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Notes And News For Vol.13 No.4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1993 Vol. 13 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Fall 1993 Vol. 13 No. 4
Great Plains Quarterly
No abstract provided.
Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom
Review Of The Changing Image Of The City: Planning For Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973, Harl A. Dalstrom
Great Plains Quarterly
The title of this book is a fine indicator of its essential theme, for this is the story of how the prevailing images of Omaha determined the objectives of city planning. From 1945 to 1973, Omaha's economy changed fundamentally, and this reality eventually changed how local decision- makers perceived their community. These new perceptions finally brought a new orientation in planning for the heart of the city
Review Of Aboriginal Water Rights In Canada: A Study Of Aboriginal Title To Water And Indian Rights, Theron Josephson
Review Of Aboriginal Water Rights In Canada: A Study Of Aboriginal Title To Water And Indian Rights, Theron Josephson
Great Plains Quarterly
This study is one of a series sponsored by the Canadian Institute for Natural Resource Law. Written by Richard Bartlett of the College of Law at the University of Saskatchewan, it is first and foremost a discourse on the current legal status of water rights of Canada's aboriginal peoples.
Review Of Groundwater Exploitation In The High Plains And Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On The Trail Of The Corn Belt Farmer, 1909, Sam Kepfield
Great Plains Quarterly
David Kromm and Stephen White, both professors of geography at Kansas State University and experts on water use in the West, have gathered pieces by water experts. The result, Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains, is a first-rate exploration of the methods and problems of groundwater utilization in the Ogallala Aquifer and the states overlying it-Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, Texas, and New Mexico.
Review Of Nebraska Moments: Glimpses Of Nebraska's Past, Micheal W. Schuyler
Review Of Nebraska Moments: Glimpses Of Nebraska's Past, Micheal W. Schuyler
Great Plains Quarterly
Nebraska Moments, by Donald Hickey, professor of history at Wayne State College in Nebraska, is a collection of thirty-nine essays about the state's past. The essays, which range in length from six to twelve pages, discuss personalities, institutions, places, and events that have shaped the state's history. Biographical sketches of such political figures as David Butler (Nebraska's first Governor), J. Sterling Morton, William Jennings Bryan, and George W. Norris; western and military heroes such as Buffalo Bill Cody and John J. Pershing; Native Americans such as Red Cloud and Standing Bear; and intellectual figures such as Louise Pound, Willa …
An American Heart Of Darkness: The 1913 Expedition For American Indian Citizenship, Russel Lawrence Barsh
An American Heart Of Darkness: The 1913 Expedition For American Indian Citizenship, Russel Lawrence Barsh
Great Plains Quarterly
In his pungent essay on Conrad's Heart of Darkness, Chinua Achebe explores Europeans' literary use of African stereotypes to work out their own psycho-social dilemmas.1 The journey into Africa was in reality a journey inside the confused souls of explorers and missionaries who sometimes found salvation there but never saw, heard, or found the Africans. The Africans they imagined were only a dark reflection of themselves.
How Far West Am I?: The Almanac As An Explorer's Yardstick, Arlen J. Large
How Far West Am I?: The Almanac As An Explorer's Yardstick, Arlen J. Large
Great Plains Quarterly
On 14 September 1494, three ships from Spain lay anchored at the southeastern tip of Hispaniola. Their admiral, Christopher Columbus, looked up at a full moon expecting something to happen, and it did.
Exploring The Great Plains: An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton
Exploring The Great Plains: An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton
Great Plains Quarterly
The essays presented in this issue of the Great Plains Quarterly were originally delivered at the sixteenth annual symposium of the Center for Great Plains Studies, at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, in April 1992, under the title, "American Encounters: Exploring the Great Plains." Other essays from the conference will appear in future issues of the Quarterly and in Great Plains Research.
