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Review Of Views From The Apache Frontier: Report On The Northern Provinces Of New Spain, Ralph H. Vigil Jan 1990

Review Of Views From The Apache Frontier: Report On The Northern Provinces Of New Spain, Ralph H. Vigil

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This report on the northern provinces of New Spain was written in 1799 by Jose Maria Cortes, a lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Engineers.Cortes, an intelligent and keen observer, relied on personal observations and archival research to describe the Apaches and other Indian groups of the trans-Mississippi West.

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Review Of Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet, George A. Schultz Jan 1990

Review Of Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet, George A. Schultz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Increasingly historians who write about leadership in the American Indian resistance movements argue that the typical leader was not the standard war chief. R. David Edmunds in his books on the Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa focuses not on their military acumen but on their unique diplomatic and political skills. Similarly, Joseph B. Herring's biography of Kenekuk, the Kickapoo prophet, reveals a rare blend of leadership skills that Kenekuk employed to unite the Vermillion band, first in Illinois and then in Kansas. Using a variety of stratagems, Kenekuk, sometimes with reason and other times with bluster, fenced with politicians and …

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Oglala Sioux Use Of Medical Herbs, George Robert Morgan, Ronald R. Weedon Jan 1990

Oglala Sioux Use Of Medical Herbs, George Robert Morgan, Ronald R. Weedon

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Despite the turmoil of Sioux cultural losses since contact with Anglo-European culture, the Oglala Sioux have maintained an interest in herbal medicines, although with each passing generation the number of plants actively used for curing has diminished. Fewer people have been learning the identification of plant medicines and their uses, the procedures for preparing plants, and the techniques of herbal cures. Many of the older Sioux blame reservation boarding schools for the disruption of cultural transmission, but other factors have been at work as well.

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Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Michael L. Tate Jan 1990

Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Michael L. Tate

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

More than a century has elapsed since George Armstrong Custer led his command into a military disaster on the hills above the Little Big Horn River. Yet public fascination with this man and his immortalized "Last Stand" has never waned as each new generation hungers for definitive explanations of his enigmatic life.

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Spanish Exploration And The Great Plains In The Age Of Discovery: Myth And Reality, Ralph H. Vigil Jan 1990

Spanish Exploration And The Great Plains In The Age Of Discovery: Myth And Reality, Ralph H. Vigil

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T his essay attempts to place Spanish exploration on the Great Plains within the context of the temper and feelings prevailing in the first century of the "discovery" of the West. 1 Because many writers of texts and more specialized works view the past in the light of the present, European expansion in the sixteenth century appears to be more modem than it was. This paper views Spaniards of the early colonial period as more medieval than modem in outlook; it also suggests that mythological geography and mixed spiritual and worldly motives, considered incompatible in our day, were as important …

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Review Of The Shortgrass Prairie, James H. Locklear Jan 1990

Review Of The Shortgrass Prairie, James H. Locklear

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Perhaps the most poorly known and least appreciated ecosystem in all of the U.S. is the shortgrass prairie. It is not as though this vegetation type only occurs in a limited area of the country. Shortgrass prairie dominates the landscape of an enormous region stretching from Canada to New Mexico. Why is there so little understanding of this expansive grassland? Perhaps it is because few people have bothered to write about it. Ruth Cushman and Stephen Jones took on this task and we may be thankful to have their book, The Shortgrass Prairie.

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Review Of Home Town News: William Allen White & The Emporia Gazette, William R. Elkins Jan 1990

Review Of Home Town News: William Allen White & The Emporia Gazette, William R. Elkins

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Sally Foreman Griffith uses the life of William Allen White, noted editor of The Emporia Gazette, as the vehicle for an insightful examination into the "role of journalism in American culture." Acknowledging that her book is a biography, Griffith nevertheless makes clear that she uses White's career "as a window, or perhaps . . . a prism to observe the communication process as a complex interaction among communicator, audience, and medium, involving many different facets, including the psychological, social, cultural, economic, technological, and political." Put more simply, Griffith gives us a fascinating look into small-town (Emporia, Kansas) America and …

