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Review Of A Life With The Union Pacific: The Autobiography Of Edd H. Bailey, H.Roger Grant

Great Plains Quarterly

As the title of this modest volume suggests, Edd H. Bailey, the late president of the Union Pacific Company, has written for us his life story. Like typical railroad officials of the past, Bailey climbed the corporate ladder by moving through various positions in the operating department. After a youth spent on a woebegone homestead in eastern Colorado, he joined the Union Pacific in 1922 as a helper in the car department in Cheyenne, Wyoming; by 1965, he was the president and director. Although Bailey lacked a college education, his various "hands-on" experiences made possible his rise to industry-wide prominence. …

Review Of The Plains Of North America And Their Inhabitants, James H. Gunnerson

Great Plains Quarterly

Lieutenant Colonel Richard Irving Dodge wrote with the easy style of an experienced raconteur, drawing on twenty years of first-hand experience on the Plains. Most of his numerous anecdotes, however, date from the late 1860s and early 1870s. During this period he met an English promoter who encouraged Dodge to write the book. First published in 1876 it quickly went through two editions in England and two in the United States, all substantially edited. The present version, with only errors of spelling and punctuation corrected, is based on an unedited manuscript by Dodge and presents the work as he had …

Review Of Ancestral Voice: Conversations With N. Scott Momaday, Kenneth M. Romemer

Great Plains Quarterly

We expect a collection of interviews with an author to provide the types of anecdotes, information, and opinions that often don't get into scholarly articles but do illuminate the author and his or her work. Charles Woodard's Ancestral Voice fulfills those expectations and goes beyond them.

Review Of The Complete Roadside Guide To Nebraska, Rosemary Thornton

Great Plains Quarterly

Alan Boye's guide is complete in ways that Nebraskans and others who travel in Nebraska would find useful and interesting. I read with a map in one hand and felt a recurring urge to get on the road and verify the existence of these places. Being a native Nebraskan, I have visited, camped upon, canoed down, or hiked across much of Nebraska. Boye describes all the familiar places as I remember them and summarizes their history. The heart of the book is found in the historical trivia, however, the human interest anecdotes about local people from little known places. There …

Review Of Canyon Visions: Photographs And Pastels Of The Texas Plains, John R. Wunder

Great Plains Quarterly

This is a beautiful book. Its beauty is fourfold. There is an allusive introduction by Archer City native, West Texas novelist Larry McMurtry, and lyrical words and phrases in an introduction and photo/portrait captions by Texas Tech University history professor Dan L. Flores. Then there are forty magnificent photos of the canyons of the Texas Plains taken by Flores and thirty-nine reproductions of pastels of the canyon landscapes of West Texas by Amarillo artist Amy Gormley Winton. The photographs and pastels are very effectively organized on separate pages facing each other and are arranged in five sections-"Elements," "Forms," "Texture," "Color," …

Lowry Charles Wimberly And The Retreat Of Regionalism, Kathleen A. Boardman

Great Plains Quarterly

"The New Regionalism," an essay by Lowry Charles Wimberly, appeared in the summer 1932 issue of Prairie Schooner, already well known as a midwestern literary magazine. Wimberly, an English professor at the University of Nebraska, had been the magazine's editor since its 1927 founding (and would continue in the post until 1956). As editor and teacher, he unfailingly encouraged potential writers to "leave trace of themselves" and their region by using local materials. ¹

Shaping The Growth Of The Montana Economy:T.C. Power & Bro. And The Canadian Trade, 1869,93, Henry C. Klassen

Great Plains Quarterly

The principal Fort Benton merchant houses that traded with the southwestern Canadian prairies from the late 1860s to the early 1890s helped determine the growth and vitality of the Montana economy. Particularly in north-central Montana, the region dominated by Fort Benton, the Montana-Canada commerce played a key role. Fort Benton's two largest merchant partnerships, T.e. Power & Bro. and 1.0. Baker & Co., became leaders among the pioneers in the big business of Canadian prairie trade during this period. They created international marketing and purchasing networks for importing buffalo robes and furs and for exporting foodstuffs, ready-made clothes, metal and …

Stephen Crane's "Bride" As Countermyth Of The West, Jules Zanger

Great Plains Quarterly

It has become a critical cliche to recognize Stephen Crane's "The Bride Comes to Yellow Sky" as a parody of the traditional, cliche-ridden Western. His transformations of that form's conventional hero, heroine, and badman, as well as of the climactic, de rigueur shootout are amusing and obvious. In the story Crane depicted the Pullman journey of a middle-aged, honeymooning couple, Jack Potter, a Texas marshal, and his plain, "under-class" bride, to their home in Yellow Sky. There they are confronted by the rampaging Scratchy Wilson, the last of the badmen, who on learning that the marshal has taken a wife, …

Notes And News For Vol.11 No.3

Great Plains Quarterly

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Review Of The Kiowa, Maurice Boyd

Great Plains Quarterly

This brief and easily readable summary about the Kiowas from their early known beginnings to the present should be welcomed by Kiowa and non-Kiowa alike. Any general reader seeking an overview of the tribe will also find it helpful.

