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Review Of Caprock Canyonlands: Journey Into The Heart Of The Southern Plains, Rudolfo A. Anaya
Review Of Caprock Canyonlands: Journey Into The Heart Of The Southern Plains, Rudolfo A. Anaya
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the spring of 1984 Shelley Armitage invited me to lecture at West Texas State in Canyon, Texas. She and a colleague met me, and after dropping off my bags, they asked if I wanted to go for a ride to see a special place. It was a beautiful spring afternoon and I was glad for the fresh air. I remember seeing two sights I will never forget: one was living Texas longhorns in the brush, and the other was the beauty of the descent and drive through Palo Duro Canyon.
Review Of Buffalo Bill And His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography., Richard W. Ethulain
Review Of Buffalo Bill And His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography., Richard W. Ethulain
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Novels and histories of the American West have always attracted a large, varied audience. Some readers, preferring stirring adventure narratives of the Old West, have bought Louis L'Amour Westerns by the hundreds of thousands, collected Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell prints, and mourned the apparent demise of TV and cinematic Westerns. Others, drawn to a regional West, have devoured Walter Prescott Webb's histories, the historical fiction of Willa Cather, A. B. Guthrie, and Wallace Stegner, and the regional paintings of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry. Still others, viewing the West as a significant global subregion, are …
Review Of A Life With The Union Pacific: The Autobiography Of Edd H. Bailey, H.Roger Grant
Review Of A Life With The Union Pacific: The Autobiography Of Edd H. Bailey, H.Roger Grant
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As the title of this modest volume suggests, Edd H. Bailey, the late president of the Union Pacific Company, has written for us his life story. Like typical railroad officials of the past, Bailey climbed the corporate ladder by moving through various positions in the operating department. After a youth spent on a woebegone homestead in eastern Colorado, he joined the Union Pacific in 1922 as a helper in the car department in Cheyenne, Wyoming; by 1965, he was the president and director. Although Bailey lacked a college education, his various "hands-on" experiences made possible his rise to industry-wide prominence. …
Review Of The Plains Of North America And Their Inhabitants, James H. Gunnerson
Review Of The Plains Of North America And Their Inhabitants, James H. Gunnerson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge wrote with the easy style of an experienced raconteur, drawing on twenty years of first-hand experience on the Plains. Most of his numerous anecdotes, however, date from the late 1860s and early 1870s. During this period he met an English promoter who encouraged Dodge to write the book. First published in 1876 it quickly went through two editions in England and two in the United States, all substantially edited. The present version, with only errors of spelling and punctuation corrected, is based on an unedited manuscript by Dodge and presents the work as he had …
Review Of Tum Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam And Mary Maverick, David J. Murrah
Review Of Tum Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam And Mary Maverick, David J. Murrah
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Paula Mitchell Marks's Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas is a dual biography of Sam and Mary Maverick, Texas pioneers who were eyewitnesses to the Texas Revolution and the exciting years that followed in its immediate aftermath. Based primarily on the personal diaries and papers of the Mavericks, Marks's work virtually personalizes the Revolution, beginning with Sam Maverick's arrival in San Antonio prior to its 1835 siege and the March, 1836 Battle of the Alamo. Even though he was a newcomer to Texas, Maverick played an important role in the San Antonio skirmishes and was elected by the Alamo garrison to …
Review Of Canyon Visions: Photographs And Pastels Of The Texas Plains, John R. Wunder
Review Of Canyon Visions: Photographs And Pastels Of The Texas Plains, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is a beautiful book. Its beauty is fourfold. There is an allusive introduction by Archer City native, West Texas novelist Larry McMurtry, and lyrical words and phrases in an introduction and photo/portrait captions by Texas Tech University history professor Dan L. Flores. Then there are forty magnificent photos of the canyons of the Texas Plains taken by Flores and thirty-nine reproductions of pastels of the canyon landscapes of West Texas by Amarillo artist Amy Gormley Winton. The photographs and pastels are very effectively organized on separate pages facing each other and are arranged in five sections-"Elements," "Forms," "Texture," "Color," …
Wyoming Political Surprises In The Late 1980s: Deviating Elections In A Conservative Republican State, Cal Clark, Janet Clark
Wyoming Political Surprises In The Late 1980s: Deviating Elections In A Conservative Republican State, Cal Clark, Janet Clark
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Wyoming is typical of the states in the upper Great Plains region (Montana, Kansas, Nebraska, and North and South Dakota) in many but not all aspects. In socioeconomic terms, the Great Plains are basically agricultural and rural with fewer prominent urban centers than elsewhere in the nation. Politically the region is generally viewed as conservative and Republican, but this image is subject to several important caveats. First, agrarian crises have periodically fueled insurgent political movements, such as the Populism of the 1890s, Progressivism in the early twentieth century, strong support for Roosevelt's New Deal, and support for populist or liberal …
Review Of The Kiowa, Maurice Boyd
Review Of The Kiowa, Maurice Boyd
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This brief and easily readable summary about the Kiowas from their early known beginnings to the present should be welcomed by Kiowa and non-Kiowa alike. Any general reader seeking an overview of the tribe will also find it helpful.
