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Notes And News For Vol.12 No.4 Jan 1992

Notes And News For Vol.12 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt Jan 1992

Review Of The West As America: Reinterpreting Images Of The Frontier, 1820-1920, Stephen C. Behrendt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This rich collection of essays is intellectually substantial, culturally significant, and much overdue. One of the least appreciated phenomena of American culture is its remarkable history of self-fashioning. The American continent was settled by European immigrants for a variety of reasons over some four centuries, and each wave of settlers contributed to the burgeoning mythology of the New World its own set of self-fulfilling prophecies. "America" was--and to a significant extent still is--a largely European construct, a cultural matrix whose outlines emerged and evolved often re-actively as individuals and groups found their expectations challenged by the stark realities of the …

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Review Of Kansas Wildlife, Don Cunningham Jan 1992

Review Of Kansas Wildlife, Don Cunningham

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

A catchword current among naturalists is "biodiversity," a term used to describe the variety and number of organisms present in an area. Biodiversity is one measure of the "health" of an environment, and the term itself is probably a useful one, as 1t can efficiently suggest environmental quality and the complex interrelationship among living things, plant and animal.

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Review Of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Politics Of Indian Affairs, Sharon M. Harris Jan 1992

Review Of Removals: Nineteenth-Century American Literature And The Politics Of Indian Affairs, Sharon M. Harris

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Removals Maddox exposes the complicity of many of our most treasured nineteenth-century American authors in the figurative-and consequently, quite literal-removal of American Indians from constructions of nineteenth century culture. That some of these authors viewed themselves as sympathetic to the "Indian question" merely demonstrates (as Maddox extends Roland Barthes' argument) how the myth of apoliticized discourse can result in the transformation of "history into nature."

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The Railroad Question Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee And St. Paul Railway V. Minnesota And Constitutional Limits On State Regulations, James W. Ely Jr. Jan 1992

The Railroad Question Revisited: Chicago, Milwaukee And St. Paul Railway V. Minnesota And Constitutional Limits On State Regulations, James W. Ely Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Few issues more vexed Americans during the Gilded Age than the regulation of railroads. America's first big business, the railroads wielded enormous economic power and by the end of the nineteenth century represented 10 percent of national wealth. 1 Farmers and other local shippers often viewed railroads as an exploitative monopoly and blamed them for excessive and discriminatory charges. They repeatedly clamored for regulation of the freight and passenger rates fixed by railroad companies. Agricultural interests in the Great Plains states were particularly active in seeking regulatory legislation. Railroad investors and managers, on the other hand, opposed regulatory laws and …

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The "Poison Porridge" Case: Chinese And The Administration Of Justice In Early Saskatchewan, Ken Leyton Brown Jan 1992

The "Poison Porridge" Case: Chinese And The Administration Of Justice In Early Saskatchewan, Ken Leyton Brown

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On the morning of 8 August 1907 a number of patrons were taking breakfast in the Capital Restaurant on Lome Street in Regina. The restaurant had not been in operation long but was apparently doing a good business, so it must have been somewhat disturbing to Mr. Steele, the owner and manager, when shortly after beginning their morning meal a number of his patrons became ill. The symptoms included quite severe abdominal pains so the decision was taken to send for a doctor who arrived to find nine people suffering from what was obviously something rather more serious than indigestion. …

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Notes And News For Vol.12 No.2 Jan 1992

Notes And News For Vol.12 No.2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1992 Vol. 12 No. 2 Jan 1992

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1992 Vol. 12 No. 2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Sterling's Carrie: Mrs. J. Sterling Morton, Polly P. Duryea Jan 1992

Review Of Sterling's Carrie: Mrs. J. Sterling Morton, Polly P. Duryea

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Margaret V. Ott has given a valuable gift to the pioneer descendants living close to the banks of the Big Muddy. From detailed journals, letters, and diaries, she traces the lives of the J. Sterling Morton family as they construct their home, Arbor Lodge, on the Morton Ranch near Nebraska City. Many in my transitional generation will find elements of their own history in Mrs. Ott's fictionalized biography, Sterling's Carrie.

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Review Of Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters Of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919, Michael J. Grant Jan 1992

Review Of Bachelor Bess: The Homesteading Letters Of Elizabeth Corey, 1909-1919, Michael J. Grant

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The experiences of a single female homesteader on the Great Plains of South Dakota are revealed in Bachelor Bess. This collection of letters spanning 1909-19 was written by Elizabeth Corey to her family in Iowa. The letters focus primarily on the social activities of Corey, who worked as a schoolteacher while homesteading in the West River country of South Dakota.