Exploring The Explorers: Great Plains Peoples And The Lewis And Clark Expedition, James P. Ronda
Exploring The Explorers: Great Plains Peoples And The Lewis And Clark Expedition, James P. Ronda
Great Plains Quarterly
There are few stories that seem more commonplace than the narrative of the exploration of the American West. It is the stock-in-trade of countless textbooks, classroom lectures, and popular novels. In the traditional telling, European and American adventurers are the actors at center stage while Native Americans stand silently in the wings or have bit parts.
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1993 Vol. 13 No. 2
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No abstract provided.
Review Of The Range, Don Gayton
Review Of The Range, Don Gayton
Great Plains Quarterly
"Range" is one of those consciously undefined words in our language. Rather than generating a single image, it produces many, from cowboys to science to art. Rancher/writer Sherm Ewing has put together a book that reinforces the complexity of range as a concept, as a field for economic activity, and as a subject of scientific inquiry.
Review Of A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company And Two Centuries Of Mapping, 1670- 1870., Paul Hackett
Review Of A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company And Two Centuries Of Mapping, 1670- 1870., Paul Hackett
Great Plains Quarterly
In recent years scholars have sought out the records of the Hudson's Bay Company (HBC) as excellent primary sources for Canadian historical research. The vast majority of this attention has been focused on the company's immense body of written documents, the product of its fur trading activities. In addition to its role in the fur trade, however, the HBC also made a critical contribution to the exploration and mapping of much of Canada prior to 1870 and has left an impressive cartographic legacy. Until now the full value of this aspect of the HBC's activities has been largely overlooked. With …
Review Of Settlers' Children: Growing Up On The Great Plains, Paula M. Nelson
Review Of Settlers' Children: Growing Up On The Great Plains, Paula M. Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly
Elizabeth Hampsten wrote Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains to answer some basic questions about the lives of children during the settlement era in North Dakota (with a few examples added from South Dakota and northwestern Minnesota). "What was it like for children in the first years of settlement ... what did they think of their childhood?" (p. 3) she asks. To provide the answers she examines memoirs and other autobiographical materials written by people who were children on the Plains and also examines the writings of some plains mothers who detailed the lives of their children. Most …
Review Of Populism: Its Rise And Fall., Homer E. Socolofsky
Review Of Populism: Its Rise And Fall., Homer E. Socolofsky
Great Plains Quarterly
William Alfred Peffer, from Kansas, the first Peoples Party United States Senator, wrote this analysis of Populism for the Chicago Tribune in 1899 where it was published as a series and forgotten. Almost a century later its republication establishes it as an anti-fusion insider's view of what happened to the Populist Party. Editor Peter Argersinger is the author of Populism and Politics: William Alfred Peffer and the Peoples Party and a professor of history at University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Review Of Prairyerth (A Deep Map)., Joseph J. Wydeven
Review Of Prairyerth (A Deep Map)., Joseph J. Wydeven
Great Plains Quarterly
This is a splendid book, ambitiously and selfconsciously American, at once contemporary and a throwback to the American Renaissance, calling up Thoreau's travels in Concord and inquiries into nature, as well as hints of Melville's metaphysical grapplings. Whereas in his first book, Blue Highways, William Least Heat-Moon moved up across American landscapes, here in Prairy Erth he stays put: in Chase County, Kansas, close to the center of America, he sinks down his probes, immerses himself in reports and archives, and holds discourse with all manner of persons, animals, plants, and things.
