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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1994 Vol. 14 No. 3
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Summer 1994 Vol. 14 No. 3
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Plains And Prairie Space, History, And The Literary Imagination, In Australia And The United States, Don D. Walker
Plains And Prairie Space, History, And The Literary Imagination, In Australia And The United States, Don D. Walker
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1825 a space observer orbiting the earth could have looked down on two enormous land masses separated by more than 7000 miles. In the southern hemisphere the great body of land was Australia, an insular continent surrounded by the southern seas. In the northern hemisphere the great body of land was the United States, framed on east and west by oceans, bordered on the north by the even greater land of Canada and on the south by the lesser land of Mexico. Australia and the United States were roughly the same size, some three million square miles.
Review Of The Administration Of Dominion Lands, 1870-1930., Barry Kaye
Review Of The Administration Of Dominion Lands, 1870-1930., Barry Kaye
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Members of the legal profession have made useful contributions to our knowledge of the history of western Canada. In Manitoba the writings of Roy St. George Stubbs and Dale Gibson come to mind. To be added to that list is Kirk N. Lambrecht, a practicing attorney from Edmonton, Alberta, who has made an important contribution to the literature on the administration and development of Dominion Lands in the western provinces and northern territories of Canada. After the vast areas of Rupert's Land and the North-West Territories were transferred from the Hudson's Bay Company to the Dominion of Canada on 15 …
Review Of Wyoming Time And Again: Rephotographing The Scenes Of J. E. Stimson, Phil Roberts
Review Of Wyoming Time And Again: Rephotographing The Scenes Of J. E. Stimson, Phil Roberts
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
From 1889 until his death in 1952, ]. E. Stimson photographed Wyoming scenes. A year after he died, the state of Wyoming purchased the 7526 photographs, many of which were 8" x 10" glassplate negatives. Although he seems less well known, Stimson was to Wyoming photography what Solomon Butcher was in Nebraska or L. A. Huffman was in eastern Montana.
Review Of Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Lisa Knopp-Ramsay
Review Of Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak, Lisa Knopp-Ramsay
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
If we are to make valid critical interpretations of Native American literature, we must "discover, or rediscover, cultural values other than those rooted in Western aesthetic or individual aesthetic sensibilities," Laura ColtelIi recommends. She provides this perspective through a series of ten "oral autobiographies" (interviews) with contemporary American Indian authors. This format provides a particularly poignant form of self-revelation given the rich oral tradition of First Americans.
Review Of The Sternberg Fossil Hunters: A Dinosaur Dynasty., Gregory Brown
Review Of The Sternberg Fossil Hunters: A Dinosaur Dynasty., Gregory Brown
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Dinosaur! One hundred and fifty years after being coined by Sir Richard Owen, that word still evokes wonder. Every so often, the world seems to enter into a period of dinosaur hysteria. In case you've failed to notice, we're in one now, and it's a whopper. A well..placed dinosaur can sell anything: hamburgers, pencil boxes, movies, and of course, books. But make no mistake, this is not just another book about dinosaurs. It is a classic work about exploration, discovery, and growth.
Review Of A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents And The Sioux Indian Disturbances Of 1890-1891, Todd Kerstetter
Review Of A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents And The Sioux Indian Disturbances Of 1890-1891, Todd Kerstetter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Newspapers played a key role in disseminating information and, unfortunately, misinformation about the Ghost Dance among the Lakotas. They also contributed to tension between the United States and the Lakotas that resulted in the grisly massacre at Wounded Knee. George R. Kolbenschlag's A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents and the Sioux Indian Disturbances of 1890-1891 sheds light on the men and women responsible for reporting on the Ghost Dance and the Wounded Knee Massacre and lends understanding to the nature of the reporters' activities.
