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Maximilian, Prince Of Wied (1782-1867): Reconsidered, Paul Schach

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 3 November 1992 the British Society for the History of Natural Sciences convened at the Naturkundliches Museum in Vienna. Since the theme of the six-day convention was "The Exploration and Opening Up of America as Mirrored by Natural History," it is appropriate that one of the papers presented should have been devoted to Maximilian, Prince of Wied, whose complementary expeditions to North and South America have so greatly enriched our knowledge ofIndian cultures that once flourished in Brazil and on the Great Plains. Yet, despite the fact that Maximilian was "by far the best trained scientific observer to explore …

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1994 Vol. 14 No. 2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of Indians Of North America: The Chickasaw, L.G. Moses

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Chicsa's People, or the Chickasaw, for centuries farmed and hunted in their traditional homeland that encompassed portions of present-day Mississippi, Alabama, and Tennessee. The harvest of animal furs and skins encouraged British traders early in the eighteenth century to court favor among the Chickasaw to the exclusion of the Spanish and the French. Once established, tribal allegiance to the British continued until, at the close of the American revolution, the Chickasaw finally and reluctantly allied themselves to the United States. Despite repeated promises to respect the Chickasaw's right to their homeland, U.S. officials in the mid-1830s pressured tribal leaders to …

Review Of Homesteading Women: An Oral History Ofcolorado, 1890-1950, Evelyn I. Funda

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Julie Jones-Eddy has compiled her interviews with forty-seven women from northwestern Colorado into a work that preserves the women's perspective of homesteading. Like many oral histories, this one divides excerpts of the interviews thematically into subjects such as "Home and Family," "Marriage, Pregnancy, and Childbirth," and "Working Women." The excerpts address a range of women's homesteading experiences, from the art and precision of soap-making to the sorrow of nursing children during the 1918 flu epidemic. Although this format does not always allow the reader to see the pattern of an individual life, such groupings do recreate the pattern of women's …

Review Of Pike's Peak Vision: The Broadmoor Art Academy , 1919-1945, Barbara Racker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Pike's Peak Vision: The Broadmoor Art Academy, 1919-1945 is a catalog for a 1989/90 exhibition organized by the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Co-curators and authors Stanley L. Cuba and Elizabeth Cunningham state that the exhibition was the first survey of the collections of the Broadmoor Art Academy and its successor, the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.

Admiring Advocate Of The Great Plains: Father Pierre, Jean De Smet, S. J., On The Middle Missouri, Robert Carriker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Great Plains fascinated Pierre-Jean De Smet. When describing his favorite haunts in the broad trans-Mississippi West, De Smet's letters bulged with superlatives. He used only grand and eloquent adjectives to describe the celestial peaks of the Rocky Mountains, the spewing geysers in the Yellowstone basin, The Dalles of the Columbia River, and the freeform, contorted rock formations that sprawled across the White Cliffs of the upper Missouri River. It was the Great Plains, however, that received from Father De Smet not only some of his most dramatic prose, but also some of his most perceptive comments regarding the future …

Review Of Writing Western History: Essays On Major Western Historians, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

After a couple of decades adrift in the horse latitudes, western history and attendant historiographical debates have sailed smartly into the port of popular interest. Scholars have produced their books and articles; the popular press, sensitive to issues that touch ideas and images of national identity and culture, has given them unprecedented publicity.

Review Of Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts By Don Hampton Biggers, Bob Ross

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The killing of the buffalo herds and introduction of domestic livestock was the pivotal ecological event in the recent history of the Great Plains. Don Biggers, a pioneer West Texas journalist, collected eyewitness accounts and produced History That Will Never Be Repeated and Pictures of the Past, published in 1901 and 1902 respectively. These valuable and lively books are now republished, along with diamond..sharp photographs from the same era, an introduction, and a brief biography of Biggers, under the title Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire.

Review Of Prince Charming Goes West: The Story Of The E. P. Ranch., Larry A. Mcfarlane

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is a history of the E. P. (Edward Prince) Ranch intertwined with a selective biography of H. R. H. Edward Windsor (Prince of Wales, King Edward VIII, Duke of Windsor) during the forty.-three years he owned the property. Edward arranged for the purchase of the ranch after a visit to the Pekisko Creek district in the beautiful foothills of the Rocky Mountains' front ranges of southern Alberta in 1919. The author discusses Edward's motives for acquiring and retaining the 1440 acres and additional leased land and identifies the evolving management strategies and personnel connected with the ranch. In …

Review Of Sending My Heart Back Across The Years: Tradition And Innovation In Native American Autobiography, Kari Forbes-Boyte

