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Review Of March Of The Columns: A Chronicle Of The 1876 Indian War, June 27-September 16, 1876 By James Willert, Gary A. Trogdon

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Unbearable heat, driving thunderstorms, endless marching, and poor rations were daily fare for the soldier on the Plains. Weeks of tedious riding culminated in brief moments of sheer terror when the adversary was finally confronted. March of the Columns provides the day by day exploits, movements, and disappointments of US soldiers in pursuit of Cheyenne and Sioux warriors along the Yellowstone, Tongue, and Powder Rivers. The tale begins two days after the defeat of Custer's Seventh Cavalry and culminates with the end of the summer campaign. Sandwiched between are the numerous anecdotes, tragedies, and travels of Generals George Crook and …

Politics And Culture Of The Great Plains: An Introduction, John C. Comer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In April 1996 the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored its twentieth interdisciplinary symposium, "Politics and Culture of the Great Plains." From papers and presentations by scholars from the United States and Canada, dealing with Indian rights, women's suffrage, education, the economy, elections, social movements, and historical and contemporary personalities, four are presented in this issue of Great Plains Quarterly.

"Treaty Seven and Guaranteed Representation: How Treaty Rights Can Evolve into Parliamentary Seats" deals with relations between sovereign nations-the Blackfoot Confederacy of southern Alberta and the national government of Canada. Kiera Ladner argues that …

Political Psychology And Political Policy, Ibpp Editor

International Bulletin of Political Psychology

This article describes the basic components of political policy which can be influenced through political psychology. It also suggests some political limitations of this influence.

Metapopulations And The Real World, Douglas H. Johnson

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

Metapopulations are currently a hot topic in ecological theory and conservation biology. Fundamentally, a metapopulation is a population of populations, and the term describes certain populations that inhabit discrete habitat patches. Individuals move between patches often enough to recolonize extirpated patches, but not so frequently that the patches exhibit similar population trajectories. The term "metapopulation" was coined and a theory formalized by Richard Levins in 1969, but the concept of spatially divided populations has been around for a longer time.

Birds Of Western North America, Lawrence D. Igl

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

This photographic identification guide covers more than 530 species of birds that regularly occur in the western half of North America. It is slightly larger than most field guides, including the popular National Geographic Society's Field Guide to the Birds of North America, which is continental in coverage. Nonetheless, it is small and sturdy enough to conveniently carry in a jacket pocket or backpack. The field guide begins with a short section on how to use the book; the bulk of the book consists of species accounts. Each species account occurs on one page (a few species are jointly …

Perspectives On The Diagnosis, Epizootiology, And Control Of The 1973 Duck Plague Epizootic In Wild Waterfowl At Lake Andes, South Dakota, Gary Pearson, Delmar Cassidy

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

An epizootic of duck plague occurred in early 1973 in a population of 163,500 wild waterfowl, primarily mallards (Anas platyrhynchos), wintering on Lake Andes and the nearby Missouri River in southeastern South Dakota (USA). The diagnosis was based on pathologic lesions and confirmed by virus isolation. Control measures included quarantine, attempts to reduce virus contamination of the area, dispersal of waterfowl, and monitoring of wild waterfowl populations for mortality. The epizootic resulted in documented mortality of 18% and estimated mortality of 26% of the waterfowl at risk. Prompt implementation of control measures might have limited mortality to approximately …

Changes In Breeding Bird Populations In North Dakota: 1967 To 1992-93, Lawrence Igl, Douglas Johnson

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

We compared breeding bird populations in North Dakota using surveys conducted in 1967 and 1992-93. In decreasing order, the five most frequently occurring species were Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris), Brown-headed Cowbird (Molothrus ater), Western Meadowlark (Sturnella neglecta), Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus), and Eastern Kingbird (Tyrannus tyrannus). The five most abundant species-Horned Lark, Chestnut-collared Longspur (Calcarius ornatus), Red-winged Blackbird, Western Meadowlark, and Brown-headed Cowbird-accounted for 31-41% of the estimated statewide breeding bird population in the three years. Although species composition remained relatively similar among years, between year patterns in …

Water, Sugar, And Power: Irrigation In Southern Puerto Rico During The Late Nineteenth Century, Marisol Ramos

Published Works

The purpose of this thesis was to address an important element in the study of the sugar cane industry in Puerto Rico that has been neglected in its literature: water. By analyzing the failure of the Guayama Irrigation Project of 1864-1866, the thesis showcased the importance of water and the establishment of irrigation projects to local hacendados as an strategy to address the vulnerability that the sugar cane industry at the time was facing: falling prices, low capacity, and the ever present danger of droughts, which the colonial government was unable to solve for lack of liquid capital.

