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Review Of The Crow, W. Raymond Wood
Review Of The Crow, W. Raymond Wood
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This volume is not simply a review of Crow lifeways, but it also provides a history of the group from its first contact with Euro-Americans to the present day. White actions, so consistently at odds with Indian self-determination, are neither condoned nor scourged but are viewed within the framework of government and private Indian policy, the actions of wellmeaning as well as greedy individuals, and the often diametrically opposed world views of the Crows and the whites.
Lowry Charles Wimberly And The Retreat Of Regionalism, Kathleen A. Boardman
Lowry Charles Wimberly And The Retreat Of Regionalism, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"The New Regionalism," an essay by Lowry Charles Wimberly, appeared in the summer 1932 issue of Prairie Schooner, already well known as a midwestern literary magazine. Wimberly, an English professor at the University of Nebraska, had been the magazine's editor since its 1927 founding (and would continue in the post until 1956). As editor and teacher, he unfailingly encouraged potential writers to "leave trace of themselves" and their region by using local materials. 1
Review Of The Quapaws, Charles G. Ballard
Review Of The Quapaws, Charles G. Ballard
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
How to shake the hand of the unsmiling stranger in town and at the same time lose your shirt and all you own-such is the amazing and also tragic history of the American Indian. Although W. David Baird does not deviate much from the familiar and almost expected Jacksonian shakedown, he does offer succinct and at times moving accounts of how one formerly important tribe on the Mississippi-Arkansas trace was successively reduced in importance by its encounters with the French, the Spanish, and the Americans.
Review Of Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography And Checklist., Harvey L. Gunderson
Review Of Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography And Checklist., Harvey L. Gunderson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Oklahoma Mammalogy is a very thorough annotated bibliography and checklist for the rich mammal life of that state. Oklahoma has eastern, western, southern, and northern species and a varied topography, emphasized by the Wichita Mountains. Many mammalogists have studied and collected there.
Review Of One-Room School: Teaching In 19305 Western Oklahoma, Colleen Ryan
Review Of One-Room School: Teaching In 19305 Western Oklahoma, Colleen Ryan
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The term "one-room school" often evokes images, myths, and misconceptions. This book captures the memories of one young woman teaching in rural Oklahoma in the 1930s who succeeded despite unique problems of isolation, distance, time, weather, limited resources, and inadequate training.
Review Of The Yankton Sioux, Micheal L. Tate
Review Of The Yankton Sioux, Micheal L. Tate
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Although numerous nonfiction works about American Indians fill juvenile sections of public libraries, most are written by educators who know little about the subtleties of Indian life. The result is a myriad of books that reflect a "Great Chiefs" approach, or worse yet, a type of composite Native American hero distilltribes for the young adult and general reading audience, Frank W. Porter III, DirectorofChelsea House Foundation for the Study of American Indians, has initiated a 53-volume series of tribally and topically organized books. The length of each volume is rigidly maintained at 111 pages, and the list of projected authors …
Willard Kimball: Music Educator On The Great Plains, Marilyn Hammond, Raymond Haggh
Willard Kimball: Music Educator On The Great Plains, Marilyn Hammond, Raymond Haggh
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Histories of American music are largely histories of that part of the United States that lies east of the Mississippi, especially of the eastern seaboard. H. Wiley Hitchcock in his Music in the United States tends to dismiss the area to the west of such cities as Chicago, Kansas City, and St. Louis as of little importance for American music history, but because almost no research has been done on the music of that area, he has nothing on which to base his assumptions. For the researcher who troubles to look for it, there is ample evidence in the periodicals …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1991 Vol. 11 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1991 Vol. 11 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Schoolmarms On The Upper Missouri, Kathleen Underwood
Schoolmarms On The Upper Missouri, Kathleen Underwood
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Margery Jacoby was a child of twelve when she moved with her sister and their aunt from Wisconsin to the Montana frontier in 1883. Three years later, with the encouragement of the county superintendent of schools, she attempted the county exam that was necessary for a teaching job. With a first-class certificate (good for three years) in hand, she began teaching, in large part to supplement her family's income. She taught for the next seven years at several rural schools near Fort Benton and Great Falls.
