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Book Review: A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism And The Battle For Justice And Equality, 1854-1903, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Book Review: A Common Humanity: Kansas Populism And The Battle For Justice And Equality, 1854-1903, Jeffrey A. Johnson
Great Plains Quarterly
Across the landscape of modern American politics, the "Populist moment," as Lawrence Goodwyn's 1976 study labeled it, has fascinated scholars. Indeed, late nineteenth-century Populism posed a vocal and effectual political voice for Gilded Age America's discontented. Since his original 1969 study, Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men, O. Gene Clanton has meticulously examined the fundamental role of Kansa, Populists in shaping local and national politics. A Common Humanity, with great efficacy, revisits and reinterprets Kansas's Populism as a fight for fundamental working-class rights and agrarian values, amidst industrialization gone awry.
Book Review: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis In A Canadian Family, 1660 -1900, Frits Pannekoek
Book Review: The People Who Own Themselves: Aboriginal Ethnogenesis In A Canadian Family, 1660 -1900, Frits Pannekoek
Great Plains Quarterly
The current historiography of the Great Plains Metis finds its roots in the work of Sylvia Van Kirk, Jennifer Brown, Jacqueline Petersen, and to a lesser degree John Foster. These and other contributions have been outlined in my "Metis Studies: The Development of a Field and New Directions" in From Rupert's Land to Canada: Essays in Honor of John E Foster (Edmonton: University of Alberta Press, 2001).
Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins
Book Review: The Cherokee Nation: A History, James W. Parins
Great Plains Quarterly
This is an important book if only for the reason that it will make many reconsider what they think they know about the Cherokees. Their early history, like that of any people, is obscured in the dimness of the past. While some of the early story may be reconstructed through surviving myth and modern theory, much uncertainty clouds origins and early migration patterns. After white contact and the chronicles and accounts of traders, missionaries, and adventurers are written, the veil isn't entirely lifted. Many written records pose more questions than they answer. For example, when the British first came upon …
Which Place, What Story?: Cultural Discourses At The Border Of The Blackfeet Reservation And Glacier National Park, Donal Carbaugh, Lisa Rudnick
Which Place, What Story?: Cultural Discourses At The Border Of The Blackfeet Reservation And Glacier National Park, Donal Carbaugh, Lisa Rudnick
Great Plains Quarterly
Among every known people, places are named, and in every known place, stories are told. Yet as one place, Jerusalem, makes so abundantly clear, the meanings of the place and the variety of stories attached to it can derive from a variety of traditions and can lead in many different directions. Just as various pilgrims are drawn to some sacred places, so do all people, in all places, come to know the meanings of at least some places through names, with the stories about them capturing their deeper significance, from the sacred to the mundane. Yet for each such place, …
Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert
Book Review: Teaching In Eden: Lessons From Cedar Point, Gregg Siewert
Great Plains Quarterly
Judging from the title, one might expect this book to offer some resolution to America's ongoing debate regarding the teaching of evolution, creationism, and intelligent design. It is, instead, Janovy's attempt to shake higher education by the shoulders and bring it to its senses, asking that university instruction shift its focus from content to larger questions of process and values (for want of a better term: liberal arts and sciences). As Janovy states, "I contend that the arts and sciences ideals - breadth of understanding, courage to explore anywhere, patience with disagreement - are the best antidotes to our current …
Book Review: Prairie Gothic: The Story Of A West Texas Family, Paul H. Carlson
Book Review: Prairie Gothic: The Story Of A West Texas Family, Paul H. Carlson
Great Plains Quarterly
The upper West Texas area is a huge region of the southern Great Plains. Including the Rolling Plains, the South Plains, the Texas Panhandle, and more, it is, except for Amarillo and Lubbock, mostly an empty country, characterized by cattle raising and wheat and cotton growing. Big operations with extensive fields and large pastures seem to dominate the agricultural economy. Partly as a result, rural populations, except for the big cities, are in decline, railroads are shutting down, county governments are going broke, and school districts are consolidating.
