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Pralrle Basin Wetlands Of The Dakotas: A Communlty Profile, Harold L. Kantrud, Gary L. Krapu, George A. Swanson
Pralrle Basin Wetlands Of The Dakotas: A Communlty Profile, Harold L. Kantrud, Gary L. Krapu, George A. Swanson
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
This description of prairie basin wetlands of the Dakotas is part of a series of community profiles on ecologically important wetlands of national significance. The shallow wetlands of the Dakotas form the bulk of the portion of the Prairie Pothole Region lying within the United States. This region is famous as the producer of at least half of North America's waterfowl and an unknown, but large, proportion of other prairie-dwelling marsh and aquatic birds. The wetlands described here lie in relatively small, shallaw basins that vary greatly in their ability to maintain surface water, and in their water chemistry, which …
Ua35/4 Annual Report, Wku International Programs
Ua35/4 Annual Report, Wku International Programs
WKU Administration Documents
Annual report of WKU International Programs & Projects for the year 1988-89.
Accumulation Of Lead And Organochiorine Residues In Captive American Kestrels Fed Pine Voles From Apple Orchards, Rey C. Stendell, W. Nelson Beyer, Robert A. Stehn
Accumulation Of Lead And Organochiorine Residues In Captive American Kestrels Fed Pine Voles From Apple Orchards, Rey C. Stendell, W. Nelson Beyer, Robert A. Stehn
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
Pine voles (Microtus pinetorum) were collected from pesticide-treated orchards in New York (USA) and fed to three captive American kestrels (Falco sparverius) for 60 days to evaluate potential hazards from soil-borne persistent insecticides. Three control kestrels were fed uncontaminated laboratory mice (Mus musculus). The pine voles contained an average of 38 ppm lead, 48 ppm DDE and 1.2 ppm dieldrin (wet weight). The kestrels accumulated sublethal amounts of lead (1 ppm lead wet weight) in their livers. In contrast, DDE and dieldrin accumulated in the tissues and brains of kestrels to toxicologically significant concentrations. …
Irrigating With Windmills On The Great Plains, T. Lindsay Baker
Irrigating With Windmills On The Great Plains, T. Lindsay Baker
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In his 1895 graduation thesis from the state agricultural college at Manhattan, Kansas, Fred E. Rader declared of the windmill, "Without, we must emigrate; with it, we can irrigate."1 Rader summarized the feelings of many farmers in the Arkansas and Platte valleys and elsewhere across the Great Plains in the mid-1890s. He wrote in the heyday of windmill irrigation in the area, when machines employing the free power of the wind to pump water from the ground were seen as the salvation of the region.
Review Of Ole Edvart Rölvaag, Rodney P. Rice
Review Of Ole Edvart Rölvaag, Rodney P. Rice
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This welcome addition to the Western Writers Series differs from other studies on Rolvaag because it attempts to place him within the broader context of American literature rather than strictly within ethnic or geographic boundaries. Moseley argues that Rölvaag, like many American authors before him, successfully combines elements of realism, naturalism, and myth not only to reveal the inherent contradictions in the frontier experience but also to examine universal themes such as the conflict between Old World tradition and New World individuality. The result is a convincing, perceptive, and reliable introduction to Rolvaag's fiction, useful to all students of American …
Joint Venture Or Testy Alliance?: The Public Works Of Art Project In Minnesota, 1933-34, Thomas O'Sullivan
Joint Venture Or Testy Alliance?: The Public Works Of Art Project In Minnesota, 1933-34, Thomas O'Sullivan
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Like many American painters of his generation, Syd Fossum left art school under the cloud of the Great Depression. The economic uncertainties of the 1930s only added to the dubious support a young painter in the Midwest might expect. But an unimagined opportunity launched Fossum and many others into unparalleled productivity as artists and self-respect as involved members of the art community and American society. Fossum's own reminiscences suggest the excitement of the moment. He recalled that in December 1933 he received a letter assigning him to the newly formed Public Works of Art Project (PWAP).
