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Book Review: Encyclopedia Of Indian Wars: Western Battles And Skirmishes, 1850-1890, Lance Janda
Book Review: Encyclopedia Of Indian Wars: Western Battles And Skirmishes, 1850-1890, Lance Janda
Great Plains Quarterly
Despite steady interest in the wars on the American frontier during the last half of the nineteenth century, few historians have examined those conflicts as a coherent whole. The multitude of Native American tribes involved, the small scale of most battles, and the myriad details of each war have made them better suited for tightly focused monographs, while the hundreds of brief and inconsequential skirmishes that represented the bulk of the fighting have been ignored or scarcely mentioned. Happily, this gap in the historiography has finally been filled by Gregory F. Michno's Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, …
Entering Sacred Landscapes: Cultural Expectations Versus Legal Realities In The Northwestern Plains, Gregory R. Campbell, Thomas A. Foor
Entering Sacred Landscapes: Cultural Expectations Versus Legal Realities In The Northwestern Plains, Gregory R. Campbell, Thomas A. Foor
Great Plains Quarterly
The spiritual part of this earth is as powerful, maybe more powerful than the physical life that we have - that we understand. We have lived in the spiritual environment, and are very much aware of its powers. The certain power places that have certain gifts to man, such as the Covenants, the many Teachings, the many blessings that come from these places-these places we call the Holy Places. The Holy Places are the spiritual environment that we have come to understand, that here is a place that the teachings, the Covenants, are received.
Book Review: First To Fight, William C. Meadows
Book Review: First To Fight, William C. Meadows
Great Plains Quarterly
First to Fight is a brief life history of Henry Mihesuah, a Comanche born in the 1920s. It is exactly what it promises to be - a collection of personal reminisces by Henry Mihesuah of his life, recorded and arranged by his daughter-in-law.
Summer 2004 Book Notes, Notes & News, Great Plains Quarterly
Summer 2004 Book Notes, Notes & News, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly
Book Notes & Notes and News from the Summer 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.
Book Review: Kansas And The West: New Perspectives, Ron Mccoy
Book Review: Kansas And The West: New Perspectives, Ron Mccoy
Great Plains Quarterly
Conquistadors and cowboys, Indians and Exodusters - to say nothing of such luminaries in the pantheon of popular culture as Wyatt Earp, Wild Bill Hickok, and Buffalo Bill Cody - join the intricate weave of the historical tapestry of Kansas. Frequently glanced at as a "passing through" place, Kansas is more accurately perceived as a locale where regions and peoples meet, mingle, and merge. It is, after all, in Kansas that watered prairies taper off into vast Plains where Dust Bowl nightmares linger. This complex place and its complex history receive the attention of the twenty authors whose nineteen essays …
Book Review: Kit Carson And His Three Wives: A Family History, Robert A. Trennert
Book Review: Kit Carson And His Three Wives: A Family History, Robert A. Trennert
Great Plains Quarterly
This examination of Kit Carson's family life goes a long way toward correcting the "monster image" of the famous frontiersman that has held sway with revisionist historians in the last three decades.
Book Review: Marriage, Violence, And The Nation In The American Literary West, Christine Bold
Book Review: Marriage, Violence, And The Nation In The American Literary West, Christine Bold
Great Plains Quarterly
"If the West tells us anything," says William Handley, "it is that stories have powerful consequences." This book reads western stories anew, not as familiar tales of individualism but as family dramas with newly thought-provoking consequences for the "nation's racial future." Handley argues that twentieth-century western literature is more preoccupied with marriage than with the frontier. Marriage serves as an analogy for US national unity while also exposing the uncontainable violence at the heart of nation-building. These stories demonstrate that, having destroyed the racial and ethnic "others" against whom the nation defined itself, "imperialism brings its guns home."
