WINTER 1988 VOL. 8/NO. 1
Symbols of German-Russian Ethnic Identity on the Northern Plains Timothy J. Kloberdanz 3
"The Greatest Thing I Ever Did Was Join the Union" A History of the Dakota Teamsters During the Depression Jonathan F. Wagner 16
Plains Song: Wright Morris's New Melody for Audacious Female Voices Linda M. Lewis 29
Development of the Appropriation Doctrine: Adapting Water Allocation Policies to Semiarid Environs J. David Aiken 38
BOOK REVIEWS
The Journals of the Lewis & Clark Expedition: Volumes 2, 3, and 4 edited by Gary E. Moulton, reviewed by Richard A. Bartlett 45
The Mythic West in Twentieth-Century America by Robert G. Athearn, reviewed by Brian W. Dippie 47
Soldiers West: Biographies from the Military Frontier edited by Paul Andrew Hutton, reviewed by Peter Maslowski 48
Pahaska Tepee: Buffalo Bill's Old Hunting Lodge and Hotel, a History, 1901-1947 by W. Hudson Kensel, reviewed by Joni Gilkerson 49
Buckskins, Bullets, and Business: A History of Buffalo Bill's Wild West by Sarah J. Blackstone, reviewed by Andrew Gulliford 49
Selling the Wild West: Popular Western Fiction, 1860 to 1960 by Christine Bold, reviewed by Leslie T. Whipp 50
Little Crow: Spokesman for the Sioux by Gary Clayton, reviewed by Herbert T. Hoover 51
Hoofbeats and Society: Studies of Human-Horse Interactions by Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, reviewed by Susanne Lindau 52
Paper Medicine Man: John Gregory Bourke and His American West by Joseph C. Porter, reviewed by Thomas William Dunlay 53
Agricultural Distress in the Midwest, Past and Present edited by Lawrence E. Gelfand, reviewed by James Lowenberg-Deboer 53
Sam Shepard by Vivian M. Patraka and Mark Siegel, reviewed by Carolyn J. Perry 54
Alamo Images: Changing Perceptions of a Texas Experience by Susan Prendergast Schoelwer, reviewed by Robert A. Calvert 54
The Paintings of George Caleb Bingham: A Catalogue Raisonne by E. Maurice Bloch, reviewed by Stephen C. Behrendt 55
The American Indian and the Problem of History edited by Calvin Martin, reviewed by Robert H. Keller 56
Closing the Frontier: Radical Response in Oklahoma, 1883-1923 by John Thompson, reviewed by Garin Burbank 57
The Dakota or Sioux in Minnesota as They Were in 1854 by Samuel W. Pond, reviewed by Herbert T. Hoover 57
Historical Atlas of Oklahoma by John W. Morris, Charles R. Goins, and Edwin C. McReynolds, reviewed by Frederick C. Luebke 59
Civilizing the West: The Galts and the Development of Western Canada by A. A. den Otter, reviewed by Henry C. Klassen 59
Prairie: Images of Ground and Sky by Terry Evans, reviewed by Margaret A. Mackichan 60
NOTES & NEWS, 62
SPRING 1988 VOL. 8/NO. 2
Women's Culture in the Great Plains: An Introduction Helen Moore 67
"There is Some Splendid Scenery" Women's Responses to the Great Plains Landscape Julie Roy Jeffrey 69
Plains Women: Rural Life in the 1930s Dorothy Schwieder and Deborah Fink 79
Elaine Goodale Eastman and the Failure of the Feminist Protestant Ethic Ruth Ann Alexander 89
Prairie Scholl Women, Mid-1850s to 1920s, in Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska Mary Hurlbut Cordier 102
BOOK REVIEWS
The Women's West edited by Susan Armitage and Elizabeth Jameson, reviewed by Suzanne L. Bunkers 120