The Wonderful Wizard Of The West: L.Frank Baum In South Dakota, 1888-91, Nancy Tystad Koupal
The Wonderful Wizard Of The West: L.Frank Baum In South Dakota, 1888-91, Nancy Tystad Koupal
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
On 25 January 1890, L. Frank Baum took over the editor's chair of a weekly newspaper in northeastern South Dakota. Stricken with "western fever," the thirty-four-year-old Baum had emigrated from Syracuse, New York, more than a year earlier "to throw [his] fortunes in with the town" of Aberdeen, a promising railroad hub in what was then Dakota Territory. His first frontier enterprise, a variety store modeled on "The Fair" in Chicago, was too ambitious for the time and place, but Baum retained his faith in the West and turned to a career more suited to his talents and training. In …
Ethnic Women Homesteading On The Plains Of North Dakota, H. Elaine Lindgren
Ethnic Women Homesteading On The Plains Of North Dakota, H. Elaine Lindgren
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Women as well as men took advantage of government land policies that encouraged settlement on the Great Plains. Researchers have replaced earlier stereotypes that emphasized the reluctance of women to participate in the settlement process by more dynamic and realistic conceptualizations that portray women as courageous, enthusiastic, and adventuresome. 1
The Daughters Of Shiphrah: Folk Healers And Midwives Of The Great Plains, Timothy J. Kloberdanz
The Daughters Of Shiphrah: Folk Healers And Midwives Of The Great Plains, Timothy J. Kloberdanz
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Prairie folk healers and midwives seldom have been the focus of scholarly investigation, despite the crucial role they played in the settlement of countless Euro-American communities in the Great Plains. These individuals, a majority of whom were women, brought with them to the American and Canadian grasslands a wealth of folk medical knowledge and a variety of health-oriented, traditional skills.
Review Of The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, C. Adrian Heidenreich
Review Of The World Of The Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges, C. Adrian Heidenreich
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In this relatively short book, Frey seeks to describe the world view of the Crow (Apsaalooke) Indians of Montana. He places his description within the sociocultural context of the contemporary reservation and uses two key metaphors drawn from the Crow people, first, shifting bundles of driftwood that lodge and cling together in a turbulent river, and second a "medicine" or wagon wheel where the hub and the circumference are connected by distinct spokes. The Crow world is interpreted as one in which everything-human, animal, plant, land, and spirit-is interconnected, and the metaphors provide "symbolism of diversity and unity, receptivity and …
Review Of Among The Sioux Of Dakota: Eighteen Months' Experience As An Indian Agent, 1869-70, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith
Review Of Among The Sioux Of Dakota: Eighteen Months' Experience As An Indian Agent, 1869-70, Elizabeth S. Grobsmith
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This brief narrative was written by DeWitt Clinton Poole, Indian agent at the Whetstone Agency in Dakota Territory from 1869 to 1870. In a rather extensive introduction, Raymond DeMallie describes the establishment of the Agency and the difficulties Poole encountered there and admonishes the reader about Poole's paternalistic and racist view of Indian life. DeMallie reports: "Among the Sioux of Dakota is not a memorable book for its insight into American Indian culture . . . Poole failed to achieve any understanding of Sioux religion, admitting that he could see in it only 'selfishness and vindictiveness'" (lii). But DeMallie rightfully …
Review Of The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study Of Canadian And U. S. Indian Policy, Calvin Luther Martin
Review Of The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study Of Canadian And U. S. Indian Policy, Calvin Luther Martin
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"God"-read the brass buttons on the Indian police uniforms, "God helps those who help themselves" (p. 61). The picture stamped on the button showed what was intended to be an Indian farmer diligently turning the earth "wrong side up" (p. 57) behind a horse-drawn plow. Thrift, hard work, individualism, promise of a better life, the great American myth of the yeoman farmer-that little clasp packed a lot of message. Samek's book details how both Canadian and American bureaucrats, humanitarians philanthropists, and missionaries tried mightily to instill that very message in the hearts and minds of their Blackfoot Indian wards at …
Arts Institutions On The Great Plains: An Inroduction, Norman A. Geske
Arts Institutions On The Great Plains: An Inroduction, Norman A. Geske
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
T he papers in this issue of Great Plains Quarterly were presented at the symposium "The Arts on the Plains: The Role of Institutions," held 16-18 March 1988. The Nebraska Art Association, celebrating its one hundredth anniversary, collaborated in hosting the conference. The conference focused the Association's review of its own scope and impact by establishing a context of comparable efforts by other organizations, institutions, and individuals in the Great Plains and adjacent states. The six papers that follow illustrate the breadth of that comparison.
Review Of Indian Education In Canada: Volume 2: The Challenge, Dana F. Lawrence
Review Of Indian Education In Canada: Volume 2: The Challenge, Dana F. Lawrence
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This twelve-essay volume follows Volume 1: The Legacy. Together they offer a comprehensive history of Indian education in Canada as well as a survey of current issues and future directions. Volume 2 has nine Indian/Metis authors, reflecting the move toward self-determination not only in Canada but in indigenous populations the world over. In Canada the movement has rallied around the phrase "Indian Control of Indian Education" and Volume 2: The Challenge addresses this topic.
