WINTER 1994 VOL. 14/NO. 1


  • International Influences on the Great Plains: An Introduction Frances W. Kaye 3

    Maximilian, Prince of Wied (178201867), Reconsidered Paul Schach 5

    A North American Connection: Women in Prairie Novels Ann Barnard 21

    Plains and Prairie: Space, History, and the Literary Imagination, in Australia and the United States Don D. Walker 29

    BOOK REVIEWS

    Mills & Mine: The CF&I in the Twentieth Century by H. Lee Scamehorn, reviewed by Clare V. McKanna, Jr. 49

    Letters of Mari Sandoz edited by Helen Winter Stauffer, reviewed by Betsy Downey 50

    Homesteading Women: An Oral History of Colorado, 1890-1950 by Julie Jones-Eddy, reviewed by Evelyn I. Funda 51

    The Adventures of a Woman Homesteader: The Life and Letters of Elinore Pruitt Stewart by Susanne K. George, reviewed by Sue Hart 51

    The Vanishing American: White Attitudes and U.S. Indian Policy by Brian W. Dippie, reviewed by Robin Ridington and Jillian Ridington 52

    Winged Words: American Indian Writers Speak by Laura Coltelli, reviewed by Lisa Knopp-Ramsay 53

    Sending My Heart Back Across the Years: Tradition and Innovation in Native American Autobiography by Hertha Wong, reviewed by Kari Forbes-Boyte 54

    Madonna Swan: A Lakota Woman's Story told through Mark St. Pierre, reviewed by Beatrice Medicine 55

    Relations of Rescue: The Search for Female Moral Authority in the American West, 1874-1939 by Peggy Pascoe, reviewed by Karen Morin 56

    The Ghost-Dance Religion and the Sioux Outbreak of 1890 by James Mooney, reviewed by Benjamin R. Kracht 57

    The Osage Ceremonial Dance I'n-Lon-Schka by Alice Anne Callahan, reviewed by Mark J. Swetland 58

    A Dakota-English Dictionary by Stephen R. Riggs, edited by James Owen Dorsey, reviewed by Allan R. Taylor 59

    An English-Dakota Dictionary by John P. Williamson, reviewed by Allan R. Taylor 59

    The Dog's Children: Anishinaabe Texts Told by Angeline Williams edited by Leonard Bloomfield and John Nichols, reviewed by Paul C. Brooke 60

    Indians of North America: The Creeks by Michael D. Green, reviewed by C.B. Clark 60

    Objects of Change: The Archaeology and History of Arikara Contact with Europeans by J. Daniel Rogers, reviewed by Joseph C. Porter 61

    Without Quarter: The Wichita Expedition and the Fight on Crooked Creek by William Y. Chalfant, foreword by Paul Andrew Hutton, illustrations by Roy Grinnell, reviewed by Charles Kenner 62

    Fort Meade and the Black Hills by Robert Lee, reviewed by Charles Kenner 62

    Yellowstone Command: Colonel Nelson A. Miles and the Great Sioux Was 1876-1877 by Jerome A. Greene, reviewed by Charles Kenner 62

    Myles Keogh: The Life and Legend of an "Irish Dragoon" in the Seventh Cavalry edited by John P. Langellier, Kurt Hamilton Cox, and Brian C. Pohanka, reviewed by Michael L. Tate 63

    Farmers, Hunters, and Colonists: Interaction Between the Southwest and Southern Plains edited by Katherine A. Spielman, reviewed by Russell M. Magnaghi 64

    Kiva, Cross, and Crown: The Pecos Indians and New Mexico 1540-1840 by John L. Kessell, reviewed by Charles R. Cutter 65

    Indians of North America: The Chickasaw by Duane K. Hale and Arrell M. Gibson, reviewed by L.G. Moses 66

    The Texas Cherokees: A People Between Two Fires, 1819-1840 by Dianna Everett, reviewed by Brad A. Bays 66

    Atlas of American Indian Affairs by Francis Paul Prucha, reviewed by Larry Burt 68

    Eyewitness at Wounded Knee by Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, and John E. Carter, reviewed by Susan A. Miller 68

    Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio edited by Gerald E. Poyo and Gilberto M. Hinojosa, reviewed by Paul D. Lack 70

    From the Prairies with Hope by Jane L. Aberson, edited by Robert E. VanderVennen, introduced by Mark Boekelman, reviewed by Becky Faber 70

    My Dear Maggie: Letters from a Western Manitoba Pioneer by William Wallace, edited by Kenneth S. Coates and William R. Morrison, reviewed by Becky Faber 70

    Harry Kirke Wolfe: Pioneer in Psychology by Ludy T. Benjamin, Jr., reviewed by Kevin B. Miller 71

    Gardening in the Heartland by Rachel Snyder, reviewed by Amy Greving 72

    The Anglican Church and the World of Western Canada, 1820-1970 edited by Barry Ferguson, reviewed by John C. Scott, O.S.B. 72

    The Cattle-Trailing Industry: Between Supply and Demand, 1866-1890 by Jimmy M. Skaggs, reviewed by Kenneth Dagel 73

    The Catch Pen edited by Len Ainsworth and Kenneth R. Davis, reviewed by Jill Morstad 74

    Wyoming Time and Again: Rephotographing the Scenes of J.E. Stimson by Michael A. Amundsen, reviewed by Phil Roberts 74

    Larger Than Life: The American Tall-Tale Postcard, 1905-1915 by Cynthia Elyce Rubin and Morgan Williams, reviewed by Lana Miller 75

    NOTES & NEWS 77

 

SPRING 1994 VOL. 14/NO. 2


  • Architecture and the Great Plains: An Introduction H. Keith Sawyers 83

    Jeich Antonie: Czechs, The Land, Cather, and the Pavelka Farmstead David Murphy 85

    Writing the Little House: The Architecture of a Series Ann Romines 107

    Living in the Depot: The Two-Story Railroad Station on the Northern Plains H. Roger Grant 117

    "The Best Kind of Building": The New Deal Landscape of the Northern Plains, " 1933-42 Carroll Van West 129

    BOOK REVIEWS

    The Home Plot: Women, Writing and Domestic Ritual by Ann Romines, reviewed by Evelyn I. Funda 142

    The Ghost in the Little House: A Life of Rose Wilder Lane by William Holtz, reviewed by Alan Wilkinson 143

    A Nebraska Portfolio by Robert Hanna, reviewed by Howard Kaye 143

    Regional Studies: The Interplay of Land and People edited by Glen E. Lich, reviewed by James N. McCrorie 144

    Under Western Skies: Nature and History in the American West by Donald Worster, reviewed by Donald J. Pisani 145

    Writing Western History: Essays on Major Western Historians edited by Richard W. Etulain, reviewed by Frederick C. Luebke 146

    The Eagle Bird: Mapping a New West by Charles F. Wilkinson, reviewed by Francis Moul 148

    Deer Women and Elk Men: The Lakota Narratives of Ella Deloria by Julian Rice, reviewed by Holly Rae Boomer 149

    Nebraska Diamonds: A Brief History of Baseball Major Leaguers from the Cornhusker State by Jerry E. Clark, reviewed by Stu Fliger Burns 150

    Freedom on the Border: The Seminole Maroons in Florida, the Indian Territory, Coahuila, and Texas by Kevin Mulroy, reviewed by Rebecca B. Bateman 151

    Buffalo Guns & Barbed Wire: Two Frontier Accounts by Don Hampton Biggers, reviewed by Bob Ross 151

    Catalog of the Colorado Flora: A Biodiversity Baseline by William A. Weber and Ronald C. Wittmann, reviewed by Dieter Wilken 152

    From Cody to the World: The First Seventy-five Years of the Buffalo Bill Memorial Association by Richard A. Bartlett, reviewed by Lawrence Sommer 153

    NOTES & NEWS 155

 

SUMMER 1994 VOL. 14/NO. 3


  • Regionalism, Postmodernism, and Robert Kroetsch: An Introduction Robert Kroetsch 163

    "Gone Back to Alberta": Robert Kroetsch Rewriting the Great Plains Frances W. Kaye and Robert Thacker 167

