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The United States Army As A Constabulary On The Northern Plains, Larry D. Ball
The United States Army As A Constabulary On The Northern Plains, Larry D. Ball
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
With the formation of the United States military establishment in the late eighteenth century, the new army undertook many services in the developing republic, including several associated with the frontier movement. While the army considered the suppression of hostile Indians its primary mission in the West, its soldiers routinely supported civilian law enforcement authorities. After the Civil War, white criminals accompanied other American frontiersmen onto the northern Plains, where white desperadoes soon posed a serious problem. In the late 1870s they descended upon the Black Hills mining camps and looted stagecoaches in alarming numbers; brazenly robbed Union Pacific trains and …
The North Dakota Anit-Garb Law: Constitutional Conflictand Religious Strife, Linda Grathwohl
The North Dakota Anit-Garb Law: Constitutional Conflictand Religious Strife, Linda Grathwohl
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In a little known but apparently not uncommon practice in twentieth-century American education, public school systems across the nation, lacking teachers or money, employed Catholic nuns as teachers. Those opposed to employing sisters as teachers challenged their right to wear their habit, or religious garb, while teaching in a public school. 1 This paper provides the constitutional and religious background to this legal controversy and explores the issues in depth through a case study of sisters teaching in the state of North Dakota from the 1930s to the early 1960s.
How Far West Am I?: The Almanac As An Explorer's Yardstick, Arlen J. Large
How Far West Am I?: The Almanac As An Explorer's Yardstick, Arlen J. Large
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
On 14 September 1494, three ships from Spain lay anchored at the southeastern tip of Hispaniola. Their admiral, Christopher Columbus, looked up at a full moon expecting something to happen, and it did.
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1993 Vol. 13 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1993 Vol. 13 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of John Rollin Ridge: His Life & Works, Kevin Mullroy
Review Of John Rollin Ridge: His Life & Works, Kevin Mullroy
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
James Parins has produced the first booklength study of John Rollin Ridge, the mixedblood Cherokee writer and California newspaper editor. Ridge (1827 -67) packed a great deal into his relatively short life and certainly deserves a biography. He grew up during the violent years of Cherokee removal and postremoval factionalism; when only twelve, he saw his father assassinated; he later killed an enemy and fled to California to become a forty-niner; and he became well-known as a poet, editor, and political commentator. Ridge is best remembered as the author of The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California …
Review Of Victorian West: Class And Culture In Kansas Cattle Towns, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Victorian West: Class And Culture In Kansas Cattle Towns, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Since Robert Haywood retired from the academic administration of Washburn University some years ago, he has become a major historian of the Great Plains region. Although he has been interested chiefly in Kansas history, he has produced books of general interest. His latest, Victorian West: Class and Culture in Kansas Cattle Towns, may also be his best.
Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom
Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The title of this book is a fine indicator of its essential theme, for this is the story of how the prevailing images of Omaha determined the objectives of city planning. From 1945 to 1973, Omaha's economy changed fundamentally, and this reality eventually changed how local decision- makers perceived their community. These new perceptions finally brought a new orientation in planning for the heart of the city
Unplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce In A Frontier Town Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century, C. Robert Haywood
Unplighted Troths: Causes For Divorce In A Frontier Town Toward The End Of The Nineteenth Century, C. Robert Haywood
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"W elcome to Dodge City, the biggest, wildest, wickedest little city on the continent," was the exuberant greeting given out-of-town visitors to Dodge's Fourth ofJuly celebration in 1883. The assessment projected was a selfcongratulatory one shared and frequently envied by the rest of the United States. Dodge was enjoying the peak of its cattle-town fame and prosperity as the quintessential frontier boom town, unrestrained by convention, the "very embodiment of waywardness and wantonness." Few communities seemed more at odds with the national social values and mores that later generations would label Victorian. As a mecca for free-spending cowboys it was …
Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925., Susan E. Gray
Review Of Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment On The Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925., Susan E. Gray
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Prevailing Over Time is an exploration of the development of Swedish, Russian Mennonite, and French Canadian farming communities in central Kansas in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. McQuillan examines the immigrants' adoption of American social practices and the adjustment of ethnic and nativeborn settlers to farming in an area of unpredictable rainfall.
