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Review Of American Wildflower Florilegium By Jean Andrews, David M. Sutherland Feb 1993

Review Of American Wildflower Florilegium By Jean Andrews, David M. Sutherland

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

This book is a collection of 50 watercolor paintings of American wildflowers ("florilegium" means, literally, "a gathering of flowers"). Accompanying each full-page painting is a summary of general information about the plant, including notes about its botanical classification, the etymology of its name, life history, distribution, description, flowering period, pollination, and propagation.

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Review Of Aboriginal Land Claims In Canada: A Regional Perspective By Ken Coates, Oiive Patricia Dickason Feb 1993

Review Of Aboriginal Land Claims In Canada: A Regional Perspective By Ken Coates, Oiive Patricia Dickason

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

This informative collection of eight essays by different authors plus an introduction by the editor surveys the present state of aboriginal land claims across Canada. Each essay deals with a separate province or region, providing regional detail that fleshes out the overview. A selection of excerpts from pertinent documents at the end of each essay adds substantially to the usefulness of the work.

As David R. McNab, formerly of the Native Affairs Secretariat of the Province of Ontario, points out in his article, the aboriginal peoples have never been conquered, so that Canada's acquisition of their lands has been by …

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Review Of Integrated Characterization Of Permian Basin Reservoirs, University Lands, West Texas: Targeting The Remaining Resource For Advanced Oil Recovery By Noel Tyler, Jack A. Babcock Feb 1993

Review Of Integrated Characterization Of Permian Basin Reservoirs, University Lands, West Texas: Targeting The Remaining Resource For Advanced Oil Recovery By Noel Tyler, Jack A. Babcock

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

The authors of Permian Basin Reservoirs have discovered two billion barrels of recoverable oil! Even better, they found this oil in existing fields, on lands owned by their employer, the University of Texas. They also assert that the oil can be recovered at low cost.

Three ideas summarize the findings of the 5-year study that forms the basis of this book: 1. Significant quantities of unexpected oil can be recovered, using low-cost, low-risk techniques, from existing fields. 2. The resources are concentrated in a few geologic plays, or reservoir types, so that most of the oil can be recovered from …

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Review Of Rural Information Systems: New Directions In Data Collection And Retrieval By Rueben C. Buse And James L. Driscoll, Paul H. Gessaman Feb 1993

Review Of Rural Information Systems: New Directions In Data Collection And Retrieval By Rueben C. Buse And James L. Driscoll, Paul H. Gessaman

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

For most of us collecting, compiling, and drawing inferences from data are never-ending activities. Some data-based decisions, such as decisions of a driver who observes and responds to a traffic control device, can be readily completed. Others, e.g., decisions that adjudicate stream flow among competing users, can require complex and protracted decision processes. The capability of a society to make sound data-based decisions is founded on accurate and timely data that are readily available without undue cost. The presumption that such data are not presently available to persons working with rural problems, issues, and policies provides the guiding thesis of …

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The Iconography Of Plants Collected On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Linda Rossi, Alfred E. Schuyler Feb 1993

The Iconography Of Plants Collected On The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Linda Rossi, Alfred E. Schuyler

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

FrederickPursh 's Flora Americae Septentrionalis (1814) is considered to be the standard flora of the nineteenth century. Additional floras of this period were developed by Nuttall, Elliott, and Torrey and Gray. We know that Meriwether Lewis collected some herbarium specimens that contributed to Pursh's Flora during the Lewis and Clark Expedition of 1804-1806. Pursh's Flora was the first to include plants of the Pacific Northwest. A number of the specimens Lewis collected are in the Herbarium of the Academy of Natural Sciences. Those who use the Herbarium know and appreciate the contribution of Lewis to botany. Twenty-four of the illustration …

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Review Of Homes In Alberta: Building, Trends, And Design 1870-1967 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, Peter Caron Feb 1993

Review Of Homes In Alberta: Building, Trends, And Design 1870-1967 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, Peter Caron

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

I must admit right off that I was preparing for reviewing a dry piece of work. I believe that most readers including myself will be pleasantly surprised if not more accurately impressed with the obvious mountain of research and effort that was needed to compile this publication. The presentation of the information is very well done indeed. It is entertaining in the early chapters on Settlement and the Modern House, and continues to be so throughout. The consistent use of quotes from architects, newspapers, builders, and planners from the eras being discussed definitely give a great deal of insight into …

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Review Of Preserving The Great Plains And Rocky Mountains By Elaine Freed, Lawrence Sommer Feb 1993

Review Of Preserving The Great Plains And Rocky Mountains By Elaine Freed, Lawrence Sommer

