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Review Of We're Czechs, Joseph G. Svoboda
Review Of We're Czechs, Joseph G. Svoboda
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Robert L. Skrabanek, a professor emeritus from Texas A & M University, reminisces about growing up in a small, rural, almost exclusively Czech Protestant community in central Texas during the 1920s and 1930s. The community of Snook (originally Šebesta) in Burleson County is located between Austin and Houston. Physically isolated, the town continued to experience during these decades what occurred in pioneering times: close-knit families, community spirit, and personal honesty.
Review Of Documenting America, 1935-1943, John E. Carter
Review Of Documenting America, 1935-1943, John E. Carter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The work of the photographic section of the Farm Security Administration has not suffered for want of attention. Countless books and articles have proliferated in both the popular and scholarly press. Documenting America, 1935-1943 is an important contribution to that body of work. Where other efforts have focused on the powerful content of the pictures, this book deals with the context of their creation as well.
Review Of Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies On The Southern High Plains, Warren W. Caldwell
Review Of Lubbock Lake: Late Quaternary Studies On The Southern High Plains, Warren W. Caldwell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During the decade following the first verification of humankind in the New World, Early Man, or Paleo-Indian remains, as they were variously called, were eagerly sought. Such archeological sites, in Late Quaternary deposits, were by no means numerous. Yet persistent search revealed them, and in some numbers, particularly in the fringes of the westernmost Plains. Nowhere were they more abundant than in the southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and adjacent New Mexico. Among them is the Yellowhouse Draw site, perhaps best known as the Lubbock Lake site, at Lubbock, Texas. The occupation area, extensive by American standards (ca. …
Review Of Sentinel Of The Southern Plains: Fort Richardson And The Northwest Texas Frontier, 1866-1878, Michael L. Tate
Review Of Sentinel Of The Southern Plains: Fort Richardson And The Northwest Texas Frontier, 1866-1878, Michael L. Tate
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Slightly more than a century ag9 the dreaded "Comanche Moon" of each month virtually assured devastating Indian raids upon the isolated ranches of Texas' northwestern frontier. No issue raised more ire in the state legislature or produced more animosity between state and federal officials than did this. To protect these exposed settlements, the War Department established a thin line of military posts from the Red River to the Rio Grande. Anchoring the northern zone was Fort Richardson, established in 1866 with a garrison to patrol the upper Brazos River country and to tum back raiding parties of Comanches and Kiowas …
Review Of Garden City: Dreams In A Kansas Town, Michael Broadway
Review Of Garden City: Dreams In A Kansas Town, Michael Broadway
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Unlike many other small towns in the Great Plains, Garden City, located in southwest Kansas, has experienced a rapid increase in population over the past ten years. Iowa Beef Packers opened the world's largest beef packing plant in Holcomb, seven miles west of Garden City, resulting in an influx of newcomers to the town, most notably more than two thousand Southeast Asian refugees.
Review Of Prime Fathers, Les Whipp
Review Of Prime Fathers, Les Whipp
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Frederick Manfred's Prime Fathers is a great convenience for readers, critics, and scholars of his fiction. It gathers together miscellaneous pieces of his non-fiction that have previously been scattered over the last thirty-seven years in places as diverse as the Chicago Tribune and the American Scholar.
Review Of Opera Houses Of The Midwest, Ronald L. Davis
Review Of Opera Houses Of The Midwest, Ronald L. Davis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During the last third of the nineteenth century opera houses sprang up across the midwestern frontier in every town and village that had any pretense of becoming a city. Some were elegant structures of three to five stories, constructed with the hope of actually staging grand opera there; others were small theaters, often located on the second floor of a business establishment, with little chance of presenting anything grander than an occasional play; still others were simply community halls that from time to time served the function of a playhouse. All were multi-purposed facilities that became viewed as the social …
Review Of Brandon: Geographical Perspectives On The Wheat City, Brenton M. Barr
Review Of Brandon: Geographical Perspectives On The Wheat City, Brenton M. Barr
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This valuable contribution to the regional literature on Canadian urban places was produced to celebrate the twenty-fifth anniversary of Brandon University's Department of Geography. The book demonstrates the depth, range, and degree of integration that a team of geographers can achieve. Brandon comprises eleven chapters, a preface by the three editors, and a foreword by one of Canada's most distinguished historical geographers, John Warkentin, who reminds us that in regional studies "it is absolutely vital to understand the experiences of the people who live there, and who have lived there in the past."