"The Best Kind Of Building" The New Deal Landscape Of The Northern Plains, 1993-42, Carroll Van West
"The Best Kind Of Building" The New Deal Landscape Of The Northern Plains, 1993-42, Carroll Van West
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"'VWel are definitely in an era of building; the best kind of building-the building of great public projects for the benefit of the public and with the definite objective of building human happiness," proclaimed President Franklin D. Roosevelt as he introduced his New Deal programs of recovery and reform.1 From 1933 to 1942 such federal agencies as the Federal Emergency Relief Administration (FERA), the Public Works Administration (PW A), the Civilian Conservation Corps (CCC), and the Works Progress (later Projects) Administration (WPA) gave a new look to the northern plains landscape by placing a federal facade on the public …
Review Of The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History, Harold J. Weiss Jr.
Review Of The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History, Harold J. Weiss Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
From his home base in the English isles, Frederick Nolan has produced a first-rate source book on the Lincoln County War in New Mexico Territory (1878-1881). His encyclopedic coverage can be seen from two vantage points: as a study of the events themselves and as a research tool for academics and history buffs. As a documentary history the author's use of primary sources is-to say the least-impressive. In addition, his nearly 100 biographical sketches of participants in an appendix add depth to his analysis, and his inclusion of rare photographs, ample notations, and extensive bibliographical citations (with a listing of …
Inhabiting The Dangerous Middle Of The Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading Of Kroetsch's Gone Indian, Mary K. Kirtz
Inhabiting The Dangerous Middle Of The Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading Of Kroetsch's Gone Indian, Mary K. Kirtz
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Robert Kroetsch, whose approaches to novel writing extend from the primarily realist novel But We Are Exiles (1965) to the clearly post-modernist What the Crow Said (1978) and the somewhat less postmodern Alibi (1983), has left equally wide..ranging impressions on the English--Canadian critical landscape. Responses extend from those who see, at least in his earlier novels, a sympathy for realist and modernist impulses towards synthesis (Turner, Schaefer) to those who have identified Kroetsch as a preeminent postmodern writer (Hutcheon, Neuman); indeed, Linda Hut.. cheon has called him "Mr. Canadian Post.. modern."2 Even within the two parts of Hutcheon's formulation, however, …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1994 Vol. 14 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1994 Vol. 14 No. 1
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of Pioneer Policing In Southern Alberta: Dean Of The Mounties, 1888,1914, Larry D. Ball
Review Of Pioneer Policing In Southern Alberta: Dean Of The Mounties, 1888,1914, Larry D. Ball
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Among law enforcement institutions, the Canadian North..West Mounted Police occu.. pies an exalted place in the public mind. In this present volume, historian William M. Baker provides a helpful corrective to the sometimes exaggerated picture of this famous constabulary by presenting reports and other documents from the papers of Richard Burton Deane, a veteran of more than three decades (1883 .. 1914) as a Mounted Policeman in AI.. berta.
Review Of Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography And Historical Atlas Of Kansas., Patrick G. O'Brien
Review Of Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography And Historical Atlas Of Kansas., Patrick G. O'Brien
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
These two highly disparate reference works will amply serve any inquisitor into Kansas history.
Review Of Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer In Psychology, Kevin B. Miller
Review Of Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer In Psychology, Kevin B. Miller
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer in Psychology, by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., presents a cogent portrait of an individual whose work and personality helped shape his community. As such, this biography resurrects Wolfe's life and contributions from their obscure condition, brief footnotes in a few psychology texts. Benjamin's work is a vital biography which will appeal to a diverse audience far beyond the scope its title suggests.
