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Book Review: The American West In 2000: Essays In Honor Of Gerald D. Nash, John R. Wunder
Book Review: The American West In 2000: Essays In Honor Of Gerald D. Nash, John R. Wunder
Great Plains Quarterly
The American West in 2000 is a literary labor of love edited by two former colleagues of the late Gerald D. Nash, a longtime professor of history at the University of New Mexico, and composed of essay contributions from former students, colleagues, and friends. Originally conceived as a retirement festschrift, including a ten-page autobiography by Nash himself, the book became instead a memorial tribute to Nash upon his death in 2000.
Book Review: The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples, Robert C. Ripley
Book Review: The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples, Robert C. Ripley
Great Plains Quarterly
Employing three conceptual frameworks or lenses, Charles Goodsell provides an illuminating examination of the singular American architectural creation called the statehouse. He uses these lenses to offer a social interpretation of the architecture of our fifty state capitols. The first lens seeks concepts or values embedded within the building proper. The second looks at the impact of a statehouse on current political behavior. Finally, his third lens provides the broader impressions these buildings have on society in general.
Book Review: The Invention Of Native American Literature, Lori Burlingame
Book Review: The Invention Of Native American Literature, Lori Burlingame
Great Plains Quarterly
Through the lens of historical interpretation, Robert Dale Parker presents a controversial, deconstructionist argument that the field of Native American literature has been invented by Native writers who have drawn on Indian and literary traditions in order "to theorize an Indian aesthetic" that links artistic and cultural identity.
Book Review: The Road To Lame Deer, Alan Boye
Book Review: The Road To Lame Deer, Alan Boye
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1922 a white physician working on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation began taking photographs of the Cheyenne people. Before his death in 1935, Thomas Marquis had amassed over five hundred photographs and published a number of significant books and articles about the Cheyenne.
Book Review: "This Is America?" The Sixties In Lawrence, Kansas, Craig Miner
Book Review: "This Is America?" The Sixties In Lawrence, Kansas, Craig Miner
Great Plains Quarterly
This book is the second recent treatment of dissent in Kansas cities in the late twentieth century. Along with Gretchen Eick's Dissent in Wichita (2001), it shows that where active protest was concerned, Kansas in the 1960s and 1970s was no backwater. One could add the struggle over the Wolf Creek nuclear plant in the same era to complete the picture of a state evenly split on issues.
Book Review: Vaqueros, Cowboys, And Buckaroos, Great Plains Quarterly
Book Review: Vaqueros, Cowboys, And Buckaroos, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly
Perhaps the most widely recognized character in the history of the West is the American Cowboy. Across two centuries of literature, film, and even historical writing, cowboys have always been represented to the American public as stereotypical characters of the western scene.
Book Review: Black Masculinity And The Frontier Myth In American Literature, Riché Richardson
Book Review: Black Masculinity And The Frontier Myth In American Literature, Riché Richardson
Great Plains Quarterly
Over the past decade or so, masculinity has become a subject of continuing critical and theoretical fascination in the academy, and there is now a burgeoning subfield of work on the subject of black masculinity alone. This growing body of scholarship on black masculinity has developed in part in recent years because critics have increasingly understood the status of race in masculine formation and the importance of looking beyond white men as a normative category. Michael K. Johnson offers a revealing and admirable study of black masculinity in relation to a topic that has ordinarily been presumed to be incompatible …
Book Review: Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy In The Presbyterian Church, Henry Warner Bowden
Book Review: Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy In The Presbyterian Church, Henry Warner Bowden
Great Plains Quarterly
By now it's safe to say that we have turned a comer in studies of Indian missions because recent publications have sustained a new perspective on Native Christianity. Previous interpretive ideas - ones shared by this reviewer - assumed a dearth of Indian documentary sources, regarded white values as incompatible with Native ones, judged evangelical efforts to be failures when Indians remained Indians, and dismissed converts as having abandoned the cultural patterns essential to their ethnic identity. But the author of this volume joins a handful of others who point out that Native clergy did not obliterate tribal self-consciousness but …
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis And The North American Indian Project In The Field, Joanna Cohan Scherer
Book Review: Edward S. Curtis And The North American Indian Project In The Field, Joanna Cohan Scherer
Great Plains Quarterly