Lands, Laws, And Women: Decisions Of The General Land Office, 1881~ 1920 A Preliminary Report, Nancy J. Taniguchi
Lands, Laws, And Women: Decisions Of The General Land Office, 1881~ 1920 A Preliminary Report, Nancy J. Taniguchi
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"S ettlement" of the West-by common understanding-has meant the taking up of the public domain, especially homesteads and preemptions, under federal law. Obviously, "settlement" in this sense has little to do with actual occupation, or the property rights of Native Americans and long-resident Hispanics would not have been so long ignored. The specific process of settling involved three steps: filing a claim, proving up and/or making payment, and obtaining title or ownership. Each of these steps had its pitfalls, which, when they occurred, were usually resolved by the General Land Office (GLO), a division of the Department of the Interior …
Exploring The Great Plains: An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton
Exploring The Great Plains: An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The essays presented in this issue of the Great Plains Quarterly were originally delivered at the sixteenth annual symposium of the Center for Great Plains Studies, at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, in April 1992, under the title, "American Encounters: Exploring the Great Plains." Other essays from the conference will appear in future issues of the Quarterly and in Great Plains Research.
Exploring The Explorers: Great Plains Peoples And The Lewis And Clark Expedition, James P. Ronda
Exploring The Explorers: Great Plains Peoples And The Lewis And Clark Expedition, James P. Ronda
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
There are few stories that seem more commonplace than the narrative of the exploration of the American West. It is the stock-in-trade of countless textbooks, classroom lectures, and popular novels. In the traditional telling, European and American adventurers are the actors at center stage while Native Americans stand silently in the wings or have bit parts.
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.2
Notes And News For Vol.13 No.2
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1993 Vol. 13 No. 3
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1993 Vol. 13 No. 3
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of Settlers' Children: Growing Up On The Great Plains, Paula M. Nelson
Review Of Settlers' Children: Growing Up On The Great Plains, Paula M. Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Elizabeth Hampsten wrote Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains to answer some basic questions about the lives of children during the settlement era in North Dakota (with a few examples added from South Dakota and northwestern Minnesota). "What was it like for children in the first years of settlement ... what did they think of their childhood?" (p. 3) she asks. To provide the answers she examines memoirs and other autobiographical materials written by people who were children on the Plains and also examines the writings of some plains mothers who detailed the lives of their children. Most …
Review Of Populism: Its Rise And Fall., Homer E. Socolofsky
Review Of Populism: Its Rise And Fall., Homer E. Socolofsky
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
William Alfred Peffer, from Kansas, the first Peoples Party United States Senator, wrote this analysis of Populism for the Chicago Tribune in 1899 where it was published as a series and forgotten. Almost a century later its republication establishes it as an anti-fusion insider's view of what happened to the Populist Party. Editor Peter Argersinger is the author of Populism and Politics: William Alfred Peffer and the Peoples Party and a professor of history at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Categories And Terrains Of Exclusion: Constructing The "Indian Woman" In The Early Settlement Era In Western Canada, Sarah Carter
Categories And Terrains Of Exclusion: Constructing The "Indian Woman" In The Early Settlement Era In Western Canada, Sarah Carter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1884 Mary E. Inderwick wrote to her Ontario family from the ranch near Pincher Creek, Alberta, where she had lived with her new husband for six months. 1 The letter provides a perspective on the stratifications of race, gender, and class that were forming as the Euro-Canadian enclave grew in the district of Alberta. Mary Inderwick lamented that it was a lonely life, as she was twenty-two miles from any other women, and she even offered to help some of the men near them to "get their shacks done up if only they will go east and marry some …
Marguerite Laflesche Diddock: Office Of Indian Affairs Field Matron, Lisa E. Emmerich
Marguerite Laflesche Diddock: Office Of Indian Affairs Field Matron, Lisa E. Emmerich
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"I am an Indian girl fifteen years old .... Sometimes I am sorry that the white people ever came to America. What nice times we used to have before we were old enough to go to school, for then father used to take us on the buffalo hunt."l
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1993 Vol. 13 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1993 Vol. 13 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
The Drama Of Law In Nebraska State Capitol: Scupture And Inscription, Robert S. Haller
The Drama Of Law In Nebraska State Capitol: Scupture And Inscription, Robert S. Haller
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Drama is the quality that Hartley Burr Alexander, the "thematic consultant" for the Nebraska State Capitol, admired in the sculpture of his time. In his role as consultant, Alexander fused the ideas of the building's architect, Bertram Goodhue, and its sculptor, Lee Lawrie, into a sustained programmatic interpretation of society and law. This paper discusses the significance and the development of the twenty-one Lawrie sculptural panels around the cornices of the Capitol that illustrate the "Development of Law."
