WINTER 1998 VOL. 18/NO. 1
The Lubbock Chamber of Commerce, the New Deal, and the Ropesville Resettlement Project William Clayson 3
The Great Depression: Two Kansas Diaries C. Robert Haywood 23
Humanitarians on the Frontier: Examples From Northeastern Logan County, Oklahoma Territory Leslie Hewes 39
BOOK REVIEWS
Writings in Indian History, 1985-1990 compiled by Jay Miller, Colin G. Calloway, and Richard A. Sattler, reviewed by Joseph B. Herring 47
Our Hearts Fell to the Ground: Plains Indian Views of How the West Was Lost edited with an introduction by Colin G. Calloway 48
The Oglala People, 1841-1879: A Political History by Catherine Price, reviewed by Matthew G. Hannah 48
Now the Wolf Has Come: The Creek Nation in the Civil War by Christine Schultz White and Benton R. White, reviewed by Rebecca Bales 49
Custer and the Cheyennes: George Armstrong Custer's Winter Campaign on the Southern Plains by Louis Kraft, reviewed by Jay H. Buckley 50
To Change Them Forever: Indian Education at the Rainy Mountain Boarding School, 1893-1920 by Clyde Ellis, reviewed by David W. Adams 51
No End of Grief: Indian Residential Schools in Canada by Agnes Grant, reviewed by Celia Haig-Brown 52
Indian Territory and the United States, 1866-1906: Courts, Government, and the Movement for Oklahoma Statehood by Jeffrey Burton, reviewed by Raymond Wilson 53
Wild West Shows and the Images of Native American Indians, 1883-1933 by L. G. Moses, reviewed by Timothy Troy 54
Lost Bird of Wounded Knee: Spirit of the Lakota by Renée Sansom Flood, reviewed by Joe Starita 54
Native Americans in the News: Images of Indians in the Twentieth Century Press by Mary Ann Weston, reviewed by Gary Garrison 55
Chief Red Fox is Dead: A History of Native Americans Since 1945 by James J. Rawls, reviewed by James H. Cox 56
Dancing on Common Ground: Tribal Cultures and Alliances on the Southern Plains by Howard Meredith, reviewed by Victoria Lindsay Levine 57
Reuben Snake, Your Humble Serpent: Indian Visionary and Activist by Jay Fikes, as told to by Reuben Snake, reviewed by Paul A. Olson 58
Wounded Knee II by Rolland Dewing, reviewed by Todd Kerstetter 59
The Myth of the West: America as the Last Empire by Jan Willen Schulte Norholdt and Herbert H. Rowen, trans., reviewed by Sheila Ruzycki O'Brien 60
The Buffalo Hunters by Charles M. Robinson III, reviewed by Ken Zontek 60
American Politics in the Gilded Age, 1868-1900 by Robert W. Cherny, reviewed by Jeffrey Ostler 61
Settling the Candian-American West, 1890-1915: Pioneer Adaptation and Community Building by John W. Bennett and Seena B. Kohl, reviewed by Catherine Cavanaugh 62
Views from Fort Battleford: Constructed Visions of an Anglo-Canadian West by Walter Hildebrandt, reviewed by J. R. Miller 63
Town Life: Main Street and the Evolution of Small Town Alberta, 1880-1947 by Donald G. Wetherell and Irene R.A. Kmet, reviewed by David H. Breen 64
Wild Bill Hickok: The Man and His Myth by Joseph G. Rosa, reviewed by Thomas Dunlay 65
U.S.-Mexico Borderlands: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives edited by Oscar J. Martinez, reviewed by Robert R. Alvarez 66
Cherokee Outlet Cowboy: Recollections of Laban S. Records by Laban S. Records, edited by Ellen Jayne Maris Wheeler, reviewed by John R. Wunder 66
The Hog Ranches of Wyoming: Liquor, Lust, and Lies Under Sagebrush Skies by Larry K. Brown, reviewed by Rebecca Howard 67
Roadside History of Wyoming by Candy Moulton, reviewed by Duane A. Smith 68
Ghost Settlement on the Prairie: A Biography of Thurman, Kansas by Joseph V. Hickey, reviewed by James R. Shortridge 69
