Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
March 2000
Abstract
In A Barren Land covers a four-hundred-year history with the large brush strokes required of a text incorporating, chronologically and creditably, all the generally agreed upon major points of that story. What is in reality a large number of stories, each unfolding within a complex non-Western setting and often with byzantine logic, becomes for Marks-as the book's title succinctly indicates-a focus on what is now the usual media story of peoples dispossessed by an unstoppable force.
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly, Volume 20, Number 2, Spring 2000, p. 159. © 2000 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska – Lincoln.