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Roscoe Pound And Academic Community On The Great Plains: The Interactional Origins Of American Sociological Jurisprudence At The University Of Nebraska, 1900-1907, Michael R. Hill Jan 1991

Roscoe Pound And Academic Community On The Great Plains: The Interactional Origins Of American Sociological Jurisprudence At The University Of Nebraska, 1900-1907, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

The turn-of-the-century academic community at the University of Nebraska differed sharply from today's highly stratified, bureaucratized, multiversity setting. The campus, the student body, and the instructional staff were, of course, considerably smaller in number than now. But, beyond this obvious demographic observation, there was a pioneering spirit and a sense of scholarly community that fostered remarkable intellectual creativity. In particular, the Nebraska campus provided the collegial setting from which Roscoe Pound's American version of sociological jurisprudence sprang forth in a resounding critique of the U.S. legal establishment at the 1906 meetings of the American Bar Association (cf., Pound 1906; Harding …

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Lucile Eaves (1869-1953), Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill Jan 1991

Lucile Eaves (1869-1953), Mary Jo Deegan, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Lucile Eaves was a research and applied sociologist, a professor, and an activist. She was fired by a desire to change women's status and that of laborers, anticipating the contemporary concern with the structural ties between class and sex. She worked in the South Park Social Settlement of San Francisco, and as a faculty member at Stanford University, the University of Nebraska, and Simmons College. Her work for the Women's Educational and Industrial Union generated numerous quantitative studies of women's lives in a variety of contexts. She is one of the first sociologists to study medical sociology, especially women with …

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Review Of The Role And Nature Of The Doctoral Dissertation, By The Council Of Graduate Schools, Michael R. Hill Jan 1991

Review Of The Role And Nature Of The Doctoral Dissertation, By The Council Of Graduate Schools, Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

This brief, impressively sponsored report overflows with Machiavellian subtexts, bureaucratic rationalizations, and mendacious platitudes. While concluding that the doctoral dissertation "defines the essence of the PhD degree" (p. 31), the overall message is that doctoral dissertations have become all things to all disciplines and that-further-this diversity of options is legitimate and virtually inexorable. The shock to my academic sensibilities on reading this official policy statement of the Council of Graduate Schools is the realization (once again) that some of our colleagues in several of the engineering, natural, and physical sciences have thoroughly subverted the doctoral process, turning it into a …

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Review Of David And Judith Willer, Systematic Empiricism: Critique Of A Pseudoscience (Englewood Cliffs, Nj, 1973), Michael R. Hill Jan 1991

Review Of David And Judith Willer, Systematic Empiricism: Critique Of A Pseudoscience (Englewood Cliffs, Nj, 1973), Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Mainstream sociology, tvpically qrounded in data generated by survey questionnaire techniques in tandem with systematic statistical analysis of correlations between ad hot, arbitrarily selected (or, at best, very loosely rationalized) variables (i.e, empirical categories) is the very opposite of genuine (i.e., logically rationalized and philosophically defensible) scientific research. In essence, the Willers argue from a formalist platform standard sociological methods and statistics courses are scientifically worthless and that the novice sociologist who hungers after the “latest statistical techniques” and/or longs for a "good data set to analyze" is fundamentally an idiot who will nonetheless be showered with grant money and …

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Male Teachers, Male Roles: The Progressive Era And Education In Oklahoma, Courtney Ann Farr, Jeffrey A. Liles Jan 1991

Male Teachers, Male Roles: The Progressive Era And Education In Oklahoma, Courtney Ann Farr, Jeffrey A. Liles

Great Plains Quarterly

In 1975 a total of sixty-seven Anglo men responded to a letter sent to all its members by the Oklahoma Retired Teachers Association (ORTA), asking them to record in autobiographical sketches their reasons for becoming teachers and the benefits that they had derived from that choice. l A collective portrait of these transitional professional men spans the Progressive Era, the 1920s, and the Great Depression and, in so doing, describes two sets of phenomena: first, the social context within which the men became teachers and administrators-- communities' willingness to pay men more and to exclude women from so-called "male" positions-and …

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Willard Kimball: Music Educator On The Great Plains, Marilyn Hammond, Raymond Haggh Jan 1991

Willard Kimball: Music Educator On The Great Plains, Marilyn Hammond, Raymond Haggh

Great Plains Quarterly

Histories of American music are largely histories of that part of the United States that lies east of the Mississippi, especially of the eastern seaboard. H. Wiley Hitchcock in his Music in the United States tends to dismiss the area to the west of such cities as Chicago, Kansas City, and St. Louis as of little importance for American music history, but because almost no research has been done on the music of that area, he has nothing on which to base his assumptions. For the researcher who troubles to look for it, there is ample evidence in the periodicals …

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Index To Fall 1991 Vol.11 No.4 Jan 1991

Index To Fall 1991 Vol.11 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Notes And News For Vol.11 No.4 Jan 1991

Notes And News For Vol.11 No.4

Great Plains Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1991 Vol. 11 No. 4 Jan 1991

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1991 Vol. 11 No. 4

Great Plains Quarterly

No abstract provided.

