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"There Is Some Splendid Scenery" Womens Responses To The Great Plains Landscape, Julie Roy Jeffrey Jan 1988

"There Is Some Splendid Scenery" Womens Responses To The Great Plains Landscape, Julie Roy Jeffrey

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the decades of exploration and settlement of the trans-Mississippi West, travelers and emigrants encountered a new kind of landscape on the Great Plains. Aside from dramatic geological formations like Courthouse Rock, this landscape lacked many of the visual qualities conventionally associated with natural beauty in the nineteenth century. "It may enchant the imagination for a moment to look over the prairies and plains as far as the eye can reach," Sarah Raymond wrote in her diary in 1865, "still such a view is tedious and monotonous. It can in no wise produce that rapturing delight, that pleasing variety of …

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Development Of The Appropriation Docterine: Adapting Water Allcoation Policies To Semiarid Environs, J. David Aiken Jan 1988

Development Of The Appropriation Docterine: Adapting Water Allcoation Policies To Semiarid Environs, J. David Aiken

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

One hallmark of economic development, and indeed of civilization itself, may be found in the rules men devise to order their access to resources. When ambitious men began to develop the West, they found English common law deficient in many respects. It failed to provide workable rules among men as they struggled to get, develop, and use water where water was relatively scarce and often vital to life itself. So new laws and new institutions had to be developed. They are still developing. 1

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Review Of Emily: The Diary Of A Hard-Worked Woman, Alice Hall Petry Jan 1988

Review Of Emily: The Diary Of A Hard-Worked Woman, Alice Hall Petry

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Diaries are among the most unpredictable of literary genres: they can be fascinating, vivid renderings of what life was truly like during key periods in history, or they can be oddly flat, even tedious affairs-especially when they deal with the daily routines of obscure lives. Some diaries, such as Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman, manage somehow to be both. Emily Louisa Rood, born in Michigan in 1843, was raised in middle-class surroundings and thus accustomed to some of the finer things in western life, including her own home and her own horse and buggy. But after bearing …

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Review Of The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins., Robert Nespor Jan 1988

Review Of The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins., Robert Nespor

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Karl Schlesier contends that the Cheyennes (or, as he prefers, the Tsistsistas, excluding the Suhtai branch of Northern Cheyennes) made their "perfect adaptation" to the northern Plains long before the 1700s. Indeed, he argues that the T sistsistas emerged as an ethnic group on the Plains about 500 B.C., attaining an identity through observances of a ceremony, the Massaum, which continued to be celebrated into the early twentieth century. The Massaum is represented as having constituted the set of sacred relations between the people and the universe. With respect to the plains environment in particular, Schlesier represents the Massaum as …

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The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge Jan 1988

The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Although the words Great Plains imply a physical region, they have been increasingly used to describe a distinctive set of cultural traits and values. The tone was set in 1931 when Walter Prescott Webb argued that attitudes and land uses brought to the Plains from humid lands would fail. Aridity, he said, was the central fact of existence in this place; it demanded a new approach to life. 1

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Review Of Ghost Towns Of Texas, Suzanne Lindau Jan 1988

Review Of Ghost Towns Of Texas, Suzanne Lindau

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T. Lindsay Baker, curator of agriculture and technology in the Panhandle-Plains Historical Museum in Canyon, Texas, brings back to life eighty-eight Texas ghost towns. In describing each town, Baker relates its founding, its former significance, and the reasons for its decline. In addition, for each townsite he includes a map and full directions for reaching it.

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Ethnicity, Religion, And Gender: The Women Of Block, Kansas, 1868-1940, Carol K. Coburn Jan 1988

Ethnicity, Religion, And Gender: The Women Of Block, Kansas, 1868-1940, Carol K. Coburn

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Ethnicity, religion, and gender shape our past, providing a richness and texture to individual and group experience. This experience creates identities and communities that in tum educate the young and ensure the transmission of values, beliefs, and culture across generations. The women of Block, Kansas, provide an opportunity to examine the complex relationship of ethnicity, religion, and gender. Beginning in the late 1860s, this German Lutheran enclave used its ethnic heritage and its religious doctrine to create a separate, distinct community in south central Miami County, Kansas. Trinity Lutheran Church and School served as focal points in the development of …

