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Review Of Community Development Strategies On The Northern Plains By Kevin A. Choy And Richard C. Rounds, Joseph Luther

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Kevin Choy and Richard Rounds, of the Rural Development Institute at Brandon University in Manitoba, have examined strategies for rural community economic development on the conterminous Great Plains of North America. Their exploration, description and explanation of these strategies has derived a fresh look at community economic development theory that could serve to unite many of the competing factions in this field. Their schematic of rural development theories provides an understanding of the various frames of reference for this field of study and practice. For this reason, this book should be a highly recommended reading for students in the rural …

Review Of Meant To Be Wild: The Struggle To Save Endangered Species Through Captive Breeding By Jan Deblieu, William Scharf

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In the early 1970s, when I watched Frances Hamerstrom's initial attempts to achieve captive breeding of golden eagles, and later to induce red-tailed Hawks to complete most of their life cycle in captivity, I thought the practice to be only a novelty and biological sideline. I had no idea that the captive breeding and re-release of wild species into their natural environments would become such an accepted and important technique. Indeed this book documents many such attempts and some notable successes.

Review Of Buffalo By John Foster, Dick Harrison, And I. S. Maclaren, Edmonton, Alberta, 1992, University Of Alberta Press, Alan J. Osborn

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This volume contains 12 contributions that deal with North American bison in relation to paleontology, archaeology and cultural resource management, the fur trade, portrayal in art and literature, disease and population ecology, and Native American land tenure.

There are two general themes that dominate this book. First, two articles by Jack Brink and Ed Sponholz discuss the role of Native Americans in the interpretation and preservation of cultural resources. Both authors focus on the spectacular prehistoric Head-Smashed-In bison jump in southwestern Alberta. Head-Smashed-In is a United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization World Heritage site that has been developed in …

Review Of Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium Proceedings, September 13-15,1990, Laurie A. Milne

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The 13 papers in this volume derive from the Fort Union Fur Trade Symposium held in mid-September 1990 at the confluence of the Yellowstone and Missouri rivers, the heartland of the 19th-century American fur trade. Conference organizers, intending this meeting to be reminiscent of the well known, periodic North American Fur Trade Conferences, had invited nearly two dozen preeminent scholars to offer their insights into the trade .and traders of the upper Missouri country. To this end the papers appearing in this publication cover such diverse topics as the geographic setting, the construction of Fort Union, the men of the …

Review Of Policy For American Agriculture: Choices And Consequences By M. C. Hallberg, E. Wesley F. Peterson

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

M. C. Hallberg is a professor of agricultural economics at Pennsylvania State University and this book treats agricultural policy almost exclusively from that disciplinary perspective. For Hallberg, agricultural policy is largely confined to the various market interventions of national governments, particularly those programs that have been put in place to regulate farm production, prices and incomes. The book is organized into four parts. The first section includes three chapters dealing with the nature of agricultural policy and the legislative and political processes that produce U.S. farm programs. The second section includes two chapters designed to provide an analytical framework for …

Review Of Watching Kansas Wildlife: A Guide To 101 Sites By Bob Gress And George Potts, Ronald M. Case

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This publication is designed for the novice wildlife watcher and it is a guide to where to go to watch wildlife, not how to identify them. The authors are enthusiastic, and rightfully so, about wildlife in Kansas. There is considerable wildlife diversity throughout the Great Plains yet many people do not know or appreciate this treasure.

The book provides a statewide map showing the physiographic regions and all 101 viewing sites in Kansas. Additionally, there are six maps indicating the locations of sites and highways in that region. Each site description includes directions to the site, its size, ownership, wildlife …

Review Of Colorado: The Place Of Nature, The Nature Of Place By Thomas P. Huber, A. David Hill

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Colorado contains profiles of twelve distinctive places, which like the pieces of a jig-saw puzzle, fit together to form a mosaic that helps describe and explain the state's natural and, to a lesser extent, human history. The opening chapter introduces the lay reader to the broad themes of the state's physical geography-geology, landforms, climate, and vegetation. These topics are then typically covered with specific reference to each of the place profiles that constitute the remaining twelve chapters.

The most intriguing aspect of the book is the selection of the twelve places. Huber said he chose them "to inform, tantalize, and …

Review Of On Turner's Trail: 100 Years Of Writing Western History By Wilbur R. Jacobs, Mark A. Eifler

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The addition of another study assessing the legacy of Frederick Jackson Turner will surely elicit a few groans among western scholars. This is too bad, for Wilbur Jacobs' On Turner's Trail is a detailed, insightful, and richly rewarding trek that should be undertaken by all western historians.