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Review Of Ojibway Music From Minnesota: Continuity And Change., Kenton Bales Jan 1991

Review Of Ojibway Music From Minnesota: Continuity And Change., Kenton Bales

Great Plains Quarterly

According to an old Native American axiom cited by Jamake Highwater, "An ear of corn is a very complicated organism. But for the corn plant, it is simple." Likewise, much Native American music seems mysterious and exotic, since it comes from a culture vastly dissimilar to that of Anglo- and Afro-Americans. This book and the accompanying tape do a great deal to clarify the role of music among the organism we call the Ojibways.

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Review Of Cheyennes And Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition And The Battle Of Solomon's Fork, Donald J. Berthrong Jan 1991

Review Of Cheyennes And Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition And The Battle Of Solomon's Fork, Donald J. Berthrong

Great Plains Quarterly

During the summer of 1857, Colonel Edwin Vos Sumner and his troops invaded Cheyenne and Arapaho land. By the 1851 Treaty of Fort Laramie the two tribes were recognized as the occupants of western Kansas and eastern Colorado between the Platte and Arkansas rivers. The treaty also tried to prevent intertribal warfare and to protect emigrants and commerce over the platte River road and the Santa Fe Trail. After a conflict in 1856 at the Upper Platte bridge, Cheyenne war parties attacked wagon trains on the Platte River road. Whether the raiders were all Southern Cheyennes or if they were …

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Review Of "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" And Other Songs Cowboys Sing, Rick Cypert Jan 1991

Review Of "The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" And Other Songs Cowboys Sing, Rick Cypert

Great Plains Quarterly

Readers whose sensibilities allow them to get beyond this book title and songs like "Peter Pullin' Blues" and "Honky-Tonk Asshole" (two of my favorites) will recognize what a valuable contribution Logsdon has made to the fields of folklore, history, and sociolinguistics. As he suggests in the preface, part of his purpose in this book is to place the romanticized image of the cowboy in its proper perspective. And despite the appeal of B-grade Western characters, as Logsdon says, there is a difference between what he calls "fake-lore" and "folklore."

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Review Of Rich Grass And Sweet Water: Ranch Life With The Koch Matador Cattle Company, Albert T. Davis Jan 1991

Review Of Rich Grass And Sweet Water: Ranch Life With The Koch Matador Cattle Company, Albert T. Davis

Great Plains Quarterly

Ranch life doesn't lend itself well to paper. The lifestyle of the cowboy or cowgirl is not something that can be reproduced easily. The subtleties of nature, its weather, beauty, ruthlessness, and its serenity are too complex for most authors to conquer easily. Too often ranching books become simple recitals of where, when, how much, how large, how many, how bad, or how good. John Lincoln's Rich Grass and Sweet Water is one of the few books that is able to portray successfully the life of the cowman.

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Review Of Colorado Catholicism And The Archdiocese Of Denver, 1857-1989, Denis R. Fournier Jan 1991

Review Of Colorado Catholicism And The Archdiocese Of Denver, 1857-1989, Denis R. Fournier

Great Plains Quarterly

The early sections of this very readable history of the Catholic Church in Colorado will be of special interest to fans of Cather's Death Comes for the Archbishop who are interested in the historicity of her character Father Joseph Vaillant, based on Joseph Projectus Machebeuf, first bishop of Colorado. The author mines Howlett's Life of Bishop Machebeuf (one of Cather's sources), other ecclesiastical histories, and the local church archives for interesting information, some of it significant and some trivial, about Machebeuf and the problems he faced in Colorado. For instance, did you ever suspect that the effectiveness of Machebeuf's preaching …

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Review Of An Illustrated History Of The Arts In South Dakota, Norman A. Geske Jan 1991

Review Of An Illustrated History Of The Arts In South Dakota, Norman A. Geske

Great Plains Quarterly

In the concluding pages of this nearly fourhundred- page volume the author acknowledges previous attempts to write the history of the arts in South Dakota and concludes, quite properly, that "the large task lies ahead." One wonders how much larger the task might be in the light of the present work, which covers the performing arts, the visual arts, and the literary arts, with a special section devoted to the arts of the Sioux. It appears in a review of the 132 chapters, many of them dealing with single individuals and organizations, that a conscious effort was made to leave …

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Review Of Beyond The Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism And A Sense Of Place, Barbara L. Imig Jan 1991

Review Of Beyond The Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism And A Sense Of Place, Barbara L. Imig

Great Plains Quarterly

Rather than embarking upon a quest for the ever-illusionary "new beginning" in a "new land," Harold P. Simonson in Beyond the Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism and a Sense of Place argues that the frontier metaphor has synthesized into a sense of place and that place is "home."

