WINTER 1985 VOL. 5/NO. 1


  • European Influence on the Visual Arts of the Gret Plains: An Introduction Jon Nelson 3

    Packaging the Great Plains: The Role of the Visual Arts Roger B. Stein 5

    Originality and Influence in George Caleb Bingham's Art Stephen C. Behrendt 24

    Cowboy Knights and Prairie Madonnas: American Illustrations of the Plains and Pre-Raphaelite Art Kirsten H. Powell 39

    Birger Sandzén: A Painter and His Two Worlds Emory Lindquist 53

    REVIEW ESSAY: Recent Interpretations of Western American Art

    The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century by Patricia Trenton and Peter H. Hassrick, and Karl Bodmer's America with an introduction by William H. Goetzmann, and annotations by David C. Hunt and Marsha V. Gallagher, reviewed by Richard W. Etulain 66

    BOOK REVIEWS

    John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America by Joseph S. Czestochowski, reviewed by Robert Spence 70

    The Indian Arts and Crafts Board: An Aspect of New Deal Indian Policy by Robert Fay Schrader, reviewed by C. Adrian Heidenreich 70

    NOTES & NEWS 72

 

SPRING 1985 VOL. 5/NO. 2


  • Women on the Plains: An Introduction Frances W. Kaye 79

    Women on the Great Plains: Recent Developments in Research Glenda Riley 81

    Western Women and True Womanhood: Culture and Symbol in History and Literature June O. Underwood 93

    Having a Purpose in Life: Western Women Teachers in the Twentieth Century Courtney Ann Vaughn-Roberson 107

    A Widening Horizon: Catholic Sisterhoods on the Northern Plains, 1874-1910 Susan C. Peterson 125

    BOOK REVIEWS

    Historians and the American West edited by Michael P. Malone, foreward by Rodman W. Paul, reviewed by Dick Harrison 133

    A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo, 1755-1870 by Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa, reviewed by Ralph H. Vigil 134

    Prairie Wildflowers: An Illustrated Manual of Species Suitable for Cultivation and Grassland Restoration by R. Currah, A Smreciu, and M. Van Dyk, reviewed by Paul W. Barnes 134

    The Archaeology of Colorado by E. Steve Cassells, reviewed by Warren W. Caldwell 135

    NOTES & NEWS 137

 

SUMMER 1985 VOL 5/NO. 3


  • Pawnee Geography: Historical and Sacred Douglas R. Parks and Waldo R. Wedel 143

    Mapping Kansas and Nebraska: The Role of the General Land Office Ronald E. Grim 177

    BOOK REVIEWS

    Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650-1852 by Gary Clayton Anderson, reviewed by Nancy Oestreich Lurie 198

    Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux by Raymond Wilson, reviewed by Janet Goldenstein Ahler 199

    A Guide to American Indian Resource Materials in Great Plains Repositories by Joseph G. Svoboda, reviewed by Herbert T. Hoover 200

    NOTES & NEWS 202

 

FALL 1985 VOL. 5/NO. 4


  • The Garden-Desert Continuum: Competing Views of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century John L. Allen 207

    The Emergence of the American Agriculture Movement, 1977-1979 William P. Browne and John Dinse 221

    Mapping the Quality of Land for Agriculture in Western Canada James M. Richtik 236

    Benjamin Harrison and the American West Homer E. Socolofsky 249

    BOOK REVIEWS

    Prairie Fire: The I885 North-West Rebellion by Bob Beal and Rod Macleod, reviewed by George Woodcock 259

    Riel and the Rebellion 1885 Reconsidered by Thomas Flanagan, reviewed John E. Foster 259

    The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos by Richard White, reviewed by David Reed Miller 260

    NOTES & NEWS 262
    INDEX 263