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

Preserving the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains is a welcome addition to the body of historic preservation literature because it focuses on a region of the United States that is all to often ignored by architectural historians and other scholars writing about historic preservation matters. Elaine Freed deserves much credit for producing a volume that illustrates a thorough understanding of the issues confronting anyone trying to preserve the region's cultural resources. To complete this study, Freed spent several years doing extensive research, conducting literally hundreds of interviews and traveling thousands of miles across this vast and sparsely populated section of …

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Review Of The End Of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety From The Old West To The New Deal By David M. Wrobel, Frederick Luebke Feb 1993

Review Of The End Of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety From The Old West To The New Deal By David M. Wrobel, Frederick Luebke

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

This slender volume, a revision of a recent doctoral dissertation, is an exercise in intellectual history that examines attitudes, concerns, and beliefs about the passing of the frontier and its consequences for American civilization. It is a study of elite opinion; common folk and their ideas are not treated here. Of the many intellectuals discussed writers, journalists, academicians, prominent politicians none receives more attention than Frederick Jackson Turner, the eminent historian who synthesized his famous frontier thesis exactly a century ago.

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The Oglala Sioux Tribal Court: From Termination To Self-Determination, George D. Watson Jr. Feb 1993

The Oglala Sioux Tribal Court: From Termination To Self-Determination, George D. Watson Jr.

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

In 1976, a study by the Judicial Services Division of the Bureau of Indian Affairs concluded that insufficient information is available on Indian tribal courts, suggesting that they have been largely ignored by historians and political scientists alike. By examining a specific court the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court a fuller understanding of its vital role in the operation of the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation can be gained.

From 1870 to the present, the Oglala Sioux Tribal Court has experienced a series of changes dictated by federal Indian policy including the replacement of tribal legal traditions with federal laws such as …

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Review Of For An Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay On The Foundations Of A Social Ethic By Georges E. Sioui, Lisa E. Emmerich Feb 1993

Review Of For An Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay On The Foundations Of A Social Ethic By Georges E. Sioui, Lisa E. Emmerich

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

For an Amerindian Autohistory is a provocative, intensely personal appeal for the development of a "new" history grounded in Amerindian cultures and intellectual traditions. Georges Sioui argues that the only way to net North American Indian history is to the people themselves. He challenges those working in the field to develop intellectual and professional partnerships with native peoples, to engage in "autohistory." Intercultural collaboration via this paradigm can, he believes, help map a new, good, and decidedly "red" road into historical territory long considered off-limits to its very own residents.

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Review Of Useful Pleasures: The Shaping Of Leisure In Alberta, 1896-1945 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, David Weaver Feb 1993

Review Of Useful Pleasures: The Shaping Of Leisure In Alberta, 1896-1945 By Donald G. Wetherell And Irene Kmet, David Weaver

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

Modestly touted as a preliminary exploration of leisure themes and topics in Alberta during the first half of the twentieth century, this book at first glance might be rejected as too esoteric by potential readers who are neither leisure specialists nor Albertans. This would be unfortunate, since the authors have produced a most informative and relevant work with implications reaching far beyond its intended geographical and topical scope. The first three chapters constituting Part One examine the institutional, social, and technological context within which leisure in early Alberta developed, while the last eight chapters (Part Two) focus upon a comprehensive …

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Soil Moisture And Clay Measurement Of Volcaniclastic Soils Of Western Nebraska, N. B. Stolpe, D. T. Lewis, G. A. Uzochukwu, Stephanie L. Hartung Feb 1993

Soil Moisture And Clay Measurement Of Volcaniclastic Soils Of Western Nebraska, N. B. Stolpe, D. T. Lewis, G. A. Uzochukwu, Stephanie L. Hartung

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

Several soils of western Nebraska have exhibited unusually high water content at 15 bars tension (an estimate of the water content where plants begin to wilt) relative to the percent measured clay. These same soils are known to form in volcanically derived sediments. The objective of the study was to identify a mineralogical cause for the discrepancy. Representative samples from the Busher, Epping, Keith, Mitchell, Otero, and Tripp soils were collected and characterized to determine the relationship between soil moisture and measured clay contents. Calculated ratios of soil water content at 15 bars tension to the percent measured clay equaled …

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Notes And News For Vol.13 No.3 Jan 1993

Notes And News For Vol.13 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Malcolm: The Life Of A Man Who Changed Black America, Learthen Dorsey Jan 1993

