WINTER 1991 VOL. 11/NO. 1
Standing Tradition on Its Head: Role Reversal Among Blood Indian Couples Janet Mancini Billson 3
"Pap" Singleton's Dunlap Colony Relief Agencies and the Failure of a Black Settlement in Eastern Kansas Joseph V. Hickey 23
Continuity and Change on the Twentieth-Century Farm: The Gists of South Dakota, 1921-71 James Marten 37
British Remittance Men as Ranchers: The Case of Coutts Marjoribanks and Edmund Thursby, 1884-95 Larry A. McFarlane 53
BOOK REVIEWS
Elmer Kelton and West Texas: A Literary Relationship by Judy Alter, reviewed by Lawrence Clayton 70
Ronald Reagan and the Public Lands: America's Conservation Debate, 1979-1984 by C. Brant Short, reviewed by William Rowley 70
The Quartzite Border: Surveying and Marking the North Dakota-South Dakota Boundary, 1891-1892 by Gordon L. Iseminger, reviewed by Ronald E. Grim 71
Oklahoma Mammalogy: An Annotated Bibliography and Checklist by Robert D. Owen and Gary D. Schnell 72
NOTES & NEWS, 73
SPRING 1991 VOL. 11/NO. 2
Climate Change on the Great Plains: An Introduction Frances W. Kaye 79
Plate Tectonics, Space, Geologic Time, and the Great Plains: A Primer for Non-Geologists R. F. Diffendal, Jr. 81
Climate and Vegetation in Central North America: Natural Patterns and Human Alterations John A. Harringron, Jr. and Jay R. Harman 103
More Names on Inscription Rock: Travel Writeres on the Great Plains in the 1930s Nancy Cook 113
BOOK REVIEWS
The Checkered Years: A Bonanza Farm Diary, 1884-88 by Mary Dodge Woodward, edited by Mary Boynton Cowdrey, reviewed by H. Elaine Lindgren 127
Shaping Educational Change: The First Century of the University of Northern Colorado at Greeley by Robert W. Larson, reviewed by Maxine Benson 128
Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas: Pioneers Sam and Mary Maverick by Paula Mitchell Marks, reviewed by David J. Murrah 129
Life with the Union Pacific: The Autobiography of Edd H. Bailey by Edd H. Bailey, reviewed by H. Roger Grant 129
The Plains of North America and Their Inhabitants by Richard Irving Dodge, reviewed by James H. Gunnerson 130
Buffalo Bill and His Wild West: A Pictoral Biography by Joseph G. Rosa and Robin May, reviewed by Richard W. Etulain 130
Historians of the American Frontier: A Bio-Bibliographical Sourcebook edited by John R. Wunder, reviewed by Dan Flores 131
Ancestral Voice: Conversations with N. Scott Momaday by Charles L. Woodard, reviewed by Kenneth M. Roemer 132
Caprock Canyonlands: Journey into the Heart of the Southern Plains by Dan Flores, reviewed by Rudolfo A. Anaya 133
Canyon Visions: Photographs and Pastels of the Texas Plains by Dan Flores and Amy Gormley Winton, reviewed by John R. Wunder 134
Breaking the Iron Bonds: Indian Control of Energy Development by Marjane Ambler, reviewed by Russel Lawrence Barsh 135
The Complete Roadside Guide to Nebraska by Alan Boye, reviewed by Rosemary Thornton 136
NOTES & NEWS, 137
SUMMER 1991 VOL. 11/NO. 3
Lowry Charles Wimberly and the Retreat of Regionlism Kathleen A. Boardman 143
Stephen Crane's "Bride" as Countermythe of the West Jules Zanger 157
Shaping the Growth of the Montana Economy: T.C. Power and Bro. and the Canadian Trade, 1869-93 Henry C. Klassen 166
Wyoming Political Surprises in the Late 1980s: Deviating Elections in a Conservative Republican State Cal and Janer Clark 181
BOOK REVIEWS
The Seminole by Merwin S. Garbarino, reviewed by Susan A. Miller 198