    The Studhorse Man: Translating the Boundaries of Text Carol L. Beran 185

    The Mediator is the Message: Anna Dawe, Cana-Dawe, and Bad Lands as a State of Mind Bruce A. Butterfield 195

    Inhabiting the Dangerous Middle of the Space Between: An Intramodernist Reading of Kroetsch's Gone Indian Mary K. Kirtz 207

    BOOK REVIEWS

    Aberhart: Outpourings and Replies edited by David R. Elliott, reviewed by Robert Kroetsch 218

    The Sternberg Fossil Hunters: A Dinosaur Dynasty by Katherine Rogers, reviewed by Gregory Brown 219

    Wedded to the Cause: Ukrainian-Canadian Women and Ethnic Identity, 1891-1991 by Frances Swyripa, reviewed by Mary K. Kirtz 219

    Without Reserve: Stories from Urban Natives by Linda Shorten, reviewed by Patricia A. McCormack 221

    The Administration of Dominion Lands, 1870-1930 by Kirk N. Lambrecht, reviewed by Barry Kaye 222

    Surveying the Canadian Pacific: Memoir of a Railroad Pioneer by R.M. Rylatt, reviewed by Alec Paul 223

    The Railway King of Canada: Sir William Mackenzie, 1849-1923 by R.R. Fleming, reviewed by Alec Paul 223

    Métis Lands in Manitoba by Thomas Flanagan, reviewed by John E. Foster 224

    Buffalo edited by John Foster, Dick Harrison, and I.S. MacLaren, reviewed by Ken Zontek 225

    La frontiera del grano (1896-1918): L'Ovest nella storia canadese by Valeria Gennaro Lerda, reviewed by Walter Centuori 226

    Writing the Circle: Native Women of Western Canada edited by Jeanne Perreault and Sylvia Vance, preface by Emma LaRocque, introduction by Gloria Bird, reviewed by Janice C. Miller 227

    For an Amerindian Autohistory: An Essay on the Foundations of a Social Ethic by Georges E. Sioui, translated by Sheila Fischman, reviewed by H. David Brumble 228

    The Cree Language is Our Identity: The La Ronge Lectures of Sarah Whitecalf edited and translated by H.C. Wolfart and Freda Ahenakew, reviewed by Rory Larson 229

    Pioneering Policing in Southern Alberta: Dean of the Mounties, 1888-1914 edited by William M. Baker, reviewed by Larry D. Ball 230

    Prince Charming Goes West: The Story of the E.P. Ranch by Simon Evans, reviewed by Larry A. McFarlane 230

    NOTES & NEWS 232

 

FALL 1994 VOL. 14/NO. 4


  • Admiring Advocate of the Great Plains: Father Pierre-Jean De Smet, S.J., on the Middle Missouri Robert Carriker 243

    Walking the Sky: Visionary Traditions of the Great Plains Lee Irwin 257

    "A God-Forsaken Place" Folk Eschatology and the Dust Bowl Brad Lookingbill 273

    The Necessity of Narrative in William Least Heat-Moon's Blue Highways and Prairyerth Pamela Walker 287

    BOOK REVIEWS

    Pike's Peak Vision: The Broadmoor Art Academy, 1919-1945 by Stanley L Cuba and Elizabeth Cunningham, reviewed by Barbara Racker 298

    A Whirlwind Passes: News Correspondents and the Sioux Indian Disturbances of 1890-1891 by George R. Kolbenschlag, reviewed by Todd Kerstetter 299

    The Upstream People: An Annotated Research Bibliography of the Omaha Tribe by Michael L. Tate, reviewed by Mark J. Swetland 300

    The Lincoln County War: A Documentary History by Frederick Nolan, reviewed by Harold J. Weiss, Jr. 300

    Kansas History: An Annotated Bibliography by Homer E. Socolofsky and Virgil W. Dean, reviewed by Patrick G. O'Brien 301

    Historical Atlas of Kansas by Homer E. Socolofsky and Huber Self, reviewed by Patrick O'Brien 301

    A Prairie Populist: The Memoirs of Luna Kellie edited by Jane Taylor Nelsen, reviewed by Susan Sessions Rugh 302

    NOTES & NEWS 304
    INDEX 306