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Review Of Western Oklahoma: A Photographic Essay Photographs By Daisy Decazes, Introduction And Text By William S. Banowsky, John E. Carter

Great Plains Quarterly

Over the last several decades the photographic essay has gained more respect and understanding among serious students of culture. Western Oklahoma: A Photographic Essay falls abysmally short of the powerful potential of this medium. The work consists of seventy-five photographs by Daisy Decazes, a Sorbonnetrained photographer, and a brief introduction by William S. Banowsky, past president of the University of Oklahoma. The work begins with Banowsky's introduction, a simplistic time line of human evolution in Oklahoma, beginning with the Native American people's life and attempt to hold the land, followed by the onslaught of rugged pioneers, and culminating in the …

Review Of Singing Cowboys And All That Jazz: A Short History Of Popular Music In Oklahoma By William W. Savage, Jr., Stephen Cox

Great Plains Quarterly

A monograph defined by state boundaries must begin (and may very well end) as an inventory- even if the scholar intends by careful study of the particular to make a contribution to wider human understanding, perhaps, or to explain the ways of a state to itself. Enthusiasts of six powerful genres of American music will recognize Oklahoma as an apt subject for an inventory of popular music. "Swing Low, Sweet Chariot" was first transcribed at a Choctaw boarding school in Oklahoma and sent to the Fisk Jubilee Singers in Nashville, Tennessee, who made it among the best known of black …

Review Of The Gate City: A History Of Omaha By Lawrence H. Larsen And Barbara J. Cottrell, Harl A. Dalstrom

Great Plains Quarterly

This work, the fourth volume in Pruett Publishing Company's Western Urban History Series, is a survey of the history of Omaha from its founding in 1853-1854 to 1980. It is the third general history of Omaha to be published since 1980 and is the first to give any relatively significant treatment to the city's history in the post-World War II era.

Larsen and Cottrell divide their narrative into ten chapters that cover five periods, each from twenty to thirty years. The narrative of fewer than three hundred pages, including a large number of photos, is synoptic and fast. paced, and …

Review Of Montana's Righteous Hangmen: The Vigilantes In Action By Lew L. Callaway, William L. Lang

Great Plains Quarterly

The image of a hastily gathered posse comitatus riding out of a fearfully paralyzed western town to administer swift and violent justice to a band of desperadoes is as firmly etched in the American mind as nearly any popular western scene. In one violent portrait, the remoteness of the frontier from civilization, the failure of established institutions, and the necessity of good men to protect their families and property are capsulized. The fascination with vigilantes is bred of the excitement of its violent solution and the inherent mystery behind it all. What drove men to take the law under their …

Review Of Wolves For The Blue Soldiers: Indian Scouts And Auxiliaries With The United States Army, 1860-1890 By Thomas W. Dunlay, Clyde A. Milner Ii

Great Plains Quarterly

Books on the U.S. military in the trans-Mississippi West abound. Yet surprisingly, no comprehensive study of the familiar but exotic Indian scouts has been published. Thomas W. Dunlay's work sets out to fill this void and is on the whole very successful. Dunlay approaches his subject in an analytic, thematic manner. He has a set of questions that frame the central chapters of his book. In general, he wants to understand why the U.S. military chose to include Indians in its western service and how these Indians were used. In addition, he seeks to understand the Indian point-of-view, the dynamics …

Review Of The Great Kansas Bond Scandal By Robert Smith Bader, Patrick G. O'Brien

Great Plains Quarterly

In 1933 Kansas was mired in the Great Depression, ravaged by the Dust Bowl, and afflicted by human cupidity. The biggest public scandal in Kansas history is the subject of this thorough and well-written monograph.

Ronald and Warren Finney, son and father, were the principal malefactors in the bond scandal. The state reverberated from the exposure of the "freewheeling, charismatic" Ronald's forging and deposit of bonds in the state treasury, brokerage houses, and banks to finance high living and business ventures. Even more disquieting was the knowledge of the culpability of his father, a respected, civic-spirited, influential businessman and banker …

Review Of The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico By David J. Weber, Ralph H. Vigil

Great Plains Quarterly

This amply illustrated, fully documented and well-organized study is essentially a synthesis "built mainly on the work of other scholars" (p. xxii). However, David J. Weber also makes use of archival sources and primary materials in this overview of the Mexican borderlands. Part of the Histories of the American Frontier Series, this account sheds new light on "a dark age in the historiography of the Southwest" and differs from prior studies in two ways. First, it attempts to place this period "squarely within its Mexican context, without minimizing the significant activities of Anglo Americans and other aliens." Second, "the region …

Review Of Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, And Gerald Vizenor By Alan R. Velie, Charles L. Woodard

Great Plains Quarterly

Some of today's best writing is by Native American authors. That fact is not as widely known as it should be for two reasons: the majority culture tends to compartmentalize writing by and about Native Americans as "Indian" literature, and the traditions out of which such writing comes are different in many respects from European traditions, causing it to be undervalued and/or misunderstood. There is a strong need for bridge building between literary cultures in this country, and an equally strong need to break down the tendency to restrict Native American literature to ethnic categories.

