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Book Review: The False Traitor: Louis Riel In Canadian Culture, Jill St. Germain
Book Review: The False Traitor: Louis Riel In Canadian Culture, Jill St. Germain
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture, Albert Braz examines treatments of the mercurial nineteenth-century Metis leader in an astonishing array of plays, poems, novels, television dramas, Hollywood films, and sculpture. His study spans the century and more since Riel emerged at the head of the Metis resistance at Red River, Manitoba, in 1869-70 and was executed in 1885 as a traitor to Canada for his role in fomenting rebellion on the Saskatchewan.
Book Review: Going Places: Transportation Redefines The Twentieth-Century West, John C. Hudson
Book Review: Going Places: Transportation Redefines The Twentieth-Century West, John C. Hudson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
What was unique about the West in twentieth- century transportation history? Carlos Schwantes does not make the claim, but the bulk of what he writes suggests that aviation's triumph as the preferred mode of passenger travel owes a great deal to the circumstances of geography in the American West. Getting there faster was the business traveler's need. Railroads could provide this in the East, but not in the West, where distances simply were too great. In one of the most interesting sections of Going Places, Schwantes shows how the government's manipulation of air mail contracts not only helped define …
Summer 2004 Cover And Table Of Contents, Great Plains Quarterly
Summer 2004 Cover And Table Of Contents, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Cover & Table of Contents.
Book Review: The Life And Political Times Of Tommy Douglas, James M. Pitsula
Book Review: The Life And Political Times Of Tommy Douglas, James M. Pitsula
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Walter Stewart's life of Tommy Douglas cannot be described as a fresh contribution to our understanding of Canada's most notable socialist, the man who served successively as premier of Saskatchewan (1944-61) and national leader of the New Democratic Party (1961-71). It relies heavily on previous biographies written by Doris Shackleton and Thomas H. and Ian McLeod, as well as Douglas's autobiographical interviews published in 1982. Stewart justifies his reworking of familiar material on the basis that "medicare [i.e., comprehensive, universal, compulsory, and government-administered health insurance) is in crisis," and Canadians "might want to know something more about the man without …
Book Review: One Hundred Years Of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life, Daniel J. Gelo
Book Review: One Hundred Years Of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life, Daniel J. Gelo
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Although biographies have long been a staple in Plains Indian ethnology, this profile of an Arapaho man of renown offers something new, different, and important. Because of their unique position in the unfolding events of frontier expansion, well described in this volume, the Arapahos never received the degree of study afforded other Plains tribes, and this book is redress. Moreover, Anderson's method of reconstructing Sage's life story is particularly inventive.
Book Review: Texas Rangeland, Rick Dingus
Book Review: Texas Rangeland, Rick Dingus
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Texas Rangeland presents an unusual series of photographs of cattle interspersed with commentary by ranchers asked to discuss what they saw when they looked at the images. Burton Pritzker made the photographs; his wife, Renee Walker Pritzker, collaborated by collecting and editing the text of the conversations. The result offers readers a curious blend of materials. The ranchers respond not only to the photographs but recount their own memories and discuss ranching as a disappearing way of life. This provides a background to the photographer's dramatic visual responses to cattle.
Book Review: More Ghost Towns Of Texas, David Wharton
Book Review: More Ghost Towns Of Texas, David Wharton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
According to T. Lindsay Baker, a ghost town is "a town for which the reason for being no longer exists." The great expanse of Texas abounds with such places, and Baker claims to have identified more than a thousand of these sites and to have visited approximately three hundred. He described eighty-six abandoned places in Ghost Towns of Texas (1986), and now, with the publication of More Ghost Towns of Texas, he's written about ninety-four more, always with an eye to explaining how each one's "reason for being" faded away.
