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Ingestion Of Lead Shot And Aluminum Bands By Bald Eagles During Winter In Nebraska, Gary Lingle, Gary Krapu
Ingestion Of Lead Shot And Aluminum Bands By Bald Eagles During Winter In Nebraska, Gary Lingle, Gary Krapu
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
The Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalusis) a common winter resident along the Platte and North Platte rivers in southcentral Nebraska. Waterfowl are a major food of eagles during periods when fish are not readily available (Lingle and Krapu 1986). Eating ducks and geese can make eagles susceptible to lead poisoning, a significant cause of mortality of Bald Eagles in North America (Kaiser et al. 1980). Eagles ingest lead shot from waterfowl by eating shot imbedded in tissues or as part of the contents of digestive tracts. In this paper we describe the incidence of lead shot and Fish and …
Duck Nest Success In The Prairie Pothole Region, Albert T. Klett, Terry L. Shaffer, Douglas H. Johnson
Duck Nest Success In The Prairie Pothole Region, Albert T. Klett, Terry L. Shaffer, Douglas H. Johnson
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
We estimated nest success of mallard (Anas platyrhynchos), gadwall (A. strepera), blue-winged teal (A. discors), northern shoveler (A. clypeata), and northern pintail (A. acuta) for 5 regions in North Dakota, South Dakota, and Minnesota, for 1-3 periods between 1966 and 1984, and for 8 habitat classes. We obtained composite estimates of nest success for regions and periods by weighting each habitat proportional to the number of nest initiations. The distribution of nest initiations was derived from estimates of breeding populations, preferences of species for nesting habitats, and availability of habitats. …
The Influence Of Diet Quality On Clutch Size And Laying Pattern In Mallards, Jan Eldridge, Gary Krapu
The Influence Of Diet Quality On Clutch Size And Laying Pattern In Mallards, Jan Eldridge, Gary Krapu
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
We measured the effect of diet quality on variation in the seasonal pattern of Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) reproduction. Twenty wild-strain hens, consisting of 10 sibling pairs, were maintained in captivity. One sib of each pair was fed an enriched diet, and the other was fed wheat. The wheat diet resulted in reduced clutch size, egg size, laying rate, number of nesting attempts, and total eggs laid. Diet did not affect laying initiation, duration, or the seasonal pattern of change in clutch and egg size with each renest. We believe the variation and pattern observed are adaptations to a …
Review Of The West Of The Imagination, Robert Thacker
Review Of The West Of The Imagination, Robert Thacker
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is--in every meaning of the word-a wonderful book. Historian William H. Goetzmann, the author ofExploration and Empire, Karl Boomer's America, and New Lands, New Men has collaborated with his art historian son, William N. Goetzmann, to produce this volume, a companion to the Public Broadcasting System series of the same name. Focused on the illustrators, painters, and photographers of the American West, it offers a stunning overview of their histories, actions, and, most especially, their images. The reader, like the artist;s .and the Goetzmanns themselves, is awed by the felt pull of the West on the imagination; …
Notes And News For Vol.8 No.2
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
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Rethinking The Farm Revolt Of The 1930s, William C. Pratt
Rethinking The Farm Revolt Of The 1930s, William C. Pratt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
T he northern Plains witnessed the last great farm revolt in its history during the 1930s, when a flood of protest spilled across the region, fed by the springs of hard times and earlier insurgencies. The countryside, for one last moment, forced itself upon the rest of the country and demanded attention for its plight. After a period of high visibility, these efforts receded in the wake of New Deal programs that seemingly undercut the rural revolt. Many of the protesters arrived at an accommodation with the new regime, accepting "half-aloaf now" in terms of wheat allotment checks and refinanced …
Review Of Soldiers West: Biographies From The Military Frontier, Peter Maslowski
Review Of Soldiers West: Biographies From The Military Frontier, Peter Maslowski
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The American West and the Old Army's role in it remain of enduring interest. For example, Edward M. Coffman's The Old Army: A Portrait of the American Army in Peacetime, 1784-1898 (1986) is a collective study of the officers and enlisted men and their dependents. Now, as an unintentional but superb companion piece, Soldiers West examines individual officers who were influential in exploring, policing, and developing the frontier. Two important themes emerge from these mini-biographies. First, as military historians have long recognized, the army played a vital role in national development. Second, and less well understood but especially fascinating, was …
Reservation Policy And The Economic Position Of Wichita Women, Carolyn Garrett Pool
Reservation Policy And The Economic Position Of Wichita Women, Carolyn Garrett Pool
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Early anthropological studies addressed the economic position of women as one component of women's "status"-a construct used to examine a variety of gender-based social distinctions. These distinctions were conceptualized as the opposing domains of "domestic" and "public." The association of women with the domestic domain was viewed as the critical factor in understanding asymmetrical relations of power and authority. Since status has generally been defined in terms of participation in the public, economic, and political sectors dominated by men, anthropologists have proposed alternatives to the strict association of power with public roles. They used the term "influence" to mean the …