Review Of Born In The Country: A History Of Rural America By David B. Danbom, Michael W. Schuyler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

David B. Danbom, professor of history at North Dakota State University, Fargo, is widely respected as one of the nation's leading authorities on agricultural history. His purpose in writing this book, to provide a general history of rural America combining traditional political and economic history with the new social history, he accomplishes with admirable success. Born in the Country will quickly become a standard text in the field.

Danbom traces the history of agriculture from the nation's beginnings, when rural Americans dominated the nation, down to a present in which farmers and people living in rural areas have become a …

Review Of The Drifting CowboyBy Will James I See By Your Outfit: Historic Cowboy Gear Of The Northern Plains By Tom Lindmier And Steve Mount, Richard W. Slatta

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Will James (1892-1942) served as living proof that prison can reform a man. Convicted of rustling in 1915, he used his writing and drawing ability in prison to prove his social worth and rehabilitation. By the time alcohol abuse ended his life, he had illustrated and written twenty-four entertaining volumes.

Most of James's books have been long out of print. Thanks to joint efforts by the Will James Society (PO Box 8207, Roswell, MN 88202) and Mountain Press Publishing, all of his works will be reprinted. The Drifting Cowboy, first published in 1925, joins his first book, Cowboys North …

A Socioeconomic Portrait Of Prince Hall Masonry In Nebraska, 1900-1920, Dennis N. Mihelich

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 6 March 1775, a British military lodge of Freemasons initiated Prince Hall (his name, not a title) and fourteen other African Americans after the white colonial lodge at Boston had rejected their petition. Independence did not alter the attitude of white American Masons; thus, a separate black Masons' organization evolved. Hall secured a charter from the "mother" grand lodge in England and reconstituted his group as the African Grand Lodge of North America. Following his death in 1807 the fraternal order renamed itself in his honor.

Prior to the abolition of slavery Prince Hall Masonry spread slowly among the …

Title And Contents- Winter 1997

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

WINTER 1997 VOL. 17 NO. 1

CONTENTS

BLACK SOLDIERS AT FORT HAYS, KANSAS, 1867 -1869: A STUDY IN CIVILIAN AND MILITARY VIOLENCE James N. Leiker

ALLOTMENT, ALCOHOL, AND THE OMAHAS Benson Tong

A SOCIOECONOMIC PORTRAIT OF PRINCE HALL MASONRY IN NEBRASKA, 1900-1920 Dennis N. Mihelich

THE EARLY GROWTH OF THE CONRAD BANKING ENTERPRISE IN MONTANA, 1880-1914 Henry C. Klassen

REVIEW ESSAY: THE EMPEROR ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER Susan A. Miller

A review of a traveling exhibition from the Newberry Library,

"The Frontier in American CuI ture," curated by Richard White.

BOOK REVIEWS

Becoming and Remaining a People: …

Review Of This Fragile Land: A Natural History Of The Nebraska Sandhills By Paul A. Johnsgard, Bob Ross

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This Fragile Land, though written for a popular audience, is not intended for children or for light bedtime reading. In language midway between academic discourse and good literary prose, Paul Johnsgard characterizes the plant and animal communities of the Sandhills thoroughly- and with humor and imagination.

Part One describes the "geology and historical geography" of the Sandhills region and its borders; it is the only part that might be tedious for some. In his preface, Johnsgard advises readers to begin with Part Two and skip-and-sample backward. In five chapters, he details the geographic relationships of species' habitats to one …

Black Soldiers At Fort Hays, Kansas, 1867-1869 A Study In Civilian And Military Violence, James N. Leiker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Historians of the western army contend with many romanticized myths. Few of those myths, in recent years, have held the popular consciousness as has that of the army's first black regulars, known as "buffalo soldiers." By now, the origins of the segregated regiments are quite familiar. In 1866, with the nation's acting military force having dwindled to a fraction of its Civil War size, the Republican Congress encouraged the enlistment of newly freed slaves and northern free blacks. Assigned to remote western areas, black units played an instrumental role over the next few decades in opening the West for white …

Review Of The Nature Of The Place: A Study Of Great Plains Fiction By Diane Dufva Quantic, Melody Graulich

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Diane Quantic takes her title from Wright Morris: "Many things would come to pass, but the nature of the place would remain a matter of opinion." Quantic's "opinion" is perhaps best conveyed on a t-shirt I once saw her wearing at a conference: "Kansas is the best kept secret in the United States."