Book Review: On Fire, John Pultz
Book Review: On Fire, John Pultz
Great Plains Quarterly
Larry Schwarm grew up on a farm in south-central Kansas, received an M.F.A. degree from the University of Kansas, and since 1988 has taught photography in the art department at Emporia State University, located in the Flint Hills of east-central Kansas, a remarkable geographical and topographical feature, where rolling hills extend for miles at a time, with no trees, fences, roads, or structures to impede them. On these hills is the largest remaining stand of the tallgrass prairie that once covered the eastern Great Plains. This land is now used for grazing, and each spring ranchers light fires to the …
Book Review: One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard And Social Reform, 1875-1930, Linda Edmondson
Book Review: One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard And Social Reform, 1875-1930, Linda Edmondson
Great Plains Quarterly
Kate Barnard was elected Oklahoma's first commissioner of charities and corrections in 1907. The first woman in the country elected to a major statewide office, she remains Oklahoma's most famous woman politician. Lynn Musslewhite and Suzanne Jones Crawford have written a definitive biography of this western progressive and her reform efforts.
The New Negro Arts And Letters Movement Among Black University Students In The Midwest, 1914-1940, Richard M. Breaux
The New Negro Arts And Letters Movement Among Black University Students In The Midwest, 1914-1940, Richard M. Breaux
Great Plains Quarterly
The 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s were an exciting time for black artists and writers in the United States. Much of the historical literature highlights the so-called Harlem Renaissance or its successor, the Black Chicago Renaissance. Few studies, however, document the influence of these artistic movements outside major urban cities such as New York, Chicago, or Washington, DC. In his 1988 essay on black education, historian Ronald Butchart argued that the educational effects of black social movements such as the Harlem Renaissance on black schooling are unclear and underexplored. This article explores the influence of the New Negro arts and letters …
Book Review: Unsettling The Literary West: Authenticity And Authorship, J. David Stevens
Book Review: Unsettling The Literary West: Authenticity And Authorship, J. David Stevens
Great Plains Quarterly
Its promise to revolutionize western studies aside, Nathaniel Lewis's Unsettling the Literary West offers several smart readings of western texts along with a unique analytical approach to the field. Lewis's central claim is that as early as the 1830s writers of western literature felt an undue obligation to capture the "true West," to produce books that stressed accurate renditions of landscape, and, however exaggerated, to claim real-world credentials to substantiate their observations. Though most of these writers understood absolute realism to be impossible, they were performing for eastern audiences whose interest lay not in artistic perception but in the "genuine" …
Book Review: West Of Emerson: The Design Of Manifest Destiny, Charles W. Mignon
Book Review: West Of Emerson: The Design Of Manifest Destiny, Charles W. Mignon
Great Plains Quarterly
This book might find a place on the bookshelf between Sacvan Bercovitch's The Rites of Assent and Annette Kolodny's The Lay of the Land, perhaps next to Robert Hurlbutt's Hume, Newton, and the Design Argument, and at least near Saul Alinsky's Reveille for Radicals. The book's critical purposes are "to describe the theological lineage of manifest destiny, or the quasi-sacred explanation for the way America looked to Americans in the nineteenth century" and "to see key texts of our nature canon, Nature and Walden, in this new line of descent."
Book Review: Between Grass And Sky: Where I Live And Work, Mary Clearman Blew
Book Review: Between Grass And Sky: Where I Live And Work, Mary Clearman Blew
Great Plains Quarterly
After the publication of her first book, Windbreak, by Barn Owl Books in 1987, Linda Hasselstrom became a small press legend. Disseminated by word of mouth, Windbreak established Hasselstrom as one of the best-known voices speaking on behalf of cattle ranchers on the Great Plains. In her early books (Windbreak was followed by Going Over East, which won a Fulcrum Award in 1987), Hasselstrom's persona was that of an articulate ranch woman, committed to the South Dakota community where she had grown up and to the land where she and her husband worked beside her rancher father.
Book Review: Bienfait: The Saskatchewan Miners' Struggle Of '31, Craig Heron
Book Review: Bienfait: The Saskatchewan Miners' Struggle Of '31, Craig Heron
Great Plains Quarterly
A strike is a privileged moment for the historian. Floodlights get shone on the working lives of wage earners that would otherwise get little public attention. Issues of collective working-class organization and politics stand out vividly. The relative power of contending forces in capitalist society is starkly clear. And the events of the confrontation typically provide plenty of high drama. Stephen Endicott has taken hold of these elements in a well-remembered miners' strike on the Canadian Prairies and given us a fascinating, beautifully written account of working-class struggle in the depths of the Depression.
