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Review Of Mennonite Names/Mennonitische Namen, Reuben Goertz
Review Of Mennonite Names/Mennonitische Namen, Reuben Goertz
Great Plains Quarterly
Do not let the bilingual title frighten you away from this book. With the exception of the picture titles and the bibliography of the East German Commission of Cultural Research, everything that is written in German has the English translation alongside. The chapter on nicknames may lose a little of its subtle humor in the translation, but English readers will still enjoy the origins and meanings of the many nicknames listed.
Review Of A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience Of A Swedish Immigrant Settlement In The Upper Middle West, 1835-1915, Niel M. Johnson
Review Of A Community Transplanted: The Trans-Atlantic Experience Of A Swedish Immigrant Settlement In The Upper Middle West, 1835-1915, Niel M. Johnson
Great Plains Quarterly
Robert Ostergren's A Community Transplanted is something of a smorgasbord, with a meaty main course. Ostergren has drawn concepts and methodology from various social science disciplines, which perhaps limits his readership. But the book does break new ground in the extent to which it measures, correlates, and evaluates a great number of socio-economic variables in the lives of hundreds of immigrants from a Swedish parish in the 1880s.
Corporate Point Men And The Creation Of The Montana Central Railroad, 1882-87, William L. Lang
Corporate Point Men And The Creation Of The Montana Central Railroad, 1882-87, William L. Lang
Great Plains Quarterly
On 21 November 1887, a crowd jammed Ming's Opera House in Helena, Montana, to celebrate the completion of the Montana Central Railway, a branch line of the St. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway. Sharing the Opera House stage that day were railroad executives and managers from the East, Montana politicians, and local businessmen. Their reason for celebration was three-fold. First, because Montalaans had struggled for more than a decade to get rail connections, sometimes nearly making unwise and unnecessary deals with railroad corporations, getting a railroad to build through Montana was cause for celebration.Second, the Montana Central brought with it …
Review Of Blossoms Of The Prairie: The History Of The Danish Lutheran Churches In Nebraska, George R. Nielsen
Review Of Blossoms Of The Prairie: The History Of The Danish Lutheran Churches In Nebraska, George R. Nielsen
Great Plains Quarterly
Blossoms of the Prairie is grassroots history at its best. The volume fairly exudes energy, enthusiasm, dedication, and untold hours of painstaking work. It is a harvest of information gleaned from both Danish and English sources.
Review Of Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet, George A. Schultz
Review Of Kenekuk: The Kickapoo Prophet, George A. Schultz
Great Plains Quarterly
Increasingly historians who write about leadership in the American Indian resistance movements argue that the typical leader was not the standard war chief. R. David Edmunds in his books on the Shawnee brothers Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa focuses not on their military acumen but on their unique diplomatic and political skills. Similarly, Joseph B. Herring's biography of Kenekuk, the Kickapoo prophet, reveals a rare blend of leadership skills that Kenekuk employed to unite the Vermillion band, first in Illinois and then in Kansas. Using a variety of stratagems, Kenekuk, sometimes with reason and other times with bluster, fenced with politicians and …
Review Of A Stranger In Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher And The American Indians, John R. Wunder
Review Of A Stranger In Her Native Land: Alice Fletcher And The American Indians, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly
This is the best written biography I have read in many years. A beautifully crafted book, it is a comprehensive picture and excellent scholarly treatment of a most unpleasant person, a person one can have little sympathy for in today's world. And yet, to the credit of the author, one comes away from this work having a much greater understanding of Alice Fletcher and a more balanced view of the meaning of her work.
