Recently published books on the past, present, and future of the Great Plains set to be reviewed in Great Plains Quarterly or Great Plains Research.
Called to Justice: The Life of a Federal Trial Judge.
By Warren K. Urbom. Foreword by William J. Riley. $36.95 cloth.
Warren K. Urbom has served as a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Nebraska since 1970. Called to Justice recounts his experience of the criminal trials arising from the 71-day armed standoff between the American Indian Movement (AIM) and federal law enforcement officials at Wounded Knee, South Dakota, as well as other stories in this insider’s account of what it means to be a federal judge.
Publisher:
University of Nebraska Press
Free Radical: Ernest Chambers, Black Power, and the Politics of Race.
By Tekla Agbala Ali Johnson. Foreword by Quintard Taylor. $39.95 cloth.
In a career spanning four decades, Ernest “Ernie” Chambers has worked tirelessly as a self-styled “defender of the downtrodden,” serving in the Nebraska State Legislature as a nationally recognized Black activist. In Free Radical, Ali Johnson situates Chambers’ remarkable career within the larger Civil Rights and Black Power movements, as well as his own working-class constituency in North Omaha.
Publisher:
Texas Tech University Press
Defying Palliser: Stories of Resilience from the Driest Region of the Canadian Prairies.
By Jim Warren and Harry Diaz.
$34.95 paper.
In 1857-58, British explorer John Palliser travelled through the Canadian prairies and proclaimed a large portion of the region to be a near desert and unsuited for agriculture, leading the area to become known as “Palliser’s Triangle.” Defying Palliser includes interviews with farmers and ranchers in southwestern Saskatchewan and southeastern Alberta who defied Palliser’s predictions and managed to adapt to the driest, most drought-prone climate on the Canadian prairies.
Publisher:
Canadian Plains Research Center Press
Living with American Indian Art: The Hirschfield Collection.
By Alan J. Hirschfield, with Terry Winchell. Photographs by W. Garth Dowling. Foreword by Gaylord Torrence. $75.00 cloth.
This volume documents the stunning private collection of Alan J. Hirschfield, former President and CEO of Columbia Pictures and 20th Century Fox Film. Photographs of over 160 works are included here, many of which have never been published or placed on public display, including Navajo textiles, Pueblo pottery, and Apache basketry, along with chapter introductions by noted Native American art dealer Terry Winchell.
Publisher:
Gibbs Smith
The Essential West: Collected Essays.
By Elliott West. Foreword by Richard White. $29.95 cloth.
Ranging over the past three centuries, these essays by one of the most distinguished historians of the American West include such diverse topics as Lewis and Clark, children and family life, the cultural significance of the buffalo, and the meaning of Lonesome Dove.
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press
The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, Vol. 3: September 1833-August 1834.
Edited by Stephen S. Witte and Marsha V. Gallagher. Foreword by Jack F. Becker. Translated by Dieter Karch. $85.00 cloth.
The third and final volume of The North American Journals of Prince Maximilian of Wied, co-edited by Center Fellow Stephen S. Witte, contains descriptions of the Mandan and Hidatsa Indians recorded during Maximilian’s stay at Fort Clark and on his return journey eastward across the United States in 1833-34, as well as nearly 100 illustrations, including seven in color.
Publisher:
University of Oklahoma Press