WINTER 1986 VOL. 6/NO. 1
Pictures and Prose: Romantic Sensibility and the Great Plains in Catlin, Kane, and Miller Ann Davis and Robert Thacker 3
Ritual Pagentry in the American West: A Wyoming Case Study Aubrey C. Shalinsky 21
The Big Rock Candy Mountain: The consequences of Delusory American Dream Kenneth C. Mason 34
Kansas Through the Eyes of Kansans: Preferences for Commonly Viewed Landscapes Roxane Fridirici and Stephen E. White 44
BOOK REVIEWS
The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teaching Given to John G. Neihardt edited by Raymond J. DeMallie, reviewed by Paul Olson 59
A Final Promise: The Campaign to Assimilate the Indians by Frederick E. Hoxie, reviewed by Brian W. Dippie 60
The Indian Frontier of the American West, 1846-1890 by Robert M. Utley, reviewed by Thomas W. Dunlay 61
Native Faces: Indian Cultures in American Art by Patricia Trenton, reviewed by Marsha V. Gallagher 62
NOTES & NEWS 63
SPRING 1986 VOL. 6/NO. 2
The Dust Bowl: An Introduction John Braeman 67
Who was "Forest Man?" Sources of Migration to the Plains John C. Hudson 69
The Future of the Great Plains Re-Visited Gilbert F. White 84
Federal Land Reclamation in the Dust Bowl R. Douglas Hurt 94
The Dirty Thirties: A Study in Agricultural Capitalism Donald Worster 107
Dust Bowl Historiography Harry C. McDean 117
The Dust Bowl: Historical Image, Psychological Anchor, and Ecological Taboo William E. Riebsame 127
BOOK REVIEWS
Stuggle and Hope: The Hungarian-Canadian Experience by N.F. Dreisziger with M.L. Kovacs, Paul Bödy, and Bennett Kovrig, reviewed by Linda Dégh 137
NOTES & NEWS 139
SUMMER 1986 VOL. 6/NO. 3
International Drought Mitigation: An Introduction Donald A. Wilhite 148
Abideth Forever? Global Use of Semiarid Lands in the Interwar Years J. M. Powell 151
Adapting the Environment: Ranching, Irrigation, and Dry Land Farming in Southern Alberta, 1880-1914 A. A. den Otter 171
Rural Social Organization in a Semiarid African Country: The Case of Botswana Louise Fortmann 190
Adaptations to Adversity: Agriculture, Climate and the Great Plains of North America Norman J. Rosenberg 202
River Conservancy and Agricultural Development of the North China Plain and Loess Highlands: Strategies and Research Huang Bingwei 218
Drought Mitigation in Australia: Reducing the Losses But Not Removing the Hazard R. L. Heathcote 225
The African Experience: Drought and Famine in the Dry Zone Randall Baker 238
Comparative Drought Strategies: The Soviet Union Paul E. Lydolph 246
BOOK REVIEWS
Jefferson and Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman and Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806 edited by Dan L. Flores, reviewed by James P. Ronda 257
The Battle of Batoche: British Small Warfare and the Entrenched Métis by Walter Hildebrandt, reviewed by Paul L. A. H. Chartrand 258
Sophus K. Winther by Barbara Howard Meldrum, reviewed by Joy Ritchie 258
Sharing the 49th Parallel: A Handbook for Montana Officials by Montana State University, 49th Parellel Institute, reviewed by Robert W. Wright 259
NOTES & NEWS 260
FALL 1986 VOL. 6/NO. 4
Cultural and Economic Resilence Among the Kickapoo Indians of the Southwest Joseph B. Herring 263
The Great Plains Transition Area Revisited: A Review Essay Howard W. Ottoson 276
BOOK REVIEWS
The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians by Francis Paul Prucha, reviewed by Wilcomb E. Washburn 283
The Great White Father: The United States Government and the American Indian by Francis Paul Prucha, reviewed by Wilcomb E. Washburn 283
