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Plains Song: Wright Morris's New Melody For Audacious Female Voices, Linda M. Lewis
Plains Song: Wright Morris's New Melody For Audacious Female Voices, Linda M. Lewis
Great Plains Quarterly
"Man's culture was a hoax. Was there a woman who didn't feel it? Perhaps a decade, no more, was available to women to save themselves, as well as the planet. Women's previous triumphs had been by default. Men had simply walked away from the scene of the struggle, leaving them with the children, the chores, the culture, and a high incidence of madness." The lines are from Wright Morris's Plains Song: for Female Voices; they represent a "brief resume" of the "forthcoming lecture" by Alexandra Selkirk, a feminist who has just arrived in Grand Island, Nebraska, to rally the …
Review Of The Cheyenne Nation: A Social And Demographic History., Russel Lawrence Barsh
Review Of The Cheyenne Nation: A Social And Demographic History., Russel Lawrence Barsh
Great Plains Quarterly
"Like every nation in the world," John Moore argues in this exceptionally candid and respectful study, "the Cheyenne have cosmopolitan origins." Building on the Cheyenne case, Moore convincingly challenges the persistent characterization of tribal societies as static "crystals" shattered by their collision with European states.
Review Of Rethinking Regionalism: John Steuart Curry And The Kansas Mural Controversy And Grant Wood: A Study In American Art And Culture., Richard W. Etulain
Review Of Rethinking Regionalism: John Steuart Curry And The Kansas Mural Controversy And Grant Wood: A Study In American Art And Culture., Richard W. Etulain
Great Plains Quarterly
In the first of these two volumes, M. Sue Kendall treats the cultural contexts that helped shape the paintings of John Steuart Curry and sparked reactions to his murals at the Kansas statehouse in Topeka. Emphasizing the details of Curry's life and how they interlocked with national, historical, and political happenings between 1937 and 1942, Kendall focuses particularly on the ideological and cultural attitudes that embroiled Curry, newspaper editors, and thousands of Kansans in the mural controversy.
Review Of Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard
Review Of Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History, Paul A. Johnsgard
Great Plains Quarterly
This attractive book is perhaps the only one that has been written on the ecology of a single prairie study area; earlier classics such as J. E. Weaver's North American Prairie have dealt with North American prairies in general, and more recent titles, such as Terry Evans' Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky and Patricia Duncan's The Prairie World have typically attempted to show the often subtle and occasionally stark visual beauty of prairies, with an emphasis on color photography. By comparison, Konza Prairie approaches its subject (a protected area of about fourteen square miles in northern Kansas) as a …
Review Of The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins., Robert Nespor
Review Of The Wolves Of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, And Prehistoric Origins., Robert Nespor
Great Plains Quarterly
Karl Schlesier contends that the Cheyennes (or, as he prefers, the Tsistsistas, excluding the Suhtai branch of Northern Cheyennes) made their "perfect adaptation" to the northern Plains long before the 1700s. Indeed, he argues that the T sistsistas emerged as an ethnic group on the Plains about 500 B.C., attaining an identity through observances of a ceremony, the Massaum, which continued to be celebrated into the early twentieth century. The Massaum is represented as having constituted the set of sacred relations between the people and the universe. With respect to the plains environment in particular, Schlesier represents the Massaum as …
The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge
The Heart Of The Prairie: Culture Areas In The Central And Northern Great Plains, James R. Shortridge
Great Plains Quarterly
Although the words Great Plains imply a physical region, they have been increasingly used to describe a distinctive set of cultural traits and values. The tone was set in 1931 when Walter Prescott Webb argued that attitudes and land uses brought to the Plains from humid lands would fail. Aridity, he said, was the central fact of existence in this place; it demanded a new approach to life. 1
Review Of The West Of The Imagination, Robert Thacker
Review Of The West Of The Imagination, Robert Thacker
Great Plains Quarterly
This is--in every meaning of the word-a wonderful book. Historian William H. Goetzmann, the author ofExploration and Empire, Karl Boomer's America, and New Lands, New Men has collaborated with his art historian son, William N. Goetzmann, to produce this volume, a companion to the Public Broadcasting System series of the same name. Focused on the illustrators, painters, and photographers of the American West, it offers a stunning overview of their histories, actions, and, most especially, their images. The reader, like the artist;s .and the Goetzmanns themselves, is awed by the felt pull of the West on the imagination; …
Review Of Plains Folk: A Commonplace Of The Great Plains, Roger L. Welsch
Review Of Plains Folk: A Commonplace Of The Great Plains, Roger L. Welsch
Great Plains Quarterly
Plains Folk is a compilation of ninety-six human- interest essays written for a syndicated column published in newspapers from Texas to North Dakota. The reprinted columns deal with tidbits of history, folklore, agriculture, and humor from the plains region. The columns are brief and without documentation, as one would expect from a newspaper column.
