WINTER 2007 VOL. 27/ No. 1
The Art of Open Spaces: Contemporary Sea and Prairiescapes by Elizabeth Schultz 3
Key Words: national nostalgia, prairie environment, regional art
“Everything Promised Had Been Included in the Writing”: Indian Reserve Farming and the Spirit and Intent of Treaty Six Reconsidered by Derek Whitehouse-Strong 25
Key Words: agriculture, Canada, Cree, farming, oral history, Saskatchewan, treaties
Crazy Horse: The Strange Man of the Oglalas by Mari Sandoz: Historiography, A Philosophy for Reconsideration by Mary Dixon 39
Key Words: Dakota, enlightenment, myth, Sandoz
REVIEW ESSAY
Buffalo Bill, Superstar by Sarah J. Blackstone. A review of The Colonel and Little Missie: Buffalo Bill, Annie Oakley, and the Beginnings of Superstardom in America by Larry McMurtry and Buffalo Bill’s America: William Cody and the Wild West Show by Louis S. Warren 55
BOOK REVIEWS
The Shawnees and Their Neighbors, 1795-1870 by Stephen Warren, reviewed by Christopher Arris Oakley 57
The Conquest of Texas: Ethnic Cleansing in the Promised Land, 1820-1875 by Gary Clayton Anderson, reviewed by Sam W. Haynes 57
Indians and Emigrants: Encounters on the Overland Trail by Michael L. Tate, reviewed by Susan Badger Doyle 58
John Brown to Bob Dole: Movers and Shakers in Kansas History by Virgil W. Dean, ed., reviewed by O. Gene Clanton 59
General James G. Blunt: Tarnished Glory by Robert Collins, reviewed by William Garrett Piston 59
Crazy Horse: A Lakota Life by Kingsley M. Bray, reviewed by R. Eli Paul 60
Fort Randall on the Missouri, 1856-1892 by Jerome A. Greene, reviewed by Barton H. Barbour 61
Fort Concho: A History and a Guide by James T. Matthews, reviewed by Barton H. Barbour 61
Indian Wars: The Campaign for the American West by Bill Yenne, reviewed by Todd Leahy 62
The University of Oklahoma: A History. Volume I, 1890-1917 by David W. Levy and David L. Boren (Foreword), reviewed by Patricia Loughlin 62
Going It Alone: Fargo Grapples with the Great Depression by David Danbom, reviewed by Sean Taylor 63
Tulia: Race, Cocaine, and Corruption in a Small Texas Town by Nate Blakeslee, reviewed by J. Patrick Hazel 64
Women Writing Women: The Frontiers Reader by Patricia Hart and Karen Weathermon with Susan H. Armitage, eds., reviewed by Gioia Woods 65
Leaving Shadows: Literature in English by Canada’s Ukrainians by Lisa Grekul, reviewed by Mary K. Kirtz 65
Charlie Siringo’s West: An Interpretive Biography by Howard R. Lamar, reviewed by Randolph B. Campbell 66
A Western Legacy: The National Cowboy and Western Heritage Museum by Steven L. Grafe (Contributions [et al.]), Charles P. Schroeder (Foreword), David Dary (Introduction), and Ed Muno (Photography), reviewed by James D. McLaird 67
Chasing the Rodeo: On Wild Rides and Big Dreams, Broken Hearts and Broken Bones, and One Man’s Search for the West by W. K. Stratton, reviewed by Wayne S. Wooden 67
American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945 by Marian Wardle, ed., and Campbell B. Gray (Foreword), reviewed by Sharon L. Kennedy (Gustafson) 68
L. A. Huffman: Photographer of the American West by Larry Len Peterson, reviewed by Carl Mautz 68
Saskatchewan: Uncommon Views by John Conway (Photographs) and essays by Sharon Butala, David Carpenter, and Helen Marzolf, reviewed by Courtney Milne 69
Wild Prairie: A Photographer’s Personal Journey by James R. Page, and Candace Savage (Foreword), reviewed by Larry Schwarm 70
Hidden in Plain Sight: Contributions of Aboriginal Peoples to Canadian Identity and Culture, Volume I by David R. Newhouse, Cora J. Voyageur, and Dan Beavon, eds., reviewed by Robin Jarvis Brownlie 70