Volume 26, Number 4 Editorial Matter
Volume 26, Number 4 Editorial Matter
Great Plains Quarterly
Table of Contents, News, and Notes.
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Relief For Wanderers: The Transient Service In Kansas, 1933-35, Peter Fearon
Great Plains Quarterly
Located at the crossroads of America, Kansas had long experience of interstate migrants. For many decades armies of workers had entered the state to pursue the harvest of a number of crops, or to pick up whatever work was available on their way west in pursuit of a more rewarding life. The U.S. population was highly mobile and migration played an essential role in a vigorously expanding economy. Ailing transients, especially tubercular cases, had as their destination the pure, dry air of the Southwest. To these we can add indeterminate numbers of seasonal workers, ex-veterans, homeless boys, peddlers, beggars, and …
Book Review: Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, And The Trial That Forged A Nation, Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Book Review: Coyote Warrior: One Man, Three Tribes, And The Trial That Forged A Nation, Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Great Plains Quarterly
A citizen of the Mandan, Hidatsa, and Arikara Nations (MHA Nation), Raymond Cross has carried out unparalleled work as an Indian lawyer, a tribal advocate, and an Indian law scholar. Coyote Warrior chronicles Cross's incredible journey from youngest child of a prominent Indian family to American Indian rights crusader, to his two triumphant appearances before the United States Supreme Court, to his lobbying efforts to secure compensation for the lost homelands of his nations. Paul VanDevelder's journalistic style lends much to these tales that appeared before only in the oft-stale pages of the United States Reporter and Congressional hearing transcripts.
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis: The Women, Clara Sue Kidwell
Great Plains Quarterly
Photographs by Edward Curtis have been widely reproduced, and Christopher Cardozo's selection is distinctive only because all of the subjects are women. Cardozo's text gives a brief biography of Curtis and is highly laudatory of Curtis's ability to establish relationships with his subjects. The reproduction of the photos is disappointingly muddy, an effect that emphasizes the sense that the photos are of significant age. It does not capture the extraordinary qualities of clarity, depth, and luminosity that characterize Curtis's originals (although perhaps it would be impossible to reproduce those qualities except from Curtis's glass plate negatives).
Book Review: God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith And Conflict In The American West, Charles H. Lippy
Book Review: God's Country, Uncle Sam's Land: Faith And Conflict In The American West, Charles H. Lippy
Great Plains Quarterly
Most studies linking region and religion have looked at New England, because of Puritanism's impact, or the South, because of the "Bible belt" image. A few have examined the Southwest, mostly to analyze Spanish influence in the age of colonial conquest. Kerstetter's work, however, joins an increasing number that focus on how region and religion are intertwined in the West. That alone makes it valuable.
Black Goose's Map Of The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation In Oklahoma Territory, William C. Meadows
Black Goose's Map Of The Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation In Oklahoma Territory, William C. Meadows
Great Plains Quarterly
Plains Indian cultures have left numerous forms of Native drawings in the form of painted and drawn clothing, robes, tipis and tipi liners, shields and shield covers, calendars, ledger books, religious and historical drawings, and maps. Native drawings of geographic features are distinguished from other forms of drawings by their focus on the concept of territory rather than on occasional individual features such as a hill or river. Native maps predate European contact and are recorded for every major region of North America. Although most extant Native maps are from the Plains and Arctic regions and date to the nineteenth …
Postcolonial Tragedy In The Crowsnest Past: Two Rearview Reflections By Sharon Pollock And John Murrell, Anne Nothof
Postcolonial Tragedy In The Crowsnest Past: Two Rearview Reflections By Sharon Pollock And John Murrell, Anne Nothof
Great Plains Quarterly
In two very different versions of a story of rum-running along the British Columbia-Alberta border in the Crowsnest Pass in the early 1920s, Sharon Pollock and John Murrell replay history as tragedy. Murrell's libretto for the opera Filumena captures the passion and pathos of the exceptional true-life story of Filumena, who at the age of twenty-two was the last woman to be hanged for murder in Canada. In the context of an Italian community compromised by bigotry and ambition, Filumena is rehabilitated and written back into history as a woman who resists a transplanted patriarchal authority. Pollock's play Whiskey Six …
Book Review: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl, Pamel Riney-Kehrberg
Book Review: The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story Of Those Who Survived The Great American Dust Bowl, Pamel Riney-Kehrberg
Great Plains Quarterly
Egan's The Worst Hard Time is a literary and journalistic treatment of the Dust Bowl's impact on the southern Great Plains. He follows the history of the region from the agricultural development of the early twentieth century through the events of the 1930s, focusing on the states of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado, Oklahoma, and Texas.
