WINTER 2009 VOL. 29/No. 1
The Methodists' Great 1869 Camp Meeting and Aboriginal Conservation Strategies in the North Saskatchewan River Valley by George Colpitts 3
Key Words: bison, Blackfoot, Cree, hunting, missionaries, native people
"You Have to be Involved ... to Play a Part in it": Assessing Kainai attitudes About Voting in Canadian Elections by Yale D. Belanger 29
Key Words: Alberta, First Nations, interviewing, Kainai, voting
Jim, Antonia, and the Wolves: Displacement in Cather's My Antonia by Robin Cohen 51
Key Words: displacement, folklore, marriage, Russia
REVIEW ESSAY
What's Choctaw History-and Who Gets to Say? by Robert Keith Collins. A review of The Choctaws in Oklahoma: From Tribe to Nation, 1855-1970 and How Choctaws Invented Civilization and Why Choctaws Will Conquer the World 61
BOOK REVIEWS
Destroying Dogma: Vine Deloria Jr. and His Influence on American Society by Steve Pavlic and Daniel R. Wildcat, eds., reviewed by Tink Tinker (Wazhazhe, Osage) 67
White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains by Stan Hoig, reviewed by John R. Wunder 68
Buffalo Soldiers in the West: A Black Soldiers Anthology by Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles, eds., reviewed by Dwayne Mack 68
Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle by William T. Hagan, reviewed by Alex Hunt 69
Frontier Farewell: The 1870s and the End of the Old West byGarrett Wilson, reviewed by Ted Binnema 70
The Cypress Hills: An Island by Itself by Walter Hildebrandt and Brian Hubner; foreward by Sharon Butala, reviewed by George Colpitts 71
Lynching to Belong: Claiming Whiteness through Racial Violence by Cynthia Skove Nevels, reviewed by Alwyn Barr 71
North American Indians in the Great War by Susan Applegate Krouse, reviewed by Thomas A. Britten 72
Banned in Kansas: Motion Picture Censorship, 1915-1966 by Gerald R. Butters Jr., reviewed by Thomas Fox Averill 73
This Land This Nation: Conservation, Rural America, and the New Deal by Sarah T. Phillips, reviewed by Brian Q. Cannon 74
Memories of the Branch Davidians: The Autobiography of David Koresh's Mother by Bonnie Haldeman, as told to Catherine Wessinger, reviewed by W. Michael Ashcraft 75
Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn't Be Bought by Susan Cragin, reviewed by Francis Moul 76
Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonné by B. Bryon Price, ed.; foreword by Anne Morand, reviewed by Joan Carpenter Troccoli 77
Landscapes of Colorado: Mountains and Plains by Ann Scarlett Daley and Michael Paglia, reviewed by Rose Glaser Fredrick 78
Picturing a Different West: Vision, Illustration, and the Tradition of Cather and Austin by Janis P. Stout, reviewed by Thomas Austenfeld 79
Cather Studies 7: Willa Cather as Cultural Icon by Guy Reynolds, ed., reviewed by Susan Kress 80
Native American Fiction: A User's Manual by David Treuer, reviewed by James Ruppert 80
So this is the world & here I am in it by Di Brandt, reviewed by Tanis MacDonald 81
Forty Acres and A Fool: How to Live in the Country and Still Keep Your Sanity by Roger Welsch, reviewed by Gwendolyn K. Meister 82
My Nebraska: The Good, the Bad, and the Husker by Roger Welsch, reviewed by Gwendolyn K. Meister 82
Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State by Dave Oliphant, reviewed by Jean A. Boyd 83
SPRING 2009 VOL. 29/No. 2
Introduction: Death, Murder, and Mayhem: Stories of Violence and Healing on the Plains by Susan Naramore Maher 91
Deathscapes, Topocide, Domicide: The Plains in Contemporary Print Media by Christina E. Dando 95
Key Words: critical discourse analysis, landscape, newspaper, perceptions
Open to Horror: The Great Plains Situation in Contemporary Thrillers by E. E. Knight and by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child by A. B. Emrys 121
Key Words: horror, literature, Kansas, Nebraska, science fiction, Stephen King
Coronado and Aesop: Fable and Violence on the Sixteenth-Century Plains by Daryl W. Palmer 129