A Seat at the Table: Huston Smith in Conversation with Native Americans on Religious Freedom by Huston Smith and Phil Cousineau (Ed.), reviewed by Michael D. McNally 71
We Know Who We Are: Métis Identity in a Montana Community by Martha Harroun Foster, reviewed by James M. Pitsula 72
Lethal Legacy: Current Native Controversies in Canada by J. R. Miller, reviewed by Nathalie Kermoal 73
SPRING 2007 VOL. 27/ No. 2
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The Militarization of the Prairie: Scrap Drives, Metaphors, and the Omaha World Herald’s 1942 “Nebraska Plan” James J. Kimble 83
Key Words: metaphors, militarization, Nebraska, propaganda, scrap drives, Omaha World-Herald, World War II
The Good, the Bad and the Ignored: Immigrants in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! Renee M. Laegreid 101
Key Words: Bohemians, French-Canadians, German-Russians, nativism, New Immigrants, Swedes, Victorianism
Vengeance without Justice, Injustice without Retribution: The Afro-American Council’s Struggle against Racial Violence Shawn Leigh Alexander 117
Key Words: African Americans, civil rights, Jim Crow, Kansas, lynching, mob violence
REVIEW ESSAY
Centennial Saskatchewan by Rob Norris. A review of The Heavy Hand of History: Interpreting Saskatchewan’s Past edited by Gregory P. Marchildon, On the Side of the People: A History of Labour in Saskatchewan by Jim Warren and Kathleen Carlisle, and Saskatoon: A History in Photographs by Jeff O'Brien, Ruth W. Millar, and william P. Delainey 135
BOOK REVIEWS
Saskatchewan: A New History by Bill Waiser, reviewed by Max Foran, 139
The Encyclopedia of Saskatchewan: A Living Legacy by Canadian Plains Research Center, reviewed by Patrick H. Brennan 140
With Good Intentions: Euro-Canadian and Aboriginal Relations in Colonial Canada by Celia Haig-Brown and David A. Nock, eds., reviewed by C. L. Higham 141
From Dominance to Disappearance: The Indians of Texas and the Near Southwest, 1786-1859 by F. Todd Smith, reviewed by William C. Meadows 142
A History of Migration from Germany to Canada, 1850-1939 by Jonathan Wagner, reviewed by Hans Werner 143
Civil War on the Missouri-Kansas Border by Donald L. Gilmore, reviewed by John M. Sacher 143
Farmers vs. Wage Earners: Organized Labor in Kansas, 1860-1960 by R. Alton Lee, reviewed by Margaret C. Wood 144
A Godly Hero: The Life of William Jennings Bryan by Michael Kazin, reviewed by Troy A. Murphy 145
A New South Dakota History by Harry F. Thompson, ed., reviewed by Paula M. Nelson 146
Hidden Treasures of the American West: Muriel H. Wright, Angie Debo, and Alice Marriott by Patricia Loughlin, reviewed by Courtney Vaughn 147
One West, Two Myths: A Comparative Reader by Carol Higham and Robert Thacker, eds., reviewed by Keith Thor Carlson 148
Unsettled Pasts: Reconceiving the West Through Women’s History by Sarah Carter, Lesley Erickson, Patricia Roome, and Char Smith, eds., reviewed by Wendee Kubik 149
Chuck Hagel: Moving Forward by Charlyne Berens, reviewed by Peter J. Longo 150
Sovereign Selves: American Indian Autobiography and the Law by David J. Carlson, reviewed by Hertha D. Sweet Wong 151
Going Indian by James Hamill, reviewed by Todd Leahy 152
This Is Not a Peace Pipe: Towards a Critical Indigenous Philosophy by Dale Turner, reviewed by Dennis H. McPherson 153
America’s 100th Meridian: A Plains Journey by Monte Hartman and William Kittredge, reviewed by David McMillian 154
Flint Hills Cowboys: Tales of the Tallgrass Prairie by James F. Hoy, reviewed by Richard W. Slatta 155
