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Rölvaag, Grove And Pioneering On The American And Canadian Plains, Dick Harrison
Rölvaag, Grove And Pioneering On The American And Canadian Plains, Dick Harrison
Great Plains Quarterly
Ole Rölvaag's Giants in the Earth and Frederick Philip Grove's Fruits of the Earth are not obvious choices with which to begin comparing the pioneer fiction of the American and Canadian plains. Giants, translated from the Norwegian, is about Helgelander fishermen settling in the wilds of Dakota Territory in 1873 and, with little more than their bare hands, trying to farm the alien prairie and establish rudimentary institutions of family, church, school, and local government. Fruits, written in English, is about an Anglo-Saxon farmer from Ontario who brings equipment and capital to the task of building an empire …
Title And Contents- Winter 1981
Title And Contents- Winter 1981
Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly
WINTER 1981 VOL. 1 NO.1
Contents
AN EDITORIAL NOTE Frederick C. Luebke
CHINOOK CLIMATES AND PLAINS PEOPLE Reid A. Bryson
TOWARD A HISTORY OF PLAINS ARCHEOLOGY Waldo R. Wedel
THE JOHN EVANS 1796-97 MAP OF THE MISSOURI RIVER W. Raymond Wood
TWO AUTHORS AND A HERO: NEIHARDT, SANDOZ, AND CRAZY HORSE Helen Stauffer
BOOK REVIEWS
The Ioway Indians
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60
Women and Men on the Overland Trail
Frederic Remington and the West: With the Eye of the Mind
The Dust Bowl
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the …
Review Of The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants And The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 By John D. Unruh, Jr., Robert G. Athearn
Review Of The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants And The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 By John D. Unruh, Jr., Robert G. Athearn
Great Plains Quarterly
In this somewhat less than precisely titled work John D. Unruh set out to synthesize an enormous amount of published and unpublished material concerning travel across the plains during a period of two decades. Readers will discover that to Unruh "the plains across" meant the central route to the West Coast. He refers only briefly to a southern passage (pp. 67 and 400) and to the Pike's Peak rush that admittedly brought forth miners, as opposed to emigrant settlers (p. 119). However, he does discuss the miners' rush to California in '49. It is estimated that one hundred thousand "Peakers" …
Review Of Frederic Remington And The West: With The Eye Of The Mind By Ben Merchant Vorpahl, William H. Goetzmann
Review Of Frederic Remington And The West: With The Eye Of The Mind By Ben Merchant Vorpahl, William H. Goetzmann
Great Plains Quarterly
This book, by the editor of the Frederic Remington-Owen Wister letters, is a strangely disappointing work on a promising subject. It is not the usual picture book of Remington paintings, nor is it really a biography. Rather it is an attempt to recreate Remington's intellectual, emotional, and artistic perceptions as they changed through his life. This is a laudable attempt. Unfortunately, the author is most often cryptic, confused, and much given to the jargon of abstraction. As a consequence any reader must bring a good deal of information to the book or it will be virtually meaningless. Possibly a good …
Review Of The Ioway Indians By Martha Royce Blaine, David M. Gradwohl
Review Of The Ioway Indians By Martha Royce Blaine, David M. Gradwohl
Great Plains Quarterly
Martha Royce Blaine, director of the Indian Archives Division of the Oklahoma Historical Society, here traces the history and culture of the Ioway Indians from the end of the prehistoric period to contemporary times. Her book will be welcomed by both laypersons and scholars interested in the significant role of this Native American group in the history of the prairies and plains.
Blaine's comprehensive and sensitive perspective draws upon evidence from several disciplines and links the identities of living people with perceptions of the past as understood from the oral traditions handed down by Native Americans, the historic documents penned …
Review Of Western Movies Edited By William T. Pilkington And Don Graham, Michael T. Isenberg
Review Of Western Movies Edited By William T. Pilkington And Don Graham, Michael T. Isenberg
Great Plains Quarterly
Western movies have been around so long and captured such wide audiences precisely because they reflect and comment upon some of the most enduring features of American culture. We have all grown up with the commonalities (and banalities) of the stock western: the noble hero, the comic or weakling sidekick, the schoolmarm, the villain. If these stereotypes were all there were to it, the western genre would long since have gone the route of, say, the novels of Mrs. E.D.E.N. Southworth.