Review Of Patterns Of Life, Patterns Of Art: The Rahr Collection Of Native American Art., David Woodley
Review Of Patterns Of Life, Patterns Of Art: The Rahr Collection Of Native American Art., David Woodley
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art presents the Native American Collection of Guido R. Rahr, a gift to the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. The catalogue consists of 32 full color illustrations, as well as listing and describing 182 collection items. Of the objects illustrated, only a few are artistic masterpieces, but all the objects will interest students of Native American material culture. The casual reader may find the captions under some illustrations confusing, and in at least one instance the captions are inverted (p. 54, catalogue 79, 80). In her essay, Barbara A. Hail takes on the …
Review Of Helen Hunt Jackson, Valerie Sherer Mathes
Review Of Helen Hunt Jackson, Valerie Sherer Mathes
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Helen Hunt Jackson, considered by Emerson "the greatest American woman poet," was author of more that thirty books and numerous newspaper pieces and articles. Virtually forgotten today, she is ironically the subject of two short biographies written last year, although neither eclipses the one written in 1939 by Ruth Odell.
Review Of Little Crow: Spokesman For The Sioux, Herbert T. Hoover
Review Of Little Crow: Spokesman For The Sioux, Herbert T. Hoover
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This readable narrative chronicles the life of the eastern Sioux leader whose name has been associated with the Minnesota Sioux War for a role he accepted reluctantly. A genealogy and some· background information explain why he assumed a moderate posture as non-Indians flocked into southern Minnesota during the 1850s. Resentment changed to bitterness around him as eastern Sioux people exchanged some 10,000,000 acres for a narrow strip of land along the upper St. Peter's River that could not sustain them. When finally they took up arms in the early 186Os, Little Crow became their symbol of resistance. At length, more …
Review Of The Paintings Of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne., Stephen C. Behrendt
Review Of The Paintings Of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne., Stephen C. Behrendt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The appearance of this volume by E. Maurice Bloch, the dean of Bingham studies, is a most significant event. Superseding Bloch's preliminary catalogue of 1967, this impressive new volume constitutes the definitive catalogue of Bingham's paintings. With more than 350 illustrations, including 23 in color, it provides a guide to both Bingham's familiar works and his lesser-known subjects, documenting the artist's development both as portraitist and as recorder of Western American subject matter. An insightful introductory essay of twenty-eight large, double-column pages presents Bingham .as man and artist, exploring the events and influences that shaped his art and effectively locating …
Symbols Of German-Russsian Ethnic Identity On The Northern Plains, Timothy J. Kloberdanz
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 …
Review Of Selling The Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 To 1960, Leslie T. Whipp
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 …
Review Of Pahaska Tepee: Buffalo Bill's Old Hunting Lodge And Hotel, A History, 1901-1947, Joni Gilkerson
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."
The Nebraska Capital Controversy, 1854-59, James B. Potts
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 …
Review Of Hunting And Trading On The Great Plains, 1859-1875, Glen E. Lich
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.
Womens Culture In The Great Plains : An Introduction, Helen A. Moore
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.
Review Of Edible Wild Plants Of The Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide., Kathleen H. Keeler
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 …
Review Of The American Indian And The Problem Of History, Robert H. Keller
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?
Review Of Civilizing The West: The Galts And The Development Of Western Canada, Henry C. Klassen
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.
Review Of The Cheyenne Nation: A Social And Demographic History., Russel Lawrence Barsh
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.
Review Of Plains Folk: A Commonplace Of The Great Plains, Roger L. Welsch
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.
Review Of Mapping The North American Plains: Essays In The History Of Cartography., Donna P. Koepp
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.
Prairie Schoolwomen, Mid-1850s To 1920s, In Iowa, Kansas, And Nebraska, Mary Hurlbut Cordier
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 …
Review Of On The Santa Fe Trail, Glen E. Lich
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.
Review Of The Just Polity; Populism, Law, And Human Welfare., Peter H. Argersinger
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 …
Review Of Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard
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 …
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
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.
Review Of Cather's Kitchens: Foodways In Literature And Life., John P. Anders
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.