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Date of this Version

March 2000

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Article

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Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, pp. 168 - 169. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.

Abstract

Historical or hysterical-that is the question. An 18 January 1999 Omaha World-Herald "Bookwords" column fingered Dr. Smith as "the principal writer" of Visions. In a 14 January 1999 review, The Reader of Omaha gushed: "an exciting new picture book ... filled with picture after crisp black-and-white picture ... a must for anyone even slightly interested in local history." Napoleon decried history as a fable agreed on. To deem this error-riddled book a "history" would be indeed a fable agreed on. This could have been a magnificent project-but what we have instead merits those saddest "words of tongue or pen ... : 'It might have been!'"

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