I begin with this anecdote because Quantic has earned her authority by living her whole life in Kansas; I admire the way she establishes her relation to "place" in the book's first line: "My mother grew up in Lebanon, Kansas, the geographic center of the contiguous forty-eight …

Review Of Age Of The Gunfighter: Men And Weapons On The Frontier 1840-1900 By Joseph G. Rosa, Robert K. Dearment

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

At first glance and a quick thumb-through, this large 10"x13" edition with its striking full color cover featuring W. C. Wyeth's dramatic painting of Wild Bill Hickok throwing down on a cheat at a gambling table might be considered just another slick picture book on the order of The Gunfighters, one of Time-life's Old West series of a few years back. But knowledgeable readers of factual gunfighter history, recognizing the author's name, would look further. Joseph G. Rosa has written a number of books dealing with Old West gunmen and their weaponry and is the uncontested authority on the …

Review Of Indian School Days By Basil H. Johnston, Susan Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1939 Basil H. Johnston's mother told him he would soon be going on a short trip. The reasons for her seeming upset during preparations for his departure became clear to the ten-year-old Ojibway only when the agent came to collect him. Basil realized he was being taken to Spanish, a small village in northern Ontario and the site of the St. Peter Claver's Indian Residential School. Indian School Days renders the autobiographical remembrances of the author's years at the Jesuit boarding school.

Residential schools for Native American children were spread throughout Canada and the United States through the 1950s. …

Review Of Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real By Carol Miles Petersen, Barbara W. Rippey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Bess Streeter Aldrich, Nebraska author (1881-1954), believed that if people want to do something badly enough, they will find the time to do it. Carol Miles Petersen, her biographer, tells us that Aldrich wanted so much to write that care of a husband, four children, and a home failed to deter her. The early death of Aldrich's husband added an economic impetus to her initial drive. She published a dozen books and numerous short stories and articles in meeting her artistic and family responsibilities. Moreover, during depression years, she aided her community substantially by offering quiet financial help to the …

Allotment, Alcohol, And The Omahas, Benson Tong

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"The welfare of the Omaha is close to my heart ... I am living among them and I know what I am writing about," wrote Noah La Flesche in a 1916 letter to the Superintendent of the Omaha School, the field official in charge of the Omaha agency. In a passionate tone, La Flesche went on to plead: "If we had a man who would take the drunken Indian, fine him, put him in jail till he sobered up, drinking would not be so bad. This is going to ruin the Omaha. I ask you to help us ... we …

Review Of Voices Of The Plains Cree By Edward Ahenakew, Jennifer S. Brown

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Voices of the Plains Cree was first published in 1973 by McClelland & Stewart. As it has been out of print for some time, the Canadian Plains Research Center has rendered useful service in once again making this important book available in a new edition with striking and attractive cover artwork by Allen Sapp.

In the 1920s, Edward Ahenakew, a Saskatchewan Cree ordained into the Anglican priesthood in 1912, quietly began to write down the memories and legends told to him by Chief Thunderchild (Peyasiw-awasis, also known as Kapitikow), then living on Onion Lake Reserve (Saskatchewan). Thunderchild, a follower of …

Review Of The Dull Knifes Of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey By Joe Starita, Donald L. Parman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Joe Starita's book centers on five generations of the Dull Knife family from the 1870s until the present. The original Dull Knife was a Northern Cheyenne who, with Little Wolf, led his people north from Indian Territory in 1878. The flight became one of the more famous episodes of the Indian wars. His son, George Dull Knife, born in 1875, probably came north to the Pine Ridge reservation several years later and identified with the Lakota rather than the Northern Cheyenne. George worked in Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and later served as a tribal policeman. His son, Guy, Sr., …

Pattern And Process In Biological Invasion, Diane L. Larson

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

A cohesive theory of biological invasion has been frustratingly elusive. If nothing else, Mark Williamson's book, Biological Invasions, has convinced me of the futility in looking for broad patterns among the widely disparate creatures that have invaded almost every conceivable environment.