Elaine Goodale Eastman And The Failure Of The Feminist Protestant Ethic, Ruth Ann Alexander
Elaine Goodale Eastman And The Failure Of The Feminist Protestant Ethic, Ruth Ann Alexander
Great Plains Quarterly
Elaine Goodale Eastman's childhood dreams of becoming a writer were not to be fulfilled as she imagined them. Her literary talent was subverted by conflicting forces in her life to which she also subscribed but that thwarted the artistic development of that talent. Although she wrote throughout her ninety years and couldn't remember a time that she wouldn't rather write than eat, she never satisfied "the notion ... unreasonably in the back of my head that someday I might write a book that would live."! If she is remembered at all it is as the wife of the Sioux physician …
Review Of The Women's West., Suzanne L. Bunkers
Review Of The Women's West., Suzanne L. Bunkers
Great Plains Quarterly
The twenty-one essays in this collection represent some of the finest work being done in the ongoing re-examination of the American West through women's eyes. Based on papers presented at the first Women's West conference in 1983, these articles analyze faulty assumptions and omissions in earlier histories of the West; they examine the ways in which gender roles shaped western women's lives; and they formulate new methodologies for the analysis of women's private writings as vital historical records.
Review Of Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition And Change., Seena B. Kohl
Review Of Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition And Change., Seena B. Kohl
Great Plains Quarterly
This book adds to a neglected area of research, rural women. Through the use of reminiscence, census data, agricultural surveys, interviews, and observations during a year of residency in a rural Iowa county, Deborah Fink examines women's experience as members of a rural social system in which farming has been, until recently, considered a viable and valued opportunity, albeit a gender restricted occupation.
Review Of The Just Polity; Populism, Law, And Human Welfare., Peter H. Argersinger
Review Of The Just Polity; Populism, Law, And Human Welfare., Peter H. Argersinger
Great Plains Quarterly
Rejecting "political narrative" as "debilitating to historical scholarship.," Norman Pollack employs textual exegesis in this effort to construct a coherent intellectual history of Populism. Interspersing extensive quotations with his own paraphrases, elaborations, and inferences, Pollack examines a handful of Populist writings and extravagantly maintains that his work reconceptualizes both the nature and the study of Populism. After struggling through nearly 350 pages of opaque and often tumid prose, few historians will accept such claims. Even those sympathetic to this style of history, which ignores the specific political context of the documents analyzed, will worry about some issues that Pollack dismisses …
Women And Technology On The Great Plains, 1910-40, Katherine Jellson
Women And Technology On The Great Plains, 1910-40, Katherine Jellson
Great Plains Quarterly
What is in store for the homesteader's wife? Nothing but to deteriorate ... the homesteader can do nothing but make a scanty living while his wife and family go unclad and scarely fed, with no conveniences in the home, no society, no preaching ... when you live where you can see sad-faced women, with their children crying about their skirts for things to eat, eager for even a drink of sour milk-good, pretty women, whose hair turns gray in a few weeks· of worry over where the work is coming from to buy flour-we then wonder if Uncle Sam couldn't …
Review Of Mapping The North American Plains: Essays In The History Of Cartography., Donna P. Koepp
Review Of Mapping The North American Plains: Essays In The History Of Cartography., Donna P. Koepp
Great Plains Quarterly
The adventure of exploration and discovery, as well as the history of mapping, inevitably comes through in this volume of eleven scholarly contributions to the history of the cartography of the North American Plains. The 8 1/2 x 11 inch size allows for an easy-toread two column format and excellent black and white map reproductions, most of which are full page size.
Review Of Hunting And Trading On The Great Plains, 1859-1875, Glen E. Lich
Review Of Hunting And Trading On The Great Plains, 1859-1875, Glen E. Lich
Great Plains Quarterly
Combining James R. Mead's published and unpublished materials, Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains is a carefully edited memoir from the Kansas prairie in the 1870s-1890s. Mead (1836-1910) ventured west with young friends who planned to look and return; he stayed. And as his life turned from the outdoors to business and politics, Mead saw a wide spectrum of the frontier. He met Jesse Chisholm and Kit Carson, learned to value Indian civilization, and lived long enough to record his memories of these experiences.
