WINTER 1981 VOL. 1/NO. 1
An Editorial Note Frederick C. Luebke 3
Chinook Climates and Plains Peoples Reid A. Bryson 5
Toward A History of Plains Archeology Waldo R. Wedel 16
The John Evans 1796-97 Map of the Missouri River W. Raymond Wood 39
Two Authors and A Hero: Neihardt, Sandoz, and Crazy Horse Helen Stauffer 54
BOOK REVIEWS
The Ioway Indians by Martha Royce Blaine, reviewed by David M. Gradwohl 67
The Plains Across: The Overland Emigrants and the Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-60 by John D. Unruh, Jr., reviewed by Robert G. Athearn 68
Women and Men on the Overland Trail by John Mack Faragher, reviewed by Robert L. Munkres 69
Frederic Remington and the West: With the Eye of the Mind by Ben Merchant Vorpahl, reviewed by William H. Goetzmann 70
The Dust Bowl by Paul Bonnifield, reviewed by Thomas Saarinen 70
Dust Bowl: The Southern Plains in the 1930s by Donald Worster, reviewed by Thomas Saarinen 70
Trees, Prairies, and People: A History of Tree Planting in the Plains States by Wilmon H. Droze, reviewed by Richard A. Overfield 72
Western Movies edited by William T. Pilkington and Don Graham, reviewed by Michael T. Isenberg 73
NOTES & NEWS, 75
SPRING 1981 VOL. 1/NO. 2
The White Mustang of the Prairies Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence 81
Mulford and Bower: Myth and History of the Early Western William A. Bloodworth, Jr. 95
The Heirs of James C. Malin: Grassland Historiography Allan G. Bogue 105
BOOK REVIEWS
Crossing Frontiers: Papers in American and Canadian Western Literature edited by Dick Harrison, reviewed by George Wolf 132
The American West: New Perspectives, New Dimensions edited by Jerome O. Steffen, reviewed by James R. Shortridge 133
The Sioux: A Critical Bibliography by Herbert T. Hoover, reviewed by Francis Paul Prucha 134
The Emigrant Indians of Kansas: A Critical Bibliography by William E. Unrau, reviewed by Francis Paul Prucha 134
The Horse in Blackfoot Indian Culture by John C. Ewers, reviewed by Mary Jane Schneider 135
The Fur Trade of the American West, 1807-1840: A Geographical Synthesis by David J. Wishart, reviewed by Doyce B. Nunis, Jr. 136
Frontier Women: The Trans-Mississippi West, 1840-1880 by Julie Roy Jeffrey, reviewed by Sandra L. Myres 136
The First Polish Americans: Silesian Settlements in Texas by T. Lindsay Baker, reviewed by Maria Starczewska-Lambasa 137
In Search of Canaan: Black Migration to Kansas, 1879-80 by Robert B. Athearn, reviewed by Walter Weare 138
The Black Towns by Norman L. Crockett, reviewed by Lawrence H. Larsen 139
Landlord William Scully by Homer E. Socolofsky, reviewed by Leslie Hewes 140
"Paper Talk": Charlie Russell's American West by Brian W. Dippie, reviewed by Robert Spence 141
Deserts on the March by Paul B. Sears, reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt 141
NOTES & NEWS, 143
SUMMER 1981 VOL. 1/NO. 3
Friends and Allies: The Tonkawa Indians and the Anglo-Americans, 1823-1884 Thomas W. Dunlay 147
Immigrant Voters and the Notpartisan League in Nebraska, 1917-1920 Burton W. Folsom, Jr. 159
Agricultural Pioneering in Dakota: A Case Study Gilbert C. Fite 169
Lawrence Goodwyn and Nebraska Populism: A Review Essay Robert W. Cherny 181
BOOK REVIEWS
Comparative Frontiers: A Proposal for Studying the American West by Jerome O. Steffen, reviewed by Leonard T. Guelke 195
The Great Plains: Environment and Culture edited by Brian W. Blouet and Frederick C. Luebke, reviewed by John F. Davis 195
The Peace Chiefs of the Cheyennes by Stan Hoig, reviewed by John C. Ewers 196
William H. Ashley: Enterprise and Politics in the Trans-Mississippi West by Richard M. Clokey, reviewed by David J. Wishart 197
Law for the Elephant by John Phillip Reid, reviewed by Stephen E. Kalish 198
The British and Irish in Oklahoma by Patrick J. Blessing, reviewed by Wilbur S. Shepperson 200
The Blacks in Oklahoma by Jimmie Lewis Franklin, reviewed by Arvarh E. Strickland 200
The Italians in Oklahoma by Kenny L Brown, reviewed by George E. Pozzetta 201
The Mexicans in Oklahoma by Michael M. Smith, reviewed by Ralph H. Vigil 202
The Germans in Oklahoma by Richard C. Rohrs, reviewed by Lavern Rippley 202
Folklore from Kansas: Customs, Beliefs, and Superstitions by William E. Koch, reviewed by Roger L. Welsch 203
NOTES & NEWS, 205
FALL 1981 VOL. 1 NO. 4
The New Rural History: Defining the Parameters Robert P. Swierenga 211
The Immigrant Church as a Symbol of Community and Place in the Upper Midwest Robert C. Ostergren 225
Beyond the Borderlands: Mexican Labor in the Central Plains, 1900-1930 Michael M. Smith 239
Rölvaag Grove, and Pioneering on the American and Canadian Plains Dick Harrison 252
BOOK REVIEWS
Community on the American Frontier by Robert V. Hine, reviewed by Robert R. Dykstra 263
The Explorations of the La Verendryes in the Northern Plains, 1738-43 by G. Hubert Smith, reviewed by Abraham P. Nasatir 264
Ho for California! Women's Overland Diaries from the Huntington Library edited and annotated by Sandra L. Myres, reviewed by Merrill J. Mattes 265
The Jews in Oklahoma by Henry J. Tobias, reviewed by Moses Rischin 266
The Germans from Russia in Oklahoma by Douglas Hale, reviewed by Norman Saul 266
The Czechs in Oklahoma by Karl D. Bicha, reviewed by Bruce M. Garver 267
Panhandle Cowboy by John R. Erickson, reviewed by Nellie Snyder Yost 268
The Kansas Beef Industry by Charles L. Wood, reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt 269
Progressive Oklahoma: The Making of a New Kind of State by Danny Goble, reviewed by John Braeman 270
William Robinson Leigh: Western Artist by D. Duane Cummins, reviewed by Robert Spence 271