Review Of Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives In North Dakota., Margrethe Ahlshwede
Review Of Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives In North Dakota., Margrethe Ahlshwede
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives in North Dakota celebrates the contributions of women to the history and development of the state of North Dakota on the occasion of that state's centennial in 1989.
Review Of Cheyennes And Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition And The Battle Of Solomon's Fork, Donald J. Berthrong
Review Of Cheyennes And Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition And The Battle Of Solomon's Fork, Donald J. Berthrong
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During the summer of 1857, Colonel Edwin Vos Sumner and his troops invaded Cheyenne and Arapaho land. By the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie the two tribes were recognized as the occupants of western Kansas and eastern Colorado between the Platte and Arkansas rivers. The treaty also tried to prevent intertribal warfare and to protect emigrants and commerce over the platte River road and the Santa Fe Trail. After a conflict in 1856 at the Upper Platte bridge, Cheyenne war parties attacked wagon trains on the Platte River road. Whether the raiders were all Southern Cheyennes or if they were …
Review Of Cowboy And Gunfighter Collectibles: A Photographic Encyclopedia With Price Guide And Makers Index, Warren W. Caldwell
Review Of Cowboy And Gunfighter Collectibles: A Photographic Encyclopedia With Price Guide And Makers Index, Warren W. Caldwell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The title of this estimable (but expensive) volume carries connotations of shootouts, banditti, and the vivid color of the never-never world of the "Old West. H Perhaps some of that is here, but there is much more. In essence, it contains the portable memorabilia of the true West. There are Winchesters and Colts enough. These are predictable but perhaps other tools of the cowboy trade are not. The spurs, ropes, saddles, and even clothing are to be found here, including even the trappings of the occasional lady range rider. Much is omitted: no doubt the author had to make choices. …
Review Of Land Of Bright Promise: Advertising The Texas Panhandle And South Plains 1870-1917, Douglas Francis
Review Of Land Of Bright Promise: Advertising The Texas Panhandle And South Plains 1870-1917, Douglas Francis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Land of Bright Promise is an account of the promotion propaganda of the Panhandle-South Plains area of Texas, one of the last areas of the American West to be settled. For decades, the region was seen as a desert area, part of the "Great American Desert," which from the early nineteenth century was believed to extend from the Gulf of Mexico north into British territory and eastward from the Mississippi River to the Rocky Mountains. It was also imagined as part of the "Wild West" with hostile Indians and desperados. Thus it took an extra effort on the part of …
Review Of Beyond The Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism And A Sense Of Place, Barbara L. Imig
Review Of Beyond The Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism And A Sense Of Place, Barbara L. Imig
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Rather than embarking upon a quest for the ever-illusionary "new beginning" in a "new land," Harold P. Simonson in Beyond the Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism and a Sense of Place argues that the frontier metaphor has synthesized into a sense of place and that place is "home."
Review Of The American West: A Twentieth-Century History., Peter Iverson
Review Of The American West: A Twentieth-Century History., Peter Iverson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"This is a little book about a big subject," wrote Gerald Nash in his introduction to The American West in the Twentieth Century (1973). Thanks to Michael Malone and Richard Etulain, we now have a second book on the same subject. The century is more advanced, but their volume is no bigger. Yet within the limits of a relatively brief text, the authors have provided us with an impressive survey of the region.
Review Of Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope, Kelly Kindscher
Review Of Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope, Kelly Kindscher
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This flora of essentially the eastern half of Colorado provides keys to 2560 types of vascular plants found in this area. It provides useful information for those interested in the identification of plants in the central portion of the Great Plains because the work provides a thorough coverage of the area to the borders of Nebraska, Kansas, Wyoming, and New Mexico. Since the vegetation extends beyond these political borders, this work can be useful to those in nearby states.