Review Of The Cartography Of North America, 1500-1800, Frederick C. Luebke
Review Of The Cartography Of North America, 1500-1800, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
The main attraction of this stunning book is the series of 171 full color reproductions of many of the most important maps of North America fashioned by cartographers from 1500 to 1800. Each plate is accompanied by a brief description. The book also includes brief introductory essays on the history of cartography, the production of old maps, and a survey of North American exploration. These chapters include additional illustrations, many in color.
Reservation Policy And The Economic Position Of Wichita Women, Carolyn Garrett Pool
Reservation Policy And The Economic Position Of Wichita Women, Carolyn Garrett Pool
Great Plains Quarterly
Early anthropological studies addressed the economic position of women as one component of women's "status"-a construct used to examine a variety of gender-based social distinctions. These distinctions were conceptualized as the opposing domains of "domestic" and "public." The association of women with the domestic domain was viewed as the critical factor in understanding asymmetrical relations of power and authority. Since status has generally been defined in terms of participation in the public, economic, and political sectors dominated by men, anthropologists have proposed alternatives to the strict association of power with public roles. They used the term "influence" to mean the …
Rethinking The Farm Revolt Of The 1930s, William C. Pratt
Rethinking The Farm Revolt Of The 1930s, William C. Pratt
Great Plains Quarterly
T he northern Plains witnessed the last great farm revolt in its history during the 1930s, when a flood of protest spilled across the region, fed by the springs of hard times and earlier insurgencies. The countryside, for one last moment, forced itself upon the rest of the country and demanded attention for its plight. After a period of high visibility, these efforts receded in the wake of New Deal programs that seemingly undercut the rural revolt. Many of the protesters arrived at an accommodation with the new regime, accepting "half-aloaf now" in terms of wheat allotment checks and refinanced …
Review Of America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America, Carroll Van West
Review Of America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America, Carroll Van West
Great Plains Quarterly
America's Architectural Roots is an introduction to the remarkable diversity of ethnic building traditions that have shaped the American landscape. Dell Upton takes a broad view of the tricky term "ethnic" and includes selections on Native American, English, midwestern German, and French architecture, along with eighteen other examples of ethnic architecture. Chronologically organized, the book first looks at groups that have influenced American architecture nationwide, then surveys groups that shaped regional architectures. Most of the book's Great Plains selections focus on the vernacular architecture of the region's many ethnic groups.
Review Of After The West Was Won: Homesteaders And Town-Builders In Western South Dakota, 1900-1917, Joseph S. Wood
Review Of After The West Was Won: Homesteaders And Town-Builders In Western South Dakota, 1900-1917, Joseph S. Wood
Great Plains Quarterly
After the West Was Won is about pioneering in western South Dakota on land unsettled by agriculturalists before 1900. Lakota hunters and Texas ranchers had lived successfully in this land of bountiful grass. Agricultural settlement, however, was a story "of dreams and ambitions thwarted" as farmers and townspeople alike learned "to make a virtue of living with less" than did those who had pioneered earlier frontiers.
Review Of Patterns Of Life, Patterns Of Art: The Rahr Collection Of Native American Art., David Woodley
Review Of Patterns Of Life, Patterns Of Art: The Rahr Collection Of Native American Art., David Woodley
Great Plains Quarterly
Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art presents the Native American Collection of Guido R. Rahr, a gift to the Hood Museum of Art at Dartmouth College. The catalogue consists of 32 full color illustrations, as well as listing and describing 182 collection items. Of the objects illustrated, only a few are artistic masterpieces, but all the objects will interest students of Native American material culture. The casual reader may find the captions under some illustrations confusing, and in at least one instance the captions are inverted (p. 54, catalogue 79, 80). In her essay, Barbara A. Hail takes on the …
Development Of The Appropriation Docterine: Adapting Water Allcoation Policies To Semiarid Environs, J. David Aiken
Development Of The Appropriation Docterine: Adapting Water Allcoation Policies To Semiarid Environs, J. David Aiken
Great Plains Quarterly
One hallmark of economic development, and indeed of civilization itself, may be found in the rules men devise to order their access to resources. When ambitious men began to develop the West, they found English common law deficient in many respects. It failed to provide workable rules among men as they struggled to get, develop, and use water where water was relatively scarce and often vital to life itself. So new laws and new institutions had to be developed. They are still developing. 1
Review Of The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 2, August 30, 1803-August 24, 1804, The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 3, August 25, 1804-Apriz6, 1805, And The Journals Of The Lewis & Clark Expedition, Vol. 4, April7-July 27, 1805, Richard A. Bartlett
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1983 appeared Volume 1 of a projected eleven volume compilation of the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition. The first volume turned out to be an atlas, which came as something of a surprise to many scholars; yet the quality of the work-the editing, the annotations, and the incredible state-of-the-art graphics-commanded praise from the academic community. The thought that lay behind the atlas as Volume 1 was that it would furnish a working tool for those studying all the remaining ten volumes. The great question remaining was, what of the quality of the textual volumes to come?