Open Country, Iowa: Rural Women, Tradition and Change by Deborah Fink, reviewed by Seena B. Kohl 121
Land of the Burnt Thigh by Edith Eudora Kohl, reviewed by Sheryll Patterson-Black 122
Cather's Kitchens: Foodways in Literature and Life by Roger L. and Linda K. Welsch, reviewed by John P. Anders 123
Emily: The Diary of a Hard-Worked Woman by Emily French, edited by Janet Lecompte, reviewed by Alice Hall Petry 123
Helen Hunt Jackson by Rosemary Whitaker, reviewed by Valerie Sherer Mathes 124
NOTES & NEWS, 125
SUMMER 1988 VOL. 8/NO. 3
Rethinking the Farm Revolt of the 1930s William C. Pratt 131
Women and Technology on the Great Plains, 1910-40 Katherine Jellison 145
Reservation Policy and the Economic Position of Wichita Women Carolyn Garrett Pool 158
The Nebraska Capital Controversy, 1854-59 James B. Potts 172
BOOK REVIEWS
Mapping the North American Plains: Essays in the History of Cartography edited by Frederick C. Luebke, Frances W. Kaye, and Gary E. Moulton, reviewed by Donna P. Koepp 183
The Cartography of North America, 1500-1800 by Pierluigi Portinaro and Franco Knirsch, reviewed by Frederick C. Luebke 184
America's Architectural Roots: Ethnic Groups That Built America edited by Dell Upton, reviewed by Carroll Van West 185
Emil Loriks: Builder of a New Economic Order by Elizabeth E. Williams, reviewed by Jonathan F. Wagner 185
Hunting and Trading on the Great Plains, 1859-1875 by James R. Mead, reviewed by Glen E. Lich 186
On the Santa Fe Trail edited by Marc Simmons, reviewed by Glen E. Lich 187
The Just Polity: Populism, Law, and Human Welfare by Norman Pollack, reviewed by Peter H. Argersinger 187
After the West Was Won: Homesteaders and Town-Builders in Western South Dakota, 1900-1917 by Paula M. Nelson, reviewed by Joseph S. Wood 188
Patterns of Life, Patterns of Art: The Rahr Collection of Native American Art Hood Museum of Art reviewed by David Wooley 189
Ghost Towns of Texas by T. Lindsay Baker, reviewed by Susanne Lindau 189
NOTES & NEWS, 190
FALL 1988 VOL. 8/NO. 4
Structure of Agriculture and Women's Culture on the Great Plains Cornelia Butler Flora and Jan L. Flora 195
The Heart of the Prairie: Culture Areas in the Central and Northern Great Plains James R. Shortridge 206
Ethnicity, Religion, and Gender: The Women of Block, Kansas, 1868-1940 Carol K. Coburn 222
BOOK REVIEWS
The Cheyenne Nation: A Social and Demographic History by John H. Moore, reviewed by Russel Lawrence Barsh 233
Rethinking Regionalism: John Steuart Curry and the Kansas Mural Controversy by M. Sue Kendall, reviewed by Richard W. Etulain 234
Grant Wood: A Study in American Art and Culture by James M. Dennis, reviewed by Richard W. Etulain 234
The Wolves of Heaven: Cheyenne Shamanism, Ceremonies, and Prehistoric Origins by Karl H. Schlesier, reviewed by Robert Nespor 235
The West of the Imagination by William H. Goetzmann and William N. Goetzmann, reviewed by Robert Thacker 236
Edible Wild Plants of the Prairie: An Ethnobotanical Guide by Kelly Kindscher, reviewed by Kathleen H. Keeler 236
Konza Prairie: A Tallgrass Natural History by O. J. Reichman, reviewed by Paul A. Johnsgard 237
Plains Folk: A Commonplace of the Great Plains by Jim Hoy and Tom Isern, reviewed by Rober L. Welsch 238
Life of Bishop Machebeuf by W. J. Howlett, reviewed by Lance Larsen 238