Review Of Sacred Language: The Nature Of Supernatural Discourse In Lakota, Douglas R. Parks
Review Of Sacred Language: The Nature Of Supernatural Discourse In Lakota, Douglas R. Parks
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As early as 1851 the missionary Stephen Return Riggs remarked in the introduction to his grammar and dictionary of Dakota (eastern Sioux) that the shamans used a sacred language unknown to the common people. At the tum of the century the Pine Ridge Reservation physician James R. Walker, a dedicated student of Oglala Sioux ethnography, also referred to a ceremonial language known only to shamans. He, like Riggs and others who have mentioned it, gave only a small number of examples, all common words in the language that had been given different, or occult, meanings in order to obfuscate the …
Notes And News For Vol.9 No.2
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Controlled Pasture Burning In The Folklife Of The Kansas Flint Hills, James Hoy
Controlled Pasture Burning In The Folklife Of The Kansas Flint Hills, James Hoy
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Flint Hills of Kansas, forming a band approximately fifty miles wide, start north of Manhattan near the Nebraska border and run south nearly two hundred miles, at which point they merge into the Osage Hills of Oklahoma. This area, together with the row of counties bordering the Flint Hills to the east, is sometimes labeled the Bluestem Grazing Region; its four million acres of native grass represent the remaining one percent of a tallgrass prairie that once stretched north to Canada and east to Indiana and Ohio. 1 Cattle raising in the Flint Hills portion of this region differs …
Notes And News For Vol.9 No.4
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
The Role Of State Arts Agencies In The Promotion And Development Og The Arts On The Plains, Robin S. Tryloff
The Role Of State Arts Agencies In The Promotion And Development Og The Arts On The Plains, Robin S. Tryloff
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
A healthy artistic climate does not depend solely on the work of a handful of supremely gifted individuals. It demands the cultivation of talent and ability at all levels. It demands that everyday work, run-of-the-mill work, esoteric and unpopular work should be given a chance; not so much in the hope that genius may one day spring from it, but because, for those who make the arts their life and work, even modest accomplishment is an end in itself and a value worth encouraging. The pursuit of exceUence is a proper goal, but it is not the race itself. 1 …
Rural German-Speaking Women In Early Nebraksa And Kansas: Ethnicity As A Factor In Frontier Adptation, Linda Schelbitzki Pickle
Rural German-Speaking Women In Early Nebraksa And Kansas: Ethnicity As A Factor In Frontier Adptation, Linda Schelbitzki Pickle
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Germans were the largest foreign-born ethnic group in nineteenth-century Kansas and Nebraska. Whether one includes all of the German speakers or only those who came from one of the many states eventually united into one German nation, these immigrants made up a sizeable proportion of the frontier population. Counting only the latter group, by 1900 eighteen percent of the residents of Nebraska and almost nine percent of the residents of Kansas were either first- or second-generation Germans. 1 Because of the size of the German population, their various times of emigration, and the diversity of their European origins and cultural …
Introduction To Federal And State Arts And Humanities Agencies, Robin S. Tryloff, Sarah Z. Rosenberg
Introduction To Federal And State Arts And Humanities Agencies, Robin S. Tryloff, Sarah Z. Rosenberg
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Since 1965 the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), along with the state arts agencies (SAAs) and state humanities councils, as those were established, have been arguably the most influential of all institutions affecting the arts in the United States. As executive directors of, respectively, the Nebraska Arts Council and the Nebraska Committee for the Humanities we daily witnessed the impact of our institutions on the arts of the Great Plains. The following brief introduction to NEA and NEH provides the background for our individual articles about the types of agencies we …
