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Book Review: Galvanized Yankees On The Upper Missouri: The Face Of Loyalty, Vance E. Nelson
Book Review: Galvanized Yankees On The Upper Missouri: The Face Of Loyalty, Vance E. Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly
Visitors to Fort Rice State Historic Site have little idea of the drama that took place there during the first few years after its construction in 1864. The site's historical marker contains no mention of the important task rendered by former Confederate soldiers who became known as "the Galvanized Yankees."
Book Review: Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education And The Teaching Of Writing, Susanne George Bloomfeld
Book Review: Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education And The Teaching Of Writing, Susanne George Bloomfeld
Great Plains Quarterly
Rural Voices, a collection of pedagogical essays from ten rural Nebraska elementary and secondary teachers, members of the Nebraska Writing Project's Rural Voices, Country Schools team, combines theory and practice to connect students and teachers with their surrounding communities, teaching them "to live well, actively, and fully in a given place." Robert Brooke's introduction begins, as does each of the essays, with a personal story about his connection to the Great Plains. Since "[l]ocal communities, regions, and histories are the places where we shape our individual lives," Brooke believes, they are essential to making education and writing relevant to …
Book Review: Speak To Me Words: Essays On Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Kimberly Roppolo
Book Review: Speak To Me Words: Essays On Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Kimberly Roppolo
Great Plains Quarterly
While Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry is written primarily for literary scholars, it does offer content useful for those in other areas of Native Studies and for those particularly involved with the study of Great Plains cultures. The editors' introduction sets up expectations that these essays will address aspects of American Indian poetry from both Native and non-Native perspectives and will avoid the study of texts preceding the American Indian Literary Renaissance (that is, texts prior to 1968 and commonly written about by scholars such as Kroeber, Rothenberg, and Bierhorst). Contemporary writing is the focus …
Book Review: Going Places: Transportation Redefines The Twentieth-Century West, John C. Hudson
Book Review: Going Places: Transportation Redefines The Twentieth-Century West, John C. Hudson
Great Plains Quarterly
What was unique about the West in twentieth- century transportation history? Carlos Schwantes does not make the claim, but the bulk of what he writes suggests that aviation's triumph as the preferred mode of passenger travel owes a great deal to the circumstances of geography in the American West. Getting there faster was the business traveler's need. Railroads could provide this in the East, but not in the West, where distances simply were too great. In one of the most interesting sections of Going Places, Schwantes shows how the government's manipulation of air mail contracts not only helped define …
Table Of Contents, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly
Table Of Contents, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly
Front Cover and Table of Contents for the Fall 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.
Book Review: Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather And The First World War, Mary R. Ryder
Book Review: Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather And The First World War, Mary R. Ryder
Great Plains Quarterly
Steven Trout offers a fresh approach to the study of Cather as a writer of war fiction and situates her squarely among the principally male writers of World War I. In lucid prose, Trout presents a convincing argument that Cather's prize-winning but much maligned novel One of Ours is "far more modernist than most critics have assumed" and merits a place alongside works by Hemingway and Remarque as a realistic account of the American experience in the "War to End All Wars."