Categories And Terrains Of Exclusion: Constructing The "Indian Woman" In The Early Settlement Era In Western Canada, Sarah Carter
Categories And Terrains Of Exclusion: Constructing The "Indian Woman" In The Early Settlement Era In Western Canada, Sarah Carter
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1884 Mary E. Inderwick wrote to her Ontario family from the ranch near Pincher Creek, Alberta, where she had lived with her new husband for six months. 1 The letter provides a perspective on the stratifications of race, gender, and class that were forming as the Euro-Canadian enclave grew in the district of Alberta. Mary Inderwick lamented that it was a lonely life, as she was twenty-two miles from any other women, and she even offered to help some of the men near them to "get their shacks done up if only they will go east and marry some …
The North Dakota Anit-Garb Law: Constitutional Conflictand Religious Strife, Linda Grathwohl
The North Dakota Anit-Garb Law: Constitutional Conflictand Religious Strife, Linda Grathwohl
Great Plains Quarterly
In a little known but apparently not uncommon practice in twentieth-century American education, public school systems across the nation, lacking teachers or money, employed Catholic nuns as teachers. Those opposed to employing sisters as teachers challenged their right to wear their habit, or religious garb, while teaching in a public school. 1 This paper provides the constitutional and religious background to this legal controversy and explores the issues in depth through a case study of sisters teaching in the state of North Dakota from the 1930s to the early 1960s.
Review Of Wyoming Biographies, Susan H. Swetnam
Review Of Wyoming Biographies, Susan H. Swetnam
Great Plains Quarterly
Wyoming Biographies is a biographical dictionary (with a chatty introduction chronicling the settlement of Wyoming) that compiles in alphabetical order life sketches of approximately 265 pioneer citizens. Lawrence M. Woods has collated information from a variety of sources, drawing on contemporary subscription biographies, on more recently written histories, on biographies and memoirs of individuals, on reference works, and on miscellaneous materials (personal conversations and letters, materials in the Wyoming Historical Society collection, etc.). The content of entries varies, but most list the subject's date and place of birth, date of migration to Wyoming, occupation, and government offices.
The Farm Policy Debate Of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction To The Brannan Plan, Virgil W. Dean
The Farm Policy Debate Of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction To The Brannan Plan, Virgil W. Dean
Great Plains Quarterly
A storm of controversy arose in April 1949 when Secretary of Agriculture Charles F. Brannan unveiled the Truman administration's postwar policy for agriculture. The most controversial aspect of the so-called Brannan plan was its production payments feature, a direct, undisguised farm subsidy designed to bring relief to producers and consumers alike. Other aspects of the complex plan also elicited both praise and blame, but disagreements during this fractious time were not limited to farm questions. In a year of apparent victories for the world's communist monolith, spy trials, and labor unrest, discussions of farm policy on the Great Plains and …
The Drama Of Law In Nebraska State Capitol: Scupture And Inscription, Robert Haller
The Drama Of Law In Nebraska State Capitol: Scupture And Inscription, Robert Haller
Great Plains Quarterly
Drama is the quality that Hartley Burr Alexander, the "thematic consultant" for the Nebraska State Capitol, admired in the sculpture of his time. In his role as consultant, Alexander fused the ideas of the building's architect, Bertram Goodhue, and its sculptor, Lee Lawrie, into a sustained programmatic interpretation of society and law. This paper discusses the significance and the development of the twenty-one Lawrie sculptural panels around the cornices of the Capitol that illustrate the "Development of Law."1
Review Of Roadside Geology Of Texas, David B. Loope
Review Of Roadside Geology Of Texas, David B. Loope
Great Plains Quarterly
The 74,000 miles of paved roads in Texas cross landscapes and geologic structure of tremendous variety. With its abundant photographs and interpretive sketches, this book gives the traveler an excellent opportunity to understand and appreciate both the grand and the more subtle features visible along the Texas highways. Texas is considerably more geologically diverse than the other plains states, and this is not just a simple function of its greater size. Many of North American's greatest geologic sites are there: Llano (granite), Terlingua (volcanics), Marathon (fold and thrust belt), Glass Mountains {invertebrate fossils}, and Paluxy River (dinosaur tracks). Why so …
Review Of War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, Mark Mattern
Review Of War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance, Mark Mattern
Great Plains Quarterly
Powers' stated goal in this book is to "provide some background, including the history, the continuity, and the change" that he has witnessed in American Indian culture from the perspective of musical performance over the last thirty to forty years. He has easily succeeded in this task. As an observer and participant in Indian song and dance since 1947 as an eighth grader, Powers knows his material. He writes from the vantage point of a veteran surveying his field, offering description and analysis of it.
Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Custer's Last: Campaign: Mitch Boyer And The Little Bighorn Reconstructed, And The Great Sioux War 1876-77: The Best From "Montana The Magazine Of Western History.", John D. Mcdermott
Great Plains Quarterly
During the past six years, scholars have produced a wealth of research and analysis concerning the Sioux Campaign of 1876 and its centerpiece, George Armstrong Custer. Among its flowerings are Cavalier in Buckskin, indisputably the best biography ever written on the junior commander of the Seventh Cavalry, and Custer's Last Campaign, probably the best synthesis of the voluminous testimony concerning what happened on the way to Last Stand. In addition, we now have available a selection of articles on the Sioux War of 1876-1877 published in Montana Magazine over the years, with an introductory essay by Paul Hedren that …
Review Of John Rollin Ridge: His Life & Works, Kevin Mullroy
Review Of John Rollin Ridge: His Life & Works, Kevin Mullroy
Great Plains Quarterly
James Parins has produced the first booklength study of John Rollin Ridge, the mixedblood Cherokee writer and California newspaper editor. Ridge (1827 -67) packed a great deal into his relatively short life and certainly deserves a biography. He grew up during the violent years of Cherokee removal and postremoval factionalism; when only twelve, he saw his father assassinated; he later killed an enemy and fled to California to become a forty-niner; and he became well-known as a poet, editor, and political commentator. Ridge is best remembered as the author of The Life and Adventures of Joaquin Murieta, the Celebrated California …
Review Of Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks: The Spanish Missions Of New Mexico, Ralph H. Vigil
Review Of Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks: The Spanish Missions Of New Mexico, Ralph H. Vigil
Great Plains Quarterly
This book is volume 18 of the Spanish Borderlands Source books series. It forms part of a two-volume collection of writings about the missions of New Mexico before and after the Pueblo Revolt of 1680. The editors note that volumes 17 and 18 both contain "selected articles, excerpts from longer works, and printed mission documents" (p. xiii).
Review Of American Indians And World War Ii, John R. Wunder
Review Of American Indians And World War Ii, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly
World War II left thousands of lives over much of the world fundamentally changed. Thus, it is not too surprising to find that Native Americans were also profoundly touched by the war and its aftermath. Alison R. Bernstein develops and proves this theme in her well written book that fills the void between the several studies of the Indian New Deal and recent works considering the termination movement of the 1950s.
Willa Cather's Women: Gender, Place, And Narrativity In O Pioneers! And My Antonia, David Laird
Willa Cather's Women: Gender, Place, And Narrativity In O Pioneers! And My Antonia, David Laird
Great Plains Quarterly
In a dissertation submitted to the Department of Rhetoric and Oratory at the University of Wisconsin in 1895, Zona Gale argued that American writers were a timid lot, lacking originality and unwilling or unable to see what was happening around them, the harsher truths of a social reality. They drew their material from art rather than from nature, books rather than life. "They had," she said, "all drawn from the same sources, imitated the same models and had not won their material so much from men as from books. "1 Like Zona Gale, Willa Cather was critical of writers …
Frontier Solons: Nebraska's Territorial Lawmaker, 1854-1867, James B. Potts
Frontier Solons: Nebraska's Territorial Lawmaker, 1854-1867, James B. Potts
Great Plains Quarterly
In the thirty-seven years since Earl Pomeroy maintained that the political history of the midnineteenth century American West needed "further study and clarification," Howard R. Lamar, Lewis Gould, Clark Spence, and other specialists have produced detailed studies of politicallife in the western territories. Their works have shed light on the everyday workings and failures of the American territorial system and have elucidated the distinctive political and economic conditions that shaped local institutions in Dakota, Wyoming, and other western regions and influenced what Kenneth Owens has labelled "the pattern and structure of western politics."1