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Structure Of Agriculture And Women's Culture In The Great Plains, Cornella Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora Jan 1988

Structure Of Agriculture And Women's Culture In The Great Plains, Cornella Butler Flora, Jan L. Flora

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

T he family farm has prevailed as a bastion of petty capitalism in the Great Plains. Although capital and labor are highly differentiated in the larger society, they are combined in the family production unit in Great Plains agriculture. In addition to being the economic base for much of the Great Plains from the settlement period onward, the family farm provided a cultural base from which a series of values emerged. Women were important in reproducing this culture that tended to stress agrarian values and the primacy of the family as building blocks for a community based on the values …

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Review Of Life Of Bishop Machebeuf., Lance Larsen Jan 1988

Review Of Life Of Bishop Machebeuf., Lance Larsen

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Original editions of this obscure diocesan biography, the major source of Willa Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop, are all but inaccessible. The present reprint, an exact facsimile of the 1908 version, introduces to a wider audience the lively and memorable Joseph P. Machebeuf, first vicar apostolic of Colorado and Utah. To aid readers, the editors have included a bibliography, an index, and marginal asterisks pointing interested readers to a special notes section.

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Index To Vol 8 Jan 1988

Index To Vol 8

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

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Review Of The Women's West., Suzanne L. Bunkers Jan 1988

Review Of The Women's West., Suzanne L. Bunkers

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The twenty-one essays in this collection represent some of the finest work being done in the ongoing re-examination of the American West through women's eyes. Based on papers presented at the first Women's West conference in 1983, these articles analyze faulty assumptions and omissions in earlier histories of the West; they examine the ways in which gender roles shaped western women's lives; and they formulate new methodologies for the analysis of women's private writings as vital historical records.

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Elaine Goodale Eastman And The Failure Of The Feminist Protestant Ethic, Ruth Ann Alexander Jan 1988

Elaine Goodale Eastman And The Failure Of The Feminist Protestant Ethic, Ruth Ann Alexander

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Elaine Goodale Eastman's childhood dreams of becoming a writer were not to be fulfilled as she imagined them. Her literary talent was subverted by conflicting forces in her life to which she also subscribed but that thwarted the artistic development of that talent. Although she wrote throughout her ninety years and couldn't remember a time that she wouldn't rather write than eat, she never satisfied "the notion ... unreasonably in the back of my head that someday I might write a book that would live."! If she is remembered at all it is as the wife of the Sioux physician …

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Plains Women, Dorothy Schwieder, Deborah Fink Jan 1988

Plains Women, Dorothy Schwieder, Deborah Fink

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

During the Great Depression, farm families throughout the nation experienced severe economic difficulties. Since then, historians and other scholars have analyzed and reanalyzed the basic problems of American agriculture and the solutions offered to those problems. Only recently, however, have the scholars begun to take a wide view of rural society during the 1930s and begun to look at the dynamics of the farm family: the roles, influences, and contributions of farm women and the work roles and treatment of farm children. 1

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Notes And News For Vol.8 No.4 Jan 1988

Notes And News For Vol.8 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition And Change., Seena B. Kohl Jan 1988

Review Of Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition And Change., Seena B. Kohl

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

This book adds to a neglected area of research, rural women. Through the use of reminiscence, census data, agricultural surveys, interviews, and observations during a year of residency in a rural Iowa county, Deborah Fink examines women's experience as members of a rural social system in which farming has been, until recently, considered a viable and valued opportunity, albeit a gender restricted occupation.

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Review Of Land Of The Burnt Thigh, Sheryll Patterson-Black Jan 1988

Review Of Land Of The Burnt Thigh, Sheryll Patterson-Black

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Land of the Burnt Thigh recounts the adventures of two sisters, Edith Eudora Ammons Kohl and Ida Mary Ammons Miller, homesteading in South Dakota in 1907. "Timid as mice" and "city girls" at that, these young women are initially shocked by the rough frontier conditions they encounter but quickly rally to become successful homesteaders; Edith, in addition, becomes a newspaperwoman.

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Notes And News For Vol.8 No.3 Jan 1988

Notes And News For Vol.8 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

No abstract provided.

