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Review Of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities In The Modern Americanwest By Carl Abbott, Eugene P. Moehring
Review Of The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities In The Modern Americanwest By Carl Abbott, Eugene P. Moehring
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Carl Abbott enhances his reputation for excellence with this interpretive survey of the modern western city. He begins with World War II when heavy federal spending revitalized urban areas stagnating from twenty years of farm-mine depression. Abbott highlights the findings of Gerald Nash, Greg Hise and others while injecting his own scholarly insights at strategic points, a pattern that continues throughout the book. For example, he expands upon D. W. Meinig's concept of imperial Texas by extending Dallas-Fort Worth's range of influence far up into the Wyoming oil country. Then, building upon his own recently published work, Abbott develops further …
Review Of Community Development Strategies On The Northern Plains By Kevin A. Choy And Richard C. Rounds, Joseph Luther
Review Of Community Development Strategies On The Northern Plains By Kevin A. Choy And Richard C. Rounds, Joseph Luther
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Kevin Choy and Richard Rounds, of the Rural Development Institute at Brandon University in Manitoba, have examined strategies for rural community economic development on the conterminous Great Plains of North America. Their exploration, description and explanation of these strategies has derived a fresh look at community economic development theory that could serve to unite many of the competing factions in this field. Their schematic of rural development theories provides an understanding of the various frames of reference for this field of study and practice. For this reason, this book should be a highly recommended reading for students in the rural …
Review Of Meant To Be Wild: The Struggle To Save Endangered Species Through Captive Breeding By Jan Deblieu, William Scharf
Review Of Meant To Be Wild: The Struggle To Save Endangered Species Through Captive Breeding By Jan Deblieu, William Scharf
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
In the early 1970s, when I watched Frances Hamerstrom's initial attempts to achieve captive breeding of golden eagles, and later to induce red-tailed Hawks to complete most of their life cycle in captivity, I thought the practice to be only a novelty and biological sideline. I had no idea that the captive breeding and re-release of wild species into their natural environments would become such an accepted and important technique. Indeed this book documents many such attempts and some notable successes.
Review Of Watching Kansas Wildlife: A Guide To 101 Sites By Bob Gress And George Potts, Ronald M. Case
Review Of Watching Kansas Wildlife: A Guide To 101 Sites By Bob Gress And George Potts, Ronald M. Case
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This publication is designed for the novice wildlife watcher and it is a guide to where to go to watch wildlife, not how to identify them. The authors are enthusiastic, and rightfully so, about wildlife in Kansas. There is considerable wildlife diversity throughout the Great Plains yet many people do not know or appreciate this treasure.
The book provides a statewide map showing the physiographic regions and all 101 viewing sites in Kansas. Additionally, there are six maps indicating the locations of sites and highways in that region. Each site description includes directions to the site, its size, ownership, wildlife …
Review Of Policy For American Agriculture: Choices And Consequences By M. C. Hallberg, E. Wesley F. Peterson
Review Of Policy For American Agriculture: Choices And Consequences By M. C. Hallberg, E. Wesley F. Peterson
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
M. C. Hallberg is a professor of agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State University and this book treats agricultural policy almost exclusively from that disciplinary perspective. For Hallberg, agricultural policy is largely confined to the various market interventions of national governments, particularly those programs that have been put in place to regulate farm production, prices and incomes. The book is organized into four parts. The first section includes three chapters dealing with the nature of agricultural policy and the legislative and political processes that produce U.S. farm programs. The second section includes two chapters designed to provide an analytical framework for …
Review Of American Agriculture: A Brief History By R. Douglas Hurt, John Fraser Hart
Review Of American Agriculture: A Brief History By R. Douglas Hurt, John Fraser Hart
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This book is a history of American agriculture by an academic agriculturalist who is interested in farm programs, policies, organizations, institutions, and bureaucracies, but cares little about real farms. Although he occasionally itemizes the products of farms, he largely ignores cropping systems, livestock feeding operations, and the ways farmers integrate them to produce these products.