Review Of Roadside History Of Oklahoma, Brad Bays
Review Of Roadside History Of Oklahoma, Brad Bays
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Writing local history for the general reader requires a harmonization of scholarship and literary skill. Roadside History of Oklahoma at best provides stereotypical entertainment at the expense of regional coherence, accuracy, and pluralistic interpretation
Review Of The Custer Reader, James Brisco
Review Of The Custer Reader, James Brisco
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the nearly 120 years since Custer died at the Little Big Hom, about the only thing that historians can agree upon about him is that he was flamboyant. Thus far, the literature about him has either been favorable or very antiCuster in nature. Paul Andrew Hutton has assembled a collection of some of the more classic articles on Custer. Some of these are more favorable accounts, and some are less flattering articles about Custer's career as a soldier.
Review Of People Of The Willows: The Prehistory And Early History Of The Hidatsa Indians, Gregory L. Fox
Review Of People Of The Willows: The Prehistory And Early History Of The Hidatsa Indians, Gregory L. Fox
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Research concerning the Plains Village tradition in the Middle Missouri subarea has been a primary focus of Northern Plains archaeology for the past hundred years. Peoples of the Willows incorporates results of those investigations along with more recent work stemming from the National Park Service-sponsored research program at the Knife River Indian Villages National Historic Site into a definitive and readable volume on the Hidatsa people of North Dakota.
Review Of Pawnee Passage, 1870-1875, Oliver Frohling
Review Of Pawnee Passage, 1870-1875, Oliver Frohling
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1875 the Pawnees were removed from the remains of their vast lands in Nebraska to a new reservation iI). Indian territory. Relying on historical sources as well as oral history accounts of Pawnee life, Blaine documents the mounting pressures on the tribe in the years between 1870 to 1875 that finally led to their expulsion from Nebraska. She carefully describes the change in the Pawnee way of life that resulted from government policies and pressures by surrounding settlers.
Review Of Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man And Sun Dance Chief., Todd Kerstetter
Review Of Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man And Sun Dance Chief., Todd Kerstetter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Social ills plague Indian reservations in the United States as they have since the day those institutions were born. From within the Indian community, an elderly holy man has raised his voice to prescribe a return to traditional Indian religion.
Review Of War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, Mark Mattern
Review Of War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, Mark Mattern
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Powers' stated goal in this book is to "provide some background, including the history, the continuity, and the change" that he has witnessed in American Indian culture from the perspective of musical performance over the last thirty to forty years. He has easily succeeded in this task. As an observer and participant in Indian song and dance since 1947 as an eighth grader, Powers knows his material. He writes from the vantage point of a veteran surveying his field, offering description and analysis of it.
Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Custer's Last: Campaign: Mitch Boyer And The Little Bighorn Reconstructed, And The Great Sioux War 1876-77: The Best From "Montana The Magazine Of Western History.", John D. Mcdermott
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During the past six years, scholars have produced a wealth of research and analysis concerning the Sioux Campaign of 1876 and its centerpiece, George Armstrong Custer. Among its flowerings are Cavalier in Buckskin, indisputably the best biography ever written on the junior commander of the Seventh Cavalry, and Custer's Last Campaign, probably the best synthesis of the voluminous testimony concerning what happened on the way to Last Stand. In addition, we now have available a selection of articles on the Sioux War of 1876-1877 published in Montana Magazine over the years, with an introductory essay by Paul Hedren that …
Review Of Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks: The Spanish Missions Of New Mexico, Ralph H. Vigil
Review Of Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks: The Spanish Missions Of New Mexico, Ralph H. Vigil
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This book is volume 18 of the Spanish Borderlands Source books series. It forms part of a two-volume collection of writings about the missions of New Mexico before and after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The editors note that volumes 17 and 18 both contain "selected articles, excerpts from longer works, and printed mission documents" (p. xiii).
Review Of Quivira: Europeans In The Region Of The Santa Fe Trail, 1540-1820, Jane Maclaren Walsh
Review Of Quivira: Europeans In The Region Of The Santa Fe Trail, 1540-1820, Jane Maclaren Walsh
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The subjects addressed in this book are familiar ones: Spanish exploration of the American Southwest and eastward through the Great Plains, and French exploration westward from Louisiana. According to the jacket blurb, William Brandon offers "a closely written synthesis" of these explorations, examining them through a lens provided by a region that he variously calls a frontier and an ancient trade route. Unfortunately, while much of Quivira is synthesis, written as a gossipy digest of historical events occurring in an ever-enlarging region during a three-hundred-year period; little of it is "closely written."