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Review Of Women With Vision: The Presentation Sisters Of South Dakota, 1880-1985, Sandra Schackel Jan 1990

Review Of Women With Vision: The Presentation Sisters Of South Dakota, 1880-1985, Sandra Schackel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In the mid-eighteenth century, a young Irish woman, Nano Nagle, renounced her wealthy upper-class background and dedicated herself to ministering to the poor. Her belief in "women's potential as nurturers and ethical models for children" prompted her to establish several schools for needy boys and girls as well as to minister to the sick. After Nagle's death, the order she founded in 1776 became known as the Sisters of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and as part of a growing movement among Catholics in America in the ineteenth century, the Presentation sisters expanded their outreach to the American …

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Review Of We Fed Them Cactus, Felix D. Almaraz Jan 1990

Review Of We Fed Them Cactus, Felix D. Almaraz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Concerned about a lack of recorded history of her family's contributions to the settlement of eastern New Mexico, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca in the 1940s began to compile data for a book that would focus on the cultural values of Hispanics who grazed their livestock on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle. Relying on oral traditions of family members, friends, and acquaintances, Dona Fabiola reinforced the narrative with occasional references to archival documents.

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Review Of Folklife Annual 1987, Lynn M. Ireland Jan 1990

Review Of Folklife Annual 1987, Lynn M. Ireland

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Those of us disheartened by what seems to be an ever-increasing homogenization of American culture will find solace and hope in the pages of this attractive, well-designed book. Produced by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Folklife Annual celebrates "the fact of our national diversity." Great Plains readers will be encouraged to discover a number of pieces directly related to this region.

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Plains Indians In New Mexico: The Genízaro Experiance, Russell M. Magnaghi Jan 1990

Plains Indians In New Mexico: The Genízaro Experiance, Russell M. Magnaghi

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T he colonial period in American history must, include not only the English experience on the Atlantic shore but the Spanish story in the Southwest and the approaches to the Great Plains. l Part of the New Mexican story is the emergence of a new people who become part of our multicultural experience, the detribalized Indians of the Plains and Mountains who were given the name genfzaros and were eventually absorbed into Pueblo-Spanish society. 2 The Spanish had tried to implement their Indian policy on the Great Plains, but frustrated by the environment and the native people, they remained in …

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Review Of A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience Of A Swedish Immigrant Settlement In The Upper Middle West, 1835-1915, Niel M. Johnson Jan 1990

Review Of A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience Of A Swedish Immigrant Settlement In The Upper Middle West, 1835-1915, Niel M. Johnson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert Ostergren's A Community Transplanted is something of a smorgasbord, with a meaty main course. Ostergren has drawn concepts and methodology from various social science disciplines, which perhaps limits his readership. But the book does break new ground in the extent to which it measures, correlates, and evaluates a great number of socio-economic variables in the lives of hundreds of immigrants from a Swedish parish in the 1880s.

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Centennial On The Northen Plains: An Introduction, George Mcgovern Jan 1990

Centennial On The Northen Plains: An Introduction, George Mcgovern

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although I am now sixty-eight years old, I have thought of myself during the past half century since my eighteenth birthday as a young man. Perhaps that is partly because I have been blessed with good health and personal vigor, but it may also be because I was born and reared in a young State. South Dakota was only thirtytwo years old when I first came on the scene at Avon in 1922. My father, a pioneer Dakota clergyman, whom I always thought of as an old man, was born in 1868--twenty-one years before South Dakota achieved statehood. He knew …

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Owen Wister : Wyoming's Influential Realist And Craftsman, Leslie T. Whipp Jan 1990

Owen Wister : Wyoming's Influential Realist And Craftsman, Leslie T. Whipp

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 8 July 1885, while on his first visit to Wyoming, Owen Wister wrote in his journal, "This existence is heavenly in its monotony and sweetness. Wish I were going to do it every summer. I'm beginning to be able to feel I'm something of an animal and not a stinking brain alone. "1 Wister was being very candid and very appreciative in this statement of just how much Wyoming had done for him, but Wyoming was to be more fortunate and significant for him than he knew. Wyoming's affirmation of the animal in Owen Wister proved to have …

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The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond The Boederlands: The Case Of El Cosmopolita, 1914-19, Michael M. Smith Jan 1990

The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond The Boederlands: The Case Of El Cosmopolita, 1914-19, Michael M. Smith