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Sending My Heart Back Across the Years, Hertha Wong, an assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, expands the definition of autobiography to include non-Western self-expressions. The author lays to rest the assumption that autobiography is Western by relating how Native Americans have traditionally told their personal narratives through "stories, pictographs, and performances." The purpose of the book is to utilize contemporary autobiographical theory to trace the changes in Native American autobiography from pre-contact forms to contemporary styles. Wong is interested in enlarging the field of autobiographical studies to include non-written forms of narrative as …

Review Of The Catch Pen, Jill Morstad

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Folklore is but one facet of the human phenomenon we call culture. In the West, the study of cowboys as "folk," that is, as learners, knowers, performers, observers, and teachers of folklore is increasingly grounded in a wider study of general ethnography and cowboy culture. Clearly, such a wider study is precisely the aim of organizers and participants in the National Cowboy Symposium and Celebration, a selection of whose efforts have been gathered into The Catch Pen. Here, editors Ainsworth and Davis have assembled twenty-five artifacts of lived and living Texas folklore in evidence of the continuing existence of …

Index To Vol.14 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of From The Prairies With Hope And My Dear Maggie: Letters From A Western Manitoba Pioneer, Becky Faber

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The frontier of Canada became the new home for many Europeans who believed that they could improve their lives by leaving their homelands. Two such moves to the prairies of Manitoba are chronicled in Aberson's and Wallace's books, both collections of personal reflections on their lives on Manitoba farms.

The Necessity Of Narrative In William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways And Prairyerth, Pamela Walker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the essay "Journeys into Kansas," William Least Heat-Moon articulates his theory of travel writing, indicating his understanding of the purposes of travel writing in general and of his two books in particular, along with the problems inherent in achieving those purposes. A reading of Blue Highways and PrairyErth in light of "Journeys into Kansas" reveals how HeatMoon realizes his goals more fully in Blue Highways, which entails a personal narrative, than in PrairyErth, which, unlike Blue Highways, lacks a personal narrative and is as much a meditation on its own writing and HeatMoon's theory of its …

Review Of Larger Than Life: The American T All-Tale Postcard, 1905-1915., Lana Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If the trials and tribulations of everyday living have you down you should pick up this wonderfully amusing book. Inside is revealed a fascinating and funny slice of the early 1900s Americana known as the tall-tale postcard.

Review Of Eyewitness At Wounded Knee., Susan A. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

What happened at Wounded Knee Creek on 29 December 1890, was not a battle but a massacre by soldiers of the families comprising Big Foot's band of Minneconjou Lakotas. Surrounded, desperately outnumbered and outgunned, provoked into a hopeless firefight, they ran and were slaughtered to the tiniest infant by mounted soldiers who hunted them for "several hours" (p. 19) and some three miles. About three hundred Lakotas were killed. Because Bigfoot's men had engaged the soldiers, the atrocity has been masked as a battle. Indeed, twenty-eight soldiers received medals of honor for participating in the massacre and associated activities.

Review Of Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story, Beatrice Medicine

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book joins the burgeoning personal document data on Lakota women. The book, another as-told-to life history on Lakota women as in Lakota Woman by Mary Crow Dog and Richard Erdoes and Cante ohitika Win (Bravehearted Women) by Carolyn Reyer, centers upon life on Cheyenne River reservation and presents another facet of feminine experiences. Collections of this genre-though often getting rave reviews in publications of the dominant society-evoke certain cautionary appraisals from persons in their natal communities. Perhaps many collectors of biography/ autobiography forget that the so-called target populations from which their subjects stem are literate.

Review Of Without Quarter: The Wichita Expedition And The Fight On Crooked Creek, Fort Meade And The Black Hills, And Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles And The Great Sioux War 1876-1877., Charles Kenner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

All of these books share the fact that not only do they deal with the Plains Indian military frontier but also that their subjects have had relatively little written about them. They differ widely, however, in scope and depth of research.

Jejich Antonie: Czechs, The Land, Cather, And The Pavelka Farmstead, David Murphy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The literature of Willa Cather has long been praised for its rich and evocative description of place. Her raw material was drawn primarily from personal experiences in late nineteenth- century Webster County, Nebraska, during the period of initial settlement, and renewed by frequent visits home the first decades of this century. The Pavelka farmstead was one of the important places in her life; it was used as the setting for Book V of My Antonia and for "Neighbour Rosicky," a later short story.¹

Review Of A Prairie Populist: The Memoirs Of Luna Kellie., Susan Sessions Rugh

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Jane Taylor Nelsen has performed a great service for scholars of agrarian life by making available the autobiographical writings of Luna Kellie. Kellie, who migrated from Minnesota to the Nebraska frontier as a young wife in 1877, played an active part in Populist politics beginning in the 1890s. The awakening of her political consciousness grew out of her own experience as a farm wife struggling to wrest a living from the Nebraska soil while she and her husband raised a large family. Catapulted to the position of secretary to the state league by the popularity of a song she wrote, …

