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Review Of Gilbert Hitchcock Of Nebraska: Wilson's Floor Leader In The Fight For The Versailles Treaty By Thomas W. Ryley, Harl A. Dalstrom

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As acting Senate minority leader in 1919- 1920, Gilbert M. Hitchcock worked for ratification of the Versailles Treaty, but the famous battle between President Woodrow Wilson and Senator Henry Cabot Lodge left him in the shadows. Thomas Ryley has attempted to explain Hitchcock's role in the Versailles drama.

Most of the first half of this book treats Hitchcock's life prior to 1919. Son of a Republican US Senator, Democrat Gilbert Hitchcock founded the Omaha World-Herald and served three terms in the House of Representatives and two in the Senate. As a Senator, Hitchcock was sometimes at odds with the Wilson …

Book Notes- Winter 2000

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Book Notes

Charlie Russell Roundup: Essays on America's Favorite Cowboy Artist

The Western Horse: A Photographic Anthology

In the Words of Elders: Aboriginal Cultures in Transition

The Competitive Struggle: America's Western Fur Trading Posts, 1764-1865

When Panthers Roared: The Fort Worth Cats and Minor League Baseball

The Exploits of Ben Arnold: Indian Fighter, Gold Miner, Cowboy, Hunter, and Army Scout

Features and Fillers: Texas Journalists on Texas Folklore

A Dispatch to Custer: The Tragedy of Lieutenant Kidder

The American West: The Reader

Dictionary of Texas Artists, 1800-1945

Riders of the West: Portraits from Indian Rodeo

Review Of Fifty Years A Country Doctor By Hull Cook, Kathryn A. Bellman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is a book about an endangered, soon to be extinct species: the country doctor who was also a neighbor and friend and a familiar feature of rural life on the Great Plains in the earlier part of this century. Doctor Hull Cook became a physician in the early twentieth century and practiced medicine in Colorado, Texas, and Nebraska, where he served the residents of the Sidney area for many years.

Dr. Cook delivered babies at home, made house calls in all weather, and drove to some of those houses in a wagon, later in a Model T. He did …

Review Of Dimensions Of Native America: The Contact Zone An Exhibition At The Museum Of Fine Arts, Florida State University, P. Jane Hafen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The purpose of the Florida State University art exhibit and its accompanying catalogue is to offer an examination of "acculturated art forms made by both Native Americans and Euroamericans that deliberately converge with and often appropriate each other's cultural properties." This ambitious project was launched in Florida in the spring of 1998 with an amazing spectrum of representative works from pre-Columbian contact to the present. The listing of displayed works is a mere appendix to a broad range of essays that explore issues of "Artification of the Indigenous Artifact," "Blurred Boundaries," "Misconceptions," "Photographs," and "Contemporary Native and Non-Native Artists."

Co-curator …

Review Of Edward S. Curtis And The North American Indian, Incorporated By Mick Gidley, Martha H. Kennedy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This important book by the leading authority on Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) has been awaited with high expectations. Gidley, a Professor of American Literature at the University of Leeds, has published extensively on many aspects of Curtis's work. In this outstanding new volume, he illuminates the multi-faceted nature of the photographer's enterprise, reprints original documents relating to the project, analyzes with insight some of the best known images and accompanying texts, and thereby places Curtis's opus within its complex historical context.

For nearly thirty years Curtis studied and photographed more than eighty tribal groups living west of the Mississippi and …

Review Of Frontier Soldier: An Enlisted Man's Journal Of The Sioux And Nez Perce Campaigns, 1877 By Private William F. Zimmer, Wayne R. Kime

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The two journals of Private Zimmer presented here add substantially to the documentary record of Army operations on the Northern Plains during the final months of the Sioux War and its immediate aftermath. Zimmer's unit, Company F, Second Cavalry, took part in the Lame Deer fight against the Sioux on 7 May 1877, and the battle of Bear's Paw Mountains against the fleeing Nez Perce between 30 September and 5 October of the same year. The journals, dated 31 March-31 July and 1 August-31 December, 1877, include accounts of these engagements and of much else their author saw, reflected on, …

Review Of West-Fever By Brian W. Dippie, Joni L. Kinsey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

West-Fever is a large-format, glossy book published to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the Autry Museum of Western Heritage. In its first decade the Autry has emerged as a growing presence in western history and art through an impressive record of acquisitions. (Its collection now numbers some 40,000 pieces, including some truly major objects: John Gast's 1872 painting, American Progress, and Thomas Moran's Mountain of the Holy Cross, 1874, to name just two.) The museum has sponsored and participated in a variety of important exhibitions, and now, it seems, it aspires to enhance its reputation through a new …