Home on the Range: A Century on the High Plains by James R. Dickenson, reviewed by Dennis C. Williams 69
Sod and Stubble: The Unabridged and Annotated Edition by John Ise, reviewed by Craig Miner 70
Hired Hands: Labour and the Development of Prairie Agriculture, 1880-1930 by Cecilia Danysk, reviewed by Joe Cherwinsk. 71
The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own: The West River Country of South Dakota in the Years of Depression and Dust by Paula M. Nelson, reviewed by Jean Choate 72
A Hundred Years of Heroes: A History of the Southwestern Exposition and Lifestock Show by Clay Reynolds with Marie-Madeleine Schein, reviewed Mark Busby 73
The Ranch: A Modern History of the North American Cattle Industry by Sherm Ewing, reviewed by James Hoy 74
New Westers: The West in Contemporary American Culture by Michael L. Johnson, reviewed by Charles E. Rankin 75
The Frederick Remington Studio by Peter H. Hassrick, reviewed by Alexander Nemerov 75
Prayer to the Great Mystery: The Uncollected Writings and Photography of Edward S. Curtis text by Gerald Hausman, photographs edited by Bob Kapoun, reviewed by Margaret A. MacKichan 77
Living Landscapes of Kansas text by O. J. Reichman, photographs by Steve Mulligan, reviewed by Robert Duncan 77
The Prairie Schoolhouse by John Martin Campbell, reviewed by Sally Stoddard 78
Fort Worth's Legendary Landmarks by Carol Roark, photographs by Byrd Williams, reviewed by James Wright Steely 79
A Guide to Kansas Architecture by David H. Sachs and George Ehrlich, reviewed by Robert I. Duncan 80
Native American Perspectives on Literature and History edited by Alan R. Velie, reviewed by P. Jane Hafen 81
Our Landlady by L. Frank Baum edited and annotated by Nancy Tystad Koupal, reviewed by John E. Miller 81
Willa Cather and the Myth of American Migration by Joseph Urgo, reviewed by Becky Faber 82
Ella Deloria's Iron Hawk by Julian Rice, reviewed by Kelly Morgan 83
Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit: Essays on Native American Life Today by Leslie Marmon Silko, reviewed by Alanna Kathleen Brown 84
Larry McMurtry and the West: An Ambivalent Relationship by Mark Busby, reviewed by Clay Reynolds 85
NOTES AND NEWS, 87
SPRING 1998 VOL. 18/NO. 2
Literature of the Great Plains: An Introduction Frances W. Kaye 100
A Cultural Duet: Zikala Ša and The Sun Dance Opera P. Jane Hafen 102
Women Writing About Farm Women Becky Faber 113
Gendered Landscapes: Synergism of Place and Person in Canadian Prairie Drama Anne F. Nothof 127
The Corporate Farming Debate in the Post-World War II Midwest Jon Lauck 139
REVIEW ESSAY
Harvest Songs and Elegiac Notes by Linda Ray Pratt. A review of Better Red: The Writing and Resistance of Tillie Olsen and Meridel Le Sueur by Constance Coiner and Three Radical Women Writers: Class and Gender in Meridel Le Sueur, Tillie Olsen, and Josephine Herbst by Nora Ruth Roberts 155
BOOK REVIEWS
The Frontiers of Women's Writing: Women's Narratives and the Rhetoric of Westward Expansion by Brigitte Georgi-Findlay, reviewed by Karen Morin 160
Why I Can't Read Wallace Stegner and Other Essays: A Tribal Voice by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, reviewed by Sharon Butala 161
A Cowboy Writer in New Mexico: The Memoirs of John L. Sinclair by John Sinclair, reviewed by Ben E. Pingenot 162
Field of Vision by Lisa Knopp, reviewed by Donald B. Cunningham 163
Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills by Lisa Dale Norton, reviewed by Brenda Doxtator 163
