WINTER 1989 VOL. 9/NO. 1
The Daughters of Shiprah: Folk Healers and Midwives on the Great Plains Timothy J. Kloberdanz 3
Opera Houses in Kansas, Nebraska and the Dakotas: 1870-1920 Ronald L. Davis 13
Freedom and Control in Laura Ingalls Wilder's De Smet John E. Miller 27
Women's Contribution to the Family Farm Richard W. Rathge 36
BOOK REVIEWS
Sacred Language: The Nature of Supernatural Discourse in Lakota by William K. Powers, reviewed by Douglas R. Parks 48
The Blackfoot Confederacy, 1880-1920: A Comparative Study of Canadian and U.S. Indian Policy by Hana Samek, reviewed by Calvin Luther Martin 50
The World of the Crow Indians: As Driftwood Lodges by Rodney Frey, reviewed by C. Adrian Heidenreich 51
Stories of the House People told by Peter Vandall and Joe Douquette, reviewed by Ahab Spence 52
Buffalo Bird Woman's Garden: Agriculture of the Hidatsa Indians by Gilbert L. Wilson, reviewed by Paul Olson 52
Indian Agriculture in America by R. Douglas Hurt, reviewed by Paul Olson 52
Heartland: Comparative Histories of the Midwestern States edited by James H. Madison, reviewed by John C. Hudson 53
The Road to Rebellion: Class Formation and Populism by Scott G. McNall, reviewed by Robert W. Cherny 54
Garden City: Dreams in a Kansas Town by Holly Hope, reviewed by Michael Broadway 55
Among the Sleeping Giants: Occasional Pieces on Lewis and Clark by Donald Jackson, reviewed by Gary E. Moulton 56
Willa Cather: A Literary Life by James Woodress, reviewed by Karen Vierneisel 56
We're Czechs by Robert L. Skrabanek, reviewed by Joseph G. Svoboda 57
Lubbock Lake: Late Quarternary Studies on the Southern High Plains edited by Eileen Johnson, reviewed by Warren W. Caldwell 58
NOTES & NEWS 59
SPRING 1989 VOL. 9/NO. 2
Arts Institutions on the Great Plains: An Introduction Norman A. Geske 67
Seeing More Than Earth and Sky: The Rise of a Great Plains Aesthetic Howard Roberts Lamar 69
Businessman, Bibliophile, and Patron: Edward E. Ayer and His Collection of American Art Frederick E. Hoxie 78
Joint Venture or Testy Alliance: The Public Works of Art Project in Minnesota, 1933-34 Thomas O'Sullivan 89
The Art Museum as Personal Statement: The Southwestern Experience Keith L. Bryant, Jr. 100
Introduction to Federal and State Arts and Humanities Agencies Robin S. Tryloff and Sarah Z. Rosenberg 118
The Role of State Arts Agencies in the Promotion and Development of the Arts on the Plains Robin S. Tryloff 119
State Humanties Councils and Cultural Institutions on the Great Plains Sarah Z. Rosenberg 125
BOOK REVIEWS
Native American Architecture by Peter Nabokov and Robert Easton, reviewed by Carroll Van West 131
Prime Fathers by Frederick Manfred, reviewed by Les Whipp 132
NOTES & NEWS 133
SUMMER 1989 VOL 9/NO. 3
The Judical Fortunes of French on the Canadian Prairies Donald A. Bailey 139
Ethnic Women Homesteading on the Plains of North Dakota H. Elaine Lindgren 157
Women's Responses to the Challenges of Plains Living Glenda Riley 174
BOOK REVIEWS
The Female Frontier: A Comparative View of Women on the Prairie and the Plains by Glenda Riley, reviewed by Alice Hall Petry 185
Indian Lives: Essays on Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Native American Leaders edited by L. G. Moses and Raymond Wilson, reviewed by Charles G. Ballard 186
North American Indian Lives by Nancy Oestreich, reviewed by Charles G. Ballard 186
"The Orders of the Dreamed": George Nelson on Cree and Northern Ojibwa Religion and Myth, 1823 by Jennifer S. H. Brown and Robert Brightman, reviewed by Olive Patricia Dickason 188
Among the Sioux of Dakota: Eighteen Months' Experience as an Indian Agent, 1869-70 by D. C. Poole, reviewed by Elizabeth S. Grobsmith 189
A Creek Warrior for the Confederacy: The Autobiography of Chief G. W Grayson edited and with an introduction by W. David Baird, reviewed by William E. Unrau 190
The Way to Independence: Memories of A Hidatsa Indian Family, 1840-1920 by Carolyn Gilman and Mary Jane Schneider, reviewed by Joseph C. Porter 191
A Coloring Book of Hidatsa Indian Stories: Based on the Life and Drawings of Edward Goodbird compiled by Roberta Krim and Thomas Thompson, reviewed by Joseph C. Porter 191
Indian Education in Canada: Volume 2: The Challenge edited by Jean Barman, reviewed by Dana F. Lawrence 192
Basic Texas Books: An Annotated Bibliography of Selected Works for a Research Library by John H. Jenkins, reviewed by Glen E. Lich 193
Texas Country: The Changing Rural Scene edited by Glen E. Lich and Dona B. Reeves-Marquardt, reviewed by Lawrence Clayton 194
Ole Edvart Rølvaag by Ann Moseley, reviewed by Rodney P. Rice 194
A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth Century America by Sheldon Stromquist, reviewed by Russell S. Kirby 195
Sentinel of the Southern Plains: Fort Richardson and the Northwest Texas Frontier, 1866-1978 by Allen Lee Hamilton, reviewed by Michael L. Tate 195
NOTES & NEWS 197
FALL 1989 VOL. 9/NO. 4
The Wonderful Wizard of the West: L. Frank Baum in South Dakota Nancy Tystad Koupal 203
Irrigating with Windmills on the Great Plains T. Lindsay Baker 216
Controlled Pasture Burning in the Folklife of the Kansas Flint Hills James Hoy 231
Rural German-Speaking Women in Early Nebraska and Kansas: Ethnicity as a Factor in Frontier Adaptation Linda Schelbitzki Pickle 239
NOTES & NEWS 252
INDEX 253