Mick Gidley is without a doubt the primary advocate of Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952) . As a photographer of North American Indians in the early twentieth century, Curtis produced work that needs an advocate since it is often viewed today as fake, exploitative, and thus controversial. Curtis's magnum opus, The North American Indian (1907-1930), is a remarkable collection of images, some posed, some manipulated, some art, some ethnographic, some nostalgic, some realistic, but always compelling. Because of the widespread interest in Curtis, Gidley's current publication, drawing on an assortment of unpublished reports, letters, field notes, and little known newspaper and …
Great Plains Native American Representations Along The Lewis And Clark Trail, Kevin S. Blake
Great Plains Native American Representations Along The Lewis And Clark Trail, Kevin S. Blake
Great Plains Quarterly
Memorializing history in the landscape reflects deep-seated cultural needs. This process not only pays homage to the actions, events, or persons deemed significant at a particular point in time, but it also offers a chance for the creators of the historic marker to write their version of history and to use an interpretive format that highlights their own understanding and values. Cultural geographer Kenneth Foote observes in a study of American memorials, "What is accepted as historical truth is often a narrative shaped and reshaped through time to fit the demands of contemporary society." The significance of selecting particular historical …
Book Reviews, Notes And News, Great Plains Quarterly
Book Reviews, Notes And News, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly
Book Reviews & Notes and News from the Fall 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.
Book Review: Interpreters With Lewis And Clark: The Story Of Sacagawea And Toussaint Charbonneau, Lisa E. Emmerich
Book Review: Interpreters With Lewis And Clark: The Story Of Sacagawea And Toussaint Charbonneau, Lisa E. Emmerich
Great Plains Quarterly
The release of the Sacagawea dollar coin in 2000 met with decidedly mixed reviews. Critics complained that it was too much in size like the quarter and could not be accommodated in retail sales drawers. Despite the intrinsic beauty - the golden coin features Sacagawea and her infant son on the face and a soaring bald eagle on the reverse - the dollar has earned little popularity since its introduction.
Book Review: More Ghost Towns Of Texas, David Wharton
Book Review: More Ghost Towns Of Texas, David Wharton
Great Plains Quarterly
According to T. Lindsay Baker, a ghost town is "a town for which the reason for being no longer exists." The great expanse of Texas abounds with such places, and Baker claims to have identified more than a thousand of these sites and to have visited approximately three hundred. He described eighty-six abandoned places in Ghost Towns of Texas (1986), and now, with the publication of More Ghost Towns of Texas, he's written about ninety-four more, always with an eye to explaining how each one's "reason for being" faded away.
Book Review: One Hundred Years Of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life, Daniel J. Gelo
Book Review: One Hundred Years Of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life, Daniel J. Gelo
Great Plains Quarterly
Although biographies have long been a staple in Plains Indian ethnology, this profile of an Arapaho man of renown offers something new, different, and important. Because of their unique position in the unfolding events of frontier expansion, well described in this volume, the Arapahos never received the degree of study afforded other Plains tribes, and this book is redress. Moreover, Anderson's method of reconstructing Sage's life story is particularly inventive.
Refining Rural Spaces: Women And Vernacular Gentility In The Great Plains, 1880-1920, Andrea G. Radke
Refining Rural Spaces: Women And Vernacular Gentility In The Great Plains, 1880-1920, Andrea G. Radke
Great Plains Quarterly
In 1887 the Plains photographer Solomon Butcher met the David Hilton family in Custer County, Nebraska. Mrs. Hilton desired a photograph to send to relatives back East, but felt embarrassed by the family's sod dwelling. She insisted that Butcher not take a photo of the house, but asked the men to drag the Hiltons' beautiful new pump organ out into the field, where the family could pose around the instrument. The sod house remained outside the photograph, and after the session the men returned the organ to the house. To Mrs. Hilton, the organ became her personal symbol of aspirations …
Telling Stories About Lewis And Clark: Does History Still Matter?, Andrew R. L. Cayton
Telling Stories About Lewis And Clark: Does History Still Matter?, Andrew R. L. Cayton
Great Plains Quarterly
It is obvious that Meriwether Lewis and William Clark are famous men. The story of their expedition and the people who traveled with them, including Clark's enslaved African-American York and the Indian woman called Sacajawea, is an iconic narrative of Americana. The fifty-four page annotated list of books, pamphlets, and articles published between 1906 and 2001 in The Literature of the Lewis and Clark Expedition attests to a fascination that took hold during the centennial of their great trek and threatens to swamp us all during its bicentennial.