Plain Pictures: Images of the American Prairie by Joni L. Kinsey, reviewed by Joan Carpenter Troccoli 164
Charles M. Russell: The Life and Legend of America's Cowboy Artist by John Taliaferro, reviewed by Elizabeth A. Dear 165
Frederic Remington and Turn-of-the-Century America by Alexander Nemerov, reviewed by H. W. Brands 166
Visions and Voices: Native American Painting from the Philbrook Museum of Art by Lydia L. Wyckoff, reviewed by Janet Catherine Berlo 167
Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas by Alan Govenar, reviewed by Melissa Rachleff 167
Women and Warriors of the Plains: The Pioneer Photographs of Julia E. Tuell by Dan Aadland, reviewed by Richard Pearce-Moses 169
Bust to Boom: Documentary Photographs of Kansas, 1936-1949 by Constance B. Schulz, reviewed by Drake Hokanson 170
High Plains Farm by Paula Chamlee, reviewed by Bill Ganzel 170
People of the Great Plains by Peter Miller, reviewed by Gregory L. Morris 171
The Real West by Patricia Nelson Limerick, reviewed by Robert Hower. 172
Goff on Goff: Conversations and Lectures by Phillip B. Welch, reviewed by Carl Matthews 173
Garth Brooks: The Road out of Santa Fe by Matt O'Meilia, reviewed by Kent Blaser 173
Son of Two Bloods by Vincent L. Mendoza, reviewed by Domino Renee Perez 174
Farm Boys: Lives of Gay Men from the Rural Midwest by Will Fellows, reviewed by John Gilgun. 175
Out Our Way: Gay and Lesbian Life in the Country by Michael Riordon, reviewed by Ian C. Nelson 176
The Fatal Confrontation: Historical Studies of American Indians, Environment, and Historians by Wilbur Jacobs, reviewed by Patrick Goines 177
American Frontiers: Cultural Encounters and Continental Conquest by Gregory H. Nobles, reviewed by Kirk Bane 178
Indian Depredation Claims, 1796-1920 by Larry C. Skogen, reviewed by Roger L. Hichols 178
White Man's Wicked Water: The Alcohol Trade and Prohibition in Indian Country,1802-1892 by William E. Unrau, reviewed by Maril Hazlett 179
Ritual Ground: Bent's Old Fort, World Formation, and the Annexation of the Southeast by Douglas C. Comer, reviewed by Leo E. Oliva. 180
The Making of Sacajawea: A Euro-American Legend by Donna J. Kessler, reviewed by Gary E. Moulton 181
The Texas Military Experience: From the Texas Revolution through World War II by Joseph Dawson III, reviewed by Charles Kenner 182
Texas Wanderlust: The Adventures of Dutch Wurzbach by Douglas V. Meed, reviewed by Cary D. Wintz 182
The Fort That Became a City: An Illustrated Reconstruction of Fort Worth by Richard F. Selcer, reviewed by Robert Duncan 183
Till Freedom Cried Out: Memories of Texas Slave Life by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, reviewed by Barry A. Crouch 184
Winter Quarters: The 1846-1848 Life Writings of Mary Haskin Parker Richards by Maurine Carr Ward, reviewed by Martha Peterson Taysom 184
The Mormon Trail: Yesterday and Today by William E. Hill, reviewed by James B. Allen 185
Same-Sex Dynamics among Nineteenth-Century Americans: A Mormon Example by D. Michael Quinn, reviewed by H. Wayne Schow 186
Water, Land, and Law in the West: The Limits of Public Policy, 1850-1920 by Donald J. Pisani, reviewed by Robert Irvine 187
Uncommon Common Women: Ordinary Lives of the West by Anne M. Butler and Ona Siporin, reviewed by Gaynell Gavin 188
Contented among Strangers: Rural German-Speaking Women and Their Families in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest by Linda Schelbitzki Pickle, reviewed by Royden Loewen 189
