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Review Of Vulcan: The Making Of A Prairie Community, David C. Jones
Review Of Vulcan: The Making Of A Prairie Community, David C. Jones
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Vulcan is a long awaited study of the formation of communities in southern Alberta. It is an insightful rendition of the development of settlement, agriculture, social life, and society in the Canadian West. Starting with the common theoretical explanations of the origin and nature of western communities-including cultural, metropolis, frontier, and environmental hypotheses-it fashions a unique and complex interpretation.
Review Of Art Of The Red Earth People: The Mesquakie Of Iowa., Mary Jane Schneider
Review Of Art Of The Red Earth People: The Mesquakie Of Iowa., Mary Jane Schneider
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
One aftermath of European colonization of the eastern United States was the westward migration of many eastern Indian tribes. Among the hundreds of tribes that uprooted themselves and sought new lands were the Mesquakie, more commonly referred to as the Fox or Sauk and Fox, who migrated from the area around Green Bay, Wisconsin, into eastern Iowa in the late 1700s and adapted so well to their new home that they took unique steps to become permanent residents. In 1846, under pressure of Iowa statehood, their tribe sold their land in Iowa and moved to Kansas, but in 1856 the …
Reviw Of Before Lewis And Clark Volume 1: Documents Illustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804 And Before Lewis And Clark Volume 2: Documents Iuustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804, W. Raymond Wood
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
It now has been nearly forty years since the publication of Nasatir's landmark study Before Lewis and Clark. In those decades it has grown to be an indispensable aid in the historical scholarship of the Great Plains. The reason? This history of the pre-Lewis and Clark Missouri River provides a comprehensive data base and summary that is unobtainable in any other form. The original two-volume set, unfortunately, has been out of print for many years, and the great cost of the original volumes (usually in three figures) on the used book market is added testimony to their scholarly value. …
Review Of Ella Elgar Bird Dumont: An Autobiography Of A West Texas Pioneer., Rebecca J. Davis
Review Of Ella Elgar Bird Dumont: An Autobiography Of A West Texas Pioneer., Rebecca J. Davis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The destruction in the South caused by the Civil War prompted many Southerners to move to Texas to reconstruct their lives. Ella Elgar Bird Dumont chronicles not only such a move from Mississippi to Texas in 1866 but also the details of her life as a plainswoman in the latter part of the nineteenth century.
Review Of Lizzie: The Letters Of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864- 1893,, Paula Petrik
Review Of Lizzie: The Letters Of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864- 1893,, Paula Petrik
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Unlike many of the collections of letters or journals written by women chronicling the nineteenth-century western experience that center on rural women's lives or the overland trip, Elizabeth Chester Fisk's letters describe a western woman in an urban environment. From Lizzie's riverboat trip up the Missouri River to Helena, Montana, in 1867 to the death of her mother and correspondent in 1893, the editor has chosen the best from a large collection. Through her letters, the reader glimpses the public and private politics that marked Lizzie's life and the tension between a woman's affiliations with family and the community and …
Review Of The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations., Daniel Tyler
Review Of The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations., Daniel Tyler
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Readers of The Twentieth Century West are urged to review the prologue (Etulain) and epilogue (Nash) before tackling the works of contributing authors. These two pieces explain the guidelines of the editors and their purpose in dividing the book into five parts: People, Economy, Environment, Politics, and Culture.
Review Of American Indian Autobiography, Charles Lachance
Review Of American Indian Autobiography, Charles Lachance
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Often a piece of scholarly literature is intriguing not because it is completely right but because it is somewhat wrongheaded. Such is the case with H. David Brumble's historical survey of American Indian autobiography. This is not to imply that Brumble errs in the details of his short history of Indian autobiography. Nor is it to say that he misconceives most of his generalizations on the subject. As an Indian or part Indian myself, I am repeatedly chastened by the formidable expertise displayed by non-Indians like Brumble who write on Native American culture. The argument of Brumble's informative book is …
Review Of The Art Of Tom Lea., Brian W. Dippie
Review Of The Art Of Tom Lea., Brian W. Dippie
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
It is difficult to write objectively about a living artist, and though Tom Lea's accomplishments span seven decades and a critical assessment would seem in order, this book is best considered a handsome homage. Indeed, the textual matter is limited to a brief foreword by Kathleen Hjerter, the book's compiler, and an introduction by William Weber Johnson. The rest-219 pages---consists of plates, many in color, arranged in five chronological divisions but entirely lacking in commentary. The pioneer painter George Catlin in 1870 rejected an offer to publish a complete edition of his Indian outlines because no text was contemplated and …
Review Of Santa Fe: History Of An Ancient City., Marvin Kanne
Review Of Santa Fe: History Of An Ancient City., Marvin Kanne
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Without doubt, Santa Fe is one of the most fascinating and enchanting cities in this country. Pueblo Indians, Spaniards, Mexicans, and Anglo-Americans have created over the past four centuries a rich, diverse culture of endearing mystique.
