Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians

Review of: "Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians," edited by David J. Wishart

American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains

Review of: American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains, by Dan Flores

A Gof-Forsaken Place : Folk Eschatology and the Dust Bowl

On an idyllic Sunday in April 1935, people from Lubbock, Texas, to Topeka, Kansas, went on picnics, planted gardens, visited neighbors, and attended church. Communities had been punished with depression and drought, yet on that spring day Plains men and women felt assured that peace and safety had returned. Suddenly in midafternoon the air turned cold, and people noticed then that the sky had become filled with birds, fleeing from some unseen force. Fifteen-year-old Ida Mae Norman, driving home from a Palm Sunday church service with her family, saw a thin strip of black on the horizon north of Guymon, Oklahoma. Seconds later, they were enveloped in a wall of dust. She later recalled: I was so frightened. I thought the world had come to an end. She feared that the foreboding dust storm might be a signal for Armageddon.

Chronicles of Oklahoma

Article describes the life of Woody Guthrie and its influence on the music he created during the Dust Bowl Era. Brad Lookingbill examines religious and political influences in his songs as he began to promote socialist beliefs in the face of the struggles faced by the citizens of Oklahoma in the 1930s

\u3ci\u3eA Companion to Custer and the Little Bighorn Campaign\u3c/i\u3e

Editor: Brad D. Lookingbill Chapter, A National Monument, co-authored by Jason Heppler, UNO faculty member An accessible and authoritative overview of the scholarship that has shaped our understanding of one of the most iconic battles in the history of the American West Combines contributions from an array of respected scholars, historians, and battlefield scientists Outlines the political and cultural conditions that laid the foundation for the Centennial Campaign and examines how George Armstrong Custer became its figurehead Provides a detailed analysis of the battle maneuverings at Little Bighorn, paying special attention to Indian testimony from the battlefield Concludes with a section examining how the Battle of Little Bighorn has been mythologized and its pervading influence on American culturehttps://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/facultybooks/1345/thumbnail.jp