Homeland to Hinterland: The Changing Worlds of the Red River Metis in the Nineteenth Century by Gerhard J. Ens, reviewed by D. N. Sprague 190
Kit Carson: Indian Fighter or Indian Killer? by R. C. Gordon-McCutchan, reviewed by Robert S. McPherson 191
The Black Hills Journals of Colonel Richard Irving Dodge by Wayne R. Kime, reviewed by Paul L. Hedren 192
The Dust Rose Like Smoke: The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux by James O. Gump, reviewed by Learthern Dorsey 193
After Wounded Knee: Correspondence of Major and Surgeon John Vance Lauderdale while Serving with the Army Occupying the Pine Ridge Reservation, 1890-1891 by Jerry Green, reviewed by Michael D. Berndt 193
Mexicans in the Midwest, 1900-1932 by Juan R. Garcia, reviewed by Ralph Grajeda 194
Shingwauk's Vision: A History of Native Residential Schools by J. R. Miller, reviewed by Jennifer Pettit 195
Desegregating Texas Schools: Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High by Robyn Duff Ladino, reviewed by William H. Wilson 196
Myths and Traditions of the Arikara Indians by Douglas R. Parks, reviewed by Tressa Berman 196
One Nation Under God: The Triumph of the Native American Church by Huston Smith and Rueben Snake, reviewed by Christopher Vecsey 197
Killing the White Man's Indian: Reinventing Native Americans at the End of the Twentieth Century by Fergus M. Bordewich, reviewed by Tom Holm 198
All Over the Map: Rethinking American Regions by Edward L. Ayers, Patricia Nelson Limerick, Stephen Nissenbaum, and Peter S. Onuf, reviewed by Thomas D. Isern 199
Bring Back the Buffalo!: A Sustainable Future for America's Great Plains by Ernest Callenbach, reviewed by Ken Zontek 200
NOTES AND NEWS, 202
SUMMER 1998 VOL. 18/NO. 3
Framing the Tourist Gaze: Railway Journeys Across Nebraska, 1866-1906 Jean P. Retzinger 213
Feature Folio: Images of Great Plains Train Travel 227
Trains Through the Plains: The Great Plains Landscape of Victorian Women Travelers Karen Morin 235
Financing the Paliser Triangle, 1908-1913 John Feldberg and Warren M. Elofson 257
BOOK REVIEWS
Wallace Stegner: His Life and Works by Jackson J. Benson, reviewed by Robert Thacker 269
Cather Studies, Vol. 3 edited by Susan J. Rosowski, reviewed by Patrick W. Shaw 270
Native American Verbal Art by William M. Clements, reviewed by Linda Lizut Herstern 270
Beyond Bounds: Cross-Cultural Essays on Anglo, American Indian, and Chicano Literature by Robert Franklin Gish, reviewed by Ricardo L. Garcia 271
Leaning into the Wind: Women Write from the Heart of the West by Linda Hasselstrom, et al., eds., reviewed by Tisha Gilreath Mullen 272
Writing the Range: Race, Class, and Culture in the Women's West by Elizabeth Jameson and Susan Armitage, reviewed by Angel Kwolek-Folland 273
"And Prairie Dogs Weren't Kosher": Jewish Women in the Upper Midwest Since 1855 by Linda Mack Schloff, reviewed by H. Elaine Lindgren 273
The Culture of Wilderness: Agriculture as Colonization in the American West by Frieda Knobloch, reviewed by Emily Greenwald 274
Native American Law and Colonialism, Before 1776 to 1903. Volume 1 of Native Americans and the Law edited by John R. Wunder, reviewed by William T. Hagan 275
Constitutionalism and Native Americans, 1903-1968. Volume 2 of Native Americans and the Law edited by John R. Wunder, reviewed by Jill Norgren 276
The Indian Bill of Rights, 1968. Volume 3 of Native Americans and the Law edited by John R. Wunder, reviewed by David E. Wilkins (Lumbee) 277
Plains Indian History and Culture by John C. Ewers, reviewed by Herbert T. Hoover 278