Stephen Crane's "Bride" As Countermyth Of The West, Jules Zanger
Stephen Crane's "Bride" As Countermyth Of The West, Jules Zanger
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
It has become a critical cliche to recognize Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" as a parody of the traditional, cliche-ridden Western. His transformations of that form's conventional hero, heroine, and badman, as well as of the climactic, de rigueur shootout are amusing and obvious. In the story Crane depicted the Pullman journey of a middle-aged, honeymooning couple, Jack Potter, a Texas marshal, and his plain, "under-class" bride, to their home in Yellow Sky. There they are confronted by the rampaging Scratchy Wilson, the last of the badmen, who on learning that the marshal has taken a wife, …
Revie Of Breaking The Iron Bonds: Indian Control Of Energy Development., Russell Lawrence Barsh
Revie Of Breaking The Iron Bonds: Indian Control Of Energy Development., Russell Lawrence Barsh
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Few things were as exhilarating for Indian tribes in the last twenty years, or as controversial, as energy development. There has long been a need for a worthy successor to Jorgensen's critical collection, Native Americans and Energy Development II (Joseph G. Jorgensen, ed. [Boston: Anthropology Resource Center, 1984]). Unfortunately, Ambler does not meet the challenge.
Climate Change On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Francis W. Kaye
Climate Change On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Francis W. Kaye
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In April of 1990 the Center for Great Plains Studies held its thirteenth annual symposium, entitled "Looking Back from the Twenty-First Century: Impacts of Climate Change on the Great Plains." Scholars from a number of fields, especially climatologists and geologists but also social scientists and literary critics, presented papers dealing with past evidence of climatic conditions and climate change, with present evidence of global warming and predictions about its consequences, and with human responses to weather and to climate change. In addition the symposium featured readings by poets and prose writers dealing with climate, weather, and perceptions of the Plains, …
Review Of The Arapaho, Lisa E. Emmerich
Review Of The Arapaho, Lisa E. Emmerich
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Among my treasured possessions is a photograph of three small children dressed in "Indian" regalia. The little boy and girl pictured wear fringed embroidered tunics and feathered headdresses; the baby-my father-sports a jaunty beaded headband with one feather. Taken in 1923, it captured their perception of Native American life: beads, bows and arrows, and buckskin. More than sixty years later, many children have a similar image of Indian culture. Native American historical revisionism may now be accepted in higher education but one look at primary school depictions of Thanksgiving suggests how little of the new scholarship has filtered down.
Review Of Calico Chronicle: Texas Women And Their Fashions, 1830-1910, Elizabeth A. Turner
Review Of Calico Chronicle: Texas Women And Their Fashions, 1830-1910, Elizabeth A. Turner
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Betty J. Mills, curator of costumes and textiles at the museum, Texas Tech University, has compiled a detailed and accessible study of Texas women's garments. Overcoming the obstacles of garment preservation and reconstruction, Mills uncovers information about clothing by studying photographs, museum collections, correspondence, diaries, magazines, and newspapers to determine how fabrics and garments were constructed and acquired. Often this side of history is lost, but Mills provides us with a conscientious study that presents cloth and garments as documents of the everyday kinds of lives of Texas people. Through this thoughtful research, Mills explores the symbolic role of fashion …
Review Of Historians Of The American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Dan Flores
Review Of Historians Of The American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook, Dan Flores
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As those who know him will attest, John Wunder's most important attributes as a scholar are his ability to brainstorm and his talent at infecting colleagues and collaborators with a contagious enthusiasm for interesting projects. Historians of the American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook is a product of those abilities, plus the research and writing talents of the authors Wunder has assembled. What emerges is a most important work on the early historiography of America's interaction with the North American wilderness. And as a book written by third and fourth generation frontier historians about the works and careers of the two …
More Names On Inscription Rock: Travel Writers On The Great Plains In The 1980s, Nancy Cook
More Names On Inscription Rock: Travel Writers On The Great Plains In The 1980s, Nancy Cook
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As in decades past, in the 1980s dozens of writers packed up their vehicles and headed west, notebooks handy. Several accounts that cover the Great Plains were published, including Mark Abley's account of the Canadian Plains, Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies (1986); Out West (1987), by Dayton Duncan; The Solace of Open Spaces (1985), by Gretel Ehrlich; Ian Frazier's Great Plains (1989); The Necessity of Empty Places (1988), by Paul Gruchow; British mountaineer Gwen Moffat's Hard Road West: Alone on the California Trail (1981); and The Hidden West (1983), by Rob Schultheis.