Book Review: The Coronado Expedition From The Distance Of 460 Years, David J. Weber
Book Review: The Coronado Expedition From The Distance Of 460 Years, David J. Weber
Great Plains Quarterly
The remarkable descriptions of places and people produced by Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's expedition constitute the verbal baseline for measuring historical change in southwestern America. Those descriptions are most useful, however, when linked to modern locations. Many of the writers in this essential volume have set themselves to that task.
Book Review: The Life And Political Times Of Tommy Douglas, James M. Pitsula
Book Review: The Life And Political Times Of Tommy Douglas, James M. Pitsula
Great Plains Quarterly
Walter Stewart's life of Tommy Douglas cannot be described as a fresh contribution to our understanding of Canada's most notable socialist, the man who served successively as premier of Saskatchewan (1944-61) and national leader of the New Democratic Party (1961-71). It relies heavily on previous biographies written by Doris Shackleton and Thomas H. and Ian McLeod, as well as Douglas's autobiographical interviews published in 1982. Stewart justifies his reworking of familiar material on the basis that "medicare [i.e., comprehensive, universal, compulsory, and government-administered health insurance) is in crisis," and Canadians "might want to know something more about the man without …
Book Review: The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West, Allison Badger
Book Review: The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West, Allison Badger
Great Plains Quarterly
The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West traces the life of Joyce Litz's grandmother, Lillian Hazen, from her days as a New York newspaper columnist to her years on a Montana ranch. Using her grandmother's journals and her published and unpublished writings, Litz describes a woman who grew up believing that a husband and children would ensure happiness and success. Yet, as Litz demonstrates, Hazen's life was anything but happy. Despite years of bankruptcy, drought, and a cheerless marriage, Hazen found ways to cope with her circumstances. Although Litz rarely delves into Hazen's emotional state, she believes Hazen's writing itself allowed …
Book Review: The Real Rosebud: The Triumph Of A Lakota Woman, Norma C. Wilson
Book Review: The Real Rosebud: The Triumph Of A Lakota Woman, Norma C. Wilson
Great Plains Quarterly
Weinberg's narrative shows how quickly life changed for Lakota people during the course of a century. Yellow Robe lived as a traditional Brule. Though his son, Chauncey, grew up in that world, Chauncey's adult life in Rapid City was very different from his youth. Rosebud, Chauncey's daughter, left the land of her ancestors in 1927 to spend most of her life in New York City. Yet each valued being Lakota.
Book Review: The Texas Post Office Murals: Art For The People, Karal Ann Marling
Book Review: The Texas Post Office Murals: Art For The People, Karal Ann Marling
Great Plains Quarterly
Stodgy university presses, in these hard economic times, have begun to produce books that have a broad appeal to scholars and casual readers alike, and The Texas Post Office Murals is a splendid example of the genre. Beautifully designed and printed, mostly in vivid color, Parisi's book becomes both a superb tourist's guide to 1930s art in Texas and a primary research document for students of American art and culture. Given the size of the state of Texas, he has also performed a valuable service by saving all of us a lot of dusty mileage along blue highways.
Book Review: Toward A Native American Critical Theory, Renate Eigenbrod
Book Review: Toward A Native American Critical Theory, Renate Eigenbrod
Great Plains Quarterly
In this book, author Elvira Pulitano analyses and evaluates selected writings by Paula Gunn Allen, Robert Allen Warrior, Craig Womack, Greg Sarris, Louis Owens, and Gerald Vizenor in their relation to postmodern, poststructuralist, and postcolonial thought.
Book Review: Vanished Act: The Life And Art Of Weldon Kees, Raymond Nelson
Book Review: Vanished Act: The Life And Art Of Weldon Kees, Raymond Nelson
Great Plains Quarterly
When poet Weldon Kees walked away into the fogs of the Golden Gate Bridge he made his life and ironic style into the stuff of myth. In the years since his disappearance he has commonly been remembered less for his remarkable verses than as an emblematic suicide or runaway or victim of his times.