Review Of Turning On Water With A Shovel: The Career Of Elwood Mead By James R. Kluger, James W. Hewitt
Review Of Turning On Water With A Shovel: The Career Of Elwood Mead By James R. Kluger, James W. Hewitt
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Elwood Mead, like Elwood P. Dowd, saw things other people didn't. Both preferred the world of their imagination. But the resemblance ends there. Mead labored zealously for over 50 years to make his imaginary world a reality. And to a significant degree he was successful.
James R. Kluger, essentially revising his doctoral dissertation for publication, has traced the broad outlines of Mead's career as America's foremost proponent of irrigation. This is not a biography in the strict sense of the word. Kluger gives us no insights into Mead's character, or his family life. The work is confined to recounting, on …
Review Of The Fishes Of Alberta (2nd Edition) By Joseph S. Nelson And Martin J. Paetz, R. A. Bodaly
Review Of The Fishes Of Alberta (2nd Edition) By Joseph S. Nelson And Martin J. Paetz, R. A. Bodaly
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This useful and attractive book is a much needed second edition of The Fishes of Alberta, first published in 1970. It is expanded and improved from the first edition and will be an essential reference for biologists working with the fishes of Alberta and surrounding areas, for those interested in the distribution of freshwater fishes in North America, and for anglers and the interested public as well.
The Fishes of Alberta is organized into two main sections. An introductory section has chapters on various types offish habitat in the different river basins and regions of Alberta, fish management and …
Review Of Prairie Populism: The Fate Of Agrarian Radicalism In Kansas, Nebraska, And Iowa, 1880-1892 By Jeffrey Ostler, Robert W. Cherny
Review Of Prairie Populism: The Fate Of Agrarian Radicalism In Kansas, Nebraska, And Iowa, 1880-1892 By Jeffrey Ostler, Robert W. Cherny
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Why was there no populism in Iowa? That is the question posed by Jeffrey Ostler, assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon, in this revised version of his dissertation. The question itself is more complicated than it might first seem, and Ostler's thoughtful and carefully-researched answers have interesting implications for the study of late 19th century politics more generally.
Ostler approaches his question by comparing Iowa with Kansas and Nebraska. Arguing that the economic situation of farmers in the three states was not sufficiently different to explain the great dissimilarity in their support for the Populist Party in …
Review Of Farms, Mines, And Main Streets: Uneven Development In A Dakota County By Caroline S. Tauxe, David B. Danbom
Review Of Farms, Mines, And Main Streets: Uneven Development In A Dakota County By Caroline S. Tauxe, David B. Danbom
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Anthropologist Caroline Tauxe's Farms, Mines, and Main Streets is a study of the impact of energy development in Mercer County, North Dakota. Mercer County's rich deposits of lignite became the focus of attention by energy companies and policymakers during the energy crisis of the seventies. Already the site of several mines and power plants-lignite begins to lose its potency soon after it is taken out of the ground-the county was the focus of intense energy development, the most important facet being the Great Plains coal gasification plant, which converted lignite into natural gas.
Review Of Ogallala: Water For A Dry Land By John Opie, Stephen E. White
Review Of Ogallala: Water For A Dry Land By John Opie, Stephen E. White
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Ogallala is as much about the need for achieving sustainable agriculture in America as it is about the issues surrounding the depletion of groundwater in the High Plains. In some ways, the Ogallala region simply serves as the setting for describing the problems of the energy intensive, high-tech oriented agriculture pervasive throughout much of the U.S. today. Only a portion of the Ogallala, that most impacted during the dust bowl era and extending from about Lubbock, Texas through southwestern Kansas, is treated systematically.
Review Of Forgotten Places: Uneven Development In Rural America Edited By Thomas A. Lyson And William W. Falk, Karen Morin
Review Of Forgotten Places: Uneven Development In Rural America Edited By Thomas A. Lyson And William W. Falk, Karen Morin
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The editors and authors of this fine collection of articles, though mostly sociologists, demonstrate how geography is in a sense destiny to the rural poor. By focusing on nine regions spanning the country from New England to the Rio Grande Valley to the Pacific Northwest, they show how social as well as spatial isolation has created common problems among a rural underclass that is "forgotten" by mainstream America.
