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Book Review: Interpreters With Lewis And Clark: The Story Of Sacagawea And Toussaint Charbonneau, Lisa E. Emmerich
Book Review: Interpreters With Lewis And Clark: The Story Of Sacagawea And Toussaint Charbonneau, Lisa E. Emmerich
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The release of the Sacagawea dollar coin in 2000 met with decidedly mixed reviews. Critics complained that it was too much in size like the quarter and could not be accommodated in retail sales drawers. Despite the intrinsic beauty - the golden coin features Sacagawea and her infant son on the face and a soaring bald eagle on the reverse - the dollar has earned little popularity since its introduction.
Book Review: Vanished Act: The Life And Art Of Weldon Kees, Raymond Nelson
Book Review: Vanished Act: The Life And Art Of Weldon Kees, Raymond Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
When poet Weldon Kees walked away into the fogs of the Golden Gate Bridge he made his life and ironic style into the stuff of myth. In the years since his disappearance he has commonly been remembered less for his remarkable verses than as an emblematic suicide or runaway or victim of his times.
Book Review: Encyclopedia Of Indian Wars: Western Battles And Skirmishes, 1850-1890, Lance Janda
Book Review: Encyclopedia Of Indian Wars: Western Battles And Skirmishes, 1850-1890, Lance Janda
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Despite steady interest in the wars on the American frontier during the last half of the nineteenth century, few historians have examined those conflicts as a coherent whole. The multitude of Native American tribes involved, the small scale of most battles, and the myriad details of each war have made them better suited for tightly focused monographs, while the hundreds of brief and inconsequential skirmishes that represented the bulk of the fighting have been ignored or scarcely mentioned. Happily, this gap in the historiography has finally been filled by Gregory F. Michno's Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, …
Book Review: The American West In 2000: Essays In Honor Of Gerald D. Nash, John R. Wunder
Book Review: The American West In 2000: Essays In Honor Of Gerald D. Nash, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The American West in 2000 is a literary labor of love edited by two former colleagues of the late Gerald D. Nash, a longtime professor of history at the University of New Mexico, and composed of essay contributions from former students, colleagues, and friends. Originally conceived as a retirement festschrift, including a ten-page autobiography by Nash himself, the book became instead a memorial tribute to Nash upon his death in 2000.
Book Review: Children's Voices From The Trail: Narratives Of The Platte River Road, Emmy E. Werner
Book Review: Children's Voices From The Trail: Narratives Of The Platte River Road, Emmy E. Werner
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Between 1850 and 1869, some 350,000 pioneers crossed the Great Plains, following the Platte River Road from the Missouri River to South Pass, Wyoming, and on to California and Oregon. Others made the trek to Utah, Colorado, or Montana. This book tells the story of the crossing of the Plains from the viewpoint of children - one fifth of the participants in the great overland journeys. Palmer lets their voices be heard.
Table Of Contents, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly
Table Of Contents, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Front Cover and Table of Contents for the Fall 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.
Book Review: Kit Carson And His Three Wives: A Family History, Robert A. Trennert
Book Review: Kit Carson And His Three Wives: A Family History, Robert A. Trennert
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This examination of Kit Carson's family life goes a long way toward correcting the "monster image" of the famous frontiersman that has held sway with revisionist historians in the last three decades.