Book Review: Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism, Theda Perdue
Book Review: Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism, Theda Perdue
Great Plains Quarterly
Devon Mihesuah has written a powerful book about the impact of colonization on the indigenous peoples of North America, especially indigenous women. Never losing sight of the enormous diversity of indigenous America, she nevertheless draws out commonalities - the centrality of women to indigenous religions, economies, and decision-making; the deleterious effects of European invasion; the efforts of indigenous women (and men) to revitalize their cultures; the social and individual healing that comes through tribalism and activism. The essays do not comprise a narrative history but instead develop interrelated themes in three parts - "Research and Writing," "Colonialism and Native Women," …
Book Review: Moving Out: A Nebraska Woman's Life, Susan Naramore Maher
Book Review: Moving Out: A Nebraska Woman's Life, Susan Naramore Maher
Great Plains Quarterly
At the end of her memoir, Moving Out, Polly Spence assesses all the little ironies of her life and concludes, "[each] time everything seemed just right, each time I thought I'd found it all-the work, the love, and the ideal way to live-something brought change to me." Change is a central motif in her narrative, reflected in a title that underscores movement and mobility, not settlement. Spence's Nebraska life provides a toehold on the slippery surface of twentieth-century culture in America. The many changes in her life reflect the changeable decades from the 1920s to the 1970s in which …
Book Review: Texas Trilogy: Life In A Small Texas Town, Jean A. Boyd
Book Review: Texas Trilogy: Life In A Small Texas Town, Jean A. Boyd
Great Plains Quarterly
That music has the power to captivate the human imagination and propel individuals into new areas of research is beautifully illustrated by Craig D. Hillis's Texas Trilogy: Life in a Small Texas Town. Inspired by the content of three songs composed by folksinger Steven Fromholz, Hillis first interviewed Fromholz, then visited the small Texas town Fromholz immortalized in his "Texas Trilogy." What Hillis found in Kopperl, in Bosque County, Texas, was not some unique and special place, but rather the very bedrock of the American people and their dreams. Kopperl and its residents exemplify the quintessential small-town American experience. …
Book Review: The Extraordinary Work Of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary, Julie Nichols
Book Review: The Extraordinary Work Of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary, Julie Nichols
Great Plains Quarterly
"Worked hard today of course," writes Annie Ray, January 17,1881, testifying to another day. "Ordinary writing" suggests the functional and dull: shopping lists, inventories, thank yous, and diaries, which author Jennifer Sinor likens to things we "toss" once they've outlived their use. Sinor seeks to redefine and elevate these writings, insisting that "ordinary" is not "commonplace"; their value lies in their ordering of self within a life.
Book Review: Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, And The West, Beth Loffreda
Book Review: Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, And The West, Beth Loffreda
Great Plains Quarterly
A wonderful little booky-wook by a wonderful lady named Virginia Sharff. You'll enjoy it so much you'll forget about the bathwater running downstairs.
Book Review: A Companion To The Regional Literatures Of America, Kathleen A. Boardman
Book Review: A Companion To The Regional Literatures Of America, Kathleen A. Boardman
Great Plains Quarterly
What difference would it make if literary regionalism were taken seriously? We would have an ambitious, readable collection of essays, written by well-known scholars, that would critique as well as defend regional literary movements, re-examine the social implications of local color and Depression-era regionalism, trace the shifting borders of regionalism's connections with nationalism, study regional issues not only in narratives of village and countryside but also in Gidget novels and L.A. detective stories, and use current theories to recontextualize past work and predict the future. Here is that collection.
Discrimination Against And Adaptation Of Italians In The Coal Counties Of Oklahoma, David G. Loconto
Discrimination Against And Adaptation Of Italians In The Coal Counties Of Oklahoma, David G. Loconto
Great Plains Quarterly
In the late 1800s and early 1900s coal reigned supreme in what is now southeastern Oklahoma. As was the case in the northeastern United States, Italians and other immigrants from southern and eastern Europe were brought in as a form of inexpensive labor to work the mines. Italians had different customs, a different language, a unique appearance, and a lack of training in mining compared with the American, English, Irish, and Scottish miners that preceded them. These differences were the foundation of an atmosphere in which immigrant groups would settle in communities. The results were struggles between southern and eastern …
Book Review: Genocide Of The Mind: New Native American Writing, Thomas C. Gannon
Book Review: Genocide Of The Mind: New Native American Writing, Thomas C. Gannon
Great Plains Quarterly
Genocide of the Mind is hardly the happiest of titles. Not only is the metaphor itself a muddle impossible to imagine, but the collection's dominant tone is more about cultural survival, not cultural genocide, as the editor herself indicates in explaining the title: "This anthology is a testament to American Indian consciousness continuing to circulate, regardless of past or present genocidal attempts, whether cerebral, endemic, systematic, or otherwise." Confusing, too, is the book's ostensible focus on the "urban Indian" and the sad history of Relocation as government policy. This is what Vine Deloria Jr.'s foreword would have us believe, and …
Book Review: Showman: The Life And Music Of Perry George Lowery, Roberta Freund Schwartz
Book Review: Showman: The Life And Music Of Perry George Lowery, Roberta Freund Schwartz
Great Plains Quarterly
In recent years a number of books have recognized the contributions of African American musicians to the popular musical landscape and returned to the historical narrative figures of seminal importance. Such a figure is trumpeter Perry George Lowery (1869,1942), nicknamed the "Angel Gabriel's Right Hand Man" by his compatriot, W. C. Handy.