Socio-spatial isolation may take many forms, but the outcome for all the places studied is the same: lack of full participation in American economic life. Educational isolation in the Black Belt of …
Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers And Government Policy, Todd Kerstetter
Lost Harvests: Prairie Indian Reserve Farmers And Government Policy, Todd Kerstetter
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Until recently, prevailing wisdom in academic circles held that nomadic, buffalo hunting tribes on the Great Plains resisted all efforts to make them farmers. According to the old school, sedentary, regimented agricultural life on a reservation violated these noble hunters' culture. Sarah Carter says that the old school was dead wrong. Carter, a Canada Research Fellow with the Department of History and Rupert's Land Research Centre at the University of Winnipeg, argues that during the last quarter of the nineteenth century Indians in Canada's prairie provinces stood ready and willing to adopt an agricultural lifestyle. The Canadian government, however, despite …
Review Of Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food On The Oregon Trail By Jacqueline Williams, Betsy Downey
Review Of Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food On The Oregon Trail By Jacqueline Williams, Betsy Downey
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
By the end of her wagon journey west, Phoebe Judson recalled, "all of the little delicacies we brought ... from home were gone, ... the thought of a 'baked kidney' or 'pink-eyed' potatoes caused the tears to roll down my face" (p. 2). For Judson and other emigrants, daily life on the Oregon Trail revolved around food; the journey often took six months and meant more than seven hundred meals cooked out or eaten cold, in all kinds of weather. Food historian Jacqueline Williams sees these meals as a vital part of the history of the overland travelers. Her Wagon …
Table Of Contents - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995
Table Of Contents - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Contents: Articles
Book Reviews
News and Notes
Review Of On Turner's Trail: 100 Years Of Writing Western History By Wilbur R. Jacobs, Mark A. Eifler
Review Of On Turner's Trail: 100 Years Of Writing Western History By Wilbur R. Jacobs, Mark A. Eifler
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The addition of another study assessing the legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner will surely elicit a few groans among western scholars. This is too bad, for Wilbur Jacobs' On Turner's Trail is a detailed, insightful, and richly rewarding trek that should be undertaken by all western historians.
Jacobs' book mixes the best of biography, historiography, and institutional history, while adding a good deal of personal reminiscence as well. As a biography, Jacobs paints a portrait of an ambitious and complex historian, a man struggling to synthesize a huge quantity of data, who retains a genuinely open mind regarding material and …
Review Of Confronting Sexual Assault: A Decade Of Legal And Social Change By Julian V Roberts And Renate M. Mohr, Cynthia Willis-Esqueda
Review Of Confronting Sexual Assault: A Decade Of Legal And Social Change By Julian V Roberts And Renate M. Mohr, Cynthia Willis-Esqueda
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
In Confronting Sexual Assault Julian V Roberts and Renate M. Mohr have edited a collection of chapters written by various scholars and professionals on issues central to Canadian social change concerning legal conceptions of rape, as well as the legal ramifications of such change for Canada. The book also contains a reprint of 1992 legislation, Bill C-49, that provides tests for when judges may allow a complainant's sexual history to be admitted as evidence and provides a definition of "consent" for determining sexual assault. Moreover, the bill "... restricted the defense of mistaken belief in consent ... " (p. 11). …
Review Of Buffalo By John Foster, Dick Harrison, And I. S. Maclaren, Edmonton, Alberta, 1992, University Of Alberta Press, Alan J. Osborn
Review Of Buffalo By John Foster, Dick Harrison, And I. S. Maclaren, Edmonton, Alberta, 1992, University Of Alberta Press, Alan J. Osborn
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
This volume contains 12 contributions that deal with North American bison in relation to paleontology, archaeology and cultural resource management, the fur trade, portrayal in art and literature, disease and population ecology, and Native American land tenure.