Review Of ''The Orders Of The Dreamed": George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Olive Patricia Dickson
Review Of ''The Orders Of The Dreamed": George Nelson On Cree And Northern Ojibwa Religion And Myth, 1823, Olive Patricia Dickson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As Amerindian traditional religions gain legitimacy in the eyes of a world dominated by the "big five" (Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism), they are coming in for more and more study. Unfortunately, New World belief systems as they existed at the time of first contact have on the whole been very poorly documented, a consequence of the Christian conviction that if they could be called religions at all, they were inspired by the devil. The best records that have come down to us were compiled by the Spaniards, who, in order to destroy the civilizations of Mexico and Central and …
Review Of A Generation Of Boomers: The Pattern Of Railroad Labor Conflict In Nineteenth-Century America., Russell S. Kirby
Review Of A Generation Of Boomers: The Pattern Of Railroad Labor Conflict In Nineteenth-Century America., Russell S. Kirby
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In this ambitious volume the author interprets the nascent railroad labor movement of the late nineteenth century within a broad socio- economic framework. "Boomers," the subject of this book, built and maintained the railroad lines, serviced the locomotives and running stock, manned the freight yards, ran and conducted the trains. Although many of these men had transitory employment histories, others demonstrated both geographical persistence and upward occupational mobility within the railroad industry. As Shelton Stromquist demonstrates, strike behavior on the railroads of the late nineteenth century was related to railroad management strategies, the locations of railroad towns or railroad lines …
The Judicial Fortunes Of French On The Canadian Prairies, Donald A. Bailey
The Judicial Fortunes Of French On The Canadian Prairies, Donald A. Bailey
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Early European settlement patterns on the Canadian and U.S. prairies had many common features. Diverse peoples settled side-by-side, though often in distinct ethnic concentrations, and heritage cultures and languages persisted for several generations, even as significant assimilation to the dominant culture simultaneously occurred. Interaction and assimilation were not always harmonious, however, for intra-ethnic disagreements about heritage loyalty versus assimilation and friction with the dominant or another culture consumed many energies. Periods of war or economic crisis brought out xenophobic suspicions among the dominant and fully assimilated groups, suspicions that sometimes led to attempts at oppressive legislative measures that were later …
Review Of The Way To Independence: Memories Of A Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920 And A Coloring Book Of Hidatsa Indian Stories: Based On The Life And Drawings Of Edward Goodbird, Joseph C. Porter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Way to Independence exhibition and catalog appeared in 1987 to mark the centennial of the passage of the Dawes Indian Severalty Act of 1887, legislation intended to "civilize" American Indians by abolishing tribes as legal entities and allotting reservation lands to individuals. With the disappearance of the tribal land base, proponents of the Dawes Act assumed that Indians would be compelled to "assimilate" into the mainstream of American life.
Review Of An Atlas Of The Sand Hills, Bradley H. Baltensperger
Review Of An Atlas Of The Sand Hills, Bradley H. Baltensperger
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Although the goal of this "Resource Atlas" is to describe the largest region of sand dunes in the western hemisphere in a single, easily accessible volume, this well-illustrated narrative would more appropriately be labeled a natural history of the Sandhills. Half the book describes the region's physical environment, including climate, geology, and water supply, and another quarter treats flora and fauna.