Key Words: Cíbola, Conquistador, Kansas, New Mexico, Quivira
REVIEW ESSAY
New Views on Custer and the Indian Wars by Robert W. Larson. A review of A Terrible Glory: Custer and the Little Bighorn—The Last Great Battle of the American West; The Day the World Ended at Little Bighorn: A Lakota History; and Custerology: The Enduring Legacy of the Indian Wars and George Armstrong Custer 141
BOOK REVIEWS
Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny by Robert J. Miller; foreword by Elizabeth Furse, reviewed by Jenry Morsman 147
Dark Storm Moving West by Barbara Belyea, reviewed by Arn Keeling 148
The Chouteaus: First Family of the Fur Trade by Stan Hoig, reviewed by B. Pierre Lebeau 148
William Clark: Indian Diplomat by Jay H. Buckley, reviewed by Stephen Aron 149
The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears by Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, reviewed by Rowena McClinton 150
The Seminole Freedmen: A History by Kevin Mulroy, reviewed by Murray Wickett 151
William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows by Robert E. Bonner, reviewed by Jack R. Preston 152
Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West by Michael Punke, reviewed by Phillip Drennon Thomas 153
Choctaw Nation: A Story of American Indian Resurgence by Valerie Lambert, reviewed by James Taylor Carson 153
Cree Narrative Memory: From Treaties to Contemporary Times by Neal McLeod, reviewed by Bret Nickels 154
Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal: Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada by Julia V. Emberley, reviewed by Laura Peers 155
Playing Ourselves: Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions by Laura Peers, reviewed by Sandra Dudley 156
Willie Wells: "El Diablo" of the Negro Leagues by Bob Luke; foreword by Monte Irvin, reviewed by Leslie Heaphy 156
Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932 by Joshua David Bellin, reviewed by Edward W. Huffstetler 157
Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather by Joseph R. Urgo and Merrill Maguire Skaggs, eds., reviewed by Karsten H. Piep 158
Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary by Marta DvoÍák and Manina Jones, eds., reviewed by Alex Ramon 159
Interior Places by Lisa Knopp, reviewed by Becky Faber 160
Postwestern Cultures: Literature, Theory, Space, by Susan Kollin, ed., reviewed by Donna Campbell 160
The Painted Valley: Artists along Alberta's Bow River, 1845-2000 by Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles, reviewed by Mary-Beth Laviolette 162
Russell Lee Photographs: Images from the Russell Lee Photograph Collection at the Center for American History by Russell Lee; foreword by John Szarkowski; reviewed by Connie Todd 162
Reclaiming Charles Weidman (1901-1975): An American Dancer's Life and Legacy by Jonette Lancos; foreword by Sondra Horton Fraleigh, reviewed by Ronald J. Zank 163
Mary Martin, Broadway Legend by Ronald L. Davis, reviewed by John M. Clum 164
Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs by Kathleen Hudson, reviewed by Gail Folkins 165
Pat Green's Dance Halls & Dreamers by Luke Gilliam; photographs by Guy Rogers III; introduction by Pat Green, reviewed by Cory Lock 166
Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit by Gail Folkins; photographs by J. Marcus Weekley, reviewed by Cory Lock 166
SUMMER 2009 VOL. 29 / No. 3
Changing Perceptions of Homesteading as a Policy of Public Domain Disposal by Richard Edwards 179
Key Words: commutation, fraud, free land, preemption, public land, settlement
A Prairie Parable: The 1933 Bates Tragedy by Bill Waiser 203
Key Words: Great Depression, murder-suicide, Relief Policy, Saskatchewan
Cultural Survival and the Omaha Way: Eunice Woodhull Stabler’s Legacy of Preservation on the Twentieth-Century Plains by Elaine M. Nelson 219
Key Words: American Indian women, boarding schools, Nebraska, Omaha Indians, oral history