Review Of Mixed-Bloods Arul Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis Arul The Quest For Lrulian Identity., Larry Burt

Great Plains Quarterly

Charles Curtis, a one-eighth Kansa mixedblood, was elected vice president of the United States in 1928, the highest station attained by a person of Indian ancestry. Earlier, while serving as a Kansas congressman at the tum of the century, Curtis was instrumental in many government actions that are now generally considered to be some of the worst abuses of Indians and their homelands under a forced assimilation policy. William Unrau demonstrates in this important work that it was no coincidence that a mixed-blood played such a pivotal role in the destruction of tribes. The government had a long-standing record of …

Review Of The Cheyenne, Gregory R. Campbell

Great Plains Quarterly

The Cheyenne by Stan Hoig is one volume in Chelsea House Publishers' series on Indians of North America. The purpose of these volumes, according to general series editor Frank W. Porter III, is to examine the problems that developed as a result of Native American-European contact and to provide all Americans with a greater comprehension of the issues and conflicts involving American Indians today. If we evaluate this work against the series' goals, we must conclude that The Cheyenne is a somewhat disappointing effort.

Review Of The Arapaho, Lisa E. Emmerich

Great Plains Quarterly

Among my treasured possessions is a photograph of three small children dressed in "Indian" regalia. The little boy and girl pictured wear fringed embroidered tunics and feathered headdresses; the baby-my father-sports a jaunty beaded headband with one feather. Taken in 1923, it captured their perception of Native American life: beads, bows and arrows, and buckskin. More than sixty years later, many children have a similar image of Indian culture. Native American historical revisionism may now be accepted in higher education but one look at primary school depictions of Thanksgiving suggests how little of the new scholarship has filtered down.

Review Of The Bpi Companion To The Western, Richard W. Ethulain

Great Plains Quarterly

Of the numerous volumes claiming to be guides to the cinematic Western, this book is by far the best. For once a jacket blurb is exactly correct when it reads: "Unsurpassed in scope and scholarship, [this volume] sets a new standard for reference books about the [Western]."

Review Of Vulcan: The Making Of A Prairie Community, David C. Jones

Great Plains Quarterly

Vulcan is a long awaited study of the formation of communities in southern Alberta. It is an insightful rendition of the development of settlement, agriculture, social life, and society in the Canadian West. Starting with the common theoretical explanations of the origin and nature of western communities-including cultural, metropolis, frontier, and environmental hypotheses-it fashions a unique and complex interpretation.

Review Of The Comanche, Charles Kenner

Great Plains Quarterly

The Comanches were the only tribe from the Pacific side of the Continental Divide to carve out a permanent niche for themselves on the Plains after the arrival of Europeans and horses in the region. Although they based their life almost totally on the horse, the Comanches remained unique in many ways among plains tribes. They neglected the annual Sun Dance rituals and communal buffalo hunts common to other tribes and failed to develop a system of soldier societies to regulate various tribal activities. Despite the many scholarly studies of them, much needs to be explained about their societies, such …

Review Of The Choctaw, Clara Sue Kidwell

Great Plains Quarterly

Within the limitations imposed by writing a short book, Jesse McKee has presented a concise and readable history of the Choctaw Indians of both Oklahoma and Mississippi. Given the time period over which Choctaws came into contact with Europeans (beginning in 1541), the major political role they played in colonial conflicts among French, Spanish, and British, and the fact that they were effectively split into two groups after 1830, their history is very complex. McKee has managed to give a reasonable overview of the tribe, although his format leaves no space for highly sophisticated historical analysis

Review Of The Seminole, Susan A. Miller

Great Plains Quarterly

The series Indians of North America, intended to introduce various U.S. Indian groups to an audience of young adults, features eyecatching design, tough construction, short bibliographies, boxed treatments of appealing topics, and short four-color photo essays. Although the Florida Seminoles merit such a study, The Seminole is too flawed to fill that niche.

Review Of Art Of The Red Earth People: The Mesquakie Of Iowa., Mary Jane Schneider

Great Plains Quarterly

One aftermath of European colonization of the eastern United States was the westward migration of many eastern Indian tribes. Among the hundreds of tribes that uprooted themselves and sought new lands were the Mesquakie, more commonly referred to as the Fox or Sauk and Fox, who migrated from the area around Green Bay, Wisconsin, into eastern Iowa in the late 1700s and adapted so well to their new home that they took unique steps to become permanent residents. In 1846, under pressure of Iowa statehood, their tribe sold their land in Iowa and moved to Kansas, but in 1856 the …

Review Of The Encyclopedia Of The Central West, David J. Wishart

Great Plains Quarterly

The objectives of this encyclopedia, as explained by the author in the introduction, are "to present the widest possible body of reference material on the Central West" and also "to offer a readable work, one to be dipped into for enjoyment as well as information" (5). There is no disputing the breadth of the coverage, which extends geographically from North Dakota to Texas and from Nebraska to western Colorado and topically from geology to tourism. Nor can it be denied that the entries are interesting. But conceptually the choice of area is open to dispute, and a close reading of …

Standing Traditions On Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples, Janet Mancini Billson

Great Plains Quarterly

The woman is the foundation on which nations are built.