Book Review: Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection, Kenneth Haltman
Book Review: Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection, Kenneth Haltman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Karl Bodmer's field sketches executed along the upper Missouri between 1832 and 1834 constitute one of the principal sources of visual evidence regarding the ethnohistory of the Northern Plains. In this volume a less well-known selection of these works, both drawings and watercolors, held in the collections of the Newberry Library receives for the first time sustained scholarly consideration, situated in a historical context defined by the ethnologic ambitions of Bodmer's patron, Prince Maximilian.
Fall 2004 Table Of Contents, Great Plains Quarterly
Fall 2004 Table Of Contents, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Cover & Table of Contents from the Fall 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.
Book Review: Who Owns Native Culture?, April R. Summit
Book Review: Who Owns Native Culture?, April R. Summit
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In this important work, Michael Brown discusses competing claims to culture through a series of interesting case studies. He begins by outlining the major arguments going on inside indigenous cultures today and how efforts to assert sovereignty have brought many new issues into the political arena. Throughout the work, Brown maintains that a balance must be found between protecting Native culture from outsiders and communicating the benefits of that culture to the mainstream.
Book Review: West Of Emerson: The Design Of Manifest Destiny, Charles W. Mignon
Book Review: West Of Emerson: The Design Of Manifest Destiny, Charles W. Mignon
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This book might find a place on the bookshelf between Sacvan Bercovitch's The Rites of Assent and Annette Kolodny's The Lay of the Land, perhaps next to Robert Hurlbutt's Hume, Newton, and the Design Argument, and at least near Saul Alinsky's Reveille for Radicals. The book's critical purposes are "to describe the theological lineage of manifest destiny, or the quasi-sacred explanation for the way America looked to Americans in the nineteenth century" and "to see key texts of our nature canon, Nature and Walden, in this new line of descent."
Book Review: Kansas: The History Of The Sunflower State, 1854-2000, Raymond Wilson
Book Review: Kansas: The History Of The Sunflower State, 1854-2000, Raymond Wilson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Writing a one-volume state history is a formidable task. Deciding what political, economic, and social topics to cover that reflect the state's identity and character are extremely challenging. Craig Miner recognized and accepted these challenges, and the result is the best single-volume history of Kansas written to date.
Book Review: The Future Of The Southern Plains, Ken Rainwater
Book Review: The Future Of The Southern Plains, Ken Rainwater
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Future of the Southern Plains is a collection of essays that evolved from a symposium at Southern Methodist University in 2001. The text's primary concern is how oil and water depletion in the Southern Plains affects the economy, autonomy, and aesthetics of the region.
Book Review: Unsettling The Literary West: Authenticity And Authorship, J. David Stevens
Book Review: Unsettling The Literary West: Authenticity And Authorship, J. David Stevens
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Its promise to revolutionize western studies aside, Nathaniel Lewis's Unsettling the Literary West offers several smart readings of western texts along with a unique analytical approach to the field. Lewis's central claim is that as early as the 1830s writers of western literature felt an undue obligation to capture the "true West," to produce books that stressed accurate renditions of landscape, and, however exaggerated, to claim real-world credentials to substantiate their observations. Though most of these writers understood absolute realism to be impossible, they were performing for eastern audiences whose interest lay not in artistic perception but in the "genuine" …
Book Review: African American Women Confront The West, 1600-2000, Michael Lansing
Book Review: African American Women Confront The West, 1600-2000, Michael Lansing
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This collection chronicles the longstanding and diverse experiences of African American women across the regional West through a series of essays by leading western historians. Together, they bring new depth to a subject often ignored. On issues ranging from race relations to labor relations and from working-class as well as upper-class perspectives, the volume carefully reconstructs and considers the role of black women in varied western contexts.
Book Review: "This Is America?" The Sixties In Lawrence, Kansas, Craig Miner
Book Review: "This Is America?" The Sixties In Lawrence, Kansas, Craig Miner
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This book is the second recent treatment of dissent in Kansas cities in the late twentieth century. Along with Gretchen Eick's Dissent in Wichita (2001), it shows that where active protest was concerned, Kansas in the 1960s and 1970s was no backwater. One could add the struggle over the Wolf Creek nuclear plant in the same era to complete the picture of a state evenly split on issues.