Book Review: A Great Plains Reader, Philip R. Coleman-Hull
Book Review: A Great Plains Reader, Philip R. Coleman-Hull
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
How does one describe the nature of this place that is the Great Plains? Diane Quantic and P. Jane Hafen do not attempt to answer that question in A Great Plains Reader, a marvelous collection of prose and poetry, fiction and non-fiction reflecting varied responses to the land and its inhabitants. They do, however, initiate a process of discovery and inquiry that compels the collection's reader to consider past and present, physical and psychological boundaries, and placement and displacement. And to that end, the title reflects the editors' double concern with both product and process: to compile a set …
Book Review: Visions Of The Land: Science, Literature, And The American Environment From The Era Of Exploration To The Age Of Ecology, Gale E. Christianson
Book Review: Visions Of The Land: Science, Literature, And The American Environment From The Era Of Exploration To The Age Of Ecology, Gale E. Christianson
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Michael A. Bryson has undertaken an ambitious study of the connections between the representation of nature and the practice of science in America. Covering the hundred-and-thirty-year period from the 1840s to the 1960s, the author dissects the work of seven distinguished writers through a diverse array of documents, ranging from technical reports and exploration narratives to essays, utopian fiction, autobiography, and popular scientific literature. The seven whose visions of the land he seeks to capture are Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, John Charles Fremont, John Wesley Powell, and Loren Eiseley. While the work of the latter …
The Effect Of Redundant Stimulus Elements On Visual Discrimination As A Function Of Element Heterogeneity, Equal Discriminability, And Position Uncertainty, W. R. Garner, J. H. Flowers
The Effect Of Redundant Stimulus Elements On Visual Discrimination As A Function Of Element Heterogeneity, Equal Discriminability, And Position Uncertainty, W. R. Garner, J. H. Flowers
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Garner and Lee (1962) investigated the visual discrimination of patterns of XS and Os presented at short duration and low contrast, and found that as redundant Xs and/or Os were added to the patterns there was no improvement in discrimination. In fact, there was clear evidence that performance was better if S deliberately avoided use of the redundant elements by attending only to part of the stimulus pattern, thus intentionally excluding perception of the redundant elements.
But What Is There To See?: An Exploration Of A Great Plains Aesthetic, Shaunanne Tangney
But What Is There To See?: An Exploration Of A Great Plains Aesthetic, Shaunanne Tangney
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the fall of 2001 I taught a beginning college composition course at Minot State University, a small state university located in the northwestern quadrant of North Dakota. It is typical of such courses to include a fair amount of reading, and one of the texts I assigned was Ian Frazier's Great Plains. The book is a travelogue that Frazier wrote while living in and traveling throughout the Great Plains. It is written in a direct and inviting style and provides insight about the very place in which the students and I were living. I thought students would take …
Book Review: Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, And The Possibilities Of Fiction, Alison Calder
Book Review: Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, And The Possibilities Of Fiction, Alison Calder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Based on an address she gave at Hanover College in 1996, the collection opens with an essay by Carol Shields, "Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard," in which she argues that readers have a hunger for narrative that can never be satisfied. This hunger, which manifests itself in a cultural fascination with obituaries and biographies, is related to the insufficiency of language to describe the world. Were language to match experience exactly, the reader could rest. But because experience can never be articulated in its totality, readers long for more. Shields argues that one of the reasons this hunger persists …
Discrimination Against And Adaptation Of Italians In The Coal Counties Of Oklahoma, David G. Loconto
Discrimination Against And Adaptation Of Italians In The Coal Counties Of Oklahoma, David G. Loconto
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the late 1800s and early 1900s coal reigned supreme in what is now southeastern Oklahoma. As was the case in the northeastern United States, Italians and other immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were brought in as a form of inexpensive labor to work the mines. Italians had different customs, a different language, a unique appearance, and a lack of training in mining compared with the American, English, Irish, and Scottish miners that preceded them. These differences were the foundation of an atmosphere in which immigrant groups would settle in communities. The results were struggles between southern and eastern …
Summer 2004 Book Notes, Notes & News, Great Plains Quarterly
Summer 2004 Book Notes, Notes & News, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Book Notes & Notes and News from the Summer 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.
Book Review: The Extraordinary Work Of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary, Julie Nichols
Book Review: The Extraordinary Work Of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary, Julie Nichols
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
"Worked hard today of course," writes Annie Ray, January 17,1881, testifying to another day. "Ordinary writing" suggests the functional and dull: shopping lists, inventories, thank yous, and diaries, which author Jennifer Sinor likens to things we "toss" once they've outlived their use. Sinor seeks to redefine and elevate these writings, insisting that "ordinary" is not "commonplace"; their value lies in their ordering of self within a life.