Alan R. Velie's Four American …

The Prairie Mermaid Love-Tests Of Pioneer Women, Robert H. Solomon

Great Plains Quarterly

In some fictional, historical, and autobiographical accounts of the lives of married women on the prairies of North America during the brief period between initial exploration and permanent settlement, there appears a rather widespread and complicated motif. In it the woman lives on an empty prairie, usually far from the edge of town; physically isolated with her husband, she is psychologically alone, too, and friendless, especially in terms of female companionship. Often her family is far away; always her husband is insensitive and unsympathetic, and, in general terms, unworthy of her devotion. Sometimes even before she is able to voice …

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Market Developments In 1983-84, Bruce B. Johnson, Ronald J. Hanson

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

Farm real estate values across Nebraska continued to decline even further during 1983 and into 1984. Nebraska farmland values have now trended downward for more than three and one-half consecutive years. For the year ending February 1, 1984, farmland values decreased more than 8 percent. Moreover, a special mid-year survey for 1984 indicates that the average land values have declined another 8 percent since February 1. Continued financial problems in the farming sector have forced many owners to put their land on the market. Coupled with little demand among potential buyers, this increased number of land tracts offered for sale …

Wpa News 5 (1984), World Pheasant Association

Galliformes Specialist Group and Affiliated Societies: Newsletters

WPA News (May 1984), number 5

Published by the World Pheasant Association

Review Of Lakota Society By James R. Walker, Herbert T. Hoover

Great Plains Quarterly

This volume contains a hodgepodge of personal writings and field notes by a physician who served at Pine Ridge Agency soon after the establishment of a reservation for Oglalas in western South Dakota. Without formal preparation, James R. Walker recorded (between 1896 and 1914) what he perceived from observations and collected from informants. Guided by published materials on the same general subject, Raymond DeMallie has strung them together on a thin editorial thread. Together, the meagerly trained researcher from a previous era and an anthropologist who has served on the faculty of Indiana University in recent years have produced a …

Closing The Circle The American Optimism Of Laura Ingalls Wilder, William Holtz

Great Plains Quarterly

It was the summer of 1894. Their wagon had halted where the ferry would take them across the Missouri River, while across the parched landscape they had just traversed, "covered wagons stood one beyond another in a long, long line." The woman spoke to the child at her side, '" That's your last sight of Dakota.''' At twenty seven, she had turned her back on Dakota and a failed homestead to set out for a new life in the Missouri Ozarks, leaving behind her own family and her husband's, in every way all she had ever known of home. Her …

Title And Contents -Spring 1984

Great Plains Quarterly

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY

SPRING 1984 VOL. 4 NO.2

CONTENTS

CLOSING THE CIRCLE: THE AMERICAN OPTIMISM OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER William Holtz

INDIAN MAPS: THEIR PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF PLAINS CARTOGRAPHY G. Malcolm Lewis

CARL SCHURZ AND THE INDIANS Hans L. Trefousse

THE BEGINNINGS OF WHEELED TRANSPORT IN WESTERN CANADA Barry Kaye and John Alwin

BOOK REVIEWS

With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s

Lakota Society

Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980

American Farm Tools: From Hand-Power to Steam-Power

NOTES & NEWS

Review Of Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan And The Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980 By Michael L. Lawson, Janet Mcdonnell

Great Plains Quarterly

Under the Pick-Sloan plan the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers constructed five mainstem dam projects that destroyed more than 550 square miles of tribal land in North Dakota and South Dakota. The projects wreaked havoc on five Sioux reservations: Standing Rock, Cheyenne River, Crow Creek, Lower Brule, and Yankton, Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980 chronicles the development and implementation of the plan and traces the events, personalities, and agencies involved.