Shaping The Growth Of The Montana Economy:T.C. Power & Bro. And The Canadian Trade, 1869,93, Henry C. Klassen
Shaping The Growth Of The Montana Economy:T.C. Power & Bro. And The Canadian Trade, 1869,93, Henry C. Klassen
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The principal Fort Benton merchant houses that traded with the southwestern Canadian prairies from the late 1860s to the early 1890s helped determine the growth and vitality of the Montana economy. Particularly in north-central Montana, the region dominated by Fort Benton, the Montana-Canada commerce played a key role. Fort Benton's two largest merchant partnerships, T.e. Power & Bro. and 1.0. Baker & Co., became leaders among the pioneers in the big business of Canadian prairie trade during this period. They created international marketing and purchasing networks for importing buffalo robes and furs and for exporting foodstuffs, ready-made clothes, metal and …
Review Of Rich Grass And Sweet Water: Ranch Life With The Koch Matador Cattle Company, Albert T. Davis
Review Of Rich Grass And Sweet Water: Ranch Life With The Koch Matador Cattle Company, Albert T. Davis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Ranch life doesn't lend itself well to paper. The lifestyle of the cowboy or cowgirl is not something that can be reproduced easily. The subtleties of nature, its weather, beauty, ruthlessness, and its serenity are too complex for most authors to conquer easily. Too often ranching books become simple recitals of where, when, how much, how large, how many, how bad, or how good. John Lincoln's Rich Grass and Sweet Water is one of the few books that is able to portray successfully the life of the cowman.
Review Of Colorado: A Summer Trip, Kathleen A. Boardman
Review Of Colorado: A Summer Trip, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
When Bayard Taylor toured Colorado in 1866, he was a veteran travel writer; in the previous twenty years he had visited western Europe, central Africa, California, Egypt, Asia Minor, China, Japan, and Russia. Taylor considered himself a poet and translator, and he disliked the label "Great American Traveler." Nevertheless, he knew how to profit from his trips by publishing travel letters and scheduling lectures. Taylor's Colorado letters to the New York Tribune, later published in book form, describe the railroad and stagecoach trip across Kansas to Denver and into the Rockies, a horseback tour of the mountain parks, and …
Review Of The Complete Roadside Guide To Nebraska, Rosemary Thornton
Review Of The Complete Roadside Guide To Nebraska, Rosemary Thornton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Alan Boye's guide is complete in ways that Nebraskans and others who travel in Nebraska would find useful and interesting. I read with a map in one hand and felt a recurring urge to get on the road and verify the existence of these places. Being a native Nebraskan, I have visited, camped upon, canoed down, or hiked across much of Nebraska. Boye describes all the familiar places as I remember them and summarizes their history. The heart of the book is found in the historical trivia, however, the human interest anecdotes about local people from little known places. There …
Review Of The Comanche, Charles Kenner
Review Of The Comanche, Charles Kenner
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Comanches were the only tribe from the Pacific side of the Continental Divide to carve out a permanent niche for themselves on the Plains after the arrival of Europeans and horses in the region. Although they based their life almost totally on the horse, the Comanches remained unique in many ways among plains tribes. They neglected the annual Sun Dance rituals and communal buffalo hunts common to other tribes and failed to develop a system of soldier societies to regulate various tribal activities. Despite the many scholarly studies of them, much needs to be explained about their societies, such …
Review Of Elmer Kelton And West Texas: A Literary Relationship., Lawrence Clayton
Review Of Elmer Kelton And West Texas: A Literary Relationship., Lawrence Clayton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The University of North Texas Press has launched a new series of criticaVbiographical studies of Texas writers and has started, appropriately, with one of the best novelists writing today-in Texas or elsewhere. Elmer Kelton has published twenty-seven novels interpreting the development of Texas from the beginning of settlement by Anglos to the present.