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Review Of The Windmill Turning; Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, And Other Expressions Of Western Canadian Mennonites, Victor Peters Jan 1990

Review Of The Windmill Turning; Nursery Rhymes, Maxims, And Other Expressions Of Western Canadian Mennonites, Victor Peters

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Canada and the United States provide the home for two basic types of Mennonites who have little more than their beliefs in common. The older group settled mainly in the east and came to America directly from various German states. Their immigration began in 1683 and initiated the broader stream of German immigration. The other group were the West Prussian Mennonites who left their homes in Russia and came to Canada and the United States in the 1870s.

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Homestead On The Range: The Emergence Of Community In Eastern Montana, 1900-1925, Rex C. Myers Jan 1990

Homestead On The Range: The Emergence Of Community In Eastern Montana, 1900-1925, Rex C. Myers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Mary Tanner saw homesteading as "a togetherness" learned from neighbors. 1 In 1915 she and thirty-two families shared that togetherness at Round Butte, Dawson County, Montana, clustered around a school and post office that bore the same name. Neighbors got together and threshed grain, raised barns, or brought in crops for neighbors "laid up" by accident or illness. That same cooperative effort extended to the formation of the Round Butte school and post office, to community social organizations, and ultimately to the creation of a new county, Garfield, in 1919.

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Review Of Ernest Haycox, Jon Nelson Jan 1990

Review Of Ernest Haycox, Jon Nelson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

It can be posited that each western author has written at least one memorable short story or novel. Ernest Haycox, the subject of this pamphlet in the Boise State University series on western fiction, is best remembered for his short story "Stage to Lordsburg" that John Ford made into the classic film Stagecoach in 1939 with John Wayne and Claire Trevor. Since then the story has been refilmed twice, once by Gordon Douglas in 1966 with Bing Crosby and Ann Margaret, and again in 1988 for television with Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash.

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Review Of Raising Less Com And More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out, Deborah Fink Jan 1990

Review Of Raising Less Com And More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out, Deborah Fink

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Raising Less Corn and More Hell will be inspiring reading for the political advocates organized around the Save the Family Farm Act; others will find insights on the symbols and themes that lie behind a highly visible rural movement of the 1980s. The bulk of the book, consisting of excerpts of interviews with fortytwo farmers and nonfarmers, mostly from Iowa and bordering states, gives vivid personal stories of the hard times of the 1980s. Pictures of many of the persons, set in the context of their daily work, help us to hear and understand the messages.

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Review Of South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., To Oscar Howe And Over A Century Of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial & State Governors, Gilbert C. Fite Jan 1990

Review Of South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., To Oscar Howe And Over A Century Of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial & State Governors, Gilbert C. Fite

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Special events in the history of a state have customarily stimulated an unusual variety of commemorative writings. Such is the case with the books under review, both of which grew out of South Dakota's centennial in 1989. Moreover, both books deal with one theme-leadership. One concentrates on political leadership while the other includes a broader representation.

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Review Of Route 66: The Highway And Its People, Richard P. Horwitz Jan 1990

Review Of Route 66: The Highway And Its People, Richard P. Horwitz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Quinta Scott and Susan Croce Kelly have crafted an affectionate contribution to the mythology of Route 66, the U. S. highway stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles. Kelly's eight chapters provide a detailed, illustrated chronology of the highway, from its "birth" in the 1920s through its decommission in 1985. The narrative cruises from humble beginnings and heroic visions, through hard times, to jubilation and inevitable decline. This saga frames the series of documentary photographs by Scott who features crisp views of roadside relics, cafes, and billboards from the route's golden age, and textured portraits of their aging owners. Both photographs …

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Review Of Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Richard K. Sutton Jan 1990

Review Of Wildflowers Of The Tallgrass Prairie: The Upper Midwest, Richard K. Sutton