The Pick-Sloan plan, formulated by Colonel Lewis A. Pick of the Army Corps of Engineers and William Glenn Sloan of the Bureau of Reclamation, …

The Beginnings Of Wheeled Transport In Western Canada, John Alwin, Barry Kaye

Great Plains Quarterly

Water transport has played a major part in the economic development of Canada. It has been claimed that a series of east-west water routes were essential to Canada's evolution as a transcontinental nation. The many connecting rivers and lakes formed the lines of least resistance through the environment, so that in most regions of Canada, water transport was almost invariably the earliest and most important form of transport. Land transport and land routes developed more slowly and thus played a secondary role in Canada's development prior to the beginning of large-scale agricultural settlement. However, there was one region, the prairie …

Indian Maps Their Place In The History Of Plains Cartography, G. Malcolm Lewis

Great Plains Quarterly

References to the maps and mapping activities of North American Indians have appeared in scholarly writings for approximately two hundred years and in contemporary accounts of discovery and exploration for more than four hundred years. The topic has received relatively little attention, however, from modern scholars. In view of the recent expansion of Indian studies in both Canada and the United States, this lack may at first seem surprising. In part it reflects the fact that there are relatively few extant examples of Indian maps because Indians and most whites have tended to treat them as ephemera, not for the …

Carl Schurz And The Indians, Hans L. Trefousse

Great Plains Quarterly

Carl Schurz's importance as an immigrant leader and ethnic politician is well documented; his efforts on behalf of civil service reform and anti-imperialism have often been commented upon. His role as an administrator, however, is less familiar but by no means insignificant. Because it contributed to the more rational treatment of native Americans and the conservation of natural resources, it deserves to be explored more fully.

In March 1877, when President Rutherford B. Hayes sent to the Senate his nomination of Carl Schurz for secretary of the interior, party regulars were outraged. "In the selection of Mr. Schurz as one …

Agricultural Education Department Academic Program Review: Self-Study Report

Department of Agricultural Leadership, Education, and Communication: Materials and History

Table of Contents:

Introduction

Program Goals and Rationale

Degree Structure

Basic Program Data

Curricular Change

Policies Related to Faculty

Faculty Responsibilities

Administration of the Program

Continuing Education Component

Faculty

Students

Program Resources

Areas in which the Program Excels

Areas in which the Program Needs Improvement

Program Development Strategies

Program Revisions on the Basis of Level or Increased Resources

Notes And News- Spring 1984

Great Plains Quarterly

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Review Of With Good Intentions: Quaker Work Among The Pawnees, Otos, And Omahas In The 1870s By Clyde A. Milner Ii, Robert H. Keller Jr.

Great Plains Quarterly

Early in 1869, President Ulysses S. Grant began his "Quaker Policy" by inviting the Society of Friends to take responsibility for the administration of Indian affairs in Nebraska, Kansas, and the Indian Territory. The Friends, by appointing superintendents, hiring all reservation employees, and operating mission schools, would replace a corrupt patronage system and at the same time help tribes accommodate to a new way of life. The federal government, for its part, would supply goods, money, and official endorsement. Clyde A. Milner investigates the results of this experiment on three small reservations in Nebraska.

Over the past twenty years historians …

Review Of American Farm Tools: From Hand-Power To Steam-Power By R. Douglas Hurt, Reynold M. Wik

Great Plains Quarterly

R. Douglas Hurt deals with the invention and development of American farm implements and machinery with a special emphasis on the nineteenth century. The material is organized around the functions of various agricultural machines used in the major grain-growing states. Ten chapters focus on the improvements made in plows, grain drills, corn planters, cultivators, reapers, binders, headers, corn binders, corn shellers, threshing machines, combined harvesters, mowing machines, hay stackers, feed mills, and steam traction engines.

The author decided to describe certain lines of farm equipment without trying to catalogue all agricultural tools, implements, and machines. Therefore the reader will not …

A Cross Sectional Analysis Of Agricultural Land Prices In Nebraska 1978-1982, Gordon L. Carriker, Charles E. Curtis, Bruce B. Johnson

Nebraska Farm Real Estate Reports

Land Value expectations are important to land owners, agricultural producers, lenders, governmental agencies, and other parties. Greater understanding of land values and the factors involved in their determination is therefore beneficial to the decision-making process.

The analysis of farmland values has been a major focus on the agricultural economics profession for several decades. Early research focused primarily on the measurement of the relationship of income levels to land values. In more recent years, econometric models have attempted to uncover additional economic factors which influence the value of farmland.

Econometric models have used many quantification techniques ranging from single-equation ordinary least …

Tarasoff, The Doctrine Of Special Relationships, And The Psychotherapist's Duty To Warn, Robert F. Schopp, Michael R. Quattrocchi

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The California Supreme Court, in its controversial Tarasoff decision, ruled that a psychotherapist may be found negligent when he fails to prevent his patient from harming someone.