A North American Connection: Women In Prairie Novels, Ann Barnard
A North American Connection: Women In Prairie Novels, Ann Barnard
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Canadian poet Eli Mandel has said that the prairie writer is one who points in the direction of the prairie and not necessarily one who always lives there or writes exclusively about that region. Mandel, who suggests that the prairie has as much to do with "state of mind" as with locale and that prairie space is dynamic, cites Margaret Laurence and Robert Kroetsch, among others, as examples of Canadian writers identified with the West who have withdrawn and returned. 1 In the United States, Willa Cather comes to mind as prototype for Mandel's paradigm, and although her later work …
Review Of The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply And Demand, 1866-1890., Kenneth Dagel
Review Of The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply And Demand, 1866-1890., Kenneth Dagel
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
From Zane Grey novels to the television series Rawhide, the cattle-trailing period has always fascinated Americans. Jimmy M. Skaggs presents a very readable account of this brief but very important period in the settlement of the American West. Skaggs an economic historian structures his work as a study of the activities of Great Plains cattle-trailing contractors. First published in 1973 and now reprinted the book also includes information on the establishment of stockyards and commission companies. These were vital to the efficient handling of the tremendous influx of beef cattle being trailed up from Texas following the Civil War.
Review Of Farmers, Hunters, And Colonists: Interaction Between The Southwest And Southern Plains, Russell M. Magnaghi
Review Of Farmers, Hunters, And Colonists: Interaction Between The Southwest And Southern Plains, Russell M. Magnaghi
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The idea for this monograph goes back to September 1987 when the editor, Katherine Spielman, organized a meeting of scholars. A series of formal papers and discussions on the interaction of the Southwest and Plains Indians resulted, forming the basis of this work.
Review Of Mills & Mine: The Cf&I In The Twentiethcentury., Clare V. Mckanna Jr.
Review Of Mills & Mine: The Cf&I In The Twentiethcentury., Clare V. Mckanna Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Following in the tradition of his earlier work, Pioneer Steelmaker in the West (1976), H. Lee Scamehorn concludes his history ofCF&I. There is no need to guess here-this is a history of the Colorado Fuel and Iron Company from the company's perspective. Scamehorn criticizes earlier historians for emphasizing "labor policies, particularly the coal miners' strike of 1913-14," that tended to ignore the "firm's important role in the evolution of Colorado and the American West." Then the author sets out to chronicle the growth and eventual decline of the steel works at Pueblo, Colorado, and the various coal mining operations located …
Review Of Objects Of Change: The Archaeology And History Of Arikara Contact With Europeans, Joseph C. Porter
Review Of Objects Of Change: The Archaeology And History Of Arikara Contact With Europeans, Joseph C. Porter
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
J. Daniel Rogers' Objects of Change evaluates Arikara Indian contact with Euro-Americans and with Euro-American technology. He uses the Arikara material culture (or archaeological) record to determine the interactive process between the Arikara and the Euro-Americans. This process of interactions or "acculturation" was "neither standardized nor prescribed" among the Native Americans of the Great Plains (p. 1). "In the long run, the interaction strategies used by both Euro-Americans and natives resulted in the transformation of peoples and their material cultures, but the results were often different and the process almost never the same," Rogers writes. "The single overriding fact of …
Review Of The Upstream People: An Annotated Research Bibliography Of The Omaha Tribe, Mark J. Swetland
Review Of The Upstream People: An Annotated Research Bibliography Of The Omaha Tribe, Mark J. Swetland
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Michael Tate has gathered nearly 1900 documents related to the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska and Iowa, providing the reader of The Upstream People with a valuable research tool. Divided into 32 sections with cultural or historical subject headings, each entry is accompanied by a summary and/or critique. Since each item is provided with only a single index entry, browsing the book does require a bit of creativity. Nonetheless, it is a handy device for anyone interested in Omaha research materials.
Notes And News For Vol.14 No.1
Notes And News For Vol.14 No.1
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of A Dakota-English Dictionary And An English-Dakota Dictionary, Allan R. Taylor
Review Of A Dakota-English Dictionary And An English-Dakota Dictionary, Allan R. Taylor
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
There has been a good deal of interest in the Dakota dialects in recent years, due no doubt to a general increase in interest in American ethnicities since the 1960s. There has been even more interest in the language since the appearance of the film Dances with Wolves.