Review Of The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions Of Western Indians, Peter Maslowski
Review Of The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions Of Western Indians, Peter Maslowski
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Careful students of the American West have long realized that making valid generalizations about the officers who served in the frontier army is extraordinarily difficult. For example, a major theme in Soldier West: Biographies from the Military Frontier (1987), edited by Paul Andrew Hutton, was the rich variety in experiences, interests, and personalities among army officers. Now, Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, demonstrates how ambivalent and contradictory the officers were in their perceptions of virtually every aspect of Indian affairs. And, importantly, she recognizes that officers' wives also lived on "officers' …
Review Of Siringo., Clare V. Mckanna
Review Of Siringo., Clare V. Mckanna
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Anyone who has seen Richard Farnsworth's portrayal of Bill Miner in the Grey Fox would identify with Charles A. Siringo: "a nineteenth- century man who had become an anachronism in a twentieth-century world that had passed him by." This is a sad story about a jackof- all-trades western character who tried his hand as a cowboy, detective, homesteader, and writer. After reading this book, one concludes that he was not particularly skilled in any of these professions-all of them brought him grief
Review Of Son Of Old Jules: Memoirs Of Jules Sandoz, Jr., Barbara Wright Rippey
Review Of Son Of Old Jules: Memoirs Of Jules Sandoz, Jr., Barbara Wright Rippey
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Readers of Son of Old Jules familiar with Mari Sandoz's biography of her Nebraska Sandhills father, Old Jules (1935), will be sharply aware of the references to this earlier published Sandoz and her book. So are the authors, who, from the first word of the introduction to the last chapter, continually evoke Mari's memory by specific reference to her work and by rounding out many of her vignettes of her Swiss immigrant family and their community.
Review Of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy Of Conflict, F. Arturo Rosales
Review Of The Treaty Of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy Of Conflict, F. Arturo Rosales
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This unique work by a pioneer in Chicano history is perhaps one of the most inspiring works to date on the subject of Mexicans in the United States, a contention to which I will return. The study contains a brief history of the end of the Mexican American War in 1847 and the negotiations between the two warring nations that were concurrent with the period.
Review Of From The Pecos To The Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography., Bob Ross
Review Of From The Pecos To The Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography., Bob Ross
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This paperback edition of a twenty-five-yearold classic is packed with anecdotes from the ranch country of Texas (1890-97) and Montana (1897-1929). Bob Kennon, who got his schooling in the saddle as a working cowboy, evidently knew how to spin a tale; his yarns, mostly brief, are told in to-the-point detail, down to the names and manners of horses he rode and quips and quirks of the men he worked with. He watched everything, from domestic quarrels and camp-cook rivalries to range accidents and saloon riots, with a merry storyteller's eye; he reports fights and shootings without making them epic or …
Review Of "Our Purpose Is To Serve"; The First Century Of The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Peter D. Shemitz
Review Of "Our Purpose Is To Serve"; The First Century Of The North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station, Peter D. Shemitz
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Danbom's exhaustive account of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station at Fargo usefully fills a gap in the history of agriculture on the Great Plains. The author explains how the experiment station was founded and the development of the main interests of its scientists: breeding varieties of crops and livestock, diversifying production, and adopting modem agricultural and business practices.