The value of westerns, like that of many other genres, is that they speak to present concerns as well …
Review Of Trees, Prairies, And People: A History Of Tree Planting In The Plains States By Wilmon H. Droze, Richard A. Overfield
Review Of Trees, Prairies, And People: A History Of Tree Planting In The Plains States By Wilmon H. Droze, Richard A. Overfield
Great Plains Quarterly
Whether trees will grow successfully on the Great Plains has been a perplexing question since the early days of settlement, and forestry and tree-planting attempts were numerous before President Franklin D. Roosevelt proposed what in 1934 became the Prairie States Forestry Project, or more commonly the Shelterbelt Project. What was unique about the Roosevelt plan was its size, both in number of trees and in area involved. The project ultimately covered a zone about 100 miles wide by 1,150 miles long and stretched from North Dakota to Texas. Trees, Prairies, and People is a history of this New Deal program. …
Review Of The Dust Bowl By Paul Bonnifield & Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains In The 1930s By Donald Worster, Thomas Saarinen
Review Of The Dust Bowl By Paul Bonnifield & Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains In The 1930s By Donald Worster, Thomas Saarinen
Great Plains Quarterly
The Dust Bowl of the 1930s provides an excellent case study of American reactions to a major ecological crisis. By examining carefully how the nation and the region responded to this phenomenon, we could learn valuable lessons to aid in understanding current and future ecological crises. Thus it is of more than antiquarian interest to evaluate these two recent books on the Dust Bowl and the associated events now almost half a century behind us.
Although both authors examine the same area, events, and personalities, their treatment and conclusions are decidedly different. Both focus on the southern plains and devote …
Chinook Climates And Plains Peoples, Reid A. Bryson
Chinook Climates And Plains Peoples, Reid A. Bryson
Great Plains Quarterly
Changes in climate are major factors shaping the history of human occupance in the Great Plains region. Although Americans have often acted as though climates are fixed, the record indicates that in the past the climate of the Great Plains has changed drastically over relatively short periods of time. In order to acquire some understanding of what the Great Plains climate may become in the future and how human society may prepare for it, we must first comprehend what it was at various times in the past.
CHINOOK CLIMATES
An important element in the climate of the American West is …
An Editorial Note- Winter 1981, Frederick C. Luebke
An Editorial Note- Winter 1981, Frederick C. Luebke
Great Plains Quarterly
The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region. As an interdisciplinary agency, the Center aims to improve communication between scholars in the several fields interested in regional studies.
Regionalism has …
Toward A History Of Plains Archeology, Waldo R. Wedel
Toward A History Of Plains Archeology, Waldo R. Wedel
Great Plains Quarterly
First viewed by white men in 1541, the North American Great Plains remained little known and largely misunderstood for nearly three centuries. The newcomers from Europe were impressed by the seemingly endless grasslands, the countless wild cattle, and the picturesque tent-dwelling native people who followed the herds, subsisting on the bison and dragging their possessions about on dogs. Neither these Indians nor the grasslands nor their fauna had any counterparts in the previous experience of the Spaniards. Later Euro-American expeditions, whether seeking gold, converts, or furs, added many details of much interest, but likewise found no wealth of minerals, too …
Notes And News- Winter 1981
Great Plains Quarterly
Notes and News
The Center For Great Plains Studies
The Christlieb Collection Of Western Art
A New Edition Of Journals Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition
The 1981 Symposium: "American Pioneer Landscapes"
The 1982 Symposium: Call For Papers
The John Evans 1796-97 Map Of The Missouri River, W. Raymond Wood
The John Evans 1796-97 Map Of The Missouri River, W. Raymond Wood
Great Plains Quarterly
One of the curious twists of Great Plains history is that the first accurate eyewitness map of the Missouri River in what is now North and South Dakota-the historic home of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Indians and of their nomadic neighbors-was produced by a Welshman who had come to the United States to seek evidence for something that never existed: the illusory "welsh Indians." The inquisitive welsh explorer, John Thomas Evans (1770-99), did not find what he came to discover, but he produced what was to be one of the most important maps available to Meriwether Lewis and William …