REVIEW ESSAY
The Historiography of a Moving Object: Emerging Understandings of the North American Métis by Mike Evans. A review of The Long Journey of a Forgotten People: Métis Identities and Family Histories and The Western Métis: Profile of a People 237
BOOK REVIEWS
The Comanche Empire by Pekka Hämäläinen, reviewed by Mariah F. Wade 241
Historic Native Peoples of Texas by William C. Foster; Foreword by Alston V. Thoms, reviewed by Michael L. Tate 241
African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation by Gary Zellar, reviewed by Robbie Ethridge 242
Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature’s Highway, 1819-1935 by William E. Lass, reviewed by Ken Robison 243
Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State by Jacki Thompson Rand, reviewed by Nathan Wilson 244
Chevato: The Story of the Apache Warrior Who Captured Herman Lehmann by William Chebahtah and Nancy McGown Minor, reviewed by Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola 245
The Prairie West as Promised Land by R. Douglas Francis and Chris Kitzan, eds., reviewed by J. William Brennan 245
Working Girls in the West: Representations of Wage-Earning Women by Lindsey McMaster, reviewed by Judy Fudge 246
The American Far West in the Twentieth Century by Earl Pomeroy; Edited by Richard W. Etulain; Foreword by Howard R. Lamar, reviewed by Carl Abbott 247
Twentieth-Century Texas: A Social and Cultural History by John W. Storey and Mary L. Kelley, eds., reviewed by Tom Wagy 248
Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900 by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler, eds., reviewed by Donna Langston 249
Nebraska Moments by Donald R. Hickey, Susan A. Wunder, and John R. Wunder, reviewed by Kent Blaser 249
Behind the Man: John Laurie, Ruth Gorman, and the Indian Vote in Canada by Ruth Gorman; Edited with an Introduction by Frits Pannekoek, reviewed by Laurie Meijer Drees 250
Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities by Hans Werner, reviewed by Anke Ortlepp 251
A Call to Action: An Introduction to Education, Philosophy, and Native North America by Curry Stephenson Malott, reviewed by Malia Villegas 252
Willa Cather: New Facts, New Glimpses, Revisions by John J. Murphy and Merrill Maguire Skaggs, eds., reviewed by John N. Swift 252
Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature by Kenneth Lincoln, reviewed by James Ruppert 253
Transatlantic Voices: Interpretations of Native North American Literatures by Elvira Pulitano, ed., reviewed by Laura Castor 254
Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology by Stephanie McKenzie, reviewed by Jo-Ann Episkenew 255
Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land by Rinda West, reviewed by Tom Lynch 256
Trans.Can.Lit.: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature by Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki, eds., reviewed by J’nan Morse Sellery 256
The History of Texas Music by Gary Hartman, reviewed by Kent Blaser 257
Memory and Vision: Arts, Cultures, and Lives of Plains Indian People by Emma Hansen, reviewed by Bill Anthes 258
John Steuart Curry’s “Hoover and the Flood”: Painting Modern History by Charles C. Eldredge; Foreword by Kevin Grogan, reviewed by Wendy Jean Katz 259
Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home by Jill Nokes with Pat Jasper; Foreword by Betty Sue Flowers; Principal Photography by Krista Whitson, reviewed by Judith McWillie 259
FALL 2009 VOL. 29/No. 4
“Daughters of British Blood” or “Hordes of Men of Alien Race”: The Homesteads-for-Women Campaign in Western Canada by Sarah Carter 267
Key Words: ethnicity, first wave feminism, gender, homestead rights
Parallel Tracks, Same Terminus: The Role of Nineteenth-Century Newspapers and Railroads in the Settlement of Nebraska by Charlyne Berens and Nancy Mitchell 287
Key Words: advertising, Burlington Railroad, immigration, pioneer, trains, Union Pacific Railroad