Book Review: Bound For Sante Fe: The Road To New Mexico And The American Conquest, Harry C. Myers
Book Review: Bound For Sante Fe: The Road To New Mexico And The American Conquest, Harry C. Myers
Great Plains Quarterly
The history of the Sante Fe Trail has been repeated many times, often with the same material told in the same manner, along with the same interpretation. Stephen Hyslop's is then a refreshing new view of the old story.
Book Review: Buffalo Bill And Sitting Bull: Inventing The Wild West, John H. Monnett
Book Review: Buffalo Bill And Sitting Bull: Inventing The Wild West, John H. Monnett
Great Plains Quarterly
Bobby Bridger has written a lively paced biography of Buffalo Bill Cody. Although the subtitle, Inventing the Wild West, promises much, Bridger's emphasis is strictly on interpretation of Cody's personality rather than a revision of the scout's significance to Great Plains history or the presentation of new material. This theme fits well into Bridger's avocation as an entertainer, producing and presenting A Ballad of the West, a trilogy of one-man shows depicting America's frontier period. The book covers Cody's early years through the Indian Wars, the days of his Wild West extravaganza, and his last years.
But What Is There To See?: An Exploration Of A Great Plains Aesthetic, Shaunanne Tangney
But What Is There To See?: An Exploration Of A Great Plains Aesthetic, Shaunanne Tangney
Great Plains Quarterly
In the fall of 2001 I taught a beginning college composition course at Minot State University, a small state university located in the northwestern quadrant of North Dakota. It is typical of such courses to include a fair amount of reading, and one of the texts I assigned was Ian Frazier's Great Plains. The book is a travelogue that Frazier wrote while living in and traveling throughout the Great Plains. It is written in a direct and inviting style and provides insight about the very place in which the students and I were living. I thought students would take …
Book Reviews And Notes & News, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly
Book Reviews And Notes & News, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly
Great Plains Quarterly
Book Reviews & Notes and News in the Fall 2004 issue of Great Plains Quarterly.
Book Review: Icelanders In North America: The First Settlers, Gudren Björk Gudsteins
Book Review: Icelanders In North America: The First Settlers, Gudren Björk Gudsteins
Great Plains Quarterly
Jonas Thor's study offers an excellent view into the background and development of Icelandic migration to the West, briefly outlining immigration to Utah in the 1850s and Brazil in the 1860-70s, but primarily focusing on mass migration from 1870 to 1914 to and within the North American prairies, and gravitating to the west coast.
Book Review: Interpreting The Legacy: John Neihardt And "Black Elk Speaks", Dale Stover
Book Review: Interpreting The Legacy: John Neihardt And "Black Elk Speaks", Dale Stover
Great Plains Quarterly
This volume represents a feisty defense of John Neihardt's literary role in crafting the classic presentation of the voice of a Lakota "holy man" in Black Elk Speaks. Holloway explicitly addresses a variety of criticisms leveled against Neihardt that in one way or another accuse him of supplanting Black Elk's voice with one resonating with the biases of his own cultural and religious vision. Holloway not only provides intelligent critiques of these charges, but also takes the reader directly to the texts behind the published text, supplying a great many photocopied pages from Enid Neihardt's typed transcriptions of her …
Book Review: Kansas: The History Of The Sunflower State, 1854-2000, Raymond Wilson
Book Review: Kansas: The History Of The Sunflower State, 1854-2000, Raymond Wilson
Great Plains Quarterly
Writing a one-volume state history is a formidable task. Deciding what political, economic, and social topics to cover that reflect the state's identity and character are extremely challenging. Craig Miner recognized and accepted these challenges, and the result is the best single-volume history of Kansas written to date.
Native American Photography At The Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Elizabeth Edwards
Native American Photography At The Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Elizabeth Edwards
Great Plains Quarterly
This excellent volume is an illustrated reconstruction of what was probably the first exhibition of photographs at the Smithsonian. The subject matter was not the great politicians or celebrities of the times but Native Americans. Most of the photographs were of delegations that visited Washington - including numerous men from the Plains, especially representatives of the Souian peoples photographed in 1858, 1867, and 1868 - and reflected the turbulent inter-cultural politics of the period.