Walking The Sky: Visionary Traditions Of The Great Plains, Lee Irwin
Walking The Sky: Visionary Traditions Of The Great Plains, Lee Irwin
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The shared worldviews of the indigenous peoples of North America are rooted and linked in a rich pre-Columbian artifactual and oral past that is still highly active today. One perspective into these worlds is obtained by understanding the nature of dreams and visions. In traditional Native American cultures, such a perspective is an essential part of the search for spiritual knowledge where dreams and visions represent contacts with primordial sources of empowerment. To perceive this search for empowerment requires an appreciation of the visionary experience, an experience which has often been denied or marginalized in the dominant cultures.1
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1994 Vol. 14 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1994 Vol. 14 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
"A Gof-Forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology And The Dust Bowl, Brad Lookingbill
"A Gof-Forsaken Place": Folk Eschatology And The Dust Bowl, Brad Lookingbill
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
On an idyllic Sunday in April 1935, people from Lubbock, Texas, to Topeka, Kansas, went on picnics, planted gardens, visited neighbors, and attended church. Communities had been punished with depression and drought, yet on that spring day Plains men and women felt assured that peace and safety had returned. Suddenly in midafternoon the air turned cold, and people noticed then that the sky had become filled with birds, fleeing from some unseen force. Fifteen-year-old Ida Mae Norman, driving home from a Palm Sunday church service with her family, saw a thin strip of black on the horizon north of Guymon, …
Living In The Depot: The Two-Story Railroad Station On The Northern Plains, H.Roger Grant
Living In The Depot: The Two-Story Railroad Station On The Northern Plains, H.Roger Grant
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The environment of the northern Plains caused settlers to make special adaptations to meet their need for shelter. Buildings were practical and often temporary. Dugouts and sod houses proliferated during the frontier period, then gave way to more permanent structures as settlement matured. By the late nineteenth century the balloon-frame building had become ubiquitous. Instead of requiring experienced carpenters fashioning large timbers with mortise-and-tenon joints as they had often done in the East, balloon framing utilized two-by-fours or similar pieces of lumber that amateur woodworkers could nail together without difficulty. Fabricating a balloon-frame structure became even easier with the accessibility …
Architecture And The Great Plains: An Introduction, H.Keith Sawyers
Architecture And The Great Plains: An Introduction, H.Keith Sawyers
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The four essays in this issue of the Great Plains Quarterly were originally presented at the seventeenth annual symposium of the Center for Great Plains Studies held in April of 1993 at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln under the title, "Architecture and the Great Plains: The Built Environment, Past and Present." They provide a sampling of the conference's broad range of inquiry into the character of architecture within the Great Plains region.
Writing The Little House: The Architecture Of A Series, Ann Romines
Writing The Little House: The Architecture Of A Series, Ann Romines
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Laura Ingalls Wilder's perennially popular Little House series takes as its central motif the invention, abandonment, and perpetuation of a series of Great Plains houses. In large part Wilder tells the autobiographical story of her childhood and adolescence through a plot of housing, a risky competition and collaboration of male traditions of buying and building and female traditions of furnishing, arrangement, preservation, and housekeeping. With her series, Wilder made Great Plains houses a central metaphor of U. S. culture, one that we continue to rethink and retell, as the Little House books proliferate, spawning everything from television reruns to porcelain …
Notes And News For Vol.14 No.2
Notes And News For Vol.14 No.2
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
No abstract provided.
Review Of Freedom On The Border: The Seminole Maroons In Florida, The Indian Territory, Coahuila, And Texas, Rebecca B. Bateman
Review Of Freedom On The Border: The Seminole Maroons In Florida, The Indian Territory, Coahuila, And Texas, Rebecca B. Bateman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The 1992 Festival of American Folklife, held in Washington, D.C., featured an exhibit entitled "Maroon Culture in the Americas," in which members of maroon communities from the Caribbean, Mexico, and South Amer.. ica exhibited their crafts, foodways, and music and dance. Included among these representa.. tives was a contingent from the United States -the Texas Seminole Maroons-whose dis .. play proudly emphasized their historical rela.. tionship with the Seminole Indians and the crucial role played by their forebears in the opening of the southwest to white settlement.