Jacobs' book mixes the best of biography, historiography, and institutional history, while adding a good deal of personal reminiscence as well. As a biography, Jacobs paints a portrait of an ambitious and complex historian, a man struggling to synthesize a huge quantity of data, who retains a genuinely open mind regarding material and …

Review Of American Agriculture: A Brief History By R. Douglas Hurt, John Fraser Hart

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This book is a history of American agriculture by an academic agriculturalist who is interested in farm programs, policies, organizations, institutions, and bureaucracies, but cares little about real farms. Although he occasionally itemizes the products of farms, he largely ignores cropping systems, livestock feeding operations, and the ways farmers integrate them to produce these products.

Review Of Turning On Water With A Shovel: The Career Of Elwood Mead By James R. Kluger, James W. Hewitt

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Elwood Mead, like Elwood P. Dowd, saw things other people didn't. Both preferred the world of their imagination. But the resemblance ends there. Mead labored zealously for over 50 years to make his imaginary world a reality. And to a significant degree he was successful.

James R. Kluger, essentially revising his doctoral dissertation for publication, has traced the broad outlines of Mead's career as America's foremost proponent of irrigation. This is not a biography in the strict sense of the word. Kluger gives us no insights into Mead's character, or his family life. The work is confined to recounting, on …

Review Of Trials And Triumphs: A Colorado Portrait Of The Great Depression With Fsa Photographs By Stephen J. Leonard, Liston Leyendecker

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Stephen J. Leonard has written a book about Colorado during the depression. He portrays an economically and politically conservative state whose failed attempts at local relief forced its officers to seek solutions offered by Franklin Roosevelt's New Deal. Both Colorado officials and residents resented federal assistance believing that it threatened their state's independence. Leonard sets the scene by summarizing the final years of the 1920s in Colorado before describing how the crash affected the state and its dwellers. After commenting on its devastation in urban areas, he turns to rural sections particularly the agricultural Plains, the San Luis Valley and …

Review Of Forgotten Places: Uneven Development In Rural America Edited By Thomas A. Lyson And William W. Falk, Karen Morin

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The editors and authors of this fine collection of articles, though mostly sociologists, demonstrate how geography is in a sense destiny to the rural poor. By focusing on nine regions spanning the country from New England to the Rio Grande Valley to the Pacific Northwest, they show how social as well as spatial isolation has created common problems among a rural underclass that is "forgotten" by mainstream America.

Socio-spatial isolation may take many forms, but the outcome for all the places studied is the same: lack of full participation in American economic life. Educational isolation in the Black Belt of …

Review Of The Fishes Of Alberta (2nd Edition) By Joseph S. Nelson And Martin J. Paetz, R. A. Bodaly

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

This useful and attractive book is a much needed second edition of The Fishes of Alberta, first published in 1970. It is expanded and improved from the first edition and will be an essential reference for biologists working with the fishes of Alberta and surrounding areas, for those interested in the distribution of freshwater fishes in North America, and for anglers and the interested public as well.

The Fishes of Alberta is organized into two main sections. An introductory section has chapters on various types offish habitat in the different river basins and regions of Alberta, fish management and …

Review Of Ogallala: Water For A Dry Land By John Opie, Stephen E. White

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Ogallala is as much about the need for achieving sustainable agriculture in America as it is about the issues surrounding the depletion of groundwater in the High Plains. In some ways, the Ogallala region simply serves as the setting for describing the problems of the energy intensive, high-tech oriented agriculture pervasive throughout much of the U.S. today. Only a portion of the Ogallala, that most impacted during the dust bowl era and extending from about Lubbock, Texas through southwestern Kansas, is treated systematically.

Review Of Prairie Populism: The Fate Of Agrarian Radicalism In Kansas, Nebraska, And Iowa, 1880-1892 By Jeffrey Ostler, Robert W. Cherny

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Why was there no populism in Iowa? That is the question posed by Jeffrey Ostler, assistant professor of history at the University of Oregon, in this revised version of his dissertation. The question itself is more complicated than it might first seem, and Ostler's thoughtful and carefully-researched answers have interesting implications for the study of late 19th century politics more generally.