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Popularized books on wildflowers are not hard to find, though it seems the prairie has been nearly ignored. This is perhaps because there is less of that original biome left than any other and the particular comeliness of the individual wildflower is diluted by a matrix of grass. Runkel and Roosa have produced an excellent picture book, with readable text, in which they cover derivation of Latin names, ecological and botanical descriptions, and anecdotal information on plant use by Native Americans. Its interesting organization follows the bloom sequence of more than 130 dicots and monocots throughout the year, though the …

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Review Of The American West In Film: Critical Approaches To The Western, Terry Nygren Jan 1990

Review Of The American West In Film: Critical Approaches To The Western, Terry Nygren

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

German filmmaker Fritz Lang once observed that the Western is to America what the Niebelungen Saga is to Germany. Set during a relatively brief period in American history, the Western genre mythologized America's confrontation with a vast frontier. Themes center on the conflict between savagery and civilization, community and the rugged individual, lawlessness and social order. Many critics have argued that the Western is primarily a vehicle for American imperialist ideology, and thus, only peripherally about the historical settlement of the West.

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Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough Jan 1990

Review Of Essays On The Historical Geography Of The Canadian West: Regional Perspectives On The Settlement Process, Frank Tough

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Essays on the Historical Geography of the Canadian West is a fine example of a department's contribution to regional studies. The eight essays from six contributors in an attractive, readable, and well-bound monograph are a useful addition to western Canadian studies. The essays (Darby, "From River Boat to Raillines: Circulation Patterns in the Canadian West during the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century"; Holmes, "The Canmore Corridor, 1880-1914: A Case Study of the Selection and Development of a Pass Site"; Hadley, "Photography, Tourism and the CPR: Western Canada, 1884- 1914"; Evans, "The Origin of Ranching in Western Canada: American Diffusion …

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Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés Jan 1990

Settlers, Sojourners, And Proletarians: Social Formation In The Great Plains Sugar Beet Industry, 1890-1940, Dennis Nodín Valdés

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The sugar beet industry was in the forefront of the opening of the northern Great Plains to commercial agriculture. At the end of the nineteenth century, massive expanses of cheap land with ideal climatic and soil conditions were available on the Plains, but the sparse population afforded few farmers or field workers to block, thin, hoe, and top the sugar beets. Between 1890 and World War II, the sugar corporations devised three labor recruitment strategies that created classes of settlers, sojourners, and proletarians on the Great Plains. This essay examines the interaction between the sugar beet industry and its field …

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Review Of Historical Atlas Of Kansas, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1990

Review Of Historical Atlas Of Kansas, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The University of Oklahoma Press, which has published a series of state historical atlases, has now issued a revision of its Kansas atlas, first published in 1972. The authors, historian Homer Socolofsky and geographer Huber Self, have updated their earlier work on the basis of 1984 state and federal government estimates.

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Notes And News For Vol.10 No.2 Jan 1990

Notes And News For Vol.10 No.2

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Notes And News For Vol.10 No.3 Jan 1990

Notes And News For Vol.10 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, Courtney Vaughn-Roberson Jan 1990

Review Of For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, Courtney Vaughn-Roberson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

For All Those Pupils Whose Lives Touched Mine, by Stella Gipson Polk, is a touching autobiography that tempts the reader by offering only a glimpse into the author's life. It is a series of vignettes primarily about Stella and the school children who, from 1918 to 1965, she taught and nurtured in several one-room country schools on the West Texas prairie. Thus, the book's organization flows from Stella's own remembrances, includes few pointedly personal insights about the author, and evades self-aggrandizement.

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Notes And News For Vol.10 No.4 Jan 1990

Notes And News For Vol.10 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy And War, 1790- 1870., James Dempsey Jan 1990

Review Of The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy And War, 1790- 1870., James Dempsey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Milloy's examination of the Plains Cree fits in with the growing concern for presenting histories that are not based on the European perspective but focus on events and issues relevant to a particular group's past. Although he is not a native, Milloy's portrayal of the Plains Cree's political and economic relations with neighboring tribes is a good example of how a "native" perspective can give new insight into historical events. For example, he points out that while the Red River area is important to fur trade historians, at other places in the West "significant events were occurring in the …

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Review Of Region And Regionalism In The United States: A Source Book For The Humanities And Social Sciences, Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1990

Review Of Region And Regionalism In The United States: A Source Book For The Humanities And Social Sciences, Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This multidisciplinary bibliography with annotations offers a judicious sampling of the best published work on American regions and regionalism. It is so useful that most scholars seriously working in regionalism will want to benefit from the authors' wide-ranging yet measured assessments.