The Comanche by Willard H. Rollings, reviewed by Charles Kenner 199
The Yankton Sioux by Herbert T. Hoover, reviewed by Michael L. Tate 199
The Cheyenne by Stan Hoig, reviewed by Gregory R. Campbell 200
The Kiowa by John R. Wunder, reviewed by Maurice Boyd 201
The Quapaws by W. David Baird, reviewed by Charles G. Ballard 202
The Cherokee by Theda Perdue, reviewed by William L. Anderson 203
The Potawatomi by James A. Clifton, reviewed by Nancy Shoemaker 204
The Choctaw by Jesse O. McKee, reviewed by Clara Sue Kidwell 204
The Arapaho by Loretta Fowler, reviewed by Lisa E. Emmerich 205
The Crow by Frederick E. Hoxie, reviewed by W. Raymond Wood 206
Narrative Chance: Postmodern Discourse of Native American Indian Literatures edited by Gerald Vizenor, reviewed by Kathryn Shanley 206
The Voice in the Margin: Native American Literature and the Canon by Arnold Krupat, reviewed by Charles G. Ballard 208
American Indian Autobiography by H. David Brumble, reviewed by Charles LaChance 209
Art of the Red Earth People: The Mesquakie of Iowa by Gaylord Torrence and Robert Hobbs reviewed by Mary Jane Schneider 209
Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis and the Quest for Indian Identity by William E. Unrau, reviewed by Larry Burt 210
The BFI Companion to the Western edited by Edward Buscombe, reviewed by Richard W. Etulain 211
Vulcan: The Making of a Prairie Community by Paul Voisey, reviewed by David C. Jones 212
Farmers "Making Good": The Development of Abernethy District, Saskatchewan, 1880-1920 by Lyle Dick, reviewed by Thomas D. Isern 213
The Encyclopedia of the Central West by Allan Carpenter, reviewed by David Wishart 214
The Middle West: Its Meaning in American Culture by James R. Shortridge, reviewed by David D. Van Tassel 214
Plains Folk, North Dakota's Ethnic History edited by William C. Sherman and Playford V. Thorson, reviewed by L. Martin Perry 216
NOTES & NEWS, 217
FALL 1991 VOL. 11/NO. 4
Education on the Great Plains: An Introduction Erwin H. Goldenstein 223
Schoolmarms on the Upper Missouri Kathleen Underwood 225
Male Teachers, Male Roles: The Progressive Era and Education in Oklahoma Courtney Ann Farr and Jeffrey A. Liles 234
Williard Kimball: Music Educator on the Great Plains Marilyn Hammond and Raymond Haggh 249
BOOK REVIEWS
One-Room School: Teaching in 1930s Western Oklahoma by Donna M. Stephens, reviewed by Colleen Ryan 262
"Our Purpose is to Serve": The First Century of the North Dakota Agricultural Experiment Station by David B. Danbom, reviewed by Peter D. Shemitz 262
Five for the Land and Its People by Bill G. Reid, reviewed by Howard W. Ottoson 262
The American West: A Twentieth-Century History by Michael P. Malone and Richard W. Etulain, reviewed by Peter Iverson 263
The Twentieth Century West: Historical Interpretations edited by Gerald D. Nash and Richard W. Etulain, reviewed by Daniel Tyler 264
Writing Saskatchewan: 20 Critical Essays edited by Kenneth G. Probert, reviewed by George E. Wolf 265
The Two Psychiatries: The Transformation of Psychiatric Work in Saskatchewan, 1905-1984 by Harley D. Dickenson, reviewed by Will Spaulding 266
Before Lewis and Clark Volume 1: Documents Illustrating the History of the Missouri,1785-1804 edited and with an Introductory Narrative by A.P. Nasatir, reviewed by W. Raymond Wood 267
Before Lewis and Clark Volume 2: Documents Illustrating the Hlstory of the Missouri, 1785-1804 edited and with an Introductory Narrative by A.P. Nasatir, reviewed by W. Raymond Wood 267