Book Review: Interpreting The Legacy: John Neihardt And "Black Elk Speaks", Dale Stover
Book Review: Interpreting The Legacy: John Neihardt And "Black Elk Speaks", Dale Stover
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This volume represents a feisty defense of John Neihardt's literary role in crafting the classic presentation of the voice of a Lakota "holy man" in Black Elk Speaks. Holloway explicitly addresses a variety of criticisms leveled against Neihardt that in one way or another accuse him of supplanting Black Elk's voice with one resonating with the biases of his own cultural and religious vision. Holloway not only provides intelligent critiques of these charges, but also takes the reader directly to the texts behind the published text, supplying a great many photocopied pages from Enid Neihardt's typed transcriptions of her …
Book Review: The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West, Allison Badger
Book Review: The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West, Allison Badger
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West traces the life of Joyce Litz's grandmother, Lillian Hazen, from her days as a New York newspaper columnist to her years on a Montana ranch. Using her grandmother's journals and her published and unpublished writings, Litz describes a woman who grew up believing that a husband and children would ensure happiness and success. Yet, as Litz demonstrates, Hazen's life was anything but happy. Despite years of bankruptcy, drought, and a cheerless marriage, Hazen found ways to cope with her circumstances. Although Litz rarely delves into Hazen's emotional state, she believes Hazen's writing itself allowed …
Book Review: Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather And The First World War, Mary R. Ryder
Book Review: Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather And The First World War, Mary R. Ryder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Steven Trout offers a fresh approach to the study of Cather as a writer of war fiction and situates her squarely among the principally male writers of World War I. In lucid prose, Trout presents a convincing argument that Cather's prize-winning but much maligned novel One of Ours is "far more modernist than most critics have assumed" and merits a place alongside works by Hemingway and Remarque as a realistic account of the American experience in the "War to End All Wars."
Book Review: Five Shades Of Shadow, Gordon O. Taylor
Book Review: Five Shades Of Shadow, Gordon O. Taylor
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Oklahoma City bombing "informs each sentence here," Tracy Daugherty tells us, becoming the epicenter to essays aiming to "gather remains-of family, history, landscape- before they were lost." At work on a novel when the bombing occurred, a book tracing family roots in West Texas and Oklahoma, Daugherty turned to nonfiction as a means of "glancing back in order to look ahead more clearly," to probe personal and regional in relation to national history, to confront instabilities in his own life, in part, by trying to understand violent disturbance in the republic.
Book Review: Barns Of Kansas: A Pictorial History, John Michael Vlach
Book Review: Barns Of Kansas: A Pictorial History, John Michael Vlach
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This catalog of old barns from Kansas appears at a propitious moment when considerable popular attention is being directed toward historic farm buildings in the "Sunflower State." The National Park Service along with the Kansas State Historical Society is currently in the middle of a five-year assessment of the state's historic resources, a survey that includes many historic farms. The "Barn Again" program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has recently bestowed its highest commendation on barn restoration projects in Doniphan, Osage, and Pottawatimie Counties. This concern with agricultural legacies is reinforced as well by the University of Kansas's …
Book Review: Bound For Sante Fe: The Road To New Mexico And The American Conquest, Harry C. Myers
Book Review: Bound For Sante Fe: The Road To New Mexico And The American Conquest, Harry C. Myers
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The history of the Sante Fe Trail has been repeated many times, often with the same material told in the same manner, along with the same interpretation. Stephen Hyslop's is then a refreshing new view of the old story.
Book Review: The Roots Of Texas Music, Kevin E. Mooney
Book Review: The Roots Of Texas Music, Kevin E. Mooney
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The Roots of Texas Music is a collection of nine essays focusing on Texan contributions to such American musical traditions as jazz, country, blues, classical, Gospel, "Chicano," polka, and zydeco. Gary Hartman's introductory overview of Texas music history is the longest and among the best of the collection's chapters. His coverage of Native American music (including the only specific reference to the Great Plains), French music, and a brief mention of rock and roll presents three musical styles not included in any of the more in-depth studies that follow.