Review Of The Paintings Of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne., Stephen C. Behrendt
Review Of The Paintings Of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne., Stephen C. Behrendt
Great Plains Quarterly
The appearance of this volume by E. Maurice Bloch, the dean of Bingham studies, is a most significant event. Superseding Bloch's preliminary catalogue of 1967, this impressive new volume constitutes the definitive catalogue of Bingham's paintings. With more than 350 illustrations, including 23 in color, it provides a guide to both Bingham's familiar works and his lesser-known subjects, documenting the artist's development both as portraitist and as recorder of Western American subject matter. An insightful introductory essay of twenty-eight large, double-column pages presents Bingham .as man and artist, exploring the events and influences that shaped his art and effectively locating …
Review Of Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke And His American West, Thomas William Dunlay
Review Of Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke And His American West, Thomas William Dunlay
Great Plains Quarterly
John Gregory Bourke (1846-1896) is best known to students of the American West as the author of On the Border with Crook, a classic record of frontier military life. He was also, like certain other army officers, among the pioneers of American anthropology. Like his commanding officer, General George Crook, he was a critic of federal Indian policy and an advocate of the rights of American Indians. His biography is, therefore, much more than the record of a frontier soldier. He is worthy of study as a chronicler of Western campaigns, a dedicated scholar of Indian culture, and a …
Review Of Buckskins, Bullets, And Business: A History Of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Andrew Gulliford
Review Of Buckskins, Bullets, And Business: A History Of Buffalo Bill's Wild West, Andrew Gulliford
Great Plains Quarterly
Of all the popular culture heroes of the American West, Buffalo Bill stands out as the quintessential frontiersman, hunter, Indian scout, cattle rancher, land speculator, and showman par excellence. The subject of countless dime novels, plays, melodramas, and no fewer than thirty five films, Colonel W. F. Cody was a living legend whose expertise in organizing and touring "Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show and Congress of Rough Riders of the World" made it one of the largest and longest running outdoor entertainments in history. For more than thirty years, between 1882 and 1913, the Wild West Show toured America and …
Review Of The Dakota Or Sioux In Minnesota As They Were In 1854, Herbert T. Hoover
Review Of The Dakota Or Sioux In Minnesota As They Were In 1854, Herbert T. Hoover
Great Plains Quarterly
Gary Anderson introduces the reminiscence of a nineteenth-century missionary as a source "unrivaled today for its comprehensive discussion of Dakota material culture and social, political, religious, and economic institutions." With the term "unrivaled," evidently Professor Anderson assigns credence to the work of Pond, for he goes on to say that the missionary attempted "an objective assessment of the Dakota before their intercourse with whites· dramatically changed their society." Thus a prospective reader is likely to gain the impression that The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota is wholly reliable. A professional historian who has written two volumes on the history of …
Review Of Little Crow: Spokesman For The Sioux, Herbert T. Hoover
Review Of Little Crow: Spokesman For The Sioux, Herbert T. Hoover
Great Plains Quarterly
This readable narrative chronicles the life of the eastern Sioux leader whose name has been associated with the Minnesota Sioux War for a role he accepted reluctantly. A genealogy and some· background information explain why he assumed a moderate posture as non-Indians flocked into southern Minnesota during the 1850s. Resentment changed to bitterness around him as eastern Sioux people exchanged some 10,000,000 acres for a narrow strip of land along the upper St. Peter's River that could not sustain them. When finally they took up arms in the early 186Os, Little Crow became their symbol of resistance. At length, more …
Review Of Civilizing The West: The Galts And The Development Of Western Canada, Henry C. Klassen
Review Of Civilizing The West: The Galts And The Development Of Western Canada, Henry C. Klassen
Great Plains Quarterly
This book,·· published five years ago in hardcover, is now available in paperback. A. A. den Otter, a professor of history at Memorial University in Newfoundland who has written extensively on western Canada, deals with Sir Alexander T. Galt, his son Elliott, and Charles A. Magrath and the economic development of the southwest corner of the prairies from the early 1880s to 1906. In systematically examining the origins and growth of the Galt enterprises, the book makes a contribution to our knowledge of the southern Alberta economy and to Alberta-Montana commercial relations.