The Long Winter: An Introduction To Western Womanhood, Ann Romines
The Long Winter: An Introduction To Western Womanhood, Ann Romines
Great Plains Quarterly
In many ways, The Long Winter is the central volume in Laura Ingalls Wilder's extraordinary sequence of seven Little House books. 1 It is the most intense and dangerous of the novels, and it covers the shortest span of time, a single legendary seven-month winter. The Ingalls family has made its fullest commitment yet to one spot on the Dakota prairie. Although Pa yearns to start again in Oregon, Ma insists that they settle so the daughters can "get some schooling." Laura, the autobiographical protagonist, is approaching adulthood. This book, darkest of the series, does indeed provide her with powerful …
Review Of South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., To Oscar Howe And Over A Century Of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial & State Governors, Gilbert C. Fite
Review Of South Dakota Leaders: From Pierre Choteau, Jr., To Oscar Howe And Over A Century Of Leadership: South Dakota Territorial & State Governors, Gilbert C. Fite
Great Plains Quarterly
Special events in the history of a state have customarily stimulated an unusual variety of commemorative writings. Such is the case with the books under review, both of which grew out of South Dakota's centennial in 1989. Moreover, both books deal with one theme-leadership. One concentrates on political leadership while the other includes a broader representation.
Homestead On The Range: The Emergence Of Community In Eastern Montana, 1900-1925, Rex C. Myers
Homestead On The Range: The Emergence Of Community In Eastern Montana, 1900-1925, Rex C. Myers
Great Plains Quarterly
Mary Tanner saw homesteading as "a togetherness" learned from neighbors. 1 In 1915 she and thirty-two families shared that togetherness at Round Butte, Dawson County, Montana, clustered around a school and post office that bore the same name. Neighbors got together and threshed grain, raised barns, or brought in crops for neighbors "laid up" by accident or illness. That same cooperative effort extended to the formation of the Round Butte school and post office, to community social organizations, and ultimately to the creation of a new county, Garfield, in 1919.
Owen Wister : Wyoming's Influential Realist And Craftsman, Leslie T. Whipp
Owen Wister : Wyoming's Influential Realist And Craftsman, Leslie T. Whipp
Great Plains Quarterly
On 8 July 1885, while on his first visit to Wyoming, Owen Wister wrote in his journal, "This existence is heavenly in its monotony and sweetness. Wish I were going to do it every summer. I'm beginning to be able to feel I'm something of an animal and not a stinking brain alone. "1 Wister was being very candid and very appreciative in this statement of just how much Wyoming had done for him, but Wyoming was to be more fortunate and significant for him than he knew. Wyoming's affirmation of the animal in Owen Wister proved to have …
Review Of We Fed Them Cactus, Felix D. Almaraz
Review Of We Fed Them Cactus, Felix D. Almaraz
Great Plains Quarterly
Concerned about a lack of recorded history of her family's contributions to the settlement of eastern New Mexico, Fabiola Cabeza de Baca in the 1940s began to compile data for a book that would focus on the cultural values of Hispanics who grazed their livestock on the high plains of the Texas Panhandle. Relying on oral traditions of family members, friends, and acquaintances, Dona Fabiola reinforced the narrative with occasional references to archival documents.
Notes And News For Vol.10 No.2
The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond The Boederlands: The Case Of El Cosmopolita, 1914-19, Michael M. Smith
The Mexican Immigrant Press Beyond The Boederlands: The Case Of El Cosmopolita, 1914-19, Michael M. Smith
Great Plains Quarterly
During the first three decades of the twentieth century, a variety of factors-overpopulation, endemic poverty, inflation, stagnant wages, peonage, and, especially, the Mexican Revolution of 191O-drove hundreds of thousands of Mexicans from their homeland and into the United States. Although most of these migrants settled in the contiguous southwestern American states, tens of thousands proceeded north into the Great Plains and the Midwest, establishing dozens of colonias (settlements) in railroad centers, mining camps, industrial districts, and agricultural encampments. From 1900 until the Great Depression, the creation of these cultural islands of Mexican immigrants in such places as Oklahoma City, Kansas …
Review Of Views From The Apache Frontier: Report On The Northern Provinces Of New Spain, Ralph H. Vigil
Review Of Views From The Apache Frontier: Report On The Northern Provinces Of New Spain, Ralph H. Vigil
Great Plains Quarterly
This report on the northern provinces of New Spain was written in 1799 by Jose Maria Cortes, a lieutenant in the Royal Corps of Engineers.Cortes, an intelligent and keen observer, relied on personal observations and archival research to describe the Apaches and other Indian groups of the trans-Mississippi West.