The Women There Don’t Treat You Mean: Abilene in Song by Joe W. Specht, reviewed by John Wheat 155
SUMMER 2007 VOL. 27/NO. 3
How William F. Cody Helped Save the Buffalo without Really Trying David Nesheim 163
Key Words: bison, buffalo, William F. Cody, historical memory, Lakota, preservation, Wild West shows
Imagining Kansas: Place, Promotion, and Western Stereotypes in the Art of Henry Worrall (1825-1902) Karen De Bres 177
Key Words: boosterism, exhibitions, immigration, Kansas, Plains art
"Young Poets Write What They know": William Reed Dunroy, Poet of the Plains Carrie Shipers 193
Key Words: Great Plains literature, homesteading, landscape, poetry
REVIEW ESSAY
Ghost Dancing Anew by Todd M. Kerstetter. A review of Hostiles?: The Lakota Ghost Dance and Buffalo Bill's Wild West by Sam A Maddra, and Ghost Dances and Identity: Prophetic Religion and American Indian Ethnogenesis in the Nineteenth Century by Gregory E. Smoak 203
BOOK REVIEWS
Making Home Work: Domesticity and Native American Assimiliation in the American West, 1860-1919 by Jane E. Simonsen, reviewed by Susan Bernardin 205
Colonel Richard Irving Dodge: The Life and Times of a Career Army Officer by Wayne R. Kime, reviewed by Charles M. Robinson III 206
Jay Cooke's Gamble: The Northern Pacific Railroad, the Sioux, and the Panic of 1873 by M. John Lubetkin, reviewed by Carroll Engelhardt 206
The Line Which Separates: Race, Gender, and the Making of the Alberta-Montana Borderlands by Sheila McManus, reviewed by Lissa Wadewitz 207
The Borderlands of the American and Canadian Wests: Essays on Regional History of the Forty-ninth Parallel edited by Sterling Evans, reviewed by Phil Bellfy 208
In the Shadow of Wounded Knee: The Untold Final Story of the Indian Wars by Roger L. Di Silvestro, reviewed by Bruce E. Johansen 209
Voices of the American West, Volume 1: The Indian Interviews of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919 by Eli Ricker; edited by Richard E. Jensen, reviewed by Mary Jane Schneider 210
Voices of the American West, Volume 2: The Settler and Soldier Interveiws of Eli S. Ricker, 1903-1919 by Eli Ricker; edited by Richard E. Jensen, reviewed by Mary Jane Schneider 210
Captain Jack and the Dalton Gang: The Life and Times of a Railroad Detective by John J. Kinney, reviewed by Paul T. Hietter 211
Governor Lady: The Life and Times of Nellie Tayloe Ross by Teva J. Scheer, reviewed by Jennifer Burek Pierce 212
Railwayman's Son: A Plains Family Memoir by Hugh Hawkins; Introduction by H. Roger Grant, reviewed by Carlos A. Schwantes 213
American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century by Richard Lowitt, reviewed by Debbie Colson 214
An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate by Virgil W. Dean, reviewed by Kristin L. Ahlberg 214
Riding for the Brand: 150 Years of Cowden Ranching by Michael Pettit, reviewed by Paul D. Travis 215
The World We Used to Live In: Remembering the Powers of the Medicine Men by Vine Deloria Jr., reviewed by Tink Tinker (Wazhazhe) 216
New Perpectives on Native North America: Cultures, Histories, and Representations edited by Sergei A. Kan and Pauline Turner Strong, reviewed by D. Anthony Tyeeme Clark 216
Our Fire Survives the Storm: A Cherokee Literary History by Daniel Heath Justice, reviewed by Ralph Salisbury 217
The Broidered Garment: The Love Story of Mona Martinsen and John G. Neihardt by Hilda Martinsen Neihardt, reviewed by Timothy G. Anderson 218
The Ambivalent Art of Katherine Anne Porter by Mary Titus, reviewed by James T. F. Tanner 219