Book Review: Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, And The Creation Of The American West, James R. Shortridge
Book Review: Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, And The Creation Of The American West, James R. Shortridge
Great Plains Quarterly
Powerful mythologies have always blocked people's understanding of the American West. This book provides important insights into this issue by juxtaposing the literatures of boosterism and reminiscence. The author reminds us that both sentiments were central to the creation of regional identity. One looked to a future where sophisticated cities and irrigated fields would replace alkali and coyotes. The other reshaped the past through stories of how hardship and sacrifice underlaid modern luxury.
Book Review: Reading "The Virginian" In The New West, Forrest G. Robinson
Book Review: Reading "The Virginian" In The New West, Forrest G. Robinson
Great Plains Quarterly
The Virginian is here to stay. For most of the first century of its life, critics gave their attention to what they found on the novel's face: the rugged hero, conquest, a reinvigorated national identity, the triumph of patriarchal law and of good over evil. It was a tale out of Turner. This timely new volume confirms and elaborates recent, revisionist moves to overturn the consensus reading and replace it with interrogations of the novel's competing, even contradictory perspectives in matters of race, class, and gender. Once the embodiment of a faith in the American character and mission, The Virginian …
Book Review: Rodeo Queens And The American Dream, Lawrence R. Borne
Book Review: Rodeo Queens And The American Dream, Lawrence R. Borne
Great Plains Quarterly
Joan Burbick discusses the young women who promoted rodeos from the early 1920s until the 1990s. In the early years the person who sold the most tickets was picked as Queen. Other methods were later used to create an image of the perfect western woman.
Book Review: Texas Rangeland, Rick Dingus
Book Review: Texas Rangeland, Rick Dingus
Great Plains Quarterly
Texas Rangeland presents an unusual series of photographs of cattle interspersed with commentary by ranchers asked to discuss what they saw when they looked at the images. Burton Pritzker made the photographs; his wife, Renee Walker Pritzker, collaborated by collecting and editing the text of the conversations. The result offers readers a curious blend of materials. The ranchers respond not only to the photographs but recount their own memories and discuss ranching as a disappearing way of life. This provides a background to the photographer's dramatic visual responses to cattle.
Book Review: The False Traitor: Louis Riel In Canadian Culture, Jill St. Germain
Book Review: The False Traitor: Louis Riel In Canadian Culture, Jill St. Germain
Great Plains Quarterly
In The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture, Albert Braz examines treatments of the mercurial nineteenth-century Metis leader in an astonishing array of plays, poems, novels, television dramas, Hollywood films, and sculpture. His study spans the century and more since Riel emerged at the head of the Metis resistance at Red River, Manitoba, in 1869-70 and was executed in 1885 as a traitor to Canada for his role in fomenting rebellion on the Saskatchewan.
Book Review: The Lewis And Clark Journals: An American Epic Of Discovery, Richard Littlebear
Book Review: The Lewis And Clark Journals: An American Epic Of Discovery, Richard Littlebear
Great Plains Quarterly
All my life, I had consciously chosen not to read about Lewis and Clark - until i read the abridged edition of The Lewis and Clark Journals. What a load of dung that turned out to be.
Book Review: The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, Gregory O. Gagnon
Book Review: The New Warriors: Native American Leaders Since 1900, Gregory O. Gagnon
Great Plains Quarterly
R. David Edmunds and his colleagues have essayed a needed task, offering readers the premise that American Indians still live in viable societies and generate outstanding leadership. Sadly, the bulk of scholarly and popular attention proffers the romantic image of "noble savages" defending a doomed way of life. Most Americans have a vague idea or two about Crazy Horse, Sitting Bull, and Geronimo, but no knowledge of Phillip Martin and Robert Yellowtail. The New Warriors is a good start in correcting an ignorance that has unfortunate consequences as Indians struggle to maintain their unique place in America in the twenty-first …
Book Review: The Roots Of Texas Music, Kevin E. Mooney
Book Review: The Roots Of Texas Music, Kevin E. Mooney
Great Plains Quarterly
The Roots of Texas Music is a collection of nine essays focusing on Texan contributions to such American musical traditions as jazz, country, blues, classical, Gospel, "Chicano," polka, and zydeco. Gary Hartman's introductory overview of Texas music history is the longest and among the best of the collection's chapters. His coverage of Native American music (including the only specific reference to the Great Plains), French music, and a brief mention of rock and roll presents three musical styles not included in any of the more in-depth studies that follow.