Review Of The Bpi Companion To The Western, Richard W. Ethulain
Review Of The Bpi Companion To The Western, Richard W. Ethulain
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Of the numerous volumes claiming to be guides to the cinematic Western, this book is by far the best. For once a jacket blurb is exactly correct when it reads: "Unsurpassed in scope and scholarship, [this volume] sets a new standard for reference books about the [Western]."
Review Of The Seminole, Susan A. Miller
Review Of The Seminole, Susan A. Miller
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The series Indians of North America, intended to introduce various U.S. Indian groups to an audience of young adults, features eyecatching design, tough construction, short bibliographies, boxed treatments of appealing topics, and short four-color photo essays. Although the Florida Seminoles merit such a study, The Seminole is too flawed to fill that niche.
Review By Plains Folk, North Dakota's Ethnic History, L. Martin Perry
Review By Plains Folk, North Dakota's Ethnic History, L. Martin Perry
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Plains Folk essentially completes its 1983 predecessor, Prairie Mosaic, authored by sociologist William Sherman. The earlier work outlined the landscape of ethnic groups that composed North Dakota, the state with the highest proportion of foreign-born residents prior to the Second World War. For the sequel, Sherman teamed up with a handful of ethnic historians to give extended treatment to the same folks: "Yankees," Germans from Germany and eastern Europe, Scandinavians, Slavs, and those with a more limited presence.
Review Of The Middle West: Its Meaning In American Culture., David D. Van Tassel
Review Of The Middle West: Its Meaning In American Culture., David D. Van Tassel
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This book is a well-argued analysis of a variety of sources in the tradition of Henry Nash Smith's Virgin Land and Leo Marx's The Machine in the Garden. While Shortridge does not attempt to lay to rest the question of the objective existence of a midwestern culture or examine the nature of that culture and its origins, his work will nevertheless stimulate a good deal of debate and further research.
Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart
Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The objectives of this encyclopedia, as explained by the author in the introduction, are "to present the widest possible body of reference material on the Central West" and also "to offer a readable work, one to be dipped into for enjoyment as well as information" (5). There is no disputing the breadth of the coverage, which extends geographically from North Dakota to Texas and from Nebraska to western Colorado and topically from geology to tourism. Nor can it be denied that the entries are interesting. But conceptually the choice of area is open to dispute, and a close reading of …
Standing Traditions On Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples, Janet Mancini Billson
Standing Traditions On Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples, Janet Mancini Billson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The woman is the foundation on which nations are built.
She is the heart of her nation.
If that heart is weak the people are weak.
If her heart is strong and her mind is clear
then the nation is strong and knows its purpose.
The woman is the centre of everything.
But equally, women must honour men;
If not, then everything is out of balance
and we can have nothing but chaos and pain.
These are the first elements that must be
put back together
or nothing, but nothing
can come right again. 1
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.1
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.1
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
British Remittance Men As Ranchers: The Case Of Coutts Marjoribanks And Edmund Thursby, 1884-95, Larry A. Mcfarlane
British Remittance Men As Ranchers: The Case Of Coutts Marjoribanks And Edmund Thursby, 1884-95, Larry A. Mcfarlane
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Frederick Jackson Turner's is only the most compelling of many accounts that portrayed the frontier West as a region of opportunity where sturdy individuals from modest social and economic backgrounds could get a leg up o~ the ladder of success. This frontier was a healthier place than longer settled areas because westerners valued newcomers for their hard work, for what they could do, not for their family status or wealth, and individuals achieved whatever level of success their own abilities and motivations allowed. But as British and even eastern travelers to the frontier often reported, this egalitarianism often had a …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1991 Vol. 11 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1991 Vol. 11 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim
Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The definition, surveying, and particularly the marking, with quartzite monuments, of the state boundary between North and South Dakota provide the major themes for this study. It is obvious that the author, who was born and raised in South Dakota and now teaches history in North Dakota, has a special fondness for these monuments. While the study will be of primary interest to North and South Dakota state and local history enthusiasts, the book will also interest political geographers and historians (as a case study in the establishment of two states and their boundary) and cartographic historians (as an example …
Review Of Ronald Reagan And The Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984, William D. Rowley
Review Of Ronald Reagan And The Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984, William D. Rowley
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Reagan years, having magically passed into history, are now the subjects of articles and books by historians, political scientists, and in this case an academic journalist, who builds a tightly constructed book out of the press releases of the period.
Orphaned Mallard Brood Travels Alone From Nest To Water, Gary Krapu, Christopher Dwyer, Carmen Luna
Orphaned Mallard Brood Travels Alone From Nest To Water, Gary Krapu, Christopher Dwyer, Carmen Luna
United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications
Waterfowl young often travel long distances from the nest site to water when accompanied by a parent; the timing of the trip can range from a few hours to days after hatching (Sowls 1955, Bjlrvall 1968; Dzubin and Gollop 1972; Ball 1973; Duncan 1983; Afton and Paulus, in press). Little is known, however, of what happens to waterfowl broods or individual young stranded far from water by the death of a parent or after becoming separated or abandoned.