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Review Of The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions Of Western Indians, Peter Maslowski Jan 1991

Review Of The View From Officers' Row: Army Perceptions Of Western Indians, Peter Maslowski

Great Plains Quarterly

Careful students of the American West have long realized that making valid generalizations about the officers who served in the frontier army is extraordinarily difficult. For example, a major theme in Soldier West: Biographies from the Military Frontier (1987), edited by Paul Andrew Hutton, was the rich variety in experiences, interests, and personalities among army officers. Now, Smith, an assistant professor of history at the University of Texas at El Paso, demonstrates how ambivalent and contradictory the officers were in their perceptions of virtually every aspect of Indian affairs. And, importantly, she recognizes that officers' wives also lived on "officers' …

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Review Of Five For The Land And Its People, Howard W. Ottoson Jan 1991

Review Of Five For The Land And Its People, Howard W. Ottoson

Great Plains Quarterly

Every institution has its pioneers, its founding fathers, whose personal natures and work were instrumental in shaping the course of its development. This book is an account of five such men whose lives are reflected in what is today North Dakota State University.

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Review Of Lizzie: The Letters Of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864- 1893,, Paula Petrik Jan 1991

Review Of Lizzie: The Letters Of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864- 1893,, Paula Petrik

Great Plains Quarterly

Unlike many of the collections of letters or journals written by women chronicling the nineteenth-century western experience that center on rural women's lives or the overland trip, Elizabeth Chester Fisk's letters describe a western woman in an urban environment. From Lizzie's riverboat trip up the Missouri River to Helena, Montana, in 1867 to the death of her mother and correspondent in 1893, the editor has chosen the best from a large collection. Through her letters, the reader glimpses the public and private politics that marked Lizzie's life and the tension between a woman's affiliations with family and the community and …

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Review Of Heaven Is Near The Rocky Mountains, Robin Ridington Jan 1991

Review Of Heaven Is Near The Rocky Mountains, Robin Ridington

Great Plains Quarterly

Thomas Woolsey was a Methodist missionary in the Edmonton region between 1855 and 1864. This book is a collection of his letters and journals, edited by historian Hugh Dempsey. Woolsey seems to have been concerned more with combating his Oblate "Romish" competitors than he was in understanding the Cree, Stoney, Blackfoot, and Sarcee Indians with whom he came into contact. Woolsey was thoroughly convinced of the superiority of his Methodism over heathenism and popery alike. He seems to have been a decent and articulate person, but not a particularly engaged observer of the Indian peoples to whom he ministered.

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Review Of Son Of Old Jules: Memoirs Of Jules Sandoz, Jr., Barbara Wright Rippey Jan 1991

Review Of Son Of Old Jules: Memoirs Of Jules Sandoz, Jr., Barbara Wright Rippey

Great Plains Quarterly

Readers of Son of Old Jules familiar with Mari Sandoz's biography of her Nebraska Sandhills father, Old Jules (1935), will be sharply aware of the references to this earlier published Sandoz and her book. So are the authors, who, from the first word of the introduction to the last chapter, continually evoke Mari's memory by specific reference to her work and by rounding out many of her vignettes of her Swiss immigrant family and their community.

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Review Of From The Pecos To The Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography., Bob Ross Jan 1991

Review Of From The Pecos To The Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography., Bob Ross

Great Plains Quarterly

This paperback edition of a twenty-five-yearold classic is packed with anecdotes from the ranch country of Texas (1890-97) and Montana (1897-1929). Bob Kennon, who got his schooling in the saddle as a working cowboy, evidently knew how to spin a tale; his yarns, mostly brief, are told in to-the-point detail, down to the names and manners of horses he rode and quips and quirks of the men he worked with. He watched everything, from domestic quarrels and camp-cook rivalries to range accidents and saloon riots, with a merry storyteller's eye; he reports fights and shootings without making them epic or …

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Review Of The Two Psychiatries: The Transformation Of Psychiatric Work In Saskatchewan, 1905-1984, Will Spaulding Jan 1991