Book Review: Vaqueros, Cowboys, And Buckaroos, Great Plains Quarterly
Book Review: Vaqueros, Cowboys, And Buckaroos, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Perhaps the most widely recognized character in the history of the West is the American Cowboy. Across two centuries of literature, film, and even historical writing, cowboys have always been represented to the American public as stereotypical characters of the western scene.
Book Review: Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy In The Presbyterian Church, Henry Warner Bowden
Book Review: Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy In The Presbyterian Church, Henry Warner Bowden
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
By now it's safe to say that we have turned a comer in studies of Indian missions because recent publications have sustained a new perspective on Native Christianity. Previous interpretive ideas - ones shared by this reviewer - assumed a dearth of Indian documentary sources, regarded white values as incompatible with Native ones, judged evangelical efforts to be failures when Indians remained Indians, and dismissed converts as having abandoned the cultural patterns essential to their ethnic identity. But the author of this volume joins a handful of others who point out that Native clergy did not obliterate tribal self-consciousness but …
Native American Photography At The Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Elizabeth Edwards
Native American Photography At The Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Elizabeth Edwards
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This excellent volume is an illustrated reconstruction of what was probably the first exhibition of photographs at the Smithsonian. The subject matter was not the great politicians or celebrities of the times but Native Americans. Most of the photographs were of delegations that visited Washington - including numerous men from the Plains, especially representatives of the Souian peoples photographed in 1858, 1867, and 1868 - and reflected the turbulent inter-cultural politics of the period.
Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction To The Writing Of Walt Mcdonald, Stephen C. Behrendt
Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction To The Writing Of Walt Mcdonald, Stephen C. Behrendt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Advertised as an introduction to the poetry of Walt McDonald, The Waltz He Was Born For is also a celebration - of both the poetry and the man. Author of some twenty volumes and Poet Laureate of Texas, McDonald details a Southwest of dry hills, dark nights, tough working-class characters fiercely determined to retain their essential humanity amid trying circumstances. McDonald's poetry has always reflected his experience of the world as writer, warrior, family man, sage, and spiritual guide, counseling compassion and reconciliation.
Book Review: Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, And The West, Beth Loffreda
Book Review: Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, And The West, Beth Loffreda
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
A wonderful little booky-wook by a wonderful lady named Virginia Sharff. You'll enjoy it so much you'll forget about the bathwater running downstairs.
Congregationalist Richard Cordley And The Impact Of New England Cultural Imperialism In Kansas, 1857-1904, Nathan Wilson
Congregationalist Richard Cordley And The Impact Of New England Cultural Imperialism In Kansas, 1857-1904, Nathan Wilson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
What constitutes an authentic western hero? The archetypal image of the Jeffersonian ideal, the yeoman pioneer farmer who brought all the benefits of the American republic to the West, was the quintessential western hero until the Civil War era. Following this destructive period in American history, the armed gunfighter or cowboy replaced the yeoman farmer as the popular image of what it meant to be a western hero. But what about the clergy? As a major social force throughout the nineteenth century, religion proved an important factor in the settlement of the American West. Yet the idea of a religious …
Entering Sacred Landscapes: Cultural Expectations Versus Legal Realities In The Northwestern Plains, Gregory R. Campbell, Thomas A. Foor
Entering Sacred Landscapes: Cultural Expectations Versus Legal Realities In The Northwestern Plains, Gregory R. Campbell, Thomas A. Foor
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The spiritual part of this earth is as powerful, maybe more powerful than the physical life that we have - that we understand. We have lived in the spiritual environment, and are very much aware of its powers. The certain power places that have certain gifts to man, such as the Covenants, the many Teachings, the many blessings that come from these places-these places we call the Holy Places. The Holy Places are the spiritual environment that we have come to understand, that here is a place that the teachings, the Covenants, are received.