Review Of The Choctaw, Clara Sue Kidwell
Review Of The Choctaw, Clara Sue Kidwell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Within the limitations imposed by writing a short book, Jesse McKee has presented a concise and readable history of the Choctaw Indians of both Oklahoma and Mississippi. Given the time period over which Choctaws came into contact with Europeans (beginning in 1541), the major political role they played in colonial conflicts among French, Spanish, and British, and the fact that they were effectively split into two groups after 1830, their history is very complex. McKee has managed to give a reasonable overview of the tribe, although his format leaves no space for highly sophisticated historical analysis
Review Of Colorado Catholicism And The Archdiocese Of Denver, 1857-1989, Denis R. Fournier
Review Of Colorado Catholicism And The Archdiocese Of Denver, 1857-1989, Denis R. Fournier
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The early sections of this very readable history of the Catholic Church in Colorado will be of special interest to fans of Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop who are interested in the historicity of her character Father Joseph Vaillant, based on Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, first bishop of Colorado. The author mines Howlett's Life of Bishop Machebeuf (one of Cather's sources), other ecclesiastical histories, and the local church archives for interesting information, some of it significant and some trivial, about Machebeuf and the problems he faced in Colorado. For instance, did you ever suspect that the effectiveness of Machebeuf's preaching …
Review Of Heaven Is Near The Rocky Mountains, Robin Ridington
Review Of Heaven Is Near The Rocky Mountains, Robin Ridington
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Thomas Woolsey was a Methodist missionary in the Edmonton region between 1855 and 1864. This book is a collection of his letters and journals, edited by historian Hugh Dempsey. Woolsey seems to have been concerned more with combating his Oblate "Romish" competitors than he was in understanding the Cree, Stoney, Blackfoot, and Sarcee Indians with whom he came into contact. Woolsey was thoroughly convinced of the superiority of his Methodism over heathenism and popery alike. He seems to have been a decent and articulate person, but not a particularly engaged observer of the Indian peoples to whom he ministered.
Review Of The Cheyenne, Gregory R. Campbell
Review Of The Cheyenne, Gregory R. Campbell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Cheyenne by Stan Hoig is one volume in Chelsea House Publishers' series on Indians of North America. The purpose of these volumes, according to general series editor Frank W. Porter III, is to examine the problems that developed as a result of Native American-European contact and to provide all Americans with a greater comprehension of the issues and conflicts involving American Indians today. If we evaluate this work against the series' goals, we must conclude that The Cheyenne is a somewhat disappointing effort.
Continuity And Change On The Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists Of South Dakota, 1921-71, James Marten
Continuity And Change On The Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists Of South Dakota, 1921-71, James Marten
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
When Gladys Leffler Gist remarked in her reminiscences that she and her husband Ray had witnessed "considerable 'for better and for worse'" during their forty years together, she could just as well have been describing the "marriage" between farmers and the agricultural economy during the same period. Depression and drought, of course, challenged those people making their livings from the land and in many ways dominated their impressions of those years. Of more long-term importance, however, were the "vast and fundamental changes" that, according to Gilbert Fite, stemmed from the "application of new technology, chemistry, and plant and animal sciences" …
Review Of Farmers "Making Good": The Development Of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920, Thomas K. Baldwin D. Isern
Review Of Farmers "Making Good": The Development Of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920, Thomas K. Baldwin D. Isern
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Incidental to interpretation of the W. R. Motherwell home, in Saskatchewan, Canada Parks Service presents the community of regional historians with this excellent monograph by Lyle Dick, a historian at its Winnipeg offices. Farmers' 'Making Good" is local history of a high order, incorporating the best scholarship, rising to broadly regional significance.
Review Of The Cherokee, William L. Anderson
Review Of The Cherokee, William L. Anderson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In The Cherokee Theda Perdue achieves superbly two goals-to give an accurate account of Cherokee history and culture from pre-white contact to the present while simultaneously dispelling any present misunderstanding derived from "unsympathetic, culturally biased and inaccurate reports."
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1991 Vol. 11 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1991 Vol. 11 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
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