Review Of The Two Psychiatries: The Transformation Of Psychiatric Work In Saskatchewan, 1905-1984, Will Spaulding

Great Plains Quarterly

The Great Plains region has a history of producing innovations in mental health. This book, an historical account and sociological analysis of the evolution of the Saskatchewan public mental health system, describes one Great Plains phenomenon that at times during this century has been remarkably progressive. The book began as the author's dissertation in the sociology of health care and was made possible by his fortuitous access to confidential government archives, primarily in the form of interoffice correspondence, in addition to the public historical record. Dickenson evaluates several hypotheses generated by sociologies of labor and professions. The brief and succinct …

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Review Of Political Bossism In Mid-America: Tom Dennison's Omaha 1900-1933, Frederick M. Spletstoser Jan 1991

Review Of Political Bossism In Mid-America: Tom Dennison's Omaha 1900-1933, Frederick M. Spletstoser

Great Plains Quarterly

Orville D. Menard's Political Bossism in MidAmerica is an in-depth account of the political machine that controlled Omaha, Nebraska, during the first third of the twentieth century. Thomas Dennison, the man who stood at the helm of that machine, is the book's central character, and the author scrutinizes Dennison's long and colorful career from almost every imaginable angle. Furthermore, Menard keeps Dennison and his city in their national context. Tom Dennison was one of many pragmatic urban bosses who came to power in cities filled with immigrants needing powerful friends who could help them in times of need. In return …

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Review Of Great Plains Patchwork: A Memoir, Kathleene K. West Jan 1991

Review Of Great Plains Patchwork: A Memoir, Kathleene K. West

Great Plains Quarterly

Great Plains Patchwork is an uneven, at times disturbing book, but like Grace Paley's "little disturbances" it is the moments that unsettle, that jar the reader a bit that make this book worthwhile.

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Review Of The Selected Letters Of Frederick Manfred, 1932- 1954., Leslie Whipp Jan 1991

Review Of The Selected Letters Of Frederick Manfred, 1932- 1954., Leslie Whipp

Great Plains Quarterly

This is an impressive piece of work by the University of Nebraska Press, by Arthur R. Huseboe and Nancy Owen Nelson, and of course by Frederick Manfred, and it will prove to be useful to scholars and critics of midwestern literature and more broadly as well.

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Reviw Of Before Lewis And Clark Volume 1: Documents Illustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804 And Before Lewis And Clark Volume 2: Documents Iuustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804, W. Raymond Wood Jan 1991

Reviw Of Before Lewis And Clark Volume 1: Documents Illustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804 And Before Lewis And Clark Volume 2: Documents Iuustrating The History Of The Missouri, 1785- 1804, W. Raymond Wood

Great Plains Quarterly

It now has been nearly forty years since the publication of Nasatir's landmark study Before Lewis and Clark. In those decades it has grown to be an indispensable aid in the historical scholarship of the Great Plains. The reason? This history of the pre-Lewis and Clark Missouri River provides a comprehensive data base and summary that is unobtainable in any other form. The original two-volume set, unfortunately, has been out of print for many years, and the great cost of the original volumes (usually in three figures) on the used book market is added testimony to their scholarly value. …

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Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1991 Vol. 11 No. 2 Jan 1991

Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1991 Vol. 11 No. 2

Great Plains Quarterly

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Revie Of Breaking The Iron Bonds: Indian Control Of Energy Development., Russell Lawrence Barsh Jan 1991

Revie Of Breaking The Iron Bonds: Indian Control Of Energy Development., Russell Lawrence Barsh

Great Plains Quarterly

Few things were as exhilarating for Indian tribes in the last twenty years, or as controversial, as energy development. There has long been a need for a worthy successor to Jorgensen's critical collection, Native Americans and Energy Development II (Joseph G. Jorgensen, ed. [Boston: Anthropology Resource Center, 1984]). Unfortunately, Ambler does not meet the challenge.

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Review Of Buffalo Bill And His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography., Richard W. Ethulain Jan 1991

Review Of Buffalo Bill And His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography., Richard W. Ethulain

Great Plains Quarterly

Novels and histories of the American West have always attracted a large, varied audience. Some readers, preferring stirring adventure narratives of the Old West, have bought Louis L'Amour Westerns by the hundreds of thousands, collected Frederic Remington and Charlie Russell prints, and mourned the apparent demise of TV and cinematic Westerns. Others, drawn to a regional West, have devoured Walter Prescott Webb's histories, the historical fiction of Willa Cather, A. B. Guthrie, and Wallace Stegner, and the regional paintings of Thomas Hart Benton, Grant Wood, and John Steuart Curry. Still others, viewing the West as a significant global subregion, are …

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