A New Significance:Re-envisioning the History of the American West edited by Clyde A. Milner II, reviewed by John R. Wunder 278
The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States by F. Todd Smith, reviewed by Elizabeth A. H. John 279
Legacy: New Perspectives on the Battle of the Little Bighorn edited by Charles E. Rankin, reviewed by Gregory J. W. Urwin 280
The True Spirit and Original Intent of Treaty 7 by Treaty 7 Elders et al., reviewed by David Reed Miller 281
Standing in the Light: A Lakota Way of Seeing by Severt Young Bear and R. D. Theisz, reviewed by Kelly J. Morgan 282
From Our Eyes: Learning from Indigenous Peoples edited by Sylvia O'Meara and Douglas A. West, reviewed by Pete Hudson 283
Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle: William Henry Bush by Paul H. Carlson, reviewed by Ben E. Pingenot 283
NEWS AND NOTES, 285
FALL 1998 VOL. 18/NO. 4
Carnival and Ceremony at Wright Morris's Lone Tree Hotel Reginald Dyck 293
Giants on the Plains: Grain Elevators and the Making of Enid, Oklahoma Blake Gumprecht 305
Sexuality, Gender, and Identity in Great Plains History and Myth Peter Boag 327
BOOK REVIEWS
Sixty Miles to Contentment: Traveling the Nineteenth-Century American Interior by M. H. Dunlop, reviewed by Jon Lauck 341
Journal of an Expedition to the Grand Prairies of the Missouri 1840 by William Fairholme; Jack B. Tykal, ed., reviewed by Jay H. Buckley 342
For God and Mammon: Evangelicals and Entrepeneurs, Masters and Slaves in Territorial Kansas, 1884-1860 by Gunja SenGupta, reviewed by Peter Knupfer 342
The Devil Knows How to Ride: The True Story of Willliam Clarke Quantrill and His Confederate Raiders by Edward E. Leslie, reviewed by James E. Sherow 343
The WPA Oklahoma Slave Narratives edited by T. Lindsay Baker and Julie P. Baker, reviewed by Angelo Costanzo 344
My Remembers: A Black Sharecropper's Recollections of the Depression by Eddie Stimpson Jr., reviewed by Alwyn Bar. 345
Black Valor: Buffalo Soldiers and the Medal of Honor by Frank N. Schubert, reviewed by Cornel Pewewardy 346
Cheyennes at Dark Water Creek by William Y. Chalfant, reviewed by James Briscoe 347
Cheyenne Dog Soldiers by Jean Afton, David Fridtjof Halaas, Andrew E. Masich, with Richard N. Ellis, reviewed by James Briscoe 348
Homicide, Race, and Justice in the American West, 1880-1920 by Clare V. McKanna Jr., reviewed by Lawrence H. Larsen 348
Dutch Farmer in the Missouri Valley by Brian W. Beltman, reviewed by Royden Loewen 349
Alias Frank Canton by Robert K. DeArment, reviewed by Phil Roberts 350
Texas Oil, American Dreams:A Study of the Texas Independent Producers and Royalty Owners Association by Lawrence Goodwyn, reviewed by George N. Green 351
Unionizing the Jungles: Labor and Community in the Twentieth-Century Meatpacking Industry edited by Sheldon Stromquist and Marvin Bergman, reviewed by Laura Lacasa 352
Building South Dakota by David Erpestad and David Wood, reviewed by Elaine Freed 353
Re-Imagining the Modern American West by Richard W. Etulain, reviewed by Stacey Short 354
Rooted in the Land: Essays on Community and Place edited by William Vitek and Wes Jackson, reviewed by Tisha Gilreath Mullen 355
Women of the First Nations edited by Christine Miller and Patricia Chuchryk, et al., reviewed by Jo-Ann Archibald 355
Like a Hurricane: The Indian Movement from Alcatraz to Wounded Knee by Paul Chaat Smith and Robert Allen Warrior, reviewed by Akim D. Reinhardt 356
A Force upon the Plain: The American Militia Movement and the Politics of Hate by Kenneth S. Stern, reviewed by Catherine McNicol Stock 357