There are two general themes that dominate this book. First, two articles by Jack Brink and Ed Sponholz discuss the role of Native Americans in the interpretation and preservation of cultural resources. Both authors focus on the spectacular prehistoric Head-Smashed-In bison jump in southwestern Alberta. Head-Smashed-In is a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization World Heritage site that has been developed in …
News And Notes - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995
News And Notes - Volume 5, Number 1, February 1995
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Contents:
Great Plains Research Science Award
Calls for Papers
Conferences
Reports on Past Conferences
Review Of Not Room Enough: Mexicans, Anglos And Socioeconomic Change In Texas, 1850-1900 By Kenneth L. Stewart And Arnoldo De Leon, F. Arturo Rosales
Review Of Not Room Enough: Mexicans, Anglos And Socioeconomic Change In Texas, 1850-1900 By Kenneth L. Stewart And Arnoldo De Leon, F. Arturo Rosales
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The main conclusion of this concise work is that Mexicans had more economic parity with Anglos in 1850 than at the end of the nineteenth century. Even though both groups chased opportunities offered by Texas' entry into the capitalist world system, the fortunes of Mexicans did not keep pace. By 1900, Mexicans lagged behind Anglos in property ownership, in capital wealth, in political power retention, and in educational attainments. Such a course is predictable; the thesis has often been aired prior to the publication of this work, not just about Texas but about other areas of the Southwest.
Changing Employment Patterns On The Northern And Central Great Plains, Richard E. Lonsdale, J. Clark Archer
Changing Employment Patterns On The Northern And Central Great Plains, Richard E. Lonsdale, J. Clark Archer
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The Great Plains are sometimes characterized as an economically lagging region. To shed some light on the region’s prospects, the locational and structural changes in employment patterns in the northern and central Great Plains were examined for the 1980 to 1990 period. County-level data were drawn from CD-ROM census publications and matched with locational references using Atlas *GIS . Shift-share computations were undertaken for the region as a whole and for metropolitan and nonmetropolitan counties. Employment declined sharply in agriculture and construction, but increased in the service sectors. Compared with the nation as a whole, the region competed poorly in …
Review Of Colorado: The Place Of Nature, The Nature Of Place By Thomas P. Huber, A. David Hill
Review Of Colorado: The Place Of Nature, The Nature Of Place By Thomas P. Huber, A. David Hill
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Colorado contains profiles of twelve distinctive places, which like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, fit together to form a mosaic that helps describe and explain the state's natural and, to a lesser extent, human history. The opening chapter introduces the lay reader to the broad themes of the state's physical geography-geology, landforms, climate, and vegetation. These topics are then typically covered with specific reference to each of the place profiles that constitute the remaining twelve chapters.
The most intriguing aspect of the book is the selection of the twelve places. Huber said he chose them "to inform, tantalize, and …
Northern Great Plains Manufacturers: Assistance Needs And Potential Economic Contributions, F. Larry Leistritz
Northern Great Plains Manufacturers: Assistance Needs And Potential Economic Contributions, F. Larry Leistritz
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The past decade has been a period of turmoil for the manufacturing sector in both the US. and Canada, and rural manufacturing firms in both countries have been subjected to substantial competitive pressures. The purpose of this study was to identify the firms that comprise the manufacturing sector in North Dakota and in the Provinces of Manitoba and Saskatchewan, and to identify their needs in order to increase economic activity in the region. Data came from a survey of 333 firms conducted in 1991. Overall, the findings indicate that the firms comprising the manufacturing sector in Manitoba and Saskatchewan are …
Review Of Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings, September 13-15,1990, Laurie A. Milne
Review Of Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings, September 13-15,1990, Laurie A. Milne
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The 13 papers in this volume derive from the Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium held in mid-September 1990 at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, the heartland of the 19th-century American fur trade. Conference organizers, intending this meeting to be reminiscent of the well known, periodic North American Fur Trade Conferences, had invited nearly two dozen preeminent scholars to offer their insights into the trade .and traders of the upper Missouri country. To this end the papers appearing in this publication cover such diverse topics as the geographic setting, the construction of Fort Union, the men of the …
The Nutritional Impacts Of European Contact On The Omaha: A Continuing Legacy, Christiana Miewald
The Nutritional Impacts Of European Contact On The Omaha: A Continuing Legacy, Christiana Miewald