Book Review: No One Ever Asked Me: The World War Ii Memoirs Of An Omaha Indian Soldier, Kenneth W. Townsend
Book Review: No One Ever Asked Me: The World War Ii Memoirs Of An Omaha Indian Soldier, Kenneth W. Townsend
Great Plains Quarterly
No One Ever Asked Me is the memoir of a rather typical American Indian veteran of World War II. Like most of the 25,000 Native American servicemen, Hollis Stabler was not a code talker. His reasons for enlistment mirrored the diverse motivations found among Indians spread across the Great Plains and Southwest, and the acceptance he received from non-Indians and his record of service were equally representative. Common to most Native American servicemen, Stabler walked in two worlds. His spirit was that of an Omaha Indian, and he cherished his cultural values and traditions; his daily existence, however, was in …
Book Review: Where Custer Fell: Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield Then And Now, Herman J. Viola
Book Review: Where Custer Fell: Photographs Of The Little Bighorn Battlefield Then And Now, Herman J. Viola
Great Plains Quarterly
On the morning of June 25, 1876, soldiers of the famed U.S. Seventh Cavalry led by the flamboyant George Armstrong Custer attacked a large Indian encampment on the banks of the Little Bighorn River. By day's end, Custer and more than two hundred of his men lay dead. More than a century later, the battle still remains a subject of controversy, debate, and fascination.
Book Review: Black Earth And Ivory Tower: New American Essays From Farm And Classroom, Doug Werden
Book Review: Black Earth And Ivory Tower: New American Essays From Farm And Classroom, Doug Werden
Great Plains Quarterly
What does agriculture have to do with the humanities? The integration of these seemingly antithetical worlds is essential for these agriculture-rooted authors who articulate their connection to rural life and labor they have maintained despite performing academic work. While several of the authors present their childhood experiences, they avoid nostalgia by exploring the forces that have made them return to the farm in their lives and research. There is a valorization of agricultural values coupled with the paradoxical recognition that the life of labor-intensive family farms is waning, the very trend that propelled many of these writers into off-farm careers. …
Book Review: Approaches To Teaching Louise Erdrich, Julie Barak
Book Review: Approaches To Teaching Louise Erdrich, Julie Barak
Great Plains Quarterly
That a critical vocabulary has been established for addressing Louise Erdrich's body of work is quite evident in Approaches to Teaching Louise Erdrich. Key words in the Erdrich lexicon- syncretic, hybridize, amalgamate, mediate, integrate, dialogic, accretive, connective, merging, blurring, webbed, multivoiced, transformative- echo throughout the collection and stamp the text's theoretical approach to her oeuvre. There are two common pedagogical themes that dominate the essays. Teachers elaborate on ways to help students understand the challenges to hegemonic views of culture, history, gender, and religion that Erdrich, drawing upon an imagination nourished by her ethnic and cultural identity as a …
Book Review: True Women And Westward Expansion, Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.
Book Review: True Women And Westward Expansion, Jimmy L. Bryan, Jr.