Book Review: Teaching Places, Catherine Mackie
Book Review: Teaching Places, Catherine Mackie
Great Plains Quarterly
Audrey Whitson reaches down and stirs something deep in the soul. Her love of the land is respectful, serious, irresistible. The terrain she captures so vividly on paper as a record of her Alberta pilgrimage moves the heart of any reader who has known and loved the prairies. "The land is calling you, no matter who you are, calling you home." This book truly does call the prairie soul back to its home. Whitson's is a journey that is deeply spiritual, without being orthodox. Her spirituality is articulated as understandable and embodied; it is felt through her language and use …
The Effect Of Redundant Stimulus Elements On Visual Discrimination As A Function Of Element Heterogeneity, Equal Discriminability, And Position Uncertainty, W. R. Garner, J. H. Flowers
The Effect Of Redundant Stimulus Elements On Visual Discrimination As A Function Of Element Heterogeneity, Equal Discriminability, And Position Uncertainty, W. R. Garner, J. H. Flowers
Great Plains Quarterly
Garner and Lee (1962) investigated the visual discrimination of patterns of XS and Os presented at short duration and low contrast, and found that as redundant Xs and/or Os were added to the patterns there was no improvement in discrimination. In fact, there was clear evidence that performance was better if S deliberately avoided use of the redundant elements by attending only to part of the stimulus pattern, thus intentionally excluding perception of the redundant elements.
Book Review: Children's Voices From The Trail: Narratives Of The Platte River Road, Emmy E. Werner
Book Review: Children's Voices From The Trail: Narratives Of The Platte River Road, Emmy E. Werner
Great Plains Quarterly
Between 1850 and 1869, some 350,000 pioneers crossed the Great Plains, following the Platte River Road from the Missouri River to South Pass, Wyoming, and on to California and Oregon. Others made the trek to Utah, Colorado, or Montana. This book tells the story of the crossing of the Plains from the viewpoint of children - one fifth of the participants in the great overland journeys. Palmer lets their voices be heard.
Summer 2004 Cover And Table Of Contents, Great Plains Quarterly
Summer 2004 Cover And Table Of Contents, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly
Cover & Table of Contents.
Book Review: Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection, Kenneth Haltman
Book Review: Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection, Kenneth Haltman
Great Plains Quarterly
Karl Bodmer's field sketches executed along the upper Missouri between 1832 and 1834 constitute one of the principal sources of visual evidence regarding the ethnohistory of the Northern Plains. In this volume a less well-known selection of these works, both drawings and watercolors, held in the collections of the Newberry Library receives for the first time sustained scholarly consideration, situated in a historical context defined by the ethnologic ambitions of Bodmer's patron, Prince Maximilian.
Book Review: Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition And The Northern Cheyennes, 1876, William Bauer
Book Review: Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition And The Northern Cheyennes, 1876, William Bauer
Great Plains Quarterly
In November 1876, Colonel Ranald Mackenzie led a successful attack on a Northern Cheyenne village in the Bighorn Mountains. In military historian Jerome Greene's rendering, this often overlooked battle and the ephemeral Powder River Expedition became a seminal event in ending the Sioux Wars of 1876-77. "The attack on the encampment and its subsequent destruction," Greene writes, "not only compelled the Cheyennes' eventual surrender but also influenced many of their Lakota compatriots, including the war leader Crazy Horse, to do likewise."
Book Review: Place: Lethbridge, A City On The Prairie, Don Gill
Book Review: Place: Lethbridge, A City On The Prairie, Don Gill
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1998 Joan Stebbins, curator at the Southern Alberta Art Gallery, invited Toronto-based photographer Geoffrey James to photograph the city of Lethbridge, Alberta. James is known for his large format black-and-white photographs of specific sites: formal French gardens; the city of Paris; the running fence on the border separating the US and Mexico; asbestos mines in Quebec. In late 1999 his photographs were exhibited as "The Lethbridge Project." Subsequently novelist Rudy Wiebe was invited to write a parallel text to accompany James's photographs for Place.