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Review Of Cather Studies Volume 1, Susan A. Hallgarth Jan 1992

Review Of Cather Studies Volume 1, Susan A. Hallgarth

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Cather Studies is a new biennial series intended to display the quality and diversity of current scholarship on Cather. This first volume showcases papers presented at the Third National Seminar on Willa Cather (1987). Future volumes no doubt will continue to incorporate essays from these educational events and address, as they do, a broad audience. Contributors to this volume include teachers from all levels of the educational system (high school, junior college, four-year professional and liberal arts colleges, and state and research universities) and all parts of the United States (both coasts, the South, the Northeast, the Midwest, and the …

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Review Of The Trial Of Leanard Peltier., John Krejci Jan 1992

Review Of The Trial Of Leanard Peltier., John Krejci

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 26 June 1975 in a firefight on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation between the FBI and AIM, two FBI agents were killed. AIM member Leonard Peltier and three other Indians were arrested. Only Peltier was convicted. The Trial of Leanard Peltier carefully documents the trial in its social and historical context.

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Review Of Women Of The New Mexico Frontier 1846-1912, Janet E. Schulte Jan 1992

Review Of Women Of The New Mexico Frontier 1846-1912, Janet E. Schulte

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Historians of the women's west have centered their analysis around the extent to which Victorian culture shaped women's experience on the frontier. Cheryl Foote's collective biography of white women in New Mexico territory supports the argument that the Victorian cultural values, especially the cult of domesticity, were transferred with few mutations from the East to the Southwest during the nation's westward expansion.

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Having Babies Or Not: Household Composition And Fertility In Rural Iowa And Nebraska, 1900,1910, Deborah Fink, Alicia Carriquiry Jan 1992

Having Babies Or Not: Household Composition And Fertility In Rural Iowa And Nebraska, 1900,1910, Deborah Fink, Alicia Carriquiry

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

How did life change for people from the eastern prairie or forest regions when they crossed the Missouri River to settle in the Plains of Nebraska? The land presented its own social, economic, and environmental problems for the settlers. While some historians have emphasized the resourcefulness with which settlers adapted to maintain the life ways of the rural regions to the east, others have pointed to the cultural and social shifts effected by the plains environment. Considerable social divergence occurred within the plains population, even within the dominant northern European American ethnicity. This study addresses the lives of rural women …

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Review Of Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Lyn Ellen Bennett Jan 1992

Review Of Incident At Bitter Creek: The Story Of The Rock Springs Chinese Massacre, Lyn Ellen Bennett

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Storti's account of the 1885 Rock Springs, Wyoming, riot adds a twist to previous interpretations, incorporating the legacy of unionism by laying part of the blame for this grisly massacre at the feet of the Knights of Labor, whose struggle for power with railroad management caught the Chinese in a crossfire. The author focuses briefly on United States immigration policy, the influx of Chinese labor, construction of the transcontinental railroad, and the rise of western unionism, all of which culminated in the Rock Springs massacre.

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Review Of Fox At The Wood's Edge: A Biography Of Loren Eiseley, Kathleen A. Boardman Jan 1992

Review Of Fox At The Wood's Edge: A Biography Of Loren Eiseley, Kathleen A. Boardman

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Loren Eiseley, anthropologist and essayist,created his own persona in his essays and autobiography. Reluctant to have his self-portrait examined, he snubbed at least one biographer who became too curious about the facts. Several years after Eiseley's death, but still in time to conduct fruitful interviews with Eiseley's wife, Mabel, and many friends and associates, biographer Gale Christianson arrived at the right moment, with the technique and discernment to produce a fine biography that provides a new perspective on Eiseley's self-portrayal. Not that Christianson's version is better or even truer than Eiseley's-but it makes possible a deeper, more complex view of …

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Review Of Cante Ohitika Win (Brave-Hearted Women): Images Of Lakota Women From The Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota., Holly Rae Boomer Jan 1992

Review Of Cante Ohitika Win (Brave-Hearted Women): Images Of Lakota Women From The Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota., Holly Rae Boomer