Book Review: Who Owns Native Culture?, April R. Summit
Book Review: Who Owns Native Culture?, April R. Summit
Great Plains Quarterly
In this important work, Michael Brown discusses competing claims to culture through a series of interesting case studies. He begins by outlining the major arguments going on inside indigenous cultures today and how efforts to assert sovereignty have brought many new issues into the political arena. Throughout the work, Brown maintains that a balance must be found between protecting Native culture from outsiders and communicating the benefits of that culture to the mainstream.
Book Review: Wyoming Trucks, True Love, And The Weather Channel: A Woman's Adventure, Laura E. Casari
Book Review: Wyoming Trucks, True Love, And The Weather Channel: A Woman's Adventure, Laura E. Casari
Great Plains Quarterly
Kennedy's subtitle is apt, for her book narrates the education of a biologist who becomes a second-generation environmentalist, or at least what she calls a second-generation environmentalist. As a consultant, she often works in the Plains states assessing the compliance of public drinking water programs with EPA regulations. Some of these regulations are based on research done in graduate school by field experts one college generation before hers-now often field experts on teams with her. One such site she describes in the Painted Creek, near Phoenix, which she visits once yearly, and where she shows us with an artist's eye …
Book Review: African American Women Confront The West, 1600-2000, Michael Lansing
Book Review: African American Women Confront The West, 1600-2000, Michael Lansing
Great Plains Quarterly
This collection chronicles the longstanding and diverse experiences of African American women across the regional West through a series of essays by leading western historians. Together, they bring new depth to a subject often ignored. On issues ranging from race relations to labor relations and from working-class as well as upper-class perspectives, the volume carefully reconstructs and considers the role of black women in varied western contexts.
Book Review: Around The Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism In The Red Power Era, Francis Guth
Book Review: Around The Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism In The Red Power Era, Francis Guth
Great Plains Quarterly
This important book details the continent-wide, including Great Plains, efforts of Native Americans in the 1970s and 1980s to revive and unify Native spirituality and bring it to terms with Christianity. The subtitle alerts us that these efforts were largely overshadowed by more militant "Red Power" movements.
Book Review: Barns Of Kansas: A Pictorial History, John Michael Vlach
Book Review: Barns Of Kansas: A Pictorial History, John Michael Vlach
Great Plains Quarterly
This catalog of old barns from Kansas appears at a propitious moment when considerable popular attention is being directed toward historic farm buildings in the "Sunflower State." The National Park Service along with the Kansas State Historical Society is currently in the middle of a five-year assessment of the state's historic resources, a survey that includes many historic farms. The "Barn Again" program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation has recently bestowed its highest commendation on barn restoration projects in Doniphan, Osage, and Pottawatimie Counties. This concern with agricultural legacies is reinforced as well by the University of Kansas's …
Book Review: Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, And The Possibilities Of Fiction, Alison Calder
Book Review: Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, And The Possibilities Of Fiction, Alison Calder
Great Plains Quarterly
Based on an address she gave at Hanover College in 1996, the collection opens with an essay by Carol Shields, "Narrative Hunger and the Overflowing Cupboard," in which she argues that readers have a hunger for narrative that can never be satisfied. This hunger, which manifests itself in a cultural fascination with obituaries and biographies, is related to the insufficiency of language to describe the world. Were language to match experience exactly, the reader could rest. But because experience can never be articulated in its totality, readers long for more. Shields argues that one of the reasons this hunger persists …
Congregationalist Richard Cordley And The Impact Of New England Cultural Imperialism In Kansas, 1857-1904, Nathan Wilson
Congregationalist Richard Cordley And The Impact Of New England Cultural Imperialism In Kansas, 1857-1904, Nathan Wilson
Great Plains Quarterly
What constitutes an authentic western hero? The archetypal image of the Jeffersonian ideal, the yeoman pioneer farmer who brought all the benefits of the American republic to the West, was the quintessential western hero until the Civil War era. Following this destructive period in American history, the armed gunfighter or cowboy replaced the yeoman farmer as the popular image of what it meant to be a western hero. But what about the clergy? As a major social force throughout the nineteenth century, religion proved an important factor in the settlement of the American West. Yet the idea of a religious …