Great Plains Quarterly
With True Women and Westward Expansion, Adrienne Caughfield examines the contributions that Texas women made to the meanings and achievement of U.S. expansion between 1820 and 1860. She argues that they did so in two ways. First, they embraced nineteenth-century ideas of feminine domesticity with which they sought to civilize the wilderness. Second, a select few like Jane McManus Storm Cazeneau, Mary Austin Holley, and Lucy Holcombe Pickens supported expansion with their public writings. ''At its heart," Caughfield explains, "expansionist philosophy closely paralleled domesticity so that adherents to the latter tended to accept the former. The true woman, then, …
Book Review: Poets Talk: Conversations With Robert Kroetsch, Daphne Marlatt, Erin Moure, Dionne Brand, Marie Annharte Baker, Jeff Derksen, And Fred Wah, Alison Calder
Great Plains Quarterly
Reading Poets Talk is like overhearing an interesting conversation in a café: you eat up the discussion, but you also want to jump in and ask your own questions. The poets would be fascinating tablemates: diverse in terms of sexuality and race, they are united by how they understand language's relation to social power structures, and how they challenge the "rules" of language to subvert or expose other, often implicit, social rules. They're also united by what I'll call, not condescendingly, generationality: they're established writers with long personal and political histories. The result is a collection of interviews that are …
Book Review: Dugout, Frances Colpitt
Book Review: Dugout, Frances Colpitt
Great Plains Quarterly
Like the work of art it documents, Terry Allen's book is a multifaceted, multimedia chronicle of growing up in postwar west Texas. Allen, a visual artist and musician from Lubbock, is known for sprawling narrative epics conveyed through drawings, sculptures, assemblages, tableaux, written texts, music, and performances. Leaping back and forth across the decades, Dugout is loosely based on his parents' stories of their hardscrabble lives in the early twentieth century and the widespread fear of Martians, Communists, polio, Thalidomide, and The Bomb during Allen's own adolescence. "The language of the 1950's West Texas living room," he writes, "is nerve …
Book Review: In-Between Places, Brewster E. Fitz
Book Review: In-Between Places, Brewster E. Fitz
Great Plains Quarterly
The title of this collection of eleven essays comes from Glancy's paraphrase of William Heyen's definition of poetry as "language of things that can't be gotten to. It lives in the in-between places." The title also refers to Glancy's moving in between places on the Great Plains and to her writing as a mixed-blood. Glancy's style is personal, elusive, allusive, parodying, and fragmentary. It's a style that requires patience and an open mind, a style she attributes to "patterns" of the structure of the Cherokee language that remain in her.
Book Review: Childhood On The Farm: Work, Play, And Coming Of Age In The Midwest, Elizabeth Hampsten
Book Review: Childhood On The Farm: Work, Play, And Coming Of Age In The Midwest, Elizabeth Hampsten
Great Plains Quarterly
By "Midwest," Pamela Riney-Kehrberg means the states of Illinois, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa, and the eastern half of Nebraska and Kansas, and by child, "any dependent son or daughter, generally twenty-one or younger, regardless of physical maturity, who remained subject to his or her parents' authority on the farm and in the home." She explains having "chosen 1870 as my starting date" to avoid the Civil War, and "1920 as an ending date because of upheavals occurring in the years that followed" (the automobile, radio, economic depression).
Book Review: Barbed Wire: An Ecology Of Modernity, Alan Krell
Book Review: Barbed Wire: An Ecology Of Modernity, Alan Krell
Great Plains Quarterly
The first years of this century were "barbed" in more ways than one. Three books were published in quick succession on barbed wire: the first by Olivier Razac, then by me, and, most recently, by Reviel Netz. Barbed Wire: An Ecology of Modernity builds on Netz's sagacious essay written for the London Review of Books (July 20, 2000).
