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Review Of Lizzie: The Letters Of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864- 1893,, Paula Petrik
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 …
Review Of Heaven Is Near The Rocky Mountains, Robin Ridington
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.
Review Of Son Of Old Jules: Memoirs Of Jules Sandoz, Jr., Barbara Wright Rippey
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.
Review Of From The Pecos To The Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography., Bob Ross
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 …
Review Of The Two Psychiatries: The Transformation Of Psychiatric Work In Saskatchewan, 1905-1984, Will Spaulding
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 …
Review Of Political Bossism In Mid-America: Tom Dennison's Omaha 1900-1933, Frederick M. Spletstoser
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 …
Review Of Great Plains Patchwork: A Memoir, Kathleene K. West
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.
Review Of The Selected Letters Of Frederick Manfred, 1932- 1954., Leslie Whipp
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.
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. …
Great Plains Quarterly: Table Of Contents Spring 1991 Vol. 11 No. 2
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
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.
Review Of Buffalo Bill And His Wild West: A Pictorial Biography., Richard W. Ethulain
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 …
Review Of A Life With The Union Pacific: The Autobiography Of Edd H. Bailey, H.Roger Grant
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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, …
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Review Of The Kiowa, Maurice Boyd
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.