Sagebrush Soldier: Private William Earl Smith's View of the Sioux War of 1876 by Sherry L. Smith, reviewed by Thomas W. Dunlay 268
Cheyennes and Horse Soldiers: The 1857 Expedition and the Battle of Solomon's Fork by William Y. Chalfant, reviewed by Donald J. Berthrong 269
Cowboy and Gunfighter Collectibles: A Photographic Encyclopedia with Price Guide and Makers Index by Bill Mackin, reviewed by Warren W. Caldwell 270
From Pecos to the Powder: A Cowboy's Autobiography by Bob Kennon as told to Ramon F. Adams, reviewed by Bob Ross 270
Rich Grass and Sweet Water: Ranch Life with the Koch Matador Cattle Company by John Lincoln, reviewed by Albert T. Davis III 270
Ojibway Music From Minnesota: Continuity and Change by Thomas Vennum, Jr., reviewed by Kenton Bales 271
The Art of Tom Lea compiled by Kathleen G. Hjerter, reviewed by Brian W. Dippie 272
The Selected Letters of Frederick Manfred, 1932-1954 edited by Arthur R. Huseboe and Nancy Owen Nelson, reviewed by Leslie Whipp 273
An Illustrated History of the Arts in South Dakota by Arthur R. Huseboe, reviewed by Norman A. Geske 274
Colorado: A Summer Trip by Bayard Taylor, reviewed by Kathleen Boardman 275
Son of Old Jules: Memoirs of Jules Sandoz, Jr. by Caroline Sandoz Pifer and Jules Sandoz, Jr., reviewed by Barbara Wright Rippey 276
"The Whorehouse Bells Were Ringing" and Other Songs Cowboys Sing collected and edited by Guy Logsdon, reviewed by Rick Cypert 277
Land of Bright Promise: Advertising the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, 1870- 1917 by Jan Blodgett, reviewed by Douglas Francis 278
Santa Fe: History of an Ancient City edited by David Grant Noble, reviewed by Marvin Kanne 278
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo: A Legacy of Conflict by Richard Griswold del Castillo, reviewed by F. Arturo Rosales 279
Colorado Flora: Eastern Slope by William A. Weber, reviewed by Kelly Kindscher 280
Great Plains Patchwork: A Memoir by Marilyn Coffey, reviewed by Kathleene K. West 280
Calico Chronicle: Texas Women and Their Fashions, 1830-1910 by Betty J. Mills, reviewed by Elizabeth A. Turner 281
Day In, Day Out: Women's Lives in North Dakota edited by Bjorn Benson, Elizabeth Hampsten, and Kathryn Sweney, reviewed by Margrethe Ahlschwede 281
Lizzie: The Letters of Elizabeth Chester Fisk, 1864-1893 edited by Rex C. Myers, reviewed by Paula Petrik 282
Ella Elgar Bird Dumont: An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer edited by Tommy J. Boley, reviewed by Rebecca J. Davis 283
Political Bossism in Mid-America: Tom Dennison's Omaha 1900-1933 by Orville D. Menard, reviewed by Frederick M. Spletstoser 283
Siringo by Ben E. Pingenot, reviewed by Clare V. McKanna, Jr. 284
Images of the West: Changing Perceptions of the Prairies, 1690-1960 by R. Douglas Francis, reviewed by Robert Thacker 285
The View from Officers' Row: Army Perceptions of Western Indians by Sherry L. Smith, reviewed by Peter Maslowski 286
Billy the Kid: A Short and Violent Life by Robert M. Utley, reviewed by Bill Christophersen 287
Heaven is Near the Rocky Mountains edited by Hugh A. Dempsey, reviewed by Robin Ridington 288
Beyond the Frontier: Writers, Western Regionalism and a Sense of Place by Harold P. Simonson, reviewed by Barbara L. Imig 289
Colorado Catholicism and the Archdiocese of Denver, 1857-1989 by Thomas J. Noel, reviewed by Denis R. Fournier 290