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Review Of America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America, Carroll Van West Jan 1988

Review Of America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America, Carroll Van West

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

America's Architectural Roots is an introduction to the remarkable diversity of ethnic building traditions that have shaped the American landscape. Dell Upton takes a broad view of the tricky term "ethnic" and includes selections on Native American, English, midwestern German, and French architecture, along with eighteen other examples of ethnic architecture. Chronologically organized, the book first looks at groups that have influenced American architecture nationwide, then surveys groups that shaped regional architectures. Most of the book's Great Plains selections focus on the vernacular architecture of the region's many ethnic groups.

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Women And Technology On The Great Plains, 1910-40, Katherine Jellson Jan 1988

Women And Technology On The Great Plains, 1910-40, Katherine Jellson

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

What is in store for the homesteader's wife? Nothing but to deteriorate ... the homesteader can do nothing but make a scanty living while his wife and family go unclad and scarely fed, with no conveniences in the home, no society, no preaching ... when you live where you can see sad-faced women, with their children crying about their skirts for things to eat, eager for even a drink of sour milk-good, pretty women, whose hair turns gray in a few weeks· of worry over where the work is coming from to buy flour-we then wonder if Uncle Sam couldn't …

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Review Of Emil Loriks: Builder Of A New Economic Order, Jonathan F. Wagner Jan 1988

Review Of Emil Loriks: Builder Of A New Economic Order, Jonathan F. Wagner

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

The author of Emil Loriks: Builder of a New Economic Order wrote the book in order to do justice to the life of her fellow South Dakotan Emil Loriks (1895-1985). Elizabeth Williams, an instructor of journalism and speech at South Dakota State University, has succeeded in producing a eulogy of an interesting and active farm leader. Her biographical portrait loudly praises Loriks for the variety of roles he played: as state legislator and Farm Holiday leader from 1927-34, as unsuccessful liberal Democratic candidate running against Republican Karl Mundt in 1938, as South Dakota Farmer's Union president during the later Depression, …

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Review Of After The West Was Won: Homesteaders And Town-Builders In Western South Dakota, 1900-1917, Joseph S. Wood Jan 1988

Review Of After The West Was Won: Homesteaders And Town-Builders In Western South Dakota, 1900-1917, Joseph S. Wood

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

After the West Was Won is about pioneering in western South Dakota on land unsettled by agriculturalists before 1900. Lakota hunters and Texas ranchers had lived successfully in this land of bountiful grass. Agricultural settlement, however, was a story "of dreams and ambitions thwarted" as farmers and townspeople alike learned "to make a virtue of living with less" than did those who had pioneered earlier frontiers.

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Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 2, August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804, The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 3, August 25, 1804-Apriz6, 1805, And The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 4, April7-July 27, 1805, Richard A. Bartlett Jan 1988

Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 2, August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804, The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 3, August 25, 1804-Apriz6, 1805, And The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 4, April7-July 27, 1805, Richard A. Bartlett

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

In 1983 appeared Volume 1 of a projected eleven volume compilation of the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The first volume turned out to be an atlas, which came as something of a surprise to many scholars; yet the quality of the work-the editing, the annotations, and the incredible state-of-the-art graphics-commanded praise from the academic community. The thought that lay behind the atlas as Volume 1 was that it would furnish a working tool for those studying all the remaining ten volumes. The great question remaining was, what of the quality of the textual volumes to come?

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Review Of Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions Of A Texas Experience, Robert A. Calvert Jan 1988

Review Of Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions Of A Texas Experience, Robert A. Calvert

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Alamo Images is a catalog to accompany an exhibition of artifacts, artworks, books, broadsides, ephemera, memorabilia, pamphlets, motion picture posters, and other items relating to the Alamo that were displayed at Southern Methodist University in 1985 and 1986. The stated purpose of the book and of the exhibition was to "help explain both the Alamo of historical fact and the Alamo of our imagination" (p. 17). The general intellectual assumption behind the book was that the myth of the Alamo had evolved into such a historical icon of patriotism that any attempt at sorting out truth from fanciful fiction would …

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Review Of The Mythic West In Twentieth-Century America, Brian W. Dippie Jan 1988

Review Of The Mythic West In Twentieth-Century America, Brian W. Dippie

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Robert G. Athearn's The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America is the capstone to a distinguished career in Western history. It is also a considerable departure from his other work. Athearn began with frontier military history, wrote extensively on railroads and the history of the High Country Empire, and delved into the exodus of blacks into Kansas at the end of the 1870s. His West, the Plains, began one tier of states west of the Mississippi and stopped one short of the Pacific.