Review Of Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth- And Twentieth- Century Native American Leaders And North American Indian Lives, Charles G. Ballard
Review Of Indian Lives: Essays On Nineteenth- And Twentieth- Century Native American Leaders And North American Indian Lives, Charles G. Ballard
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Readers will no doubt react favorably to the descriptions of eight unusual people, classified generally as American Indians, that the editors of Indian Lives have assembled. They range from Maris Bryant Pierce of the Seneca (1811-1874) to Peterson Zah (born 1937), the former tribal chairman of the Navajo. Three women are included, the Hopi-Tewa potter Nampeyo (1860- 1942), Dr. Susan LaFleshe Picotte (1865-1915) from the Omaha tribe, and Minnie Kellogg (1880-1949) from the Oneidas of Wisconsin. The three remaining men are Henry Chee Dodge (1857-1947), the crusty first chairman of the Navajo tribal council in 1923, Charles Curtis (1860-1936), who …
Review Of Oklahoma Botanical Literature, M. R. Bolick
Review Of Oklahoma Botanical Literature, M. R. Bolick
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Johnson and Milby have produced a valuable bibliographic aid for the serious student of the flora of the southern Great Plains. The listing, in one place, of 862 references from such diverse sources is a major contribution by itself. The addition of indexes for authors and subject-incontext greatly increases the utility of this reference book, making it easy to search among all 800-plus citations for ones of particular interest. This book should find a home in biology libraries across the region.
Notes And News For Vol.3 No.9
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of A Creek Warrior For The Confederacy: The Autobiography Of Chief G. W Grayson, William E. Unrau
Review Of A Creek Warrior For The Confederacy: The Autobiography Of Chief G. W Grayson, William E. Unrau
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Without question this memoir by a mixedblood Creek dignitary who fought with Indian units attached to the armies of the Confederacy is the most informative and carefully edited account of the Civil War in Indian Territory after 1862. But it is more than that, for it provides a lucid and candid commentary on important aspects of Creek history from forced removal in the early national period to formal tribal dissolution in 1906.
Review Of Northern Prairie Wetlands, Jack Deforest
Review Of Northern Prairie Wetlands, Jack Deforest
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Evidence of human disruption of ecosystems often generates a "crisis response," but fortunately we are finally learning that a base of solid scientific information is crucial for effective policymaking. This useful book provides such information for a type of wetland that is little known and poorly understood, the prairie pothole region. It developed out of a 1985 symposium in North Dakota that aimed to review the "state of knowledge" concerning various elements of the region's wetland ecology. Because of the subject's complexity, the book's content is limited to select areas: geology and hydrology, water chemistry, fauna and flora, food chains, …
Opera Houses In Kansas, Nebraska, And The Dakotas: 1870-1920, Ronald L. Davis
Opera Houses In Kansas, Nebraska, And The Dakotas: 1870-1920, Ronald L. Davis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As the last frontier approached an end, nearly every town of any distinction on the Plains boasted an opera house. The term "opera house" was preferred over "theater" since opera was considered a highly respected art form rather than mere popular amusement, even though grand opera itself was seldom actually performed in the Great Plains. What the management offered on its stage depended primarily on the town's proximity to a railroad, which in the late nineteenth century served as the major link to the outside world. Whether or not opera troupes ever sang for local audiences, a town's opera house----on …
Freedon And Control In Laura Ingalls Wilder's De Smet, John E. Miller
Freedon And Control In Laura Ingalls Wilder's De Smet, John E. Miller
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Faith in the future, the virtues of persistence and hard work, the beneficence and occasional destructiveness of nature, the centrality of family, and the search for community are dominant themes of Laura Ingalls Wilder's books for children; one more theme is freedom. 1 But this freedom is never conceived of as absolute; rather, it is subject to a variety of constraints-external and internal-that interact with it in uneasy tension. The Ingalls family moved west to Dakota Territory in 1879 because of Pa's quest for freedom from the constrictions hemming him in on the more settled frontier. Farther west, he believed, …
Notes And News For Vol.9 No.1
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Women's Contribution To The Family Farm, Richard W. Rathge
Women's Contribution To The Family Farm, Richard W. Rathge
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Our recognition of women's involvement in Great Plains agriculture is frequently linked to stereotyped images and a romanticized perspective on farmers. These notions have been cultivated over time in the absence of careful research or historical documents that realistically detail women's work on the family farm. Except for collections of oral histories, letters, and diaries, we have relatively few written records of rural women's agricultural heritage in the Great Plains. Traditional images of women and girls on farms show them as helpmates whose labor is only indirectly related to agriculture. 1 Their activities center predominantly on family and domestic chores. …