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the first three decades of the twentieth century, a variety of factors-overpopulation, endemic poverty, inflation, stagnant wages, peonage, and, especially, the Mexican Revolution of 191O-drove hundreds of thousands of Mexicans from their homeland and into the United States. Although most of these migrants settled in the contiguous southwestern American states, tens of thousands proceeded north into the Great Plains and the Midwest, establishing dozens of colonias (settlements) in railroad centers, mining camps, industrial districts, and agricultural encampments. From 1900 until the Great Depression, the creation of these cultural islands of Mexican immigrants in such places as Oklahoma City, Kansas …

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The Hispanic Presence On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Miguel A. Carranza Jan 1990

The Hispanic Presence On The Great Plains: An Introduction, Miguel A. Carranza

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In April 1989, the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored its thirteenth annual symposium on the topic "The Hispanic Presence on the Great Plains." Scholars from across the United States and Mexico presented papers on a wide variety of topics covering the history, culture, politics, and images of people of Spanish origin on the Great Plains. These presentations focused on the Hispanic presence from the early Spanish explorers who entered the southern fringes of the Great Plains, to the vast migrations of Mexicans coming to "EI Norte" beginning in the early 1900s, to the creation …

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Review Of Tejanas And The Numbers Game: A Socia-Historical Interpretation From The Federal Censuses, 1850-1900., Camilo A. Martínez Jan 1990

Review Of Tejanas And The Numbers Game: A Socia-Historical Interpretation From The Federal Censuses, 1850-1900., Camilo A. Martínez

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Prior to this work did we have a well-balanced portrayal of the Tejano (Mexican American) who resided in the South, Central, and West Texas counties during the last half of the nineteenth century? Evidently not.

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Review Of Remote Beyond Compare: Letters Of Don Diego De Vargas To His Family From New Spain And New Mexico, 1675-1706, David J. Weber Jan 1990

Review Of Remote Beyond Compare: Letters Of Don Diego De Vargas To His Family From New Spain And New Mexico, 1675-1706, David J. Weber

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Spain was but a stepmother to me, for she banished me to seek my fortune in strange lands" (130-31). Thus Diego de Vargas, a member of the untitled nobility, explained why he had set out for the Indies at age twenty-eight, leaving his wife and four children behind in Madrid. Thirty-two years later when Vargas died while on campaign against Apaches in New Mexico, he had not made his fortune nor returned to Madrid as planned. He had won fame, however, in New Mexico and New Spain. For his intrepid leadership of the reconquest of New Mexico following the stunning …

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Review Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Frederick E. Hoxie Jan 1990

Review Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Frederick E. Hoxie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This contribution to the Boise State University Western Writers Series is slightly more than fifty pages long, but it represents the fullest presentation of D'Arcy McNickle's life and work available in print. While two recent American doctoral dissertations (by Birgit Hans, English, University of Arizona; and Dorothy Parker, History, University of New Mexico) work their way toward publication as books and articles, this will stand as the handiest guide to the man and his work.

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Review Of Mennonite Names/Mennonitische Namen, Reuben Goertz Jan 1990

Review Of Mennonite Names/Mennonitische Namen, Reuben Goertz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Do not let the bilingual title frighten you away from this book. With the exception of the picture titles and the bibliography of the East German Commission of Cultural Research, everything that is written in German has the English translation alongside. The chapter on nicknames may lose a little of its subtle humor in the translation, but English readers will still enjoy the origins and meanings of the many nicknames listed.

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Review Of Blossoms Of The Prairie: The History Of The Danish Lutheran Churches In Nebraska, George R. Nielsen Jan 1990

Review Of Blossoms Of The Prairie: The History Of The Danish Lutheran Churches In Nebraska, George R. Nielsen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Blossoms of the Prairie is grassroots history at its best. The volume fairly exudes energy, enthusiasm, dedication, and untold hours of painstaking work. It is a harvest of information gleaned from both Danish and English sources.

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Review Of John Graves, Amil Quayle Jan 1990

Review Of John Graves, Amil Quayle

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Graves wrote that human beings do not deserve the bald eagle. Given our record on this planet it might also be said that we do not deserve the grizzly bear, the timber wolf, the snail darter, and the hundreds of other species that we have annihilated or would annihilate. What seems more evident is that they don't deserve us. Dorys Crow Grover has captured the essence of this in her penetrating work on John Graves.

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Review Of The Good Red Road: Passages Into Native America., Raymond J. Demallie Jan 1990

Review Of The Good Red Road: Passages Into Native America., Raymond J. Demallie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In John G. Neihardt's Black Elk Speaks, the red road represents the path of life, of peace, and of the continuity of the generations. To many American Indians today it stands for the old, traditional ways, a state of being in harmony with the universe. In this book, the symbol of the red road has been generalized to embrace all humanity, a deeply-felt psychological sense of oneness and balance that serves as counterpoint to the frenetic lifestyle of modem America.