Review Of Remote Beyond Compare: Letters Of Don Diego De Vargas To His Family From New Spain And New Mexico, 1675-1706, David J. Weber
Review Of Remote Beyond Compare: Letters Of Don Diego De Vargas To His Family From New Spain And New Mexico, 1675-1706, David J. Weber
Great Plains Quarterly
"Spain was but a stepmother to me, for she banished me to seek my fortune in strange lands" (130-31). Thus Diego de Vargas, a member of the untitled nobility, explained why he had set out for the Indies at age twenty-eight, leaving his wife and four children behind in Madrid. Thirty-two years later when Vargas died while on campaign against Apaches in New Mexico, he had not made his fortune nor returned to Madrid as planned. He had won fame, however, in New Mexico and New Spain. For his intrepid leadership of the reconquest of New Mexico following the stunning …
Review Of The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy And War, 1790- 1870., James Dempsey
Review Of The Plains Cree: Trade, Diplomacy And War, 1790- 1870., James Dempsey
Great Plains Quarterly
John Milloy's examination of the Plains Cree fits in with the growing concern for presenting histories that are not based on the European perspective but focus on events and issues relevant to a particular group's past. Although he is not a native, Milloy's portrayal of the Plains Cree's political and economic relations with neighboring tribes is a good example of how a "native" perspective can give new insight into historical events. For example, he points out that while the Red River area is important to fur trade historians, at other places in the West "significant events were occurring in the …
Review Of New Directions In American Indian History, Michael Eastin
Review Of New Directions In American Indian History, Michael Eastin
Great Plains Quarterly
This appropriately titled collection of essays is the first volume of a continuing bibliographic series intended to supplement earlier bibliographies and further assist American Indian historians, especially newcomers to the field, in determining the relative merit of the hundreds of new publications concerning American Indians becoming available annually.
Review Of Raising Less Com And More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out, Deborah Fink
Review Of Raising Less Com And More Hell: Midwestern Farmers Speak Out, Deborah Fink
Great Plains Quarterly
Raising Less Corn and More Hell will be inspiring reading for the political advocates organized around the Save the Family Farm Act; others will find insights on the symbols and themes that lie behind a highly visible rural movement of the 1980s. The bulk of the book, consisting of excerpts of interviews with fortytwo farmers and nonfarmers, mostly from Iowa and bordering states, gives vivid personal stories of the hard times of the 1980s. Pictures of many of the persons, set in the context of their daily work, help us to hear and understand the messages.
Review Of Route 66: The Highway And Its People, Richard P. Horwitz
Review Of Route 66: The Highway And Its People, Richard P. Horwitz
Great Plains Quarterly
Quinta Scott and Susan Croce Kelly have crafted an affectionate contribution to the mythology of Route 66, the U. S. highway stretching from Chicago to Los Angeles. Kelly's eight chapters provide a detailed, illustrated chronology of the highway, from its "birth" in the 1920s through its decommission in 1985. The narrative cruises from humble beginnings and heroic visions, through hard times, to jubilation and inevitable decline. This saga frames the series of documentary photographs by Scott who features crisp views of roadside relics, cafes, and billboards from the route's golden age, and textured portraits of their aging owners. Both photographs …
Review Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Frederick E. Hoxie
Review Of D'Arcy Mcnickle, Frederick E. Hoxie
Great Plains Quarterly
This contribution to the Boise State University Western Writers Series is slightly more than fifty pages long, but it represents the fullest presentation of D'Arcy McNickle's life and work available in print. While two recent American doctoral dissertations (by Birgit Hans, English, University of Arizona; and Dorothy Parker, History, University of New Mexico) work their way toward publication as books and articles, this will stand as the handiest guide to the man and his work.