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
For the majority of Native American tribes on the Great Plains, contact with Euro-Americans resulted in a number of changes in their lifeways. For the Omaha tribe, the introduction of both the horse and firearms meant a diversification in nutritional strategies and a florescence in their culture. After being confined to their reservation in 1855, the Omaha continued to remain largely self-sufficient in food production. During the early years of the reservation until the turn of the century, the Omaha were highly successful farmers, producing surpluses of cash• and garden variety crops. In this paper I argue that today the …
Review Of Restructuring Rural Saskatchewan: The Challenge Of The 1990s By Jack C. Stabler And M. R. Olfert, James Knotwell
Review Of Restructuring Rural Saskatchewan: The Challenge Of The 1990s By Jack C. Stabler And M. R. Olfert, James Knotwell
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Stabler and Olfert have contributed a well-conceived empirical analysis of a truly rural economic region (about 18% of the Saskatchewan population is employed in primary sectors, overwhelmingly agriculture). This book tends to support most of the same phenomena postulated in Central Place Theory literature, and observable in similar case studies of similar regions. Great Plains development and planning agencies should find in Stabler and Olfert's methods a rich harvest of easily applicable approaches to analyzing their respective economic spaces, provided they have access to a large, diverse database, or can compile it themselves with a minimal expenditure. Unfortunately, the theoretical …
Review Of Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion And Environmental Politics By R. Mcgreggor Cawley, Francis Moul
Review Of Federal Land, Western Anger: The Sagebrush Rebellion And Environmental Politics By R. Mcgreggor Cawley, Francis Moul
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The public policy issue this book explores is a continuing one, especially after the Republican take-over of Congress in 1994. In a sense, then, this study of the Sagebrush Rebellion of the 1970s and 1980s is incomplete. It seems clear that the issue, governmental control and use of the public lands of twelve western states, will change-perhaps radically.
Yet, the book is an important study of a highly volatile public issue in the West, and gives us an understanding of its dimensions no matter what turn policy or public indignation will take. A crucial part of that understanding is the …
Review Of Flooding The Courtrooms: Law And Water In The Far West By M. Catherine Miller, Linda S. Parker
Review Of Flooding The Courtrooms: Law And Water In The Far West By M. Catherine Miller, Linda S. Parker
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The arid but fertile San Joaquin Valley yielded fortunes for whoever owned the water that trickled down from the neighboring Sierra Nevada Mountains. Landowners avidly brought lawsuits seeking rulings that would favorably define stream flows, property boundaries, and economic uses of water. Oddly, California courts followed the legal doctrine of the eastern rather than neighboring western states, upholding the "riparian" claims of those who owned land bordering a river rather than "prior appropriators" who discovered and first used the water. Riparian law laid the foundation for the enormous cattle company, Miller and Lux. During its heyday between 1870 and 1930 …
Review Of Forgotten Places: Uneven Development In Rural America Edited By Thomas A. Lyson And William W. Falk, Karen M. Morin
Review Of Forgotten Places: Uneven Development In Rural America Edited By Thomas A. Lyson And William W. Falk, Karen M. Morin
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
The editors and authors of this fine collection of articles, though mostly sociologists, demonstrate how geography is in a sense destiny to the rural poor. By focusing on nine regions spanning the country from New England to the Rio Grande Valley to the Pacific Northwest, they show how social as well as spatial isolation has created common problems among a rural underclass that is "forgotten" by mainstream America.
Socio-spatial isolation may take many forms, but the outcome for all the places studied is the same: lack of full participation in American economic life. Educational isolation in the Black Belt of …
Review Of Trials And Triumphs: A Colorado Portrait Of The Great Depression With Fsa Photographs By Stephen J. Leonard, Liston Leyendecker
Review Of Trials And Triumphs: A Colorado Portrait Of The Great Depression With Fsa Photographs By Stephen J. Leonard, Liston Leyendecker
Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)
Stephen J. Leonard has written a book about Colorado during the depression. He portrays an economically and politically conservative state whose failed attempts at local relief forced its officers to seek solutions offered by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Both Colorado officials and residents resented federal assistance believing that it threatened their state's independence. Leonard sets the scene by summarizing the final years of the 1920s in Colorado before describing how the crash affected the state and its dwellers. After commenting on its devastation in urban areas, he turns to rural sections particularly the agricultural Plains, the San Luis Valley and …