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In Carolyn Reyer's book, Cante ohitika Win (Brave-hearted Women), the words of Debra Lynn White Plume best characterize the content of oral stories, poetry, and photographs. "I would say that there are two revolving themes that live in what I write: resistance and celebration." Reyer's book, with additional writings by White Plume and Dr. Beatrice Medicine, uses the sub~ title, "Images of Lakota Women from the Pine Ridge Reservation South Dakota," and this phrasing gives an accurate description of the resistance that the Lakota face in expressing their culture through both liturature and his~ tory. The images evoked …

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Review Of Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail, Rex Buchanan Jan 1992

Review Of Eating Up The Santa Fe Trail, Rex Buchanan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Sam Arnold's Eating Up the Santa Fe Trail is a gustatorial revisiting of mealtime along the old trail. Using various travel accounts, Arnold provides directions for making camp meals and for recreating dinners provided along the way at stops such as Bent's Fort and the Hays House at Council Grove. The recipes, written in a clear and entertaining style, cover everything from moose nose to Turkish pilaf for one hundred; Arnold helpfully suggests modem substitutes for ingredients that are no longer easily available. For readers who want to experience the pleasures and surprises of eating on the nineteenth- century Great …

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Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, Sarah Carter Jan 1992

Review Of The Struggle For The Land: Indigenous Insight And Industrial Empire In The Semiarid World, Sarah Carter

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The essays in this innovative and significant book look at the effects of European occupation on the people and the environment of semiarid regions on several continents. It is the book's comparative and interdisciplinary approach that makes it particularly original and provocative. Included are the lands of the indigenous people of the North American Plains, the Australian Aborigines, the Kazakhs of what was once the USSR, the Maasai of Kenya, several groups in South Africa, Alaskan, and Lapp (Saami) people. Contributors are from anthropology, economics, English, law, history, religion, Native American studies, and environmental studies and they are John W. …

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Review Of Go West And Grow Up With The Country': An Exhibition Of Nineteenth-Century Guides To The American West In The Collections Of The American Antiquarian Society., Martha H. Kennedy Jan 1992

Review Of Go West And Grow Up With The Country': An Exhibition Of Nineteenth-Century Guides To The American West In The Collections Of The American Antiquarian Society., Martha H. Kennedy

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

George Miles, curator of western Americana at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, has written an excellent catalogue of an exhibition of guides to the American West in the American Antiquarian Society's collections. In his introduction, Miles notes that in addition to the traditional notion of guides as "books or pamphlets that described how to go west," the term can be usefully expanded to include "literature that helped guide them [western pioneers] in establishing their homesteads, in setting up their businesses, in educating themselves and their children, and in creating new territories and states." He then presents annotated entries …

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Review Of The Cowgirls, Karen Morin Jan 1992

Review Of The Cowgirls, Karen Morin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

If this book suffers from anything it's too much enthusiasm for its subject. Joyce Roach sets out to prove that the cowgirl is our "foremost genuine American heroine," and while this is at least arguable, she tends to overstate her case at the expense of the early suffragists (cowgirls, not they, were the "advance guard of the feminist movement") and in particular at the expense of other western women: "Other frontier women were more or less forgotten with the passing of the frontier. The life of the farm woman, for instance, was never heroic, just miserable . . . and …

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Review Of A Hannony Of The Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol., Ron Tyler Jan 1992

Review Of A Hannony Of The Arts: The Nebraska State Capitol., Ron Tyler

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Public buildings have been seen as reflections of society's culture and politics for centuries, and it has been a long-accepted corollary that Americans view their state capitols as palaces of democratic government. This handsome volume, with essays by Frederick C. Luebke, H. Keith Sawyers, David Murphy, Dale L. Gibbs, Joan Woodside and Betsy Gabb, Norman Geske and Jon Nelson, and Robert C. Ripley, richly documents the story of one of the more unusual American capitol buildings: Bertram Goodhue's Nebraska State Capitol. It, too, is a paean to democracy, but it is a delightful and surprising architectural maverick.

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Review Of American Indian Water Rights And The Limits Of Law, John R. Wunder Jan 1992

Review Of American Indian Water Rights And The Limits Of Law, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Do Indians have a right to water on their reservations? An answer to such a question seems obvious. Water is a part of land, and if you have sovereignty or ownership over the land, even limited sovereignty, rights to the water should follow.