Review Of Folklife Annual 1987, Lynn M. Ireland
Review Of Folklife Annual 1987, Lynn M. Ireland
Great Plains Quarterly
Those of us disheartened by what seems to be an ever-increasing homogenization of American culture will find solace and hope in the pages of this attractive, well-designed book. Produced by the American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress, the Folklife Annual celebrates "the fact of our national diversity." Great Plains readers will be encouraged to discover a number of pieces directly related to this region.
Review Of Historical Atlas Of Kansas, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of Historical Atlas Of Kansas, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
The University of Oklahoma Press, which has published a series of state historical atlases, has now issued a revision of its Kansas atlas, first published in 1972. The authors, historian Homer Socolofsky and geographer Huber Self, have updated their earlier work on the basis of 1984 state and federal government estimates.
Review Of Ernest Haycox, Jon Nelson
Review Of Ernest Haycox, Jon Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly
It can be posited that each western author has written at least one memorable short story or novel. Ernest Haycox, the subject of this pamphlet in the Boise State University series on western fiction, is best remembered for his short story "Stage to Lordsburg" that John Ford made into the classic film Stagecoach in 1939 with John Wayne and Claire Trevor. Since then the story has been refilmed twice, once by Gordon Douglas in 1966 with Bing Crosby and Ann Margaret, and again in 1988 for television with Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash.
Notes And News For Vol.10 No.3
Review Of The American West In Film: Critical Approaches To The Western, Terry Nygren
Review Of The American West In Film: Critical Approaches To The Western, Terry Nygren
Great Plains Quarterly
German filmmaker Fritz Lang once observed that the Western is to America what the Niebelungen Saga is to Germany. Set during a relatively brief period in American history, the Western genre mythologized America's confrontation with a vast frontier. Themes center on the conflict between savagery and civilization, community and the rugged individual, lawlessness and social order. Many critics have argued that the Western is primarily a vehicle for American imperialist ideology, and thus, only peripherally about the historical settlement of the West.
Review Of John Graves, Amil Quayle
Review Of John Graves, Amil Quayle
Great Plains Quarterly
John Graves wrote that human beings do not deserve the bald eagle. Given our record on this planet it might also be said that we do not deserve the grizzly bear, the timber wolf, the snail darter, and the hundreds of other species that we have annihilated or would annihilate. What seems more evident is that they don't deserve us. Dorys Crow Grover has captured the essence of this in her penetrating work on John Graves.
Review Of Lakota Storytelling: Black Elk, Ella Deloria, And Frank Fools Crow, Thomas F. Schilz
Review Of Lakota Storytelling: Black Elk, Ella Deloria, And Frank Fools Crow, Thomas F. Schilz
Great Plains Quarterly
The reciting of oral traditions, or storytelling, is the oldest form of human literary achievement. But because time changes everything, including oral traditions, human societies finally are forced to put their stories into written form to preserve them for posterity.
Review Of Kaw Valley Landscapes, Huber Self
Review Of Kaw Valley Landscapes, Huber Self
Great Plains Quarterly
This revised edition describes views a tourist might see when circling the Kansas or Kaw River valley from Kansas City on the north, westward to Wamego in Pottawatomie County and from Alma in Wabaunsee County, south of the river, back to Kansas City.
Review Of Hasinai: A Traditional History Of The Caddo Confederacy, Dee Ann Story
Review Of Hasinai: A Traditional History Of The Caddo Confederacy, Dee Ann Story
Great Plains Quarterly
This slender but far ranging volume presents the modem Hasinai Caddo view of their origin and traditional lifeways. It is based primarily on oral traditions and secondarily on published and archival material. The information culled from these sources is woven into a framework of twelve chapters, each of which is introduced by a description of a dance. All but one of the dances make up a night's cycle of ceremonial song and dance that reenact the tribal history.
Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Michael L. Tate
Review Of Cavalier In Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer And The Western Military Frontier, Michael L. Tate
Great Plains Quarterly
More than a century has elapsed since George Armstrong Custer led his command into a military disaster on the hills above the Little Big Horn River. Yet public fascination with this man and his immortalized "Last Stand" has never waned as each new generation hungers for definitive explanations of his enigmatic life.