Review Of Writing The Circle: Native Women Of Western Canada, Janice C. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The radiant image of Binaseek in Evelyn Nelson..Kennedy's "Our Modern Powwows" provides a fine invitation to this anthology:

Binaseek...walked with a limp and talked only to herself. The old people said that she had been severely burned in her youth and had never been the same since. Her withered right hand was evidence to the truth of the story. Binaseek had made a belt for her dress. The brown piece of cloth was wrapped around her waist, decorated with oversized buttons. Her stockings lay wrinkled at her ankles. The children laughed at her pathetic attempts at sewing. Binaseek, oblivious to …

Review Of Regional Studies: The Interplay Of Land And Peo~ Ple, James N. Mccrorie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1987 Baylor University sponsored a national symposium on the concepts and applications of regionalism. From all accounts, the three..day conference was a success and the sponsors were persuaded to publish the proceedings. The result is Regional Studies: The Interplay of Land and People, edited by Glen E. Lich.

Review Of La Frontiera Del Grana (1896-1918): L'Ovest Nella Storia Canadese., Walter Centuori

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Since 1976, Valeria Gennaro Lerda has been a professor of American and Canadian history at the University of Genova, Italy. She is the author of a number of studies, has spent a great deal oftime as a researcher in the United States and Canada, and is currently on the Editorial Board of the Canadian Studies Review and Vice President of the Italian Association for North American Studies.

Notes And News For Vol.14 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

Review Of Relations Of Rescue: The Search For Female Moral Authority In The American West, 1874-1939, Karen Morin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If plenary speeches at the Coalition for Western Women's History conference in the summer of 1992 in Lincoln, Nebraska, are any indication, the 1990s have begun with an apparent methodological consensus by women's historians: that race and class conflict and cooperation, as well as gender differences, must serve as organizing themes for a genuine history of western women. In Relations of Rescue, Peggy Pascoe, professor of history at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, delivers an excellent model for framing such multicultural research. Her starting point for the history of Protestant missionary women in the late nineteenth …

Review Of Nebraska Diamonds: A Brief History Of Baseball Major Leaguers From The Cornhusker State, Stu Fliger Burns

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Has Nebraska produced baseball players of major league quality? The answer, according to Jerry Clark, is "Over a hundred, thank you." Nebraska Diamonds is a collection of biogra.. phies of major leaguers hailing from the Corn.. husker State. I t does not discriminate according to player quality, detailing the ca.. reers of both Sam Crawford, who had a hall of fame career, and John Sanders, who appeared in one game. Nor does it exclude non..lifetime Nebraska residents like Wade Boggs, born in Nebraska but raised in Florida. Some sketches include personal details, but most concentrate on each athlete's baseball career.

Review Of The Osage Ceremonial Dance I'N-Lon-Schka, Mark J. Swetland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The Osage Ceremonial Dance l' n-Lon-Schka, by Alice Anne Callahan, is a fascinating look at contemporary (1970s) Osage ceremonialism. Acquired from the neighboring Kaws and Poncas in the 1880s, the I'n-Lon-Schka is reportedly the only surviving Osage ceremony that contains both song and dance. Drawing heavily from oral interviews, the author presents a composite picture of the dance that honors the eldest son.

Review Of Wedded To The Cause: Ukrainian Canadian Women And Ethnic Identity, 1891 1991, Mary K. Kirtz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The history of Ukrainian..Canadian women has never before been told so completely from the women's perspective, and Swyripa has made a valuable contribution to the historiography of Canada's female pioneers. By exploring the activities and goals of various women's organizations, she examines these women's sense of their own identity both within the boundaries of the Ukrainian community itself and within the larger Canadian context. Swyripa's main thesis is that a wide gulf exists between what she calls the "grassroots" conception of Ukrainian..Canadian identity, embodied in the apolitical image of Baba the homebody, and the "community elite" conception of a politically …

Review Of For An Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay On The Foundations Of A Social Ethic, H. David Brumble

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The title looks forward to the writing of history from the perspective of Native Amer.. icans. Such history would be autohistory because it would be written by Native Americans themselves-and by those "who have an Amerindian soul" (p. 105). The "social ethic" in the title is to be a whole new "science": "The moral code specific to [Native] America is so distinctive that the study of it, through history, constitutes a science" (p. 104).

Review Of The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts Told By Angeline Williams, Paul C. Brooke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book is tremendously valuable as a tool for understanding not only linguistic research but for understanding the life and culture of an Ojibwe woman. Angeline Williams, Biidaasigekwe or "Sunlight Woman," came to Virginia in 1941 from Sugar Island on the St. Mary's River to teach the Ojibwe language to Leonard Bloomfield. Bloomfield's subsequent translations and understanding of the Algonquian language family led to significant advances and changes in the study of linguistics. This series of Ojibwe stories and their up-todate translations to English illustrate the thoroughness of Bloomfield's linguistic research.