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Coronado, Quivira, And Kansas: An Archeologist's View, Waldo R. Weldel Jan 1990

Coronado, Quivira, And Kansas: An Archeologist's View, Waldo R. Weldel

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Four hundred and forty-nine years ago this summer, the Kansas prairies were visited for the first time by white men. These were a select group of Spanish adventurers from Mexico led by a thirty-year-old nobleman by the name of Francisco Vazquez de Coronado. Francisco was a lad of eleven years when Hernando Cortez looted the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan, now Mexico City, and sent back to Spain a vast treasure in gold, silver, and precious stones. One of several younger sons, and thus denied by the rule of primogeniture from inheriting any significant share of the family patrimony, Francisco followed …

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Review Of Cow Town Lawyers: Dodge City And Its Attorneys, 1878-1886, Craig Miner Jan 1990

Review Of Cow Town Lawyers: Dodge City And Its Attorneys, 1878-1886, Craig Miner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Ironically the feature to which this book serves as a corrective is doubtless a major reason for its publication-the notoriety of the name Dodge City in the popular consciousness. Haywood points out in his last chapter, and adequately demonstrates in his text, that the Front Street reconstruction and the wild and wooly stories of the "Beautiful, Bibulous Babylon of the Frontier" that Easterners hear are not an adequate representation of the town even in its boisterous salad days. He also points out that Dodge was consciously cultivating its wild image as a means of economic development during its cattle town …

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Review Of Lakota Storytelling: Black Elk, Ella Deloria, And Frank Fools Crow, Thomas F. Schilz Jan 1990

Review Of Lakota Storytelling: Black Elk, Ella Deloria, And Frank Fools Crow, Thomas F. Schilz

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The reciting of oral traditions, or storytelling, is the oldest form of human literary achievement. But because time changes everything, including oral traditions, human societies finally are forced to put their stories into written form to preserve them for posterity.

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Review Of A Stranger In Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher And The American Indians, John R. Wunder Jan 1990

Review Of A Stranger In Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher And The American Indians, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This is the best written biography I have read in many years. A beautifully crafted book, it is a comprehensive picture and excellent scholarly treatment of a most unpleasant person, a person one can have little sympathy for in today's world. And yet, to the credit of the author, one comes away from this work having a much greater understanding of Alice Fletcher and a more balanced view of the meaning of her work.

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The Contest For The "Nile Of America": Kansas V. Colorado (1907), James E. Sherow Jan 1990

The Contest For The "Nile Of America": Kansas V. Colorado (1907), James E. Sherow

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T he United States Supreme Court took its first notice of interstate squabbling over western water courses in the suit Kansas v. Colorado, 1907. 1 The decision failed to stem a steady onslaught of interstate water litigation, but the justices did achieve the means to adjudge water disputes between states. To understand the justices' accomplishment, or lack of it, requires what James Willard Hurst called a "social history of law," law related to society and to ideas outside the narrow confines of jurisprudence. Such a methodology proves a useful means for understanding the significance of Kansas v. Colorado. …

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Conditioning Of Sandhill Cranes During Fall Migration, Gary L. Krapu, Douglas H. Johnson Jan 1990

Conditioning Of Sandhill Cranes During Fall Migration, Gary L. Krapu, Douglas H. Johnson

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

Body mass of adult female and male sandhill cranes (Grus canadensis) increased an average of 17 and 20%, respectively, from early September to late October on staging areas in central North Dakota and varied by year. Increases in body mass averaged 550 and 681 g among female and male G. c. canadensis, respectively, and 616 and 836 g among female and male G. c. rowani. Adult and juvenile G. c. rowani were lean at arrival, averaging 177 and 83 g of fat, respectively, and fat reserves increased to 677 and 482 g by mid-October. Fat-free dry …

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Estimating Nest Success: When Mayfield Wins, Douglas H. Johnson, Terry L. Shaffer Jan 1990

Estimating Nest Success: When Mayfield Wins, Douglas H. Johnson, Terry L. Shaffer

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

The Apparent estimator of nest success may be severely biased because unsuccessful nests are less likely to be found than are successful nests. The Mayfield estimator is a preferred alternative. The situation is somewhat different for nests in colonies or on islands because of greater visibility of nests, higher synchrony of nesting, and often higher hatch rates than dispersed mainland nests. Also, destruction is more likely to occur catastrophically, which violates an assumption of the Mayfield method that the mortality rate is constant. By simulation we investigated the performance of the Apparent and Mayfield estimators under a variety of circumstances. …

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Pralrle Basin Wetlands Of The Dakotas: A Communlty Profile, Harold L. Kantrud, Gary L. Krapu, George A. Swanson Sep 1989