Review Of Malcolm: The Life Of A Man Who Changed Black America, Learthen Dorsey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For manY'African Americans, Malcolm is a shining black prince, a charismatic leader, and the ideological founder of the movement toward a black awakening. He is a cultural and political icon, and as such, belongs to all of us. For Bruce Perry, Malcolm is a chameleon and a man in conflict. His Malcolm is a political opportunist, who yearned for happiness and love but courted failure, longed for freedom but shunned it until it was too late, hungered for the approval of the very authority figures he defied. Rather than view Malcolm as an individual thinker who could publicly change his …

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Review Of Groundwater Exploitation In The High Plains And Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On The Trail Of The Corn Belt Farmer, 1909, Sam Kepfield Jan 1993

Review Of Groundwater Exploitation In The High Plains And Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On The Trail Of The Corn Belt Farmer, 1909, Sam Kepfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

David Kromm and Stephen White, both professors of geography at Kansas State University and experts on water use in the West, have gathered pieces by water experts. The result, Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains, is a first-rate exploration of the methods and problems of groundwater utilization in the Ogallala Aquifer and the states overlying it-Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.

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Review Of Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland In Jeopardy, Ernest Rouske Jan 1993

Review Of Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland In Jeopardy, Ernest Rouske

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Millions of years ago earth crust movements caused a sixty-four-square mile area near what is now Great Bend in central Kansas to drop, creating a shallow, poorly drained basin. These wetlands, called Cheyenne Bottoms, draw hordes of waterfowl and shorebirds during spring and fall migrations. Its importance is such that it is considered one of the three major stop-over places for shorebirds east of the Rockies, "an oasis in a parched and wind seared landscape beckoning the greatest travelers on the globe."

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Review Of Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth Of A Vital American Force, James W. Ely Jr. Jan 1993

Review Of Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth Of A Vital American Force, James W. Ely Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Albro Martin has authored a masterful account of the pivotal role of railroads in shaping American economic and social life. The foremost historian of American railroads, Martin examines the emergence of the railroad system in the antebellum era, the growth of the great transcontinental lines, and the numerous difficulties experienced by railroads in the twentieth century. He pictures the railroads as agents of change, noting that railroads were instrumental in opening the prairie states for settlement, facilitating industrialization, and forging a national market for goods. As America's first big business, the railroads also compelled the formulation of new legal rules …

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New World Encounters: Exploring The Great Plains Of North America, John L. Allen Jan 1993

New World Encounters: Exploring The Great Plains Of North America, John L. Allen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Arising partly from the debates, scholarly and otherwise, surrounding the commemoration of the Columbian Quincentennial, the claim has been made that the European discovery and exploration of the New World was a process that had "meaning only in terms of European ignorance, not in terms of any contribution to universal knowledge"1 and that the study of exploration and discovery is therefore ethnocentric or (worse) racist. Such a claim, which denies the mechanisms of exploration and discovery their important place in the broader epistemological process of how we know and understand the world, is contentious.

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Review Of Nebraska Moments: Glimpses Of Nebraska's Past, Micheal W. Schuyler Jan 1993

Review Of Nebraska Moments: Glimpses Of Nebraska's Past, Micheal W. Schuyler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Nebraska Moments, by Donald Hickey, professor of history at Wayne State College in Nebraska, is a collection of thirty-nine essays about the state's past. The essays, which range in length from six to twelve pages, discuss personalities, institutions, places, and events that have shaped the state's history. Biographical sketches of such political figures as David Butler (Nebraska's first Governor), J. Sterling Morton, William Jennings Bryan, and George W. Norris; western and military heroes such as Buffalo Bill Cody and John J. Pershing; Native Americans such as Red Cloud and Standing Bear; and intellectual figures such as Louise Pound, Willa …

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The Farm Policy Debate Of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction To The Brannan Plan, Virgil W. Dean Jan 1993

The Farm Policy Debate Of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction To The Brannan Plan, Virgil W. Dean

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A storm of controversy arose in April 1949 when Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan unveiled the Truman administration's postwar policy for agriculture. The most controversial aspect of the so-called Brannan plan was its production payments feature, a direct, undisguised farm subsidy designed to bring relief to producers and consumers alike. Other aspects of the complex plan also elicited both praise and blame, but disagreements during this fractious time were not limited to farm questions. In a year of apparent victories for the world's communist monolith, spy trials, and labor unrest, discussions of farm policy on the Great Plains and …

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Review Of American Indians And World War Ii, John R. Wunder Jan 1993

Review Of American Indians And World War Ii, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

World War II left thousands of lives over much of the world fundamentally changed. Thus, it is not too surprising to find that Native Americans were also profoundly touched by the war and its aftermath. Alison R. Bernstein develops and proves this theme in her well written book that fills the void between the several studies of the Indian New Deal and recent works considering the termination movement of the 1950s.

