SPRING 1996 VOL. 6/NO. 1
ARTICLES
The Canoe as Failure on the Canadian Plains Norman Henderson 3
Key Words: canoe
Empirical Valuation of Prairie Potholes: Five Case Studies Jay A. Leitch and Brett Hovde 25
Key Words: prairie potholes
Fate of Wetlands Associated with the Central Nebraska Irrigation Canal System Jason D. Ekstein and Scott E. Hygnstrom 41
Key Words: Central Nebraska, irrigation canal system
Niches of Homelessness in Rural Nebraska: Bolstering Existing Understandings Sharon Lord Gaber 61
Key Words: homelessness
Leisure and Aging in Southern Saskatchewan Ralph Nilson, David Weaver, and Carlton Yoshieka 85
Key Words: leisure, aging, Southern Saskatchewan
BOOK REVIEWS
Geologic Field Trips in Nebraska and Adjacent Parts of Kansas and South Dakota edited by Robert F. Diffendal, Jr. and Charles A. Flowerday, reviewed by James E. Martin 105
Wild Animals and Settlers on the Great Plains by Eugene D. Fleharty, reviewed by Charles A. Flowerday 106
Peopling the Plains: Who Settled Where in Frontier Kansas by James Shortridge, reviewed by D. Aidan McQuillan 109
Politics in the Postwar American West edited by Richard Lowitt, reviewed by Clive S. Thomas 112
A Time to Lose: Representing Kansas in Brown v. Board of Education by Paul E. Wilson, reviewed by Anna Williams Shavers 113
Anthropology, Public Policy, and Native Peoples in Canada edited by Noel Dyck and James B. Waldram, reviewed by Adrian Tanner 115
Rural Development in the United States: Connecting Theory, Practice, and Possibilities by William A. Galston and Karen J. Baehler, reviewed by Don Macke 117
Atlas of Oklahoma Climate by Howard L. Johnson and Claude E. Duchon, reviewed by John A. Harrington, Jr. 118
Future Harvest: Pesticide-Free Farming by Jim Bender, reviewed by George E. Ham 120
Wetland and Environmental Applications of GIS by John G. Lyon and Jack McCarthy, reviewed by Scott E. Richert 121
NEWS AND NOTES, 123
FIVE-YEAR INDEX, 129
FALL 1996 VOL. 6/NO. 2
ARTICLES
Underinsurance: The Hidden Dimension to the Health Care Crisis John Comer, Keith Mueller, and Joseph Blankenau 163
Key Words: underinsurance, health care
South Dakota Gaming: A Regional Analysis Erin Hogan Fouberg 179
Key Words: gaming
Occupational Segmentation in Kansas and Nebraska, 1890-1900 Lisa M. Frehill 213
Key Words: occupational segmentation
The Challenge of Waste Stewardship and Sustainable Development: A Study of Municipal Waste Management in Rural Manitoba C. Emdad Haque and Karen T. Hamberg 245
Key Words: municipal waste management, Manitoba
Populist Entrepreneur: Douglas Bruce and the Tax and Government Limitation Moment in Colorado, 1986-1992 Daniel A. Smith 269
Key Words: Douglas Bruce, tax limitation movement
BOOK REVIEWS
Conservation of Great Plains Ecosystems: Current Science, Future Options edited by S. R. Johnson and Aziz Bouzaher, reviewed by .David Wishart 295
Planting the Future: Developing an Agriculture that Sustains Land and Community edited by Elizabeth A. R. Bird, Gordon L. Bultena, and John C. Gardner, reviewed by Charles Francis 296
Guide to Rural Data by Priscilla Salant and Anita J. Waller, reviewed by Cornelia Butler Flora 297
An Illustrated Guide to Endangered or Threatened Species in Kansas by Joseph T. Collins, Suzanne L. Collins, Jerry Horak, Dan Mulhern, William Busby, Craig C. Freeman, and Gary Wallace, reviewed by Michael A. Mares 299
The Carrion Beetles (Coleoptera: Silphidae) of Nebraska by Brett C. Ratcliffe, reviewed by Stephen Trumbo 300
NEBRASKAland Magazine's Weather and Climate of Nebraska by Nebraska Game and Parks Commission, reviewed by Pamela Naber Knox 301
Editing Early and Historical Atlases edited by Joan Winearls, reviewed by Theodore Binnema 303
The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics by Peter H. Argersinger, reviewed by Scott G. McNall 304
Decision at Midnight: Inside the Canada-US Free-Trade Negotiations by Michael Hart with Bill Dymond and Colin Robertson, reviewed by Christopher D. Merrett 306
Rethinking Restructuring: Gender and Change in Canada edited by Isabella Bakker, reviewed by Barbara L. Marshall 307
Amerindian Rebirth: Reincarnation Belief Among North American Indians and Inuit edited by Antonia Mills and Richard Slobodin, reviewed by Jennifer S. H. Brown 309