of Elementary-Aged Children With Emotional And Behavioral Disorders, Gregory Benner
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
A cross-sectional design was used to assess the language skills and prevalence of language disorders among 84 randomly selected public school children (K-5) receiving special education services for emotional and behavioral disorders (EBD). The mean receptive language standard score fell in the nonclinical range, whereas the mean total and expressive standard scores fell in the clinical range. The prevalence rates of total, expressive, and receptive disorders among children with EBD were 54%, 55%, and 42%, respectively. Approximately two-thirds of children experienced a language disorder (i.e., total, expressive, and/or receptive). Half of those experiencing a language disorder met clinical criteria in …
Becoming Neighbors Or Remaining Strangers? Latinos And Residential Segregation In The Heartland, Ana-Mari Gonzalez Wahl, Steven Gunkel, Bennie Shobe, Jr.
Becoming Neighbors Or Remaining Strangers? Latinos And Residential Segregation In The Heartland, Ana-Mari Gonzalez Wahl, Steven Gunkel, Bennie Shobe, Jr.
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Debate persists about the dynamics of segregation and their consequences for Latinos as well as others. This paper draws from the most recent census to examine these dynamics and their consequences in three midwestern cities: Omaha, Lincoln, and Lexington. By shifting the focus to new centers of Latino population growth, we clarify the complexities of Hispanic segregation across the United States. Our findings extend and inform previous debates in several ways. Using the index of dissimilarity, we find evidence of rising segregation in Omaha and Lincoln while Lexington appears a model of integration, at least at first glance. Class factors, …
Family Predictors Of Well-Functioning Midwestern Adolescents, Douglas A. Abbott, Scott Hall, William Meredith
Family Predictors Of Well-Functioning Midwestern Adolescents, Douglas A. Abbott, Scott Hall, William Meredith
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The purpose of our project was to investigate well-functioning adolescents to identify familial influences that may account for their positive developmental outcomes and healthy life choices. A family systems perspective was used to conceptualize this project. More than 300 teenagers were surveyed about family influences on adolescent outcomes. Results indicated that teen religiosity, parental warmth, parental monitoring, and a low occurrence of stressful life events were related to teen depression, participation in risky behaviors, and parental-teen conflict. General conclusions were drawn about the importance of the family environment on teen behavior and the usefulness of a systems point of view …
Assessing The Economic Development Of Nature Tourism, Nancy Hodur, F. Larry Leistritz, Kara Wolfe
Assessing The Economic Development Of Nature Tourism, Nancy Hodur, F. Larry Leistritz, Kara Wolfe
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Nature tourism is increasingly being considered as an economic development opportunity for rural areas of the Great Plains. As rural communities seek to develop nature tourism, questions regarding the attributes and interests of the nature tourist arise. This study sought to address these questions through a survey of participants at a birding festival held in central North Dakota in June 2004. The festival participants were predominately from outside the local area, and most of these visitors were from out of state. The festival participants were middle-aged and highly educated, and had relatively high income. The visitors spent an average of …
Review Of Three Nations, One Place: A Comparative Ethnohistory Of Social Change Among The Comanches And Hasinais During Spain's Colonial Era, 1689- 1821 By Martha Mccollough, Maria Wade
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Few works on the Southern Plains have taken a decisively theoretical approach to the understanding of the relationships between the European colonizing nations and Native American groups and the mutual effects of contact. Building on previous scholarly works, this book provides a good synthetic and analytic review of the theoretical approaches and models previously applied to Plains studies, but furthers the discourse by zooming in on the Hasinai and the Comanche. Although this is problematic because neither the Comanche nor certainly the "Hasinai" groups can be treated wholesale or in terms of their long-term trajectories, McCollough's use of World Systems …
Review Of The Prehistory Of Texas Edited By Timothy K. Perttula, James Bruseth
Review Of The Prehistory Of Texas Edited By Timothy K. Perttula, James Bruseth
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The Prehistory of Texas is an attempt to synthesize work on the prehistoric archaeology of the Southern Great Plains and surrounding areas of Texas. Sixteen archeologists contributed to the book, which is divided into six parts. The first chapter of part one provides the necessary cultural-historical and environmental background for the chapters that follow. The second chapter is a long, in-depth, well-researched treatment of the Paleoindian presence in Texas.
Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - Backmatter
Great Plains Research 15:2 (Fall 2005) - Backmatter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Instructions to Authors
Review Of Playas Of The Great Plains By Loren M. Smith, James H. Locklear
Review Of Playas Of The Great Plains By Loren M. Smith, James H. Locklear
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Loren M. Smith and his students at Texas Tech have been studying the ecology of playas for two decades. Playas of the Great Plains is the fruit of that work.