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Review Of Land In Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders In North Dakota And Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940, Evelyn Funda Jan 1993

Review Of Land In Her Own Name: Women As Homesteaders In North Dakota And Agrarian Women: Wives And Mothers In Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940, Evelyn Funda

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Much of the work studying women's role in the American West has served to establish the significance and celebrate the contributions of women to Western American history. Lindgren's book is such a work. Strikingly handsome, it portrays the lives of homesteading women in North Dakota from 1870 to about 1915 by providing excerpts from diaries, memoirs, and from personal interviews with homesteading women and their families, as well as a wealth of photographs and comparative statistics from land records. Lindgren's goals are to dispute the stereotypes of women pioneers and to argue that "women must be recognized as main characters …

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Review Of Roadside Geology Of Texas, David B. Loope Jan 1993

Review Of Roadside Geology Of Texas, David B. Loope

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The 74,000 miles of paved roads in Texas cross landscapes and geologic structure of tremendous variety. With its abundant photographs and interpretive sketches, this book gives the traveler an excellent opportunity to understand and appreciate both the grand and the more subtle features visible along the Texas highways. Texas is considerably more geologically diverse than the other plains states, and this is not just a simple function of its greater size. Many of North American's greatest geologic sites are there: Llano (granite), Terlingua (volcanics), Marathon (fold and thrust belt), Glass Mountains {invertebrate fossils}, and Paluxy River (dinosaur tracks). Why so …

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Review Of Wyoming Biographies, Susan H. Swetnam Jan 1993

Review Of Wyoming Biographies, Susan H. Swetnam

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Wyoming Biographies is a biographical dictionary (with a chatty introduction chronicling the settlement of Wyoming) that compiles in alphabetical order life sketches of approximately 265 pioneer citizens. Lawrence M. Woods has collated information from a variety of sources, drawing on contemporary subscription biographies, on more recently written histories, on biographies and memoirs of individuals, on reference works, and on miscellaneous materials (personal conversations and letters, materials in the Wyoming Historical Society collection, etc.). The content of entries varies, but most list the subject's date and place of birth, date of migration to Wyoming, occupation, and government offices.

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2 Jan 1993

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of The Range, Don Gayton Jan 1993

Review Of The Range, Don Gayton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Range" is one of those consciously undefined words in our language. Rather than generating a single image, it produces many, from cowboys to science to art. Rancher/writer Sherm Ewing has put together a book that reinforces the complexity of range as a concept, as a field for economic activity, and as a subject of scientific inquiry.

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Review Of Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography. 3 Vols, David J. Wishart Jan 1993

Review Of Encyclopedia Of Frontier Biography. 3 Vols, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

There are almost 4500 entries in this Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography. Candidates were chosen by the editor for the "significance of their deeds" and for the intrinsic "interest" of their role in the frontier process (vii). They are mostly men, mainly Euro-American but also Native American, though clearly some effort has been made to include frontier women. Among them are explorers, scientists, outlaws, missionaries, settlers, and soldiers. T wentiethcentury frontier historians like Athearn and Billington are also included, as long as they, like all the other featured people, are deceased. Strangely, prospectors are excluded on the implausible grounds that …

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Review Of New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900, Willliam M. King Jan 1993

Review Of New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900, Willliam M. King

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

I began this book with the hope that I would learn more about the black military experience in New Mexico. Unfortunately, I did not. Perhaps had I read the bibliographic essay first, I would not have been as disappointed as I was upon concluding Mr. Billington's work. For in that essay he says: "Sources other than the official military records do not exist or are almost impossible to track down. The diaries, memoirs, and personal letters that help fill out the story of the white soldiers are essentially nonexistent for blacks. Few of the remaining entries in this bibliographical essay …

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Notes And News For Vol.13 No.1 Jan 1993

Notes And News For Vol.13 No.1

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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The "Liquid Gold" Rush: Groundwater Irrigation And Law In Nebraska, 1900~93, Sam S. Kepfield Jan 1993

The "Liquid Gold" Rush: Groundwater Irrigation And Law In Nebraska, 1900~93, Sam S. Kepfield

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Water is power. Water is strength. Water is health. In the Rocky Mountains, it is the most valuable of all assets. Nothing else compares with it, nothing else can compare with it. With it, we can produce trees and forests. With it we can make fertile fields on the desert plains, and make the unsightly and uninviting plateau attractive for agriculture and home-building.1

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