Review Of Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture Of The Hidatsa Indians And Indian Agriculture In America, Paul A. Olson
Review Of Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture Of The Hidatsa Indians And Indian Agriculture In America, Paul A. Olson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The study of Native American agriculture has been revived recently by Gary Nabhan's Gathering the Desert, which concerns Southwestern Indian agriculture. The two books reviewed here deal more with plains agriculture. Wilson's book is an account of Hidatsa gardening practice in the nineteenth century as told to Wilson by Buffalo Bird Woman, a lady who continued to practice traditional ways long after most Hidatsa had adopted Western agriculture; the book gives a picture of traditional Hidatsa practices regarding com, sunflowers, squash, beans, tobacco, the tools used to grow them, their storage, their field culture, and the like. Hurt's book, …
Review Of Puuing Leather: Being The Early Recollections Of A Cowboy On The Wyoming Range, 1884-1889, Lynn M. Cawthra
Review Of Puuing Leather: Being The Early Recollections Of A Cowboy On The Wyoming Range, 1884-1889, Lynn M. Cawthra
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the early 1930s, dentist-physician Reuben Mullins decided to chronicle his youthful experiences as a cowpuncher on the Wyoming range. He was unable to secure a publisher for this work, however, and after his death in 1935, the manuscript was filed away for more than fifty years. Scholars Jan Roush and Lawrence Clayton discovered Mullins's narrative in 1986 and recognized its importance as a historical document. Their editorial support and Mullins's own articulate and entertaining style have assured Pulling Leather a place alongside such standard accounts of cowboy life as Adams's Log of a Cowboy and Siringo's A Texas Cowboy …
State Humanities Councils And Cultural Institutions On The Great Plains, Sarah Z. Rosenberg
State Humanities Councils And Cultural Institutions On The Great Plains, Sarah Z. Rosenberg
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
T his study covers the state humanities councils in the Great Plains for the four year period 1983-86. Biennial reports to the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), upon which the study is based, are staggered for the convenience of NEH reviewers. As a result my data are either for 1983-84 or for 1985-86. I chose this time frame because by 1983 most state councils had been in existence for at least ten years and were past the years of experimentation and because the data available in these reports are presented consistently. I have included the ten Great Plains states-North …
Businessman, Bibliophile, And Patron: Edward E. Ayer And His Collection Of American Indian Art, Frederick E. Hoxie
Businessman, Bibliophile, And Patron: Edward E. Ayer And His Collection Of American Indian Art, Frederick E. Hoxie
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Like communities of people, museums and libraries often carry a distinct set of values into the world. Through shared values, these cultural institutions maintain a special sense of their own identity and mission. This sense of common purpose, while valuable, is not always a good thing. A belief that "this is what we stand for" can carry an institution through adversity, but it can also blind it to new opportunities or foster a distorted sense of its own history.
Review Of The Female Frontier: A Comparative View Of Women On The Prairie And The Plains., Alice Hall Petry
Review Of The Female Frontier: A Comparative View Of Women On The Prairie And The Plains., Alice Hall Petry
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
You've seen her in a hundred books, movies, and television programs: the "madonna of the prairie." But how much of the image of the frontier woman is accurate, and how much is the product of a curious alliance between Victorian ideals of womanhood and the public relations rhetoric of booster-minded Midwestern hamlets? In The Female Frontier, Glenda Riley seeks to unveil the true frontier woman of the prairies and the Great Plains; and although her book is not consistently satisfying, it does much to correct the most persistent myths of the frontier woman while pointing to areas for further …
Review Of The Road To Rebellion: Class Formation And Kansas Populism, 1865-1900, Robert W. Cherny
Review Of The Road To Rebellion: Class Formation And Kansas Populism, 1865-1900, Robert W. Cherny
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During the six decades since publication of John Hicks's The Populist Revolt, scholars have produced highly diverse interpretations of the Populist movement of the 1890s. Scott G. McNall, professor of sociology at the University of Kansas, contributes to that dialogue by using Kansas Populism to explore concepts in political economy and especially in the nature of class identity.
Review Of From Pittsburgh To The Rocky Mountains; Major Stephen Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, John L. Allen
Review Of From Pittsburgh To The Rocky Mountains; Major Stephen Long's Expedition, 1819-1820, John L. Allen
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The task of editing historical documents is a difficult one; the editor must tread a fine line between preserving the historical integrity of the original text while offering the fresh and insightful information on that text that makes the new edition valuable. The responsibility of the historical editor becomes even more challenging when much of the editorial work involves the condensation of a lengthy original into a shorter new edition. In this new edition of the chronicles of Stephen Long's expedition across the Central Plains to the Rockies, the editor has successfully negotiated the shoals and reefs of condensation, abridging …
Review Of Native American Architecture., Carroll Van West
Review Of Native American Architecture., Carroll Van West
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Over the past generation, studies of American vernacular architecture have transformed the way we look at the landscape. But not until the publication of Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton's Native American Architecture did we have a recent comprehensive exploration of the real roots of American architecture, the buildings, structures, and landscapes of Native Americans. Nabokov and Easton fill this massive gap in scholarship splendidly and their book will be a basic reference in American vernacular architecture for years to come.