She is the heart of her nation.

If that heart is weak the people are weak.

If her heart is strong and her mind is clear

then the nation is strong and knows its purpose.

The woman is the centre of everything.

But equally, women must honour men;

If not, then everything is out of balance

and we can have nothing but chaos and pain.

These are the first elements that must be

put back together

or nothing, but nothing

can come right again. ¹

Continuity And Change On The Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists Of South Dakota, 1921-71, James Marten

Great Plains Quarterly

When Gladys Leffler Gist remarked in her reminiscences that she and her husband Ray had witnessed "considerable 'for better and for worse'" during their forty years together, she could just as well have been describing the "marriage" between farmers and the agricultural economy during the same period. Depression and drought, of course, challenged those people making their livings from the land and in many ways dominated their impressions of those years. Of more long-term importance, however, were the "vast and fundamental changes" that, according to Gilbert Fite, stemmed from the "application of new technology, chemistry, and plant and animal sciences" …

Review Of Elmer Kelton And West Texas: A Literary Relationship., Lawrence Clayton

Great Plains Quarterly

The University of North Texas Press has launched a new series of criticaVbiographical studies of Texas writers and has started, appropriately, with one of the best novelists writing today-in Texas or elsewhere. Elmer Kelton has published twenty-seven novels interpreting the development of Texas from the beginning of settlement by Anglos to the present.

Review Of The Quartzite Border: Surveying And Marking The North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891- 1892, Ronald E. Grim

Great Plains Quarterly

The definition, surveying, and particularly the marking, with quartzite monuments, of the state boundary between North and South Dakota provide the major themes for this study. It is obvious that the author, who was born and raised in South Dakota and now teaches history in North Dakota, has a special fondness for these monuments. While the study will be of primary interest to North and South Dakota state and local history enthusiasts, the book will also interest political geographers and historians (as a case study in the establishment of two states and their boundary) and cartographic historians (as an example …

Review Of Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography And Checklist., Harvey L. Gunderson

Great Plains Quarterly

Oklahoma Mammalogy is a very thorough annotated bibliography and checklist for the rich mammal life of that state. Oklahoma has eastern, western, southern, and northern species and a varied topography, emphasized by the Wichita Mountains. Many mammalogists have studied and collected there.

Review Of Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays, George E. Wolf

Great Plains Quarterly

Writing Saskatchewan is the gleanings of a symposium celebrating the twentieth anniversary of the Saskatchewan Summer School of the Arts held at Fort San in the Qu' Appelle Valley near Regina in June of 1987. Focusing on poetry (the long poem as well as the lyric), the novel, drama, and linked sequences of short stories, these essays collectively suggest the striking richness, range, and vitality of creative writing in the central prairie province-writing that is anything but provincial.

Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, And The Great Plains: A Primer For Non-Geologists, R. F. Diffendal Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly

For most Americans, "The Great Plains" evokes images of grasslands, dust storms, prairie fires, Indians on horseback, cowboys and wheat lands, and perhaps flat valleys crossed by braided rivers carrying a heavy load of sand and gravel, extremes of weather, and a climate typified by an alternation of droughts and wetter periods. Geologists picture such general images, too, but they also see radical changes in the landscape over periods expressed in millions rather than hundreds of years. Geologically speaking, human activities on the Great Plains are too recent to have much of a place in the broad geologic history of …

Harriet Martineau (1802-1876), Michael R. Hill

Department of Sociology: Faculty Publications

Harriet Martineau authored the first systematic methodological treatise in sociology, conducted extended international comparative studies of social institutions, and translated Auguste Comte's Cours de philosophie positive into English, thus structurally facilitating the introduction of sociology and positivism into the United States. In her youth she was a professional writer who captured the popular English mind by wrapping social scientific instruction in a series of widely read short novels. In her maturity she was an astute sociological theorist, methodologist, and analyst of the first order. To the extent that any complex institutional phenomenon such as sociology can have identifiable founders, Alice …

Wpa News 31 (1991), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (January 1991), number 31

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Book Review: Modern Elementary Probability And Statistics, Douglas H. Johnson

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

This is an introductory textbook, "developed for, and class- tested in," first courses in elementary probability and/or statistics. The only prerequisite is high-school algebra. It has some nice features, but shortcomings in both substance and style detract from its value.