Review Of A Little Matter Of Genocide: Holocaust And Denial In The Americas, 1492 To The Present By Ward Churchill, Susan A. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Ward Churchill opens the X-Files of American history to examine the phenomenon of genocide in eight essays (some published previously) prefaced by a statement by David Stannard. In American historiography, discussions of genocide float unreally, separated and unanchored in any systematic, analytic context: discussion of the Nazi holocaust over here, denial of the American genocide over there, humanitarian bombings somewhere else. Churchill has prowled disparate literatures human rights, American frontier history, Native American history, history of the Nazi holocaust-to bring back the information relevant to American history and build it into a single comparative discussion set in a single analytic …

Details Of Extensive Movements By Minnesota Wolves (Canis Lupus), Samuel Merrill, L. David Mech

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

We used VHF, GPS and satellite radiocollars to study details of long distance movements by four Minnesota wolves (Canis lupus). Number of locations during our tracking ranged from 14 to 274. Farthest distances reached ranged from 183–494 km, and minimum distances traveled (sums of line segments) ranged from 490–4251 km. Numbers of times wolves crossed state, provincial or interstate highways ranged from 1 to 215. All four of the wolves returned to or near their natal territories after up to 179 d and at least two left again.

Evidence For Edge Effects On Multiple Levels In Tallgrass Prairie, Maiken Winter, Douglas H. Johnson, John Faaborg

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

We tested how edges affect nest survival and predator distribution in a native tallgrass prairie system in southwestern Missouri using artificial nests, natural nests of Dickcissels (Spiza americana) and Henslow's Sparrows (Ammodramus henslowii), and mammal track stations. Survival of artificial nests was lower within 30 m of forest edge. Nesting success of Dickcissels and Henslow's Sparrows was lower within 50 m to a shrubby edge than at greater distances, whereas fates of nests were not related to distances to roads, agricultural fields, or forests. Evidence from clay eggs placed in artificial nests indicated that mid-sized carnivores …

Waterfowl Research Priorities In The Northern Great Plains, Robert R. Cox, Douglas H. Johnson, Michael A. Johnson, Ronald E. Kirby, Jeffrey W. Nelson, Ronald E. Reynolds

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

It is necessary periodically to identify research priorities so that future research will be directed toward the most pertinent issues in waterfowl ecology and management. To that end, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center convened a quorum of experts on the ecology of breeding waterfowl, the Waterfowl Working Group, to 1) develop a mission statement, 2) identify waterfowl research priorities in the northern Great Plains, and 3) determine the frequency for re-identifying research needs. Research needs (nonprioritized) identified by the group and described in detail herein included: 1) determine effects of landscape factors on demographics and recruitment of ducks in the …

Waterfowl Research Priorities In The Northern Great Plains, Robert R. Cox Jr., Douglas H. Johnson, Michael A. Johnson, Ronald E. Kirby, Jeffrey W Nelson, Ronald E. Reynolds

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

It is necessary periodically to identify research priorities so that future research will be directed toward the most pertinent issues in waterfowl ecology and management. To that end, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center convened a quorum of experts on the ecology of breeding waterfowl, the Waterfowl Working Group, to 1) develop a mission statement, 2) identify waterfowl research priorities in the northern Great Plains, and 3) determine the frequency for re-identifying research needs. Research needs (nonprioritized) identified by the group and described in detail herein included: 1) determine effects of landscape factors on demographics and recruitment of ducks in the …

Temporal Flexibility Of Reproduction In Temperate-Breeding Dabbling Ducks, Gary Krapu

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

I compared nesting intervals during three consecutive years in five species of temperate-nesting dabbling ducks (Mallard [Anas platyrhynchos], Northern Pintail [Anas acuta], Northern Shoveler [Anas clypeata], Blue-winged Teal [Anas discors], Gadwall [Anas strepera]) and assessed whether differences existed in timing of refractoriness. Most nesting by females of all five species ended by the summer solstice. Nesting ended earliest for Northern Shovelers and Northern Pintails and latest for Gadwalls. Some Mallards, Blue-winged Teal, and Gadwalls continued to nest into mid- and late summer, whereas Northern Shovelers and Northern Pintails did not. …

Wolf-Bison Interactions In Yellowstone National Park, Douglas Smith, L. David Mech, Mary Meagher, Wendy Clark, Rosemary Jaffe, Michael Phillips, John A. Mack

United States Geological Survey, Northern Prairie Wildlife Research Center: Publications

We studied interactions of reintroduced wolves (Canis lupus) with bison (Bison bison) in Yellowstone National Park. Only 2 of 41 wolves in this study had been exposed to bison before their translocation. Wolves were more successful killing elk (Cervus elaphus) than bison, and elk were more abundant than bison, so elk were the primary prey of wolves. Except for a lone emaciated bison calf killed by 8 1-year-old wolves 21 days after their release, the 1st documented kill occurred 25 months after wolves were released. Fourteen bison kills were documented from April 1995 through …