Review Of The Two Psychiatries: The Transformation Of Psychiatric Work In Saskatchewan, 1905-1984, Will Spaulding
Review Of The Two Psychiatries: The Transformation Of Psychiatric Work In Saskatchewan, 1905-1984, Will Spaulding
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Great Plains region has a history of producing innovations in mental health. This book, an historical account and sociological analysis of the evolution of the Saskatchewan public mental health system, describes one Great Plains phenomenon that at times during this century has been remarkably progressive. The book began as the author's dissertation in the sociology of health care and was made possible by his fortuitous access to confidential government archives, primarily in the form of interoffice correspondence, in addition to the public historical record. Dickenson evaluates several hypotheses generated by sociologies of labor and professions. The brief and succinct …
Review Of Political Bossism In Mid-America: Tom Dennison's Omaha 1900-1933, Frederick M. Spletstoser
Review Of Political Bossism In Mid-America: Tom Dennison's Omaha 1900-1933, Frederick M. Spletstoser
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Orville D. Menard's Political Bossism in MidAmerica is an in-depth account of the political machine that controlled Omaha, Nebraska, during the first third of the twentieth century. Thomas Dennison, the man who stood at the helm of that machine, is the book's central character, and the author scrutinizes Dennison's long and colorful career from almost every imaginable angle. Furthermore, Menard keeps Dennison and his city in their national context. Tom Dennison was one of many pragmatic urban bosses who came to power in cities filled with immigrants needing powerful friends who could help them in times of need. In return …
Review Of Images Of The West: Changing Perceptions Of The Prairies, 1690-1960., Robert Thacker
Review Of Images Of The West: Changing Perceptions Of The Prairies, 1690-1960., Robert Thacker
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Over the past several years, Western Producer Prairie Books has published volumes that demonstrate-quite apart from the materials they offer and the arguments they advancethe enduring "lure of the land" felt by English-Canadians (both prairie dwellers and those living elsewhere) toward their prairie as an evocative and formative landscape. Ronald Rees's Land of Earth and Sky: Landscape Painting of Western Canada (1984) and New and Naked Land: Making the Prairies Home (1988), from the same press, and now R. Douglas Francis's Images of the West, suggest that Western Producer is tapping a general interest in the Canadian prairie landscape …
Review Of Great Plains Patchwork: A Memoir, Kathleene K. West
Review Of Great Plains Patchwork: A Memoir, Kathleene K. West
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Great Plains Patchwork is an uneven, at times disturbing book, but like Grace Paley's "little disturbances" it is the moments that unsettle, that jar the reader a bit that make this book worthwhile.
Review Of The Selected Letters Of Frederick Manfred, 1932- 1954., Leslie Whipp
Review Of The Selected Letters Of Frederick Manfred, 1932- 1954., Leslie Whipp
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is an impressive piece of work by the University of Nebraska Press, by Arthur R. Huseboe and Nancy Owen Nelson, and of course by Frederick Manfred, and it will prove to be useful to scholars and critics of midwestern literature and more broadly as well.
Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.
Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
For most Americans, "The Great Plains" evokes images of grasslands, dust storms, prairie fires, Indians on horseback, cowboys and wheat lands, and perhaps flat valleys crossed by braided rivers carrying a heavy load of sand and gravel, extremes of weather, and a climate typified by an alternation of droughts and wetter periods. Geologists picture such general images, too, but they also see radical changes in the landscape over periods expressed in millions rather than hundreds of years. Geologically speaking, human activities on the Great Plains are too recent to have much of a place in the broad geologic history of …
Climate And Vegetation In Central North America: Natural Patterns And Human Alterations, John A. Harrington Jr, Jay R. Harman
Climate And Vegetation In Central North America: Natural Patterns And Human Alterations, John A. Harrington Jr, Jay R. Harman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The characteristic patterns of climate and natural vegetation in central North America are strongly interrelated and result from an atmospheric circulation system that responds to both global and continental scale mechanisms. Climatic patterns arise in the region between the Rocky Mountains and the Great Lakes or Mississippi River from the interactions between two major components of the global atmospheric circulation system, the tropical Hadley Cell and the extratropical, upper-level Westerlies. The Westerlies, particularly, are influenced and steered by thermal inequalities over the earth's surface as well as by terrain barriers such as the Rocky Mountain Cordillera. In addition, both the …
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.2
Notes And News For Vol.11 No.2
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.