Book Review: Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889-1893, Sally Ann Cummings
Book Review: Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889-1893, Sally Ann Cummings
Great Plains Quarterly
William T. Hagan's latest book examines the negotiations between the federal government and specific tribes in Indian Territory for the sale of tribal lands and the allotment of land to individual Indians. Encroachment by white settlers presented a major incentive for the federal government to complete these transactions expeditiously. Settlers as well as speculators applied significant pressure to organize Oklahoma into a territory and open the Cherokee Outlet. In response, on March 2, 1889, Congress passed an act creating the Cherokee Commission to negotiate the sale of lands by the Cherokees, Iowas, Pawnees, Poncas, T onakawas, Wichitas, Cheyennes, Arapahos, Sac …
A Dakota Boomtown: Sioux Falls, 1877-1880, Gary D. Olsen
A Dakota Boomtown: Sioux Falls, 1877-1880, Gary D. Olsen
Great Plains Quarterly
The "Dakota boom" is a label historians have almost universally adopted to describe the period of settlement in Dakota Territory be, tween the years 1878 and 1887. The term "boom" has been applied to this period largely because of the volume of land claimed and the rapid increase in Dakota Territory's population that occurred during those years. Most accounts of this time period have treated the Dakota boom as a rural phenomenon, and certainly its main manifestation was the rapid claiming of land by immigrant and American would, be farm owners in the plains of Dakota Territory and adjacent areas. …
Book Review: Five Shades Of Shadow, Gordon O. Taylor
Book Review: Five Shades Of Shadow, Gordon O. Taylor
Great Plains Quarterly
The Oklahoma City bombing "informs each sentence here," Tracy Daugherty tells us, becoming the epicenter to essays aiming to "gather remains-of family, history, landscape- before they were lost." At work on a novel when the bombing occurred, a book tracing family roots in West Texas and Oklahoma, Daugherty turned to nonfiction as a means of "glancing back in order to look ahead more clearly," to probe personal and regional in relation to national history, to confront instabilities in his own life, in part, by trying to understand violent disturbance in the republic.
Book Review: Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections, Sheryl Allen
Book Review: Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections, Sheryl Allen
Great Plains Quarterly
David Staines's collection of essays by twelve distinguished scholars, critics, and writers illuminates the accomplishments of one of Canada's most acclaimed and beloved authors. like the volume's cover photo of a young and attractive Margaret Laurence, an image unfamiliar to readers accustomed to the round face and over-sized glasses of her later years, the essays themselves, and the editor's introduction, offer fresh perspectives on Laurence's work, challenging us to view it in new ways.
Book Review: On Teaching And Writing Fiction, Jackson J. Benson
Book Review: On Teaching And Writing Fiction, Jackson J. Benson
Great Plains Quarterly
There have been several collections of essays by and about Wallace Stegner, but this one takes in new territory, his ideas about the teaching of creative writing and about the art of fiction . He was a teacher of writing for most of his life, first at Utah, at Wisconsin, and then at Harvard. He went to Stanford in 1945 where he founded and directed the Writing Program, a workshop format modeled after his student experience at Iowa (the only graduate writing program in the country at that time) and his summers teaching at the Bread Loaf Writers' Conference.
Book Review: One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis And Clark, W. Raymond Wood
Book Review: One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis And Clark, W. Raymond Wood
Great Plains Quarterly
This is the first of a projected six-volume "History of the American West" to be published by the University of Nebraska Press and edited by Richard W. Etulain, a specialist in the history and literature of the west.
Pieced In The Plains: Kansas Amish Quilts And Cultural Adaptation, Janneken L. Smucker
Pieced In The Plains: Kansas Amish Quilts And Cultural Adaptation, Janneken L. Smucker
Great Plains Quarterly
While the Old Order Amish are often thought of as the plain-dressing religious sect that attracts millions of tourists annually to Pennsylvania Dutch country, this Anabaptist group also has a significant history in the Great Plains.
Book Review: Red Cloud: Photographs Of A Lakota Chief, Joel Minor
Book Review: Red Cloud: Photographs Of A Lakota Chief, Joel Minor
Great Plains Quarterly
In the latter half of the nineteenth century a deadly clash of cultures swept across the Great Plains of this continent. Perhaps no tribe resisted the Euro-American invasion more fiercely than the Lakota bands of Sioux, and perhaps no one embodied this resistance for the Euro-American public more than Red Cloud.