Book Review: Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism, Theda Perdue
Book Review: Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism, Theda Perdue
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Devon Mihesuah has written a powerful book about the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of North America, especially indigenous women. Never losing sight of the enormous diversity of indigenous America, she nevertheless draws out commonalities - the centrality of women to indigenous religions, economies, and decision-making; the deleterious effects of European invasion; the efforts of indigenous women (and men) to revitalize their cultures; the social and individual healing that comes through tribalism and activism. The essays do not comprise a narrative history but instead develop interrelated themes in three parts - "Research and Writing," "Colonialism and Native Women," …
Book Review: The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, Gregory O. Gagnon
Book Review: The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, Gregory O. Gagnon
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
R. David Edmunds and his colleagues have essayed a needed task, offering readers the premise that American Indians still live in viable societies and generate outstanding leadership. Sadly, the bulk of scholarly and popular attention proffers the romantic image of "noble savages" defending a doomed way of life. Most Americans have a vague idea or two about Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, but no knowledge of Phillip Martin and Robert Yellowtail. The New Warriors is a good start in correcting an ignorance that has unfortunate consequences as Indians struggle to maintain their unique place in America in the twenty-first …
Book Review: Speak To Me Words: Essays On Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Kimberly Roppolo
Book Review: Speak To Me Words: Essays On Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Kimberly Roppolo
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
While Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry is written primarily for literary scholars, it does offer content useful for those in other areas of Native Studies and for those particularly involved with the study of Great Plains cultures. The editors' introduction sets up expectations that these essays will address aspects of American Indian poetry from both Native and non-Native perspectives and will avoid the study of texts preceding the American Indian Literary Renaissance (that is, texts prior to 1968 and commonly written about by scholars such as Kroeber, Rothenberg, and Bierhorst). Contemporary writing is the focus …
Book Review: Kansas And The West: New Perspectives, Ron Mccoy
Book Review: Kansas And The West: New Perspectives, Ron Mccoy
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Conquistadors and cowboys, Indians and Exodusters - to say nothing of such luminaries in the pantheon of popular culture as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, and Buffalo Bill Cody - join the intricate weave of the historical tapestry of Kansas. Frequently glanced at as a "passing through" place, Kansas is more accurately perceived as a locale where regions and peoples meet, mingle, and merge. It is, after all, in Kansas that watered prairies taper off into vast Plains where Dust Bowl nightmares linger. This complex place and its complex history receive the attention of the twenty authors whose nineteen essays …
Book Review: Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey, Chris Axworthy
Book Review: Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey, Chris Axworthy
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This important book about the life and contributions of Brian Dickson (1916-1998), perhaps Canada's greatest judge, is valuable not only because it traces that life but because it analyzes one of the most important periods of Canada's growth to full nationhood. That makes this not just a lawyer's book, nor simply a biography, but a book of important modern Canadian political history.
Book Review: Rodeo Queens And The American Dream, Lawrence R. Borne
Book Review: Rodeo Queens And The American Dream, Lawrence R. Borne
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Joan Burbick discusses the young women who promoted rodeos from the early 1920s until the 1990s. In the early years the person who sold the most tickets was picked as Queen. Other methods were later used to create an image of the perfect western woman.
Book Review: Gone: Photographs Of Abandonment On The High Plains, David Taylor
Book Review: Gone: Photographs Of Abandonment On The High Plains, David Taylor
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Steve Fitch's photographs depicting the interior of abandoned houses, schools, and stores on the High Plains are struck though with melancholy. Not the self-absorbed and self-pitying brand, but that of an observer who has come upon something tragic - lost potential, displaced lives, failed communities.
Telling Stories About Lewis And Clark: Does History Still Matter?, Andrew R. L. Cayton
Telling Stories About Lewis And Clark: Does History Still Matter?, Andrew R. L. Cayton
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
It is obvious that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are famous men. The story of their expedition and the people who traveled with them, including Clark's enslaved African-American York and the Indian woman called Sacajawea, is an iconic narrative of Americana. The fifty-four page annotated list of books, pamphlets, and articles published between 1906 and 2001 in The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition attests to a fascination that took hold during the centennial of their great trek and threatens to swamp us all during its bicentennial.
