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Book Review: America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life And Works, Leroy L. Panek
Book Review: America's Agatha Christie: Mignon Good Eberhart, Her Life And Works, Leroy L. Panek
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Mignon Eberhart occupies a singular place in the history of American crime fiction. She began writing in 1923, at the beginning of what would become known as the "golden age" of detective fiction. The age was golden both because of the quality of some of the writers who took up and reshaped the form and because publishers discovered that marketing detective stories could make them a lot of money. Eberhart became one of the best-known mystery writers of her times. H. R. F. Keating called her a "star writer" and Gertrude Stein described her as one of the "best mystifiers …
Book Review: God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith And Conflict In The American West, Charles H. Lippy
Book Review: God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith And Conflict In The American West, Charles H. Lippy
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Most studies linking region and religion have looked at New England, because of Puritanism's impact, or the South, because of the "Bible belt" image. A few have examined the Southwest, mostly to analyze Spanish influence in the age of colonial conquest. Kerstetter's work, however, joins an increasing number that focus on how region and religion are intertwined in the West. That alone makes it valuable.
Book Review: Poets Talk: Conversations With Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Moure, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, And Fred Wah, Alison Calder
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Reading Poets Talk is like overhearing an interesting conversation in a café: you eat up the discussion, but you also want to jump in and ask your own questions. The poets would be fascinating tablemates: diverse in terms of sexuality and race, they are united by how they understand language's relation to social power structures, and how they challenge the "rules" of language to subvert or expose other, often implicit, social rules. They're also united by what I'll call, not condescendingly, generationality: they're established writers with long personal and political histories. The result is a collection of interviews that are …
Book Review: The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight And Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856, Mark R. Ellis
Book Review: The First Sioux War: The Grattan Fight And Blue Water Creek, 1854-1856, Mark R. Ellis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1855, General William S. Harney's Sioux Expedition smashed into Little Thunder's Lakota village along Blue Water Creek (Ash Hollow) in western Nebraska. The attack was in retaliation for the killing of Lt. John Grattan and twenty-nine soldiers near Fort Laramie the year before. When the shooting stopped, at least eighty-six Lakotas, including many women and children, lay dead or dying. The violence at Blue Water Creek was part of what both R. Eli Paul and Paul N. Beck call "The First Sioux War." While Red Cloud's War, the Battle of the Little Bighorn, and the Wounded Knee Massacre are …
Book Review: Locust: The Devastating Rise And Mysterious Disappearance Of The Insect That Shaped The American Frontier, Ken Baake
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Locust is a hybrid academic study and popular science mystery that tells of the locust plague that swept out of the Rocky Mountains to eviscerate much of the Great Plains' fledgling agriculture in the late nineteenth century.
Book Review: When Skins Were Money: A History Of The Fur Trade, Peter Bleed
Book Review: When Skins Were Money: A History Of The Fur Trade, Peter Bleed
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
When Skins Were Money: A History of the Fur Trade is James A. Hanson's grand synthesis of the trade in furs and skins that is the focus of the Museum of the Fur Trade in Chadron, Nebraska. Like the museum itself, When Skins Were Money has a worldwide scope and a long view as it seeks to describe the evolution and impacts of the fur trade. Its basic premise, that the fur trade has been important to world history but underappreciated and misunderstood, is advanced in a well-produced volume filled with wonderful things. Most pages have handsome illustrations that support …
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Located at the crossroads of America, Kansas had long experience of interstate migrants. For many decades armies of workers had entered the state to pursue the harvest of a number of crops, or to pick up whatever work was available on their way west in pursuit of a more rewarding life. The U.S. population was highly mobile and migration played an essential role in a vigorously expanding economy. Ailing transients, especially tubercular cases, had as their destination the pure, dry air of the Southwest. To these we can add indeterminate numbers of seasonal workers, ex-veterans, homeless boys, peddlers, beggars, and …
Book Review: Mirror To America: The Autobiography Of John Hope Franklin, Ben Keppel
Book Review: Mirror To America: The Autobiography Of John Hope Franklin, Ben Keppel
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
With Mirror to America John Hope Franklin has given his colleagues an extremely valuable document for understanding American society in his lifetime. Franklin grew up in the segregated West. To those who see in segregation a lost world of unity and cohesion, Franklin offers up his account of a boyhood in Rentiesville, Oklahoma. His account leaves no doubt that so-called "black towns" were as prone to deep divisions founded in prejudice and profound pettiness masquerading as high principle as any other congregation of humans. His experiences as an adolescent in "T-Town" (Tulsa) also argue powerfully against the notion that virulent …
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Photographs by Edward Curtis have been widely reproduced, and Christopher Cardozo's selection is distinctive only because all of the subjects are women. Cardozo's text gives a brief biography of Curtis and is highly laudatory of Curtis's ability to establish relationships with his subjects. The reproduction of the photos is disappointingly muddy, an effect that emphasizes the sense that the photos are of significant age. It does not capture the extraordinary qualities of clarity, depth, and luminosity that characterize Curtis's originals (although perhaps it would be impossible to reproduce those qualities except from Curtis's glass plate negatives).
Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman
Book Review: Darkest Before Dawn: Sedition And Free Speech In The American West, Timothy Lehman
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
During World War I a crowd in Lewistown, Montana, removed all German language textbooks from the high school and burned them while forcing the principal to kiss the American flag. Elsewhere in Montana, residents were convicted of sedition for uttering casual remarks about the inefficiencies of wartime food rationing or refusing to buy Liberty Bonds. German-speaking residents of Montana were fined and imprisoned for voicing their pacifism, socialism, or even their skepticism, whether in a beer hall or from the pulpit. With newspapers declaring that there were "but two classes of citizens: patriots and traitors," the state and the nation …
Black Goose's Map Of The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation In Oklahoma Territory, William C. Meadows
Black Goose's Map Of The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation In Oklahoma Territory, William C. Meadows
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Plains Indian cultures have left numerous forms of Native drawings in the form of painted and drawn clothing, robes, tipis and tipi liners, shields and shield covers, calendars, ledger books, religious and historical drawings, and maps. Native drawings of geographic features are distinguished from other forms of drawings by their focus on the concept of territory rather than on occasional individual features such as a hill or river. Native maps predate European contact and are recorded for every major region of North America. Although most extant Native maps are from the Plains and Arctic regions and date to the nineteenth …
Postcolonial Tragedy In The Crowsnest Past: Two Rearview Reflections By Sharon Pollock And John Murrell, Anne Nothof
Postcolonial Tragedy In The Crowsnest Past: Two Rearview Reflections By Sharon Pollock And John Murrell, Anne Nothof
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In two very different versions of a story of rum-running along the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Crowsnest Pass in the early 1920s, Sharon Pollock and John Murrell replay history as tragedy. Murrell's libretto for the opera Filumena captures the passion and pathos of the exceptional true-life story of Filumena, who at the age of twenty-two was the last woman to be hanged for murder in Canada. In the context of an Italian community compromised by bigotry and ambition, Filumena is rehabilitated and written back into history as a woman who resists a transplanted patriarchal authority. Pollock's play Whiskey Six …
Book Review: The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans And Whites In The Progressive Era, Mark R. Scherer
Book Review: The Great Confusion In Indian Affairs: Native Americans And Whites In The Progressive Era, Mark R. Scherer
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The notion that the federal government's relationship with Native American nations has been chronically "confused" is one of the most familiar truisms in American history. Countless commentators have chronicled the ebb and flow of federal Indian policy among the wildy disparate goals of extinguishment, displacement, assimilation, and self-determination. Given the widespread acceptance of that fundamental premise, Tom Holm's The Great Confusion in Indian Affairs may at first glance appear to offer only superfluous support for an already obvious point. Fortunately, however, Holm's work offers a good deal more than mere reiteration, providing subtly significant new insights into the nuances of …
Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander
Book Review: The Life Of Elaine Goodale Eastman, Ruth Ann Alexander
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
As a biologist, Theodore Sargent has taken a different approach to the life and work of Massachusetts writer Elaine Goodale Eastman. For instance, he admires her childhood poetry published when she was living at Sky Farm in the Berkshires. He likes her "eye for detail and skill with words," although many literary scholars have dismissed her verse as conventional in form and sentimental in content.
Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker
Book Review: True West: Authenticity And The American West, Ellen Baker
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In the culture of the American West, the term "authenticity" comes close to "frontier" in its ubiquity, resonance, and elusiveness. The fifteen essays in this outstanding collection clarify how authenticity has functioned in cultural and literary settings. Instead of simply distinguishing the "fake" from the "authentic," they explore the nature and consequences of quests for and claims to authenticity. Readers interested in the Great Plains will find rewarding essays on literature, environment, and the uses of American Indian history.
Book Review: The Children's Blizzard, Gwen K. Bedient
Book Review: The Children's Blizzard, Gwen K. Bedient
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In 1888 a blizzard of epic proportions hit a broad swath of the Dakota Territory, Nebraska, Iowa, and Minnesota. In many areas a mild winter day changed to a total whiteout in a matter of minutes just as schools were dismissing for the day, resulting in a disproportionate number of children dying. The blizzard came to be known as the schoolchildren's blizzard and is still talked about today. My own grandfather as a nine-year-old schoolboy was caught in the storm near Columbus, Nebraska, and saved by an older brother who led his siblings along a creek to their farmstead. David …
Book Review: Westerns In A Changing America, 1955-2000, Edward Buscombe
Book Review: Westerns In A Changing America, 1955-2000, Edward Buscombe
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is a survey of Western movies made over the past half century which attempts to plot their meanings against the social and political history of America during that time. Using his own personal observations and the ideas of a small number of historians, the author finds that the films closely reflect changes in American society during this period.
Book Review: Dugout, Frances Colpitt
Book Review: Dugout, Frances Colpitt
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Like the work of art it documents, Terry Allen's book is a multifaceted, multimedia chronicle of growing up in postwar west Texas. Allen, a visual artist and musician from Lubbock, is known for sprawling narrative epics conveyed through drawings, sculptures, assemblages, tableaux, written texts, music, and performances. Leaping back and forth across the decades, Dugout is loosely based on his parents' stories of their hardscrabble lives in the early twentieth century and the widespread fear of Martians, Communists, polio, Thalidomide, and The Bomb during Allen's own adolescence. "The language of the 1950's West Texas living room," he writes, "is nerve …
Book Review: In-Between Places, Brewster E. Fitz
Book Review: In-Between Places, Brewster E. Fitz
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The title of this collection of eleven essays comes from Glancy's paraphrase of William Heyen's definition of poetry as "language of things that can't be gotten to. It lives in the in-between places." The title also refers to Glancy's moving in between places on the Great Plains and to her writing as a mixed-blood. Glancy's style is personal, elusive, allusive, parodying, and fragmentary. It's a style that requires patience and an open mind, a style she attributes to "patterns" of the structure of the Cherokee language that remain in her.
"Just Following The Buffalo": Origins Of A Montana Métis Community, Martha Harroun Foster
"Just Following The Buffalo": Origins Of A Montana Métis Community, Martha Harroun Foster
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
By 1879 the vast buffalo herds were all but gone from the Great Plains. Many of the remaining animals had moved south from the Milk River of northern Montana and Alberta into the Judith Basin of central Montana. In these rich grasslands, for a few more years, life went on as it had for centuries. Following the buffalo came many Indian bands, as well as Métis who had been hunting on the Milk River for decades. A buffalo~based economy had brought prosperity to the Native people of the Plains. The animals provided essential food and materials in addition to products …
Book Review: Barbed Wire: An Ecology Of Modernity, Alan Krell
Book Review: Barbed Wire: An Ecology Of Modernity, Alan Krell
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The first years of this century were "barbed" in more ways than one. Three books were published in quick succession on barbed wire: the first by Olivier Razac, then by me, and, most recently, by Reviel Netz. Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity builds on Netz's sagacious essay written for the London Review of Books (July 20, 2000).