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Corporate Point Men And The Creation Of The Montana Central Railroad, 1882-87, William L. Lang Jan 1990

Corporate Point Men And The Creation Of The Montana Central Railroad, 1882-87, William L. Lang

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 21 November 1887, a crowd jammed Ming's Opera House in Helena, Montana, to celebrate the completion of the Montana Central Railway, a branch line of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway. Sharing the Opera House stage that day were railroad executives and managers from the East, Montana politicians, and local businessmen. Their reason for celebration was three-fold. First, because Montalaans had struggled for more than a decade to get rail connections, sometimes nearly making unwise and unnecessary deals with railroad corporations, getting a railroad to build through Montana was cause for celebration.Second, the Montana Central brought with it …

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The Long Winter: An Introduction To Western Womanhood, Ann Romines Jan 1990

The Long Winter: An Introduction To Western Womanhood, Ann Romines

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In many ways, The Long Winter is the central volume in Laura Ingalls Wilder's extraordinary sequence of seven Little House books. 1 It is the most intense and dangerous of the novels, and it covers the shortest span of time, a single legendary seven-month winter. The Ingalls family has made its fullest commitment yet to one spot on the Dakota prairie. Although Pa yearns to start again in Oregon, Ma insists that they settle so the daughters can "get some schooling." Laura, the autobiographical protagonist, is approaching adulthood. This book, darkest of the series, does indeed provide her with powerful …

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Review Of Historical Atlas Of Texas., Frederick C. Luebke Jan 1990

Review Of Historical Atlas Of Texas., Frederick C. Luebke

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This volume, the latest in a well-known series published by the University of Oklahoma Press, offers sixty-four topics relating to the history and geography of Texas with accompanying maps. The first six topics outline basic geographic characteristics-location, topography, physio-graphical regions, rainfall, and native plant life. Then follow two dozen maps that treat topics antedating the annexation of Texas by the United States in 1845. They include the route followed by various explorers from Cabeza de Vaca in the sixteenth century to the James Long expeditions of 1819-22, as well as several topics relating to the Republic of Texas, 1836. The …

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Review Of New Directions In American Indian History, Michael Eastin Jan 1990

Review Of New Directions In American Indian History, Michael Eastin

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This appropriately titled collection of essays is the first volume of a continuing bibliographic series intended to supplement earlier bibliographies and further assist American Indian historians, especially newcomers to the field, in determining the relative merit of the hundreds of new publications concerning American Indians becoming available annually.

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Review Of Kaw Valley Landscapes, Huber Self Jan 1990

Review Of Kaw Valley Landscapes, Huber Self

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This revised edition describes views a tourist might see when circling the Kansas or Kaw River valley from Kansas City on the north, westward to Wamego in Pottawatomie County and from Alma in Wabaunsee County, south of the river, back to Kansas City.

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More Than Statehood On Their Minds: South Dakota Joins The Union, 1889, John E. Miller Jan 1990

More Than Statehood On Their Minds: South Dakota Joins The Union, 1889, John E. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"IT'S A GO," read the jubilant headline in the Huron Daily Huronite on 21 February 1889, one day after Congress passed the Omnibus Bill admitting four new states into the Union South Dakota, North Dakota, Montana, and Washington.1 The following day, despite speculation that he might veto the legislation, President Grover Cleveland signed the bill into law, setting into motion a process that formally conferred statehood on South Dakota on 2 November 1889. For almost a decade momentum had been building in southern Dakota for this day, and people's frustrations with Congressional inaction had grown apace.2

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