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The Ambivalence Of John Steuart Curry's Justice Defeating Mob Violence, Stephen C. Behrendt Jan 1992

The Ambivalence Of John Steuart Curry's Justice Defeating Mob Violence, Stephen C. Behrendt

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Steuart Curry's mural Justice Defeating Mob Violence (Fig. 1), painted in 1936-37 for the United States Department of Justice, offers viewers a revealing perspective on the cultural values inherent in then-current notions of law and order. In approaching his mural, Curry assumed the traditional role of the history painter as it had been known in post-Renaissance Europe, especially in the eighteenth century; he undertook to present for public approbation and public edification a moralistic allegorical statement about the relations between societal disorder and both the institutions designed to control such disorder and the agents appointed to enforce that control. …

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Battered Pioneers: Jules Sandoz And The Physical Abuse Of Wives On The American Frontier, Betsy Downey Jan 1992

Battered Pioneers: Jules Sandoz And The Physical Abuse Of Wives On The American Frontier, Betsy Downey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

One of the most compelling aspects of Mari Sandoz' biography of her father, OldJules, is her account of the violence that Jules Sandoz inflicted upon his family. Jules Sandoz had left his native Switzerland in a fit of temper and ended up in northwestern Nebraska in 1884. Well educated and from a well-to-do professional family, he was nevertheless a character by any standards. He had a violent temper matched by unflagging paranoia and contentiousness. He was remarkable for personal filth and filthy stories. But he was also a gregarious center of community life, an outstanding horticulturalist, a voracious reader …

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The Mystery Of Francis Jeffrey Dickens, N.W.M.P., And Eric Nicol's Dickens Of The Mounted, Robert Thacker Jan 1992

The Mystery Of Francis Jeffrey Dickens, N.W.M.P., And Eric Nicol's Dickens Of The Mounted, Robert Thacker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Almost from its inception in 1873, but certainly since its "Great March" west during the summer of 1874 across "the Great Lone Land" of the Plains that had been the Hudson's Bay Company's domain only a few years before, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police has been among the world's most famous corporate entities; it is, perhaps, the most famous police force. 2 Its reputation is rooted in the very real heroism of its early years and the high standards of excellent service it has had since then; but the mythic quality of that reputation-as a cadre of judicious superheroes-has been …

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1992 Vol. 12 No. 1 Jan 1992

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Winter 1992 Vol. 12 No. 1

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Review Of Catlin And His Contemporaries; The Politics Of Patronage, Colin G. Calloway Jan 1992

Review Of Catlin And His Contemporaries; The Politics Of Patronage, Colin G. Calloway

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Brian Dippie provides a corrective to the image of George Catlin as a hopeless romantic. Stung by criticism in eastern artistic circles, Catlin headed west on "a new path to fame and fortune" (p. 11). After a few years visiting the Indians, he spent more than thirty years hustling to find a patron and to market his work. That he failed to do so was not for want of effort. According to Dippie, Catlin would "try anything to make a dollar from his art" (p. 21) and Indians were worth more to him dead than alive once he had captured …

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Review Of The Enduring Indians Of Kansas: A Century And A Half Of Acculturation, James A. Clifton Jan 1992

Review Of The Enduring Indians Of Kansas: A Century And A Half Of Acculturation, James A. Clifton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In a region as well mapped and paved as Kansas Indian studies, anyone promising better roads to improved understanding faces large obstacles. The author pledges himself to a "true picture" of certain Kansas Indians as "multidimensional human beings," one that shows how they "strategically utilized their syncretic cultures in order to survive in a hostile Kansas." If not obvious, the latter statement is conceptual garbage, while the story he tells is everything but multidimensional. On the contrary, what this author does is to impose on the historical record his own version of the currently popular, orthodox Indian Story: his "enduring …

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Review Of Renderbrook: A Century Under The Spade Brand, James W. Cox Jan 1992

Review Of Renderbrook: A Century Under The Spade Brand, James W. Cox

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the context of the current concern over the disappearance of the family farm, this work is important because it presents the story of one successful family enterprise. In the late nineteenth century l. L. Ellwood applied a fortune made from barbed wire to create a model cattle operation in west Texas that exists today. His business expanded through careful management and an eye toward innovation. Kelton draws in various aspects of the operation that influenced the evolution of the ranch by considering new technology, diversification, changes in daily ranch operation, and the new role of the cowboy in keeping …

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