WINTER 1993 VOL. 13/NO. 1
The Drama of Law in the Nebraska State Capitol: Sculpture and Inscriptions Robert Haller 3
The United States Army as a Constabulary on the Northern Plains Larry D. Ball 21
The Farm Policy Debate of 1949-50: Plains State Reaction to the Brannan Plan Virgil W. Dean 33
BOOK REVIEWS
Malcolm: The Life of a Man Who Changed Black America by Bruce Perry, reviewed by Learthen Dorsey 47
New Mexico's Buffalo Soldiers, 1866-1900 by Monroe Lee Billington, reviewed by William M. King 48
The Dispossession of the American Indian, 1887-1934 by Janet A. McDonnell, reviewed by Thomas E. Ross 48
American Indians and World War II by Alison R. Bernstein, reviewed by John R. Wunder 49
Wounded Knee Lest We Forget by Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., Trudy Thomas, and Jeanne Eder, reviewed by John R. Wunder 50
Wounded Knee 1973: A Personal Account by Stanley David Lyman, edited by Floyd A. O'Neil, June K. Lyman, and Susan McKay, reviewed by John R. Wunder 50
War Dance: Plains Indian Musical Performance by William K. Powers, reviewed by Mark Mattern 52
Yellowtail: Crow Medicine Man and Sun Dance Chief as told to Michael Oren Fitzgerald, reviewed by Todd Kerstetter 53
John Rollin Ridge: His Life & Works by James W. Parins, reviewed by Kevin Mulroy 54
People of the Willows: The Prehistory and Early History of the Hadatsa Indians by Stanley A. Ahler, Thomas D. Thiessen, and Michael K. Trimble, reviewed by Gregory L. Fox 55
The Cherokees: A Population History by Russell Thornton, reviewed by Cynthia E. Willis 55
Pawnee Passage, 1870-1875 by Martha Royce, reviewed by Oliver Fröhling 56
Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier by Robert M. Utley, reviewed by John D. McDermott 57
Custer's Last Campaign: Mitch Boyer and the Little Bighorn Reconstructed by John S. Gray, foreword by Robert M. Utley, reviewed by John D. McDermott 57
The Great Sioux War 1876-77: The Best from "Montana The Magazine of Western History" edited by Paul L. Hedren, reviewed by John D. McDermott 57
The Custer Reader edited by Paul Andrew Hutton, reviewed by James Briscoe 58
Spanish Borderlands Sourcebooks: The Spanish Missions of New Mexico edited with an introduction by John L. Kessell and Rick Hendricks, reviewed by Ralph H. Vigil 59
Quivira: Europeans in the Region of the Santa Fe Trail, 1540-1820 by William Brandon, reviewed by Jane MacLaren Walsh 60
Encyclopedia of Frontier Biography by Dan L. Thrapp, reviewed by David Wishart 61
Roadside History of Oklahoma by Francis L. and Roberta B. Fugate, reviewed by Brad Bays 61
Roadside Geology of Texas by Darwin Spearing, reviewed by David B. Loope 62
NOTES & NEWS, 63
SPRING 1993 VOL. 13/NO. 2
Exploring the Great Plains: An Introduction Gary E. Moulton 67
New World Encounters: Exploring the Great Plains of North America John L. Allen 69
Exploring the Explorers: Great Plains Peoples and the Lewis and Expedition James P. Ronda 81
An American Heart of Darkness: The 1913 Expedition for American Indian Citizenship Russel Lawrence Barsh 91
How Far West Am I?: The Almanac as an Explorer's Yardstick Arlen J. Large 117
BOOK REVIEWS
Populism: Its Rise and Fall by William A. Peffer, edited with an introduction by Peter H. Argersinger, reviewed by Homer E. Socolofsky 132
A Country So Interesting: The Hudson's Bay Company and Two Centuries of Mapping, 1670-1870 by Richard I. Ruggles, reviewed by Paul Hackett 133
PrairyErth (a deep map) by William Least Heat-Moon, reviewed by Joseph J. Wydeven 133
Under an Open Sky: Rethinking America's Western Past by William Cronon, George Miles, and Jay Gitlin, reviewed by Marguerite Helmers 134
The Range by Sherm Ewing, reviewed by Don Gayton 135
Settlers' Children: Growing Up on the Great Plains by Elizabeth Hampsten, reviewed by Paula M. Nelson 136
Land in Her Own Name: Women as Homesteaders in North Dakota by H. Elaine Lindgren, reviewed by Evelyn Funda 137
Agrarian Women: Wives and Mothers in Rural Nebraska, 1880-1940 by Deborah Fink, reviewed by Evelyn Funda 137
NOTES & NEWS, 139
SUMMER 1993 VOL. 13/NO. 3
Categories and Terrains of Exclusion: Constructing the "Indian Woman" in the Early Settlement Era in Western Canada Sarah Carter 147
Marguerite LaFlesche Diddock: Office of Indian Affairs Field Matron Lisa Emmerich 162
Susan LaFlesche Picotte, M.D.: Nineteenth-Centurey Physician and Reformer Valerie Sherer Mathes 172
The North Dakota Anti-Garb Law: Constitutional Conflict and Religious Strife Linda Grathwohl 187
BOOK REVIEWS
Wyoming Biographies by Lawrence M. Woods, reviewed by Susan H. Swetnam 203
Railroads Triumphant: The Growth, Rejection & Rebirth of a Vital American Force by Albro Martin, reviewed by James W. Ely, Jr. 204
NOTES & NEWS, 205
FALL 1993 VOL. 13/NO. 4
Unplighted Troths: Causes for Divorce in a Frontier Town Toward the End of the Nineteenth Century C. Robert Haywood 211
Lands, Laws, and Women: Decisions of the General Land Office, 1881-1920 -- A Preliminary Report Nancy Taniguchi 223
The "Liquid Gold" Rush Groundwater Irrigation and Law in Nebraska, 1900-93 Sam S. Kepfield 237
BOOK REVIEWS
Victorian West: Class and Culture in Kansas Cattle Towns by C. Robert Haywood, reviewed by Frederick C. Luebke 251
Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains edited by David E. Kromm and Stephen E. White, index and foreword by Gilbert F. White, reviewed by Sam Kepfield 252
Henry A. Wallace's Irrigation Frontier: On the Trail of the Corn Belt Farmer edited by Richard Lowitt and Judith Fabry, reviewed by Sam Kepfield 252
Prevailing Over Time: Ethnic Adjustment on the Kansas Prairies, 1875-1925 by D. Aidan McQuillan, reviewed by Susan E. Gray 253
The Changing Image of the City: Planning for Downtown Omaha, 1945-1973 by Janet R. Daly-Bednarek, reviewed by Harl A. Dalstrom 254
Cheyenne Bottoms: Wetland in Jeopardy by John L. Zimmerman, foreword by Jan Garton, reviewed by Ernest Rousek 254
Aboriginal Water Rights in Canada: A Study of Aboriginal Title to Water and Indian Rights by Richard H. Bartlett, reviewed by Theron Josephson 255
Nebraska Moments: Glimpses of Nebraska's Past by Donald R. Hickey, reviewed by Michael W. Schuyler 256