Playas (or playa lakes) are shallow, circular basins that hold water following rainstorms but usually dry up later in the growing season. These unique, ephemeral wetlands occur in arid and semi -arid environments around the world, but nowhere more abundantly than on the tablelands of the Southern Great Plains of North America.
Review Of Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art Of The Black Hills Country By Linea Sundstrom, Kevin Callahan
Review Of Storied Stone: Indian Rock Art Of The Black Hills Country By Linea Sundstrom, Kevin Callahan
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
As a "place of power" for several millennia, the Black Hills region contains a wealth of rock art, ranging from possibly Paleoindian and early Archaic examples to the carvings of members of the Custer expedition. In Storied Stone, Linea Sundstrom-a private consultant in archaeology, historic resource management, and ethnohistory with a wide range of interests and an impressive depth of knowledge of the Lakota, Cheyenne, Mandan, Hidatsa, Ponca, eastern Dakota, and other Native American cultures-has produced a major new work in which she effortlessly handles and interweaves the archaeological evidence, historical documents, and ethnographic accounts relevant to her subject …
Review Of Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of The Great Plains And Lewis And Clark And The Geology Of Nebraska And Parts Of Adjacent States By R. F. Diffendal, Jr., And Anne P. Diffendal, Harmon Maher, Jr.
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
When it comes to science in general, and the geology of the Great Plains in particular, there is arguably an imbalance between the wealth of material written for experts and the relative paucity written for the general public. These publications help correct that imbalance at a time when the various Lewis and Clark celebrations create an especially receptive and engaged audience.
Great Plains Research 15 - Annual Index 2005
Great Plains Research 15 - Annual Index 2005
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Annual Index
Review Of Conserving Biodiversity In Agricultural Landscapes: Model-Based Planning Tools Edited By Robert K. Swihart And Jeffrey E. Moore, Robert Sopuck
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Despite its title, this book is more about advice to Public sector authorities on how to plan housing and industrial developments in agricultural regions than about "conserving biodiversity in agricultural landscapes." The hook presents models of "nature-based planning" and assumes that in jurisdictions where legislated planning mechanisms are absent, biodiversity is automatically threatened. It is a book for those who see land use planning as the only answer to difficult landscape issues.
There is little appreciation that most agricultural lands are privately owned and inhabited by people who subscribe to the values and cultural norms or agrarian societies. These societies …
Review Of Farming With The Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity On Farms And Ranches Text By Daniel Imhoff, Design By Roberto Carra, David Van Tassel
Review Of Farming With The Wild: Enhancing Biodiversity On Farms And Ranches Text By Daniel Imhoff, Design By Roberto Carra, David Van Tassel
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Cross a grain crop with a wild perennial, and we frequently get a big, bold plant that combines many of the best features of its parents. Farming with the Wild is a cross between a coffee-table book, a travelogue, and an agroecology textbook. A big, bold hybrid, its layout and photography are elegant and striking. The text is information-dense, yet largely free of technical jargon. Unlike its cousin, editor Andrew Kimbrell's Fatal Harvest (2002), this is an upbeat book focusing on success stories rather than the grim global outlook for both agriculture and wildlife.
The first sections chronicle Dan Imhoff …
Review Of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals And The Transformation Of The Rural Landscape By Terence J Centner, Laura L. Jackson
Review Of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals And The Transformation Of The Rural Landscape By Terence J Centner, Laura L. Jackson
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The shift from integrated crop and livestock farms to confined animal feeding operations (CAFOs) in the last thirty years requires better regulatory policies, better enforcement, greater incentives for farmers to prevent pollution, and modification of some “right to farm” legislation. This is the thesis of Empty Pastures: Confined Animals and the Transformation of the Rural Landscape by Terence Centner, a professor of agricultural law and economics at the University of Georgia.