When a therapist determines, or pursuant to the standards of his profession should determine, that his patient presents a serious danger of violence to another, he incurs an obligation to use reasonable care to protect the intended victim against such danger. The discharge of this duty may require the therapist to take one or more of various steps, depending on the nature of the case. Thus it may call for him to warn …

Section 547(C)(1) And Delayed Perfection Of Security Interests In The Ninth Circuit: In Re Vance, 721 F.2d 259 (9th Cir. 1983), Richard F. Duncan

Nebraska College of Law: Faculty Publications

The Bankruptcy Reform Act's treatment of belatedly perfected security interests in personal property is enigmatic, because it attempts to employ preference law to avoid a class of transfers, so-called "secret liens," that are not true preferences. When a security interest is granted in exchange for contemporaneous value, preference policy in bankruptcy is not offended, because the transaction does not cause a depletion of the debtor's estate for the benefit of a particular creditor. However, the effect of the timing rules of section 547(e) of the Bankruptcy Reform Act is to treat most security interests perfected during the preference period and …

Vespinae (Insecta: Hymenoptera) Aus Der Mongolei, Regine Eck

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Von 1974-1979 wurden 273 Vespinae gesammelt, die 8 Arten angehören: Dolichovespula norwegica, D. saxonica, D adulterina, D. sylvestris, D. asiatica, Vespula vulgaris, V. gennanica, V . rufa.

Zur Blattanatomie Einiger Stipa-Arten, Z. Schamsran, Č. Žargalceceg

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Ковыли являются широко распространенными эдификаторами растительных соо бществ Монголии и входят в состав кормовых трав пастбищных животных (А . А. Юна.тов, 1954). В. И. Грубов, 1955 различ а ет 10 видов ковыля на территории МНР.

Определе ние видов ковыля, особенно в нецветущем состоянии, встречается с некоторыми трудностями.

Мы попытались выяснить некоторых отличий в анатомических строениях листа у некоторых видов ковыля, что облегчило бы выяснению дополнительного критерия в их определении.

Анатомическое строение листьев при поперечном разрезе у исследованных видов ковыля в общих чертах сходно с таковыми у европейских.

Мы рассмотрили нек о торы е особ енности ан а томического строения листье …

Zur Verbreitung Und Chemie Von Flechten Der Mongolischen Volksrepublik, Siegfried Huneck, Josef Poelt, Teuvo Ahti, Orvo Vitikainen, Ulzijn Cogt

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Für das Gebiet der MVR werden Fundpunkte von 102 Flechtenart;en mitgeteilt. Davon sind 11 Arten neu für die MVR. 21 Arten wurden chemisch analysiert.

На территории МНР были собраны на разных местах 102 вида лижайников. Из них 11 вид является нозыми для МНР и для 21 вида проводился химический анализ.

Die Mongoleisammlung Im Herbarium Der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, Werner Hilbig

Erforschung biologischer Ressourcen der Mongolei / Exploration into the Biological Resources of Mongolia, ISSN 0440-1298

Das Herbarium der Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg besitzt eine umfangreiche Sammlung von Pflanzen aus der Mongolei. Das im wesentlichen während gemeinsamer deutsch-mongolischer biologischer Expeditionen gesammelte Material liegt als selbständige Sammlung vor. Sie enthält ca. 8000 Bögen höherer Pflanzen und umfaßt ca. 1300 determinierte Arten. Ein bedeutender Teil wurde von Spezialisten bestimmt. Umfangreich sind auch die Aufsammlungen von Flechten und Moosen , geringer die von Pilzen. Es konnten hierbei wie bei den höheren Pflanzen zahlreiche Erstnachweise erbracht werden.

In der Hauptsammlung des Herbariums sind Herbarbelege v on Pflanzen des mongolischen und südsibirischen Raumes aus dem 19. Jahrhundert enthalten, z. T. von A . …

Mapping The North American Plains An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton

Great Plains Quarterly

Exploration, no matter how scientifically oriented or technologically involved, has been popularly viewed as mostly romantic adventure. From Renaissance mariners to "right stuff" astronauts, explorers have been remembered more for their experiences than for their accomplishments. Partly to correct this notion, the Center for Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln sponsored the symposium Mapping the North American Plains in April 1983, to show achievements in cartography on the North American plains from earliest times to the present. Twelve speakers from the United States, Canada, and England presented addresses on a variety of topics within the theme. Four of …