Book Review: Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, And Reform, David Rich Lewis
Book Review: Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, And Reform, David Rich Lewis
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Lucy Maddox explores issues of race and progressive reform in the early twentieth century by examining how American Indians positioned themselves to claim a place and a voice in American public life. Maddox focuses on "Indian intellectuals," individuals who wrote and spoke publicly about pan-Indian issues arising from federal wardship, and who organized the Society of American Indians (SAl) as a space for disseminating that Indian voice. Responding to an American public that could not comprehend Indian culture and history outside their own mythic and racialized images (often expressed in pageants depicting a savage or vanishing race), this generation of …
Book Review: History's Shadow: Native Americans And Historical Consciousness In The Nineteenth Century, Jeffrey Ostler
Book Review: History's Shadow: Native Americans And Historical Consciousness In The Nineteenth Century, Jeffrey Ostler
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In this polished work of intellectual history, Steven Conn charts a series of trajectories in European American approaches to conceiving of Native Americans during the nineteenth century. He does this through four interior chapters on images of Indians in American art, the study of Indian languages, archaeology, and the emergence of anthropology. These are framed by two chapters that introduce and amplify the book's general theme of "Native Americans and the problem of history."
Book Review: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis In A Canadian Family, 1660 -1900, Frits Pannekoek
Book Review: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis In A Canadian Family, 1660 -1900, Frits Pannekoek
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
The current historiography of the Great Plains Metis finds its roots in the work of Sylvia Van Kirk, Jennifer Brown, Jacqueline Petersen, and to a lesser degree John Foster. These and other contributions have been outlined in my "Metis Studies: The Development of a Field and New Directions" in From Rupert's Land to Canada: Essays in Honor of John E Foster (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001).
Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins
Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
This is an important book if only for the reason that it will make many reconsider what they think they know about the Cherokees. Their early history, like that of any people, is obscured in the dimness of the past. While some of the early story may be reconstructed through surviving myth and modern theory, much uncertainty clouds origins and early migration patterns. After white contact and the chronicles and accounts of traders, missionaries, and adventurers are written, the veil isn't entirely lifted. Many written records pose more questions than they answer. For example, when the British first came upon …
Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert
Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Judging from the title, one might expect this book to offer some resolution to America's ongoing debate regarding the teaching of evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. It is, instead, Janovy's attempt to shake higher education by the shoulders and bring it to its senses, asking that university instruction shift its focus from content to larger questions of process and values (for want of a better term: liberal arts and sciences). As Janovy states, "I contend that the arts and sciences ideals - breadth of understanding, courage to explore anywhere, patience with disagreement - are the best antidotes to our current …
Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, William Ferris
Review Essay: Encyclopedia Of The Great Plains, William Ferris
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
How proud Ellison would be to see his work and that of so many other distinguished artists, writers, and musicians recognized in the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains. The Great Plains roots of Ralph Ellison, Gwendolyn Brooks, Langston Hughes, Cornel West, Ornette Coleman, Charlie Parker, and Jay McShann make emphatic the region's importance in African American history and culture. Like their counterparts in the American South, these artists migrated to Chicago and New York where they became leaders in the nation's cultural life.
Book Review: The Red Man's On The Warpath: The Image Of The "Indian" And The Second World War, Robert Alexander Innes
Book Review: The Red Man's On The Warpath: The Image Of The "Indian" And The Second World War, Robert Alexander Innes
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
R. Scott Sheffield's study of the images used by bureaucrats and journalists provides an in-depth examination of Anglo-Canadians' perceptions of First Nations people and how these perceptions affected Indian policies.
Book Review: Women Of The Northern Plains: Gender And Settlement On The Homestead Frontier, 1870- 1930, Angel Kwolek-Folland
Book Review: Women Of The Northern Plains: Gender And Settlement On The Homestead Frontier, 1870- 1930, Angel Kwolek-Folland
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
Focusing on the history of North Dakota farm women from the years of settlement and community-building to the transition to an industrial, consumer economy, Handy-Marchello argues that North Dakota farm marriages of necessity were economic partnerships throughout this period.
"These Is My Words" . . . Or Are They?: Constructing Western Women's Lives In Two Contemporary Novels, Jenneifer Dawes Adkison
"These Is My Words" . . . Or Are They?: Constructing Western Women's Lives In Two Contemporary Novels, Jenneifer Dawes Adkison
Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)
In analyzing Gloss's The Jump-Off Creek, and Turner's These Is My Words: The Diary of Sarah Agnes Prine, 1881-1901, Arizona Territories, I explore how questions of authenticity can help us to understand and situate these novels as well as how these texts playfully reinvent the "authentic" western.