Ostler approaches his question by comparing Iowa with Kansas and Nebraska. Arguing that the economic situation of farmers in the three states was not sufficiently different to explain the great dissimilarity in their support for the Populist Party in …

Review Of Confronting Sexual Assault: A Decade Of Legal And Social Change By Julian V Roberts And Renate M. Mohr, Cynthia Willis-Esqueda

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

In Confronting Sexual Assault Julian V Roberts and Renate M. Mohr have edited a collection of chapters written by various scholars and professionals on issues central to Canadian social change concerning legal conceptions of rape, as well as the legal ramifications of such change for Canada. The book also contains a reprint of 1992 legislation, Bill C-49, that provides tests for when judges may allow a complainant's sexual history to be admitted as evidence and provides a definition of "consent" for determining sexual assault. Moreover, the bill "... restricted the defense of mistaken belief in consent ... " (p. 11). …

Review Of Restructuring Rural Saskatchewan: The Challenge Of The 1990s By Jack C. Stabler And M. R. Olfert, James Knotwell

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Stabler and Olfert have contributed a well-conceived empirical analysis of a truly rural economic region (about 18% of the Saskatchewan population is employed in primary sectors, overwhelmingly agriculture). This book tends to support most of the same phenomena postulated in Central Place Theory literature, and observable in similar case studies of similar regions. Great Plains development and planning agencies should find in Stabler and Olfert's methods a rich harvest of easily applicable approaches to analyzing their respective economic spaces, provided they have access to a large, diverse database, or can compile it themselves with a minimal expenditure. Unfortunately, the theoretical …

Review Of Not Room Enough: Mexicans, Anglos And Socioeconomic Change In Texas, 1850-1900 By Kenneth L. Stewart And Arnoldo De Leon, F. Arturo Rosales

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

The main conclusion of this concise work is that Mexicans had more economic parity with Anglos in 1850 than at the end of the nineteenth century. Even though both groups chased opportunities offered by Texas' entry into the capitalist world system, the fortunes of Mexicans did not keep pace. By 1900, Mexicans lagged behind Anglos in property ownership, in capital wealth, in political power retention, and in educational attainments. Such a course is predictable; the thesis has often been aired prior to the publication of this work, not just about Texas but about other areas of the Southwest.

Review Of Farms, Mines, And Main Streets: Uneven Development In A Dakota County By Caroline S. Tauxe, David B. Danbom

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

Anthropologist Caroline Tauxe's Farms, Mines, and Main Streets is a study of the impact of energy development in Mercer County, North Dakota. Mercer County's rich deposits of lignite became the focus of attention by energy companies and policymakers during the energy crisis of the seventies. Already the site of several mines and power plants-lignite begins to lose its potency soon after it is taken out of the ground-the county was the focus of intense energy development, the most important facet being the Great Plains coal gasification plant, which converted lignite into natural gas.

Review Of Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food On The Oregon Trail By Jacqueline Williams, Betsy Downey

Great Plains Research: A Journal of Natural and Social Sciences (through 2013)

By the end of her wagon journey west, Phoebe Judson recalled, "all of the little delicacies we brought ... from home were gone, ... the thought of a 'baked kidney' or 'pink-eyed' potatoes caused the tears to roll down my face" (p. 2). For Judson and other emigrants, daily life on the Oregon Trail revolved around food; the journey often took six months and meant more than seven hundred meals cooked out or eaten cold, in all kinds of weather. Food historian Jacqueline Williams sees these meals as a vital part of the history of the overland travelers. Her Wagon …

Neotropical Migrant Birds, Douglas H. Johnson

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

The latest vogue in bird conservation is concern over species that breed in the United States and Canada but winter mostly south of the United States-Mexico border. Many neotropical migrant birds have declined in number recently (although many have not). It is perhaps convenient to blame deforestation and other environmental abuses in the tropics for the declines in "our" birds, rather than to look inward at the abuses we in the United States have inflicted. Nonetheless, the concern about neotropical migrants, institutionalized by the Partners in Flight program, has served several purposes. For one, biologists are taking a broader view …

Statistical Sirens: The Allure Of Nonparametrics, Douglas H. Johnson

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

Although nonparametric statistical methods have a role to play in the analysis of data, often their virtues are overstated and their deficiencies overlooked. A recent Special Feature in Ecology advocated nonparametric methods because of an erroneously stated advantage that they require no assumptions regarding the distribution underlying the observations. The present paper points out some often-ignored features of nonparametric tests comparing two means, and advocates parameter estimation as a preferred alternative to hypothesis testing in many situations.