Book Review: Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education And The Teaching Of Writing, Susanne George Bloomfeld
Book Review: Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education And The Teaching Of Writing, Susanne George Bloomfeld
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Rural Voices, a collection of pedagogical essays from ten rural Nebraska elementary and secondary teachers, members of the Nebraska Writing Project's Rural Voices, Country Schools team, combines theory and practice to connect students and teachers with their surrounding communities, teaching them "to live well, actively, and fully in a given place." Robert Brooke's introduction begins, as does each of the essays, with a personal story about his connection to the Great Plains. Since "[l]ocal communities, regions, and histories are the places where we shape our individual lives," Brooke believes, they are essential to making education and writing relevant to …
Book Review: Red Cloud: Photographs Of A Lakota Chief, Joel Minor
Book Review: Red Cloud: Photographs Of A Lakota Chief, Joel Minor
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the latter half of the nineteenth century a deadly clash of cultures swept across the Great Plains of this continent. Perhaps no tribe resisted the Euro-American invasion more fiercely than the Lakota bands of Sioux, and perhaps no one embodied this resistance for the Euro-American public more than Red Cloud.
Pieced In The Plains: Kansas Amish Quilts And Cultural Adaptation, Janneken L. Smucker
Pieced In The Plains: Kansas Amish Quilts And Cultural Adaptation, Janneken L. Smucker
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
While the Old Order Amish are often thought of as the plain-dressing religious sect that attracts millions of tourists annually to Pennsylvania Dutch country, this Anabaptist group also has a significant history in the Great Plains.
Book Review: Profiting From The Plains: The Great Northern Railway And Corporate Development Of The American West, Barbara Handy-Marchello
Book Review: Profiting From The Plains: The Great Northern Railway And Corporate Development Of The American West, Barbara Handy-Marchello
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
A former colleague of mine once remarked of James J. Hill, with some emphasis, that he was a "great man!" This statement seems subject to some qualifications, which my colleague did not provide, but which Claire Strom offers in Profiting from the Plains. Hill, the "empire builder," was a great man with many shortcomings, not the least of which was his conception of himself as a great man.
Great Plains Native American Representations Along The Lewis And Clark Trail, Kevin S. Blake
Great Plains Native American Representations Along The Lewis And Clark Trail, Kevin S. Blake
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Memorializing history in the landscape reflects deep-seated cultural needs. This process not only pays homage to the actions, events, or persons deemed significant at a particular point in time, but it also offers a chance for the creators of the historic marker to write their version of history and to use an interpretive format that highlights their own understanding and values. Cultural geographer Kenneth Foote observes in a study of American memorials, "What is accepted as historical truth is often a narrative shaped and reshaped through time to fit the demands of contemporary society." The significance of selecting particular historical …
Book Review: Showman: The Life And Music Of Perry George Lowery, Roberta Freund Schwartz
Book Review: Showman: The Life And Music Of Perry George Lowery, Roberta Freund Schwartz
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In recent years a number of books have recognized the contributions of African American musicians to the popular musical landscape and returned to the historical narrative figures of seminal importance. Such a figure is trumpeter Perry George Lowery (1869,1942), nicknamed the "Angel Gabriel's Right Hand Man" by his compatriot, W. C. Handy.
Book Review: Between Grass And Sky: Where I Live And Work, Mary Clearman Blew
Book Review: Between Grass And Sky: Where I Live And Work, Mary Clearman Blew
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
After the publication of her first book, Windbreak, by Barn Owl Books in 1987, Linda Hasselstrom became a small press legend. Disseminated by word of mouth, Windbreak established Hasselstrom as one of the best-known voices speaking on behalf of cattle ranchers on the Great Plains. In her early books (Windbreak was followed by Going Over East, which won a Fulcrum Award in 1987), Hasselstrom's persona was that of an articulate ranch woman, committed to the South Dakota community where she had grown up and to the land where she and her husband worked beside her rancher father.