Pralrle Basin Wetlands Of The Dakotas: A Communlty Profile, Harold L. Kantrud, Gary L. Krapu, George A. Swanson

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

This description of prairie basin wetlands of the Dakotas is part of a series of community profiles on ecologically important wetlands of national significance. The shallow wetlands of the Dakotas form the bulk of the portion of the Prairie Pothole Region lying within the United States. This region is famous as the producer of at least half of North America's waterfowl and an unknown, but large, proportion of other prairie-dwelling marsh and aquatic birds. The wetlands described here lie in relatively small, shallaw basins that vary greatly in their ability to maintain surface water, and in their water chemistry, which …

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Ua35/4 Annual Report, Wku International Programs Jan 1989

Ua35/4 Annual Report, Wku International Programs

WKU Administration Documents

Annual report of WKU International Programs & Projects for the year 1988-89.

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Accumulation Of Lead And Organochiorine Residues In Captive American Kestrels Fed Pine Voles From Apple Orchards, Rey C. Stendell, W. Nelson Beyer, Robert A. Stehn Jan 1989

Accumulation Of Lead And Organochiorine Residues In Captive American Kestrels Fed Pine Voles From Apple Orchards, Rey C. Stendell, W. Nelson Beyer, Robert A. Stehn

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

Pine voles (Microtus pinetorum) were collected from pesticide-treated orchards in New York (USA) and fed to three captive American kestrels (Falco sparverius) for 60 days to evaluate potential hazards from soil-borne persistent insecticides. Three control kestrels were fed uncontaminated laboratory mice (Mus musculus). The pine voles contained an average of 38 ppm lead, 48 ppm DDE and 1.2 ppm dieldrin (wet weight). The kestrels accumulated sublethal amounts of lead (1 ppm lead wet weight) in their livers. In contrast, DDE and dieldrin accumulated in the tissues and brains of kestrels to toxicologically significant concentrations. …

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Irrigating With Windmills On The Great Plains, T. Lindsay Baker Jan 1989

Irrigating With Windmills On The Great Plains, T. Lindsay Baker

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In his 1895 graduation thesis from the state agricultural college at Manhattan, Kansas, Fred E. Rader declared of the windmill, "Without, we must emigrate; with it, we can irrigate."1 Rader summarized the feelings of many farmers in the Arkansas and Platte valleys and elsewhere across the Great Plains in the mid-1890s. He wrote in the heyday of windmill irrigation in the area, when machines employing the free power of the wind to pump water from the ground were seen as the salvation of the region.

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Review Of Ole Edvart Rölvaag, Rodney P. Rice Jan 1989

Review Of Ole Edvart Rölvaag, Rodney P. Rice

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This welcome addition to the Western Writers Series differs from other studies on Rolvaag because it attempts to place him within the broader context of American literature rather than strictly within ethnic or geographic boundaries. Moseley argues that Rölvaag, like many American authors before him, successfully combines elements of realism, naturalism, and myth not only to reveal the inherent contradictions in the frontier experience but also to examine universal themes such as the conflict between Old World tradition and New World individuality. The result is a convincing, perceptive, and reliable introduction to Rolvaag's fiction, useful to all students of American …

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Joint Venture Or Testy Alliance?: The Public Works Of Art Project In Minnesota, 1933-34, Thomas O'Sullivan Jan 1989

Joint Venture Or Testy Alliance?: The Public Works Of Art Project In Minnesota, 1933-34, Thomas O'Sullivan

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Like many American painters of his generation, Syd Fossum left art school under the cloud of the Great Depression. The economic uncertainties of the 1930s only added to the dubious support a young painter in the Midwest might expect. But an unimagined opportunity launched Fossum and many others into unparalleled productivity as artists and self-respect as involved members of the art community and American society. Fossum's own reminiscences suggest the excitement of the moment. He recalled that in December 1933 he received a letter assigning him to the newly formed Public Works of Art Project (PWAP).

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The Wonderful Wizard Of The West: L.Frank Baum In South Dakota, 1888-91, Nancy Tystad Koupal Jan 1989

The Wonderful Wizard Of The West: L.Frank Baum In South Dakota, 1888-91, Nancy Tystad Koupal

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

On 25 January 1890, L. Frank Baum took over the editor's chair of a weekly newspaper in northeastern South Dakota. Stricken with "western fever," the thirty-four-year-old Baum had emigrated from Syracuse, New York, more than a year earlier "to throw [his] fortunes in with the town" of Aberdeen, a promising railroad hub in what was then Dakota Territory. His first frontier enterprise, a variety store modeled on "The Fair" in Chicago, was too ambitious for the time and place, but Baum retained his faith in the West and turned to a career more suited to his talents and training. In …

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