“Rejoicing in the Beauties of Nature”: The Image of the Western Landscape during the Fur Trade by Kerry R. Oman 301
Key Words: Hudson River school, mountain men, Rocky Mountains, romanticism, Washington Irving
BOOK REVIEWS
Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson’s Bay Company Archives by Deidre Simmons, reviewed by Scott Stephen 317
Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the Trans-Mississippi West by John P. Bowes, reviewed by Tracy Neal Leavelle 318
The Nebraska-Kansas Act of 1854 by John R. Wunder and Joann M. Ross, eds., reviewed by Gary L. Cheatham 318
Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News by Craig Miner, reviewed by Bruce R. Kahler 319
Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader by Paul N. Beck, reviewed by John H. Monnett 320
Myth of the Hanging Tree: Stories of Crime and Punishment in Territorial New Mexico by Robert J. Tórres, reviewed by Mark A. Allan 321
Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight by Shannon D. Smith, reviewed by Ronald Schultz 321
Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World’s Longest Undefended Border across the Western Plains by Tony Rees, reviewed by Molly P. Rozum 322
Stricken Field: The Little Bighorn since 1876 by Jerome A. Greene; foreword by Paul L. Hedren, reviewed by Thomas R. Buecker 323
The Steamboat Montana and the Opening of the West: History, Excavation, and Architecture by Annalies Corbin and Bradley A. Rogers, reviewed by Michael Allen 324
The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival by J. Diane Pearson; foreword by Patricia Penn Hilden, reviewed by Alan Marshall 324
Voices from Haskell: Indian Students between Two Worlds, 1884-1928 by Myriam Vučković, reviewed by Michel C. Coleman 325
Buffalo Bill on Stage by Sandra K. Sagala, reviewed by Robert Bonner 326
One Step over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus, eds., reviewed by Renee M. Laegreid 326
The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 by Sarah Carter, reviewed by Jean Friesen 327
How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America by Carl Abbott, reviewed by Timothy Mahoney 328
The Great Plains during World War II by R. Douglas Hurt, reviewed by Greg Hall 329
The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder and Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns by Stew Magnuson: foreword by Pekka Hämäläinen, reviewed by Akim Reinhardt 330
The Line from Here to There: A Storyteller’s Scottish West Texas by Rosanna Taylor Herndon, reviewed by Allan O. Kownslar 330
Does People Do It? A Memoir by Fred Harris, reviewed by Kenny L. Brown 331
Means of Transit: A Slightly Embellished Memoir by Teresa Miller, reviewed by Joy Castro 332
Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother’s Life in Politics by Beth Boosalis Davis, reviewed by Jan P. Vermeer 333
The Wide Open: Prose, Poetry, and Photographs of the Prairie by Annick Smith and Susan O’Connor, eds., reviewed by Jim Reese 333
Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings by Nora Foster Stovel, reviewed by Lyall H. Powers 334
Going West!: Quilts and Community by Roderick Kiracofe and Sandi Fox, reviewed by Janneken Smucker 335
A Texas Journey: The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith by Evelyn Barker, reviewed by Carol Roark 336
Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s by Scott Grant Barker and Jane Myers, reviewed by Katie Robinson Edwards 336
Bertram Goodhue: His Life and Residential Architecture by Romy Wyllie, reviewed by Benet Haller 337
The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories by Jacqueline Shea Murphy, reviewed by Margaret Jacobs 338
To Live’s to Fly: The Ballad of the Late, Great Townes Van Zandt by John Kruth, reviewed by Chuck Vollan 339
A Deeper Blue: The Life and Music of Townes Van Zandt by Robert Earl Hardy, reviewed by Chuck Vollan 339