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Book Review: Texas Rangeland, Rick Dingus Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: More Ghost Towns Of Texas, David Wharton Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection, Kenneth Haltman Jan 2004

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.

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Fall 2004 Table Of Contents, Great Plains Quarterly Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: Who Owns Native Culture?, April R. Summit Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: West Of Emerson: The Design Of Manifest Destiny, Charles W. Mignon Jan 2004

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."

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Book Review: Kansas: The History Of The Sunflower State, 1854-2000, Raymond Wilson Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: The Future Of The Southern Plains, Ken Rainwater Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: Unsettling The Literary West: Authenticity And Authorship, J. David Stevens Jan 2004

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" …

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Book Review: African American Women Confront The West, 1600-2000, Michael Lansing Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: "This Is America?" The Sixties In Lawrence, Kansas, Craig Miner Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: Interpreting The Legacy: John Neihardt And "Black Elk Speaks", Dale Stover Jan 2004

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 …

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Book Review: The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West, Allison Badger Jan 2004

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 …

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Book Review: Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather And The First World War, Mary R. Ryder Jan 2004

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."

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Book Review: Five Shades Of Shadow, Gordon O. Taylor Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: Barns Of Kansas: A Pictorial History, John Michael Vlach Jan 2004

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 …

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Book Review: Bound For Sante Fe: The Road To New Mexico And The American Conquest, Harry C. Myers Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: The Roots Of Texas Music, Kevin E. Mooney Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: Vaqueros, Cowboys, And Buckaroos, Great Plains Quarterly Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy In The Presbyterian Church, Henry Warner Bowden Jan 2004

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 …

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Native American Photography At The Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Elizabeth Edwards Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction To The Writing Of Walt Mcdonald, Stephen C. Behrendt Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, And The West, Beth Loffreda Jan 2004

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.

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Congregationalist Richard Cordley And The Impact Of New England Cultural Imperialism In Kansas, 1857-1904, Nathan Wilson Jan 2004

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 …

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Entering Sacred Landscapes: Cultural Expectations Versus Legal Realities In The Northwestern Plains, Gregory R. Campbell, Thomas A. Foor Jan 2004

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.

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Book Review: Toward A Native American Critical Theory, Renate Eigenbrod Jan 2004

Book Review: Toward A Native American Critical Theory, Renate Eigenbrod

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In this book, author Elvira Pulitano analyses and evaluates selected writings by Paula Gunn Allen, Robert Allen Warrior, Craig Womack, Greg Sarris, Louis Owens, and Gerald Vizenor in their relation to postmodern, poststructuralist, and postcolonial thought.

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Book Review: William S. Hart: Projecting The American West, Scott Simon Jan 2004

Book Review: William S. Hart: Projecting The American West, Scott Simon

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This first biography of the early film star William S. Hart is solidly researched and full of useful information, even if written in unexciting prose. Hart is a difficult subject, a taciturn, self-dramatizing figure about whose peripatetic childhood on the Great Plains little is known and who came to live the Western persona created through his silent movies. He was forty-nine before his first film in 1914, and his career lasted only a decade. Still, in those years he starred in forty-eight feature-length films (and an additional nineteen two-reelers), for many of which he also served as de facto writer …

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Book Reviews, Notes And News, Great Plains Quarterly Jan 2004

Book Reviews, Notes And News, Great Plains Quarterly

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Book Reviews & Notes and News from the Fall 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.

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Book Review: First To Fight, William C. Meadows Jan 2004

Book Review: First To Fight, William C. Meadows

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

First to Fight is a brief life history of Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche born in the 1920s. It is exactly what it promises to be - a collection of personal reminisces by Henry Mihesuah of his life, recorded and arranged by his daughter-in-law.

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Book Review: The Texas Post Office Murals: Art For The People, Karal Ann Marling Jan 2004

Book Review: The Texas Post Office Murals: Art For The People, Karal Ann Marling

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Stodgy university presses, in these hard economic times, have begun to produce books that have a broad appeal to scholars and casual readers alike, and The Texas Post Office Murals is a splendid example of the genre. Beautifully designed and printed, mostly in vivid color, Parisi's book becomes both a superb tourist's guide to 1930s art in Texas and a primary research document for students of American art and culture. Given the size of the state of Texas, he has also performed a valuable service by saving all of us a lot of dusty mileage along blue highways.

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