Predictors Of Earnings For Mexican Americans In The Midwest, Rosalie Torres Stone, Bandana Purkayastha
Predictors Of Earnings For Mexican Americans In The Midwest, Rosalie Torres Stone, Bandana Purkayastha
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Much of the research on Mexican Americans and earnings has focused on either national samples or on states such as California and Texas. Even though Mexican Americans have become more visible in the Midwest, we know very little about their earnings in the Midwest. Using an individual level sample consisting of data on 1,807 Mexican Americans from the 2000 Integrated 1% Public Use Microdata Series, we examine the extent to which human capital, family status and industry concentration predict earnings. Multivariate analyses reveal that education and years in the U.S. are positively associated with earnings. However, Mexican American women yield …
Impacts Of Business Development In Rural Communities, Cheryl Devuyst, F. Larry Leistritz, Angela Schepp
Impacts Of Business Development In Rural Communities, Cheryl Devuyst, F. Larry Leistritz, Angela Schepp
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The purpose of this study was to examine the local socioeconomic impacts of new economic development initiatives in North Dakota’s rural (nonmetropolitan) communities. The analysis utilized interview, survey, and secondary data from four communities with recently developed agricultural processing plants, three with manufacturing and/or explored services facilities, and two control communities (i.e., towns that had not experienced the advent of a major new employer during the 1990s). Information from the two groups of development communities and the control communities is compared and contrasted to discern similarities and differences in the effects of the different types of development initiatives and to …
Evidence Of Holocene Climate Change In A Nebraska Sandhills Wetland, Barbara Nicholson, James B. Swinehart
Evidence Of Holocene Climate Change In A Nebraska Sandhills Wetland, Barbara Nicholson, James B. Swinehart
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The Nebraska Sandhills consist of 50,000 km2 of dunes, currently stabilized by vegetation. Radiocarbon dates of paleosols, blocked paleovalleys, and sand beds found in interdunal wetlands suggest that the Holocene had significant periods of dune reactivation. A paleoecological investigation was conducted in Jumbo Valley, NE, in an interdunal wetland known to contain sand layers interbedded with peat. The sedimentary record in two cores is continuous, except for some loss due to surficial burns. Macrofossils indicate that the late Pleistocene was cool and wet, with current vegetation establishing around 12,000 years ago. Sand and bulk density profiles reveal significant periods …
Availability Of Suitable Habitat For Northern River Otters In South Dakota, Alyssa M. Kiesow, Charles D. Dieter
Availability Of Suitable Habitat For Northern River Otters In South Dakota, Alyssa M. Kiesow, Charles D. Dieter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Currently, the northern river otter (Lontra canadensis) is listed as a threatened species in South Dakota. We determined whether adequate habitat was available for reintroducing river otters in South Dakota. The 17 rivers/creeks included in the analysis were selected according to stream size, water gradient, and water permanence. A vegetation transect was conducted and a water sample was collected at each study site, ranging from one to four per river. Rivers/creeks were rated (1 = least suitable to 5 = most suitable) according to habitat requirements of river otters in the following categories: stream characteristics, watershed features, water …
Potential Ecological Impact Of Diet Selectivity And Bison Herd Composition, Claudia Rosas, David Engle, James Shaw
Potential Ecological Impact Of Diet Selectivity And Bison Herd Composition, Claudia Rosas, David Engle, James Shaw
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Behavioral segregation between the sexes of bison (Bas bison), coupled with artificially manipulated sex ratios of bison herds, might profoundly influence prairie ecosystems. Therefore, we measured carbon isotopes in hair collected from bison from the Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeast Oklahoma to determine if adult male, adult female, and juvenile bison segregate on the basis of botanical composition of their diet. Sex ratio of bison herds in the Great Plains and behavioral differences between sexes were used to assess potential effects of sex ratio on tallgrass prairie. Botanical composition of diet differed among the three bison groups, in …
Distribution Of Carnivore Burrows In A Prairie Landscape, Glennis Kaufman, Scott Kocher, Donald Kaufman
Distribution Of Carnivore Burrows In A Prairie Landscape, Glennis Kaufman, Scott Kocher, Donald Kaufman
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Mammals impact prairie ecosystems through burrowing activities. Burrows used by carnivores were studied in four habitat types at the Konza Prairie Biological Station, a native tallgrass prairie near Manhattan, KS. We surveyed nearly 40 km of l0-m-wide transects and counted burrows in upland, slope, and lowland prairie and along ravines. Burrows were placed selectively along slopes (7.3 per km) and to a lesser extent along edges of ravines (4.2), but only infrequently in upland (0.6) and never in lowlands (0.0). We also recorded features (e.g., location, aspect, and slope steepness) along slope transects at a 30 m intervals to estimate …
Review Of Caddo Verb Morphology By Lynette R. Melnar, David Rood
Review Of Caddo Verb Morphology By Lynette R. Melnar, David Rood
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
When I was a graduate student on the West Coast, we used to playa little game to make fun of East Coast formal linguistics by asking each other, "What would transformational grammar look like if Chomsky spoke X instead of English?" Obviously, if Caddo were X, the answer would not involve tree diagrams, phrase structures, or transformations. Things haven't changed very much. Faced with describing a language like Caddo, a linguist receives virtually no help from the massive literature on syntactic and morphological theory from the last forty or fifty years.
Great Plains Research, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2005 - News And Notes
Great Plains Research, Volume 15, Number 1, Spring 2005 - News And Notes
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
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