Book Review: Goodbye, Judge Lynch: The End Of A Lawless Era In Wyoming's Big Horn Basin, Stephen J. Leonard
Book Review: Goodbye, Judge Lynch: The End Of A Lawless Era In Wyoming's Big Horn Basin, Stephen J. Leonard
Great Plains Quarterly
In Goodbye, Judge Lynch, John W. Davis details two early twentieth-century murder cases and their aftermaths in Wyoming's Big Horn Basin. In 1902, Jim Gordon killed his older brother, Thomas, supposedly because Jim coveted Thomas's wife, Margaret. The jury found Jim innocent of first- and second-degree murder, but convicted him of manslaughter. Jim demanded a new trial. The second jury convicted him of first-degree murder, a capital offense. Jim's attorney appealed to the Wyoming Supreme Court arguing that conviction of a greater offense in the second trail violated the U.S. Constitution's prohibition against double jeopardy.
Book Review: Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, And Reform, David Rich Lewis
Book Review: Citizen Indians: Native American Intellectuals, Race, And Reform, David Rich Lewis
Great Plains Quarterly
Lucy Maddox explores issues of race and progressive reform in the early twentieth century by examining how American Indians positioned themselves to claim a place and a voice in American public life. Maddox focuses on "Indian intellectuals," individuals who wrote and spoke publicly about pan-Indian issues arising from federal wardship, and who organized the Society of American Indians (SAl) as a space for disseminating that Indian voice. Responding to an American public that could not comprehend Indian culture and history outside their own mythic and racialized images (often expressed in pageants depicting a savage or vanishing race), this generation of …
Book Review: One Soldier's Story: A Memoir, Burdett A. Lewis
Book Review: One Soldier's Story: A Memoir, Burdett A. Lewis
Great Plains Quarterly
Bob Dole's story is a familiar one, by dint of his long political career and three attempts to win the presidency. The Depression-era Kansas boy grows up in the Heartland and heads to the state university to pursue sports, academics, and ultimately a medical career. Drafted into the army, he's grievously wounded in the waning days of World War Two. After a remarkable and agonizing recovery, he enters politics and climbs the ladder to lead the Senate and come within a hairbreadth of the Oval Office.
Book Review: Alberta Premiers Of The Twentieth Century, Rod Macleod
Book Review: Alberta Premiers Of The Twentieth Century, Rod Macleod
Great Plains Quarterly
The Province of Alberta has had an even dozen premiers in the century since its creation in 1905. The body of historical and biographical writing on the political history of the province is uneven, to put it mildly. Only five of the province's political leaders have been the subject of biographies. Curiously, the current premier, Ralph Klein, has the most (three), while Ernest Manning, arguably the most important Alberta political figure of the century, has none. Five premiers have not so much as an article or chapter published on them. This collection thus fills a large gap and, on the …
Book Review: History's Shadow: Native Americans And Historical Consciousness In The Nineteenth Century, Jeffrey Ostler
Book Review: History's Shadow: Native Americans And Historical Consciousness In The Nineteenth Century, Jeffrey Ostler
Great Plains Quarterly
In this polished work of intellectual history, Steven Conn charts a series of trajectories in European American approaches to conceiving of Native Americans during the nineteenth century. He does this through four interior chapters on images of Indians in American art, the study of Indian languages, archaeology, and the emergence of anthropology. These are framed by two chapters that introduce and amplify the book's general theme of "Native Americans and the problem of history."
Book Review: Manifest And Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions Of The Nineteenth-Century United States, Bethany Schneider
Book Review: Manifest And Other Destinies: Territorial Fictions Of The Nineteenth-Century United States, Bethany Schneider
Great Plains Quarterly
Stephanie LeMenager's Manifest and Other Destinies is a beautifully researched, elegantly written, authoritative and long-needed reexamination of the fictions that girded American expansion. It is also a model of inventive and interventative scholarship. Across three sections, entitled "Desert," "Ocean," and "River," LeMenager's revelatory readings of Cooper, Melville, Irving, Twain, and dozens of other nineteenth-century novelists, journalists, memoirists, and political commentators explore representations of environments that actively resisted or transformed white agrarian settlement. This is a literary history of the nineteenth-century United States that radically rewrites received understandings of the force and direction of expansionist ideologies across the century.