Factors Associated With Duck Nest Success In The Prairie Pothole Region Of Canada, Raymond J. Greenwood, Alan B. Sargeant, Douglas H. Johnson, Lewis M. Cowardin, Terry L. Shaffer

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

Populations of some dabbling ducks have declined sharply in recent decades and information is needed to understand reasons for this. During 1982-85, we studied duck nesting for 1-4 years in 17 1.6 by 16.0-km, high-density duck areas in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of Canada, 9 in parkland and 8 in prairie. We estimated nest-initiation dates, habitat preferences, nest success, and nest fates for mallards (Anas platyrhynchos), gadwalls (A. strepera), blue-winged teals (A. discors), northern shovelers (A. clypeata), and northern pintails (A. acuta). We also examined the relation of mallard …

Contributions Of The Conservation Reserve Program To Populations Of Breeding Birds In North Dakota, Douglas Johnson, Lawrence Igl

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

Previous studies have shown that habitat provided by the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP), a feature of the 1985 farm bill, is used by many birds. The present study quantitatively assesses the importance of the CRP by estimating changes in breeding bird populations of North Dakota projected if CRP land would revert to cultivation. Of 18 species that were common in CRP or crop fields or both, 12 were more abundant in CRP habitats. Six of these species had suffered significant population declines during 1967-1990, according to the North American Breeding Bird Survey. In contrast, none of the six species that …

Modified Transmitter Attachment Method For Adult Ducks, Pamela J. Pietz, David A. Brandt, Gary L. Krapu, Deborah A. Buhl

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

The value of radio telemetry for waterfowl research depends on the availability of suitable methods of attaching transmitters. In previous studies, external transmitters attached to adult Mallards (Anas platyrhynchos) with sutures and glue did not stay on birds reliably. In an attempt to improve transmitter retention, a method of attachment was tested in which 4-g transmitters were attached mid-dorsally with sutures and with a stainless steel anchor-shaped wire inserted subcutaneously (anchor transmitters). Field tests indicated that all of 26 female Mallards and 63 of 65 female Gadwalls (Anas strepera) retained their anchor transmitters during 4369 bird-days …

Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection Bibliography, Volume I: Pashto And Dari Titles, Shaista Wahab

Books in English

This is volume one of the two volume set bibliography. This volume included Pashto and Dari titles that are available in the Arthur Paul Afghanistan Collection, at the University of Nebraska, Omaha. Entries are arranged by subjects and within each subject organized by the authors' last names.

Using Known Populations Of Pronghorn To Evaluate Sampling Plans And Estimators, Kathy M. Kraft, Douglas H. Johnson, Jack M. Samuelson, Stephen H. Allen

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

Although sampling plans and estimators of abundance have good theoretical properties, their performance in real situations is rarely assessed because true population sizes are unknown. We evaluated widely used sampling plans and estimators of population size on 3 known clustered distributions of pronghorn (Antilocapra americana). Our criteria were accuracy of the estimate, coverage of 95% confidence intervals, and cost. Sampling plans were combinations of sampling intensities (16, 33, and 50%), sample selection (simple random sampling without replacement, systematic sampling, and probability proportional to size sampling with replacement), and stratification. We paired sampling plans with suitable estimators (simple, ratio, …

Index

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Index 279-286 (8 pages)

Table Of Contents

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

THE PROGRESSIVE CONTEXT OF THE NEBRASKA CAPITOL: THE COLLABORATION OF GOODHUE AND TACK (Frederick C. Luebke)

THE 1992 SECESSION MOVEMENT IN SOUTHWEST KANSAS (Peter J. McCormick)

BISON ECOLOGY, BRULE AND YANKTON WINTER HUNTING, AND THE STARVING WINTER OF 1832-33 (Richmond Clow)

BOOK REVIEWS

An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians

The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull

Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents among the Indian Campaigners

On Turner's Trail: 100 Years of Writing Western History

The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley

Redefining the American Dream

Where the …

Review Of On Turner's Trail: 100 Years Of Writing Western History By Wilbur R. Jacobs, Mary Young

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

When Frederick Jackson Turner retired, he took up residence at the Huntington Library in California. Turner left his papers to the Huntington, thus assuring that the Turner industry would flourish there. Wilbur Jacobs is among the resident senior scholars who have tended the flame. Jacobs is a long-time critic of Turner's imperialist celebrations of progress, dichotomous views of savagism and civilization, and anti-environmentalism. Turner ignored much of the development of social science in his own time and confused ruling theory with multiple working hypotheses. Jacobs repeats these criticisms in several contexts in the present volume, but champions Turner as a …