Review Of They Call Me Agnes: A Crow Narrative Based On The Life Of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose By Fred W. Yoget, Assisted By Mary K. Mee, Marika Sandell

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

They Call Me Agnes tells the life story of Agnes Yellowtail as narrated to anthropologist Fred Yoget and assisted in his work by Mary K. Mee. Yoget also includes information from other Crow informants and presents a chapter on Crow reservation culture based on Robert Lowie's classical ethnographical data. The last chapter discusses Crow traditional ceremonies and how they have changed during Agnes's life. In his introduction, Yoget gives details about where he has added material to each chapter and where it is Agnes's voice we are hearing.

Agnes Yellowtail was born in a tent during the Crow Indian Fair …

Notes And News- Winter 1997

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Notes and News

CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIES SYMPOSIA

FREDERICK C. LUEBKE AWARD

COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SEMINAR

PUBLICATIONS A WARDS

Review Of Caddo Indians: Where We Come From By Cecile Elkins Carter, F. Todd Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Unlike the Native American tribes of the northern Plains-especially the Teton Sioux-the Indians of the southern Plains have been relatively neglected by historians. This is partially the result of these tribes' long, extensive dealings with the Spanish and French before interacting with representatives of the United States in the mid-nineteenth century. The nomadic buffalo hunting Comanches and Kiowas have had their share of chroniclers, due in part to the dramatic wars they fought in response to their being forced onto reservations following the Civil War. Only recently, however, has a historian, Stanley Noyes, written exclusively about the Comanches before 1845. …

Review Of Mediation In Contemporary Native American Fiction By James Ruppert, Catherine Rainwater

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

James Ruppert discusses works by six Native American writers whom he believes "mediate" Indian and non-Indian world views. He argues convincingly that narratives by N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, Gerald Vizenor, D'Arcy McNickle, and Louise Erdrich are delivered from "an artistic and conceptual standpoint, constantly flexible, which uses the epistemological frameworks of Native American and Western cultural traditions to illuminate and enrich each other." These texts "create a dynamic that brings differing cultural codes into confluence to reinforce and recreate the structures of human life: the self, community, spirit, and the world we perceive." Often citing reader-response …

The Early Growth Of The Conrad Banking Enterprise In Montana, 1880-1914, Henry C. Klassen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the year 1880 two brothers, William G. and Charles E. Conrad, organized the First National Bank at Fort Benton in north central Montana, capitalized at $50,000. They supplied at least $10,500 of this capital and gradually came to own a majority of the stock. From this modest start, the Conrad partnership expanded through involvement not only in the First National but also in other Montana banks until its emergence as a banking empire thirty-four years later with a paid-up capital of more than half a million dollars. The partnership grew by entering several geographical markets, becoming a regional partnership. …

Review Of The Biographical Directory Of Native American Painters Edited By Patrick D. Lester, Richard Conn

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Here is a long-needed and critically important reference work sure to be welcomed by the many scholars, collectors, artists, and others who will consult it frequently. The last work of this nature, Jeanne Snodgrass's American Indian Painters: A Biographical Directory, was published in 1968, hence the importance and timeliness of Lester's Biographical Directory.

The body of the work (the actual Directory) is organized alphabetically by artists' names, each entry including biographical data, tribal affiliation, name in tribal language, and lists of awards, commissions, and works in public collections. If an artist works in more than one medium, the …

Review Of Becoming And Remaining A People: Native American Religions On The Northern Plains By Howard L. Harrod, Lee Irwin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Primarily this is a book about pre-reservation religions among the Hidatsa and Mandan, with a final chapter on the Cheyenne and Crow. Its purpose, an important one, is to reveal Hidatsa and Mandan culture as dynamic and transformative, nourished by religious values that provided social continuity as well as a symbolic language for adaptation and innovation. Unlike the many books dealing with northern Plains religions as static, or locked into unchanging cycles of religious ritual, Becoming and Remaining a People clearly shows how northern Plains religious experience and interpretations shaped new patterns of identity and social reconstruction while providing a …

Review Of The Frontier In American Culture: An Exhibition At The Newberry Library, August 26, 1994-January 7, 1995 Essays By Richard White And Patricia Nelson Limerick, Susan A. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

THE EMPEROR ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER

Richard White, the creator of the touring panel exhibition "The Frontier in American Culture," made his reputation promoting a product labeled "New Western History." He wrote a textbook on the topic, and one passage in that book reveals the conception that frames this exhibition: "People simply murdered Indians," he writes (It's Your Misfortune and None of My Own [University of Oklahoma Press, 1991], p. 338). If you are one of the people, perhaps that kind of statement seems acceptable, but from the point of view of one of the Indians it looks like …