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Review Of Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke And His American West, Thomas William Dunlay Jan 1988

Review Of Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke And His American West, Thomas William Dunlay

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

John Gregory Bourke (1846-1896) is best known to students of the American West as the author of On the Border with Crook, a classic record of frontier military life. He was also, like certain other army officers, among the pioneers of American anthropology. Like his commanding officer, General George Crook, he was a critic of federal Indian policy and an advocate of the rights of American Indians. His biography is, therefore, much more than the record of a frontier soldier. He is worthy of study as a chronicler of Western campaigns, a dedicated scholar of Indian culture, and a …

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Review Of Buckskins, Bullets, And Business: A History Of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Andrew Gulliford Jan 1988

Review Of Buckskins, Bullets, And Business: A History Of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Andrew Gulliford

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Of all the popular culture heroes of the American West, Buffalo Bill stands out as the quintessential frontiersman, hunter, Indian scout, cattle rancher, land speculator, and showman par excellence. The subject of countless dime novels, plays, melodramas, and no fewer than thirty five films, Colonel W. F. Cody was a living legend whose expertise in organizing and touring "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" made it one of the largest and longest running outdoor entertainments in history. For more than thirty years, between 1882 and 1913, the Wild West Show toured America and …

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Review Of The Dakota Or Sioux In Minnesota As They Were In 1854, Herbert T. Hoover Jan 1988

Review Of The Dakota Or Sioux In Minnesota As They Were In 1854, Herbert T. Hoover

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Gary Anderson introduces the reminiscence of a nineteenth-century missionary as a source "unrivaled today for its comprehensive discussion of Dakota material culture and social, political, religious, and economic institutions." With the term "unrivaled," evidently Professor Anderson assigns credence to the work of Pond, for he goes on to say that the missionary attempted "an objective assessment of the Dakota before their intercourse with whites· dramatically changed their society." Thus a prospective reader is likely to gain the impression that The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota is wholly reliable. A professional historian who has written two volumes on the history of …

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Plains Song: Wright Morris's New Melody For Audacious Female Voices, Linda M. Lewis Jan 1988

Plains Song: Wright Morris's New Melody For Audacious Female Voices, Linda M. Lewis

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

"Man's culture was a hoax. Was there a woman who didn't feel it? Perhaps a decade, no more, was available to women to save themselves, as well as the planet. Women's previous triumphs had been by default. Men had simply walked away from the scene of the struggle, leaving them with the children, the chores, the culture, and a high incidence of madness." The lines are from Wright Morris's Plains Song: for Female Voices; they represent a "brief resume" of the "forthcoming lecture" by Alexandra Selkirk, a feminist who has just arrived in Grand Island, Nebraska, to rally the …

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Review Of Hoofbeats And Society: Studies Of Human-Horse Interactions, Susanne Lindau Jan 1988

Review Of Hoofbeats And Society: Studies Of Human-Horse Interactions, Susanne Lindau

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

Taking her 1982 book, Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame, a step further, cultural anthropologist and practicing veterinarian Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence here concentrates on the universal appeal of the horse. Horses, she states, "can be vivid images in human cognitive processes, and frequently serve as meaningful constructs in ordering social relations between people and the work around them" (p. ix). She explores various facets of the human-horse relationship to discover the special appeal and significance of horses in diverse societies.

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Review Of Agricultural Distress In The Midwest, Past And Present, James Lowenberg-Debore Jan 1988

Review Of Agricultural Distress In The Midwest, Past And Present, James Lowenberg-Debore

Great Plains Quarterly (through 2013)

As Gelfand states in his foreword, the purpose of the four papers in this book is to examine the farm problems in the Midwest from the late nineteenth century through the present, comparing reasons for agricultural distress and responses to the problems. Part of that objective is achieved. The first two papers present reasonable overviews of farm problems through the 1930s, with some insights from recent research. The book's plan falters in description of events after 1940 and lacks almost entirely comparisons between past and present.

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