Between Heaven and Texas by Naomi Shihab Nye; Introduction by Sarah Bird; and Photographs by Wyman Meinzer, reviewed by Roy Flukinger 220
FALL 2007 VOL. 27/NO. 4
Introduction: From the Weight of Gold to the Weight of History in HBO's Deadwood David Holmberg 235
Deadwood and the English Language Brad Benz 239
Key Words: Deadwood, dialect, historical linguistics, David Milch, Shakespeare, western
No Law: Deadwood and the State Mark L. Berrettini 253
Key Words: Deadwood, George Hearst, law, western film
"Whores and Other Feminist": Recovering Deadwood's Unlikely Feminisms Anne Helen Petersen 267
Key Words: Deadwood, feminism, misogyny, post-feminism, prostitution
"Gold is Every Man's Opportunity": Castration Anxiety and the Economic Venture in Deadwood Kyle Wiggins and David Holmberg 283
Key Words Black Hills, Deadwood, economics, George Armstrong Custer, George Hearst
REVIEW ESSAY
Reviewing the Western by Armando José Prats. A review of Hollywood's West: The American Frontier in Film, Television, and History and Making the White Man's Indian: Native Americans and Hollywood Movies 297
BOOK REVIEWS
A Northern Cheyenne Album by Margot Liberty, ed.; photographs by Thomas B. Marquis, reviewed by Jerry Mader, 299
Out of the West: The Gund Collection of Western Art by Suzan Campbell, reviewed by Anne Morand, 299
Kansas Murals: A Traveler's Guide by Lora Jost and Dave Loewenstein, reviewed by Karal Ann Marling, 300
Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery by Karen O. Janovy, ed., reviewed by Joan M. Marter, 301
One of Ours by Willa Cather; essay by Richard C. Harris; Frederick M. Link with Kari A. Ronning, eds., reviewed by Becky Faber, 302
Katherine Anne Porter: The Life of an Artist by Darlene Harbour Unrue, reviewed by Thomas Austenfeld, 302
The Midwestern Pastoral: Place and Landscape in Literature of the American Heartland by William Barillas, reviewed by Sarah Jayne Hitt, 303
The Louisiana Purchase and American Expansion, 1803-1898 by Sanford Levinson and Bartholomew H. Sparrow, eds., reviewed by Raymond D. Screws, 304
Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border by James W. Parins, reviewed by Brad Agnew, 305
The Life and Times of the Steamboat Red Cloud, or, How Merchants, Mounties, and the Missouri Transformed the West by Annalies Corbin, reviewed by Ken Robison, 306
Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier: Notorious Killings and Celebrated Trials by Bill Neal, reviewed by Paul N. Spellman, 306
Next year Country: Dust to Dust in Western Kansas, 1890-1940 by Craig Miner, reviewed by Brian Q. Cannon, 308
From Prairie Farmer to Entrepreneur: The Transformation of Midwestern Agriculture by Dennis S. Nordin and Roy V. Scott, reviewed by Kimberly K. Porter, 308
From Syria to Seminole: Memoir of a High Plains Merchant by Ed Aryain; J'Nell L. Pate, ed., reviewed by Philip M. Kayal, 309
Not Without our consent: Lakota Resistance to Termination, 1950-59 by Edward Charles Valandra, reviewed by Patrice H. Kunesh, 311
Outside America: Race, Ethnicity, and the Role of the American West in National Belonging by Dan Moos, reviewed by Kalenda Eaton, 312
Twilight Innings: A West Texan on Grace and Survival by Robert A. Fink, reviewed by Paul Christensen, 313
Becoming Western: Stories of Culture and Identity in the Cowboy State by Liza J. Nicholas, reviewed by Eric J. Sandeen, 313
The National Grasslands: A Guide to America's Undiscovered Treasures by Francis Moul; photography by Georg Joutras, reviewed by Daniel S. Licht, 314