Review Of Renewing The World: Plains Indian Religion And Morality., J. Baird Callicott
Review Of Renewing The World: Plains Indian Religion And Morality., J. Baird Callicott
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Although at midcentury the distinguished anthropologist A. Irving Hallowell suggested a new field, "ethnometaphysics, " at the interface of philosophy and anthropology, there was no stampede to explore it. Philosophers for the most part remain Western cultural narcissists and chauvinists, while anthropologists labor to become scientifically "respectable."
Review Of Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography Of Selected Works For A Research Library, Glen E. Lich
Review Of Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography Of Selected Works For A Research Library, Glen E. Lich
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Two things always surprise one anew upon turning to John H. Jenkins's Basic Texas Books: its breadth of overview and the depth of its entries. Much has happened in Texas studies in the years since 1970 when Jenkins started to prepare the first edition of this volume; much more has transpired since 1983 when that edition was published. Yet Jenkins's selections and what he says about them hold up as well now as they did then, perhaps better.
Review Of Heartland: Comparative Histories Of The Midwestern States, John C. Hudson
Review Of Heartland: Comparative Histories Of The Midwestern States, John C. Hudson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Twelve authors, one per state, working independently of one another, assigned the common task of compressing their state's history, culture, politics, and geography into a single, brief essay-it could be a formula for disaster, but under the able, guiding hand of historian James H. Madison it turns out to be a successful achievement. Heartland is an enjoyable book, informative without making claims of authority, less comparative than its subtitle promises, but relentlessly sincere in presenting the diversity of pasts that collectively form a regional history of the Middle West.
Women's Responses To The Challenges Of Plains Living, Glenda Riley
Women's Responses To The Challenges Of Plains Living, Glenda Riley
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Women settlers on the Great Plains frontier, as on other frontiers, carried the primary responsibility for home and family. Not only wives and mothers, but all plainswomen, young or old, single or married, white or black, employed outside the home or not, were expected to attend to, or help with, domestic duties. Thus, women living on their own, with storekeeper fathers, with farmer husbands, or in any other circumstances devoted a large part of their time and energy to providing their households with food, clothing, and other goods or services, to maintaining houses both as family homes and as women's …
Seeing More Than Earth And Sky: The Rise Of A Great Aesthetic, Howard Roberts Lamar
Seeing More Than Earth And Sky: The Rise Of A Great Aesthetic, Howard Roberts Lamar
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Sometime in the 1880s, Sallie Cover, a Nebraska settler in Garfield County, painted a picture of the homestead of her neighbor, Ellsworth L. Ball. This attractive primitive painting can be seen in the Nebraska State Historical Society in Lincoln. Various authorities have asserted that it is the first known painting by a local Nebraska artist. 1 Although we know very little about Mrs. Cover, the painting suggests that she liked her neighbor's rational and neat homestead. She painted the earth rich and black, the grass healthy green, and flowers along the front path. New trees have been planted, but some …
Review Of Among The Sleeping Giants: Occasional Pieces On Lewis And Clark, Gary E. Moulton
Review Of Among The Sleeping Giants: Occasional Pieces On Lewis And Clark, Gary E. Moulton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The preeminent Lewis and Clark scholars of the latest generation are gone. Thus ends the era that spanned from the 1950s to the present and produced outstanding students of the expedition like Bernard DeVoto, Paul Russell Cutright, and Donald Jackson. Cutright, Lewis and Clark's naturalist-historian, died in March 1988, and Jackson, the expedition's most recent editor, passed away in December 1987. The work reviewed here is vintage Jackson, a mixture of lightness and substance, with an eye for the previously unnoticed and a flair for the appropriate word and arresting phrase.
Review Of Texas Country: The Changing Rural Scene, Lawrence Clayton
Review Of Texas Country: The Changing Rural Scene, Lawrence Clayton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Although the United States boasts many large, progressive cities, many areas are still in reluctant transition from rural to urban. This transition has been rapid and exciting in some areas and mostly for younger people, but too rapid and painful for others whose orientation is toward a supportive past.
The Art Museum As Personal Statement: The Southwest Experience, Keith L. Bryant Jr
The Art Museum As Personal Statement: The Southwest Experience, Keith L. Bryant Jr
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The museum boom in this country since World War II has been easy to observe and document. Almost as many museums were constructed in the 1960s as in the previous two decades, and the erection or expansion of cultural palaces has continued into the 1980s. The rising importance of museums has been signaled not only by new buildings and massive additions but also by attendance figures. The leading public attraction in the United States is neither professional football nor baseball; it is the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. This overwhelming public response is not limited to the …