The Papers of Chief John Ross edited by Gary E. Moulton, reviewed by W. David Baird 285
Lewis and Clark Among the Indians by James P. Ronda, reviewed by G. Malcom Lewis 286
The Reservation Blackfeet, 1882-1945: A Photographic History of Cultural Survival by William E. Farr, foreword by James Welch, reviewed by Robert C. Carriker 287
Now That the Buffalo's Gone: A Study of Today's American Indians by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., reviewed by William H. Graves 288
Phil Sheridan and His Army by Paul Andrew, reviewed by Michael L. Tate 288
Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915 by Glenda Riley, reviewed by Darlis A. Miller 289
Rebel for Rights: Abigail Scott Duniway by Ruth Barnes Moynihan, reviewed by D'ann Campbell 290
Daughters of Joy, Sisters of Misery: Prostitutes in the American West, 1865-90 by Anne M. Butler, reviewed by Melody Graulich 291
Plains Country Towns by John C. Hudson, reviewed by Lawrence H. Larsen 292
Views and Viewmakers of Urban America:1825-1925 by John W. Reps, reviewed by Frederick C. Luebke 293
Edmund Morris: Frontier Artist by Jean S. McGill, reviewed by Richard W. Etulain 294
Land of Earth and Sky: Landscape Painting of Western Canada by Ronald Rees, reviewed by Richard W. Etulain 294
Loren Eiseley: The Development of a Writer by E. Fred Carlisle, reviewed by Nancy Bernhardt Holland 295
Loren Eiseley by Leslie E. Gerber and Margaret McFadden, reviewed by Nancy Bernhardt Holland 295
The History of Prairie Theatre by E. Ross Stuart, reviewed by Susan Minsos 296
The Canadian Prairies: A History by Gerald Friesen, reviewed by R. T. Harrison 296
Prairie Politics and Society: Regionalism in Decline by Roger Gibbins, reviewed by William P. Browne and John Dinse 298
The Making of the Modern West: Western Canada Since 1945 edited by A. W. Rasporich, reviewed by William P. Browne and John Dinse 298
Stampede City: Power and Politics in the West edited by Chuck Reasons, reviewed by Brenton M. Barr 300
An Unfailing Faith: A History of the Saskatchewan Dairy Industry by Gordon C. Church, reviewed by Kenneth Hill 301
Patterns of Prejudice: A History of Nativism in Alberta by Howard Palmer, reviewed by Jorgen Dahlie 301
Big Bear: The End of Freedom by Hugh A. Dempsey, reviewed by Robert S. Allen 302
The CPR West: The Iron Road and the Making of a Nation edited by Hugh A. Dempsey, reviewed by Lillian F. Gates 303
Firearms of The American West, 1803-1865 by Louis A. Garavaglia and Charles G. Worman, reviewed by Warren W. Caldwell 304
America's Country Schools by Andrew Guilliford, reviewed by Courtney Ann Vaughn-Roberson 305
A Field Guide to American Windmills by T. Lindsay Baker, reviewed by Homer E. Socolofsky 306
German-Russian Folk Architecture In Southeastern South Dakota by Michael Koop, reviewed by Roger L. Welsch 307
A Tropical Plains Frontier: The Llanos of Colombia 1531-1831 by Jane M. Rausch, reviewed by Kristine L. Jones 307
Maps of Texas and the Southwest, 1513-1900 by James C. Martin and Robert Sidney Martin, reviewed by Robert K. Holz 308
A Buffalo Round-up: A Selected Bibliography by George W. Arthur, reviewed by Roy W. Meyer 309
Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes by Thelma S. Guild and Harvey L. Carter, reviewed by Stephen Tatum 310
Wallace M. Short: lowa Rebel by William H. Cumberland, reviewed by Thomas Burnell Colbert 311
Kansas Geology: An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils edited by Rex Buchanan, reviewed by David B. Loope 312
Forging New Rights in Western Waters by Robert G. Dunbar, reviewed by Willaim D. Rowley 312
NOTES & NEWS 314
INDEX 315