WINTER 1995 VOL. 15/NO. 1
Some Observations on the Labor Force of the Canadian Ranching Frontier During Its Golden Age, 1882-1901 Simon M. Evans 3
The Front-Gabled Log Cabin and the Role of the Great Plains in the Formation of the Mountain West's Built Landscape Jon T. Kilpinen 19
Small Historic Sites in Kansas: Merging Artifactual Landscapes and Community Values Cathy Ambler 33
BOOK REVIEWS
Isolation and Masquerade: Willa Cather's Women by Frances W. Kaye, reviewed by Lillian Faderman 49
Willa Cather by Sharon O'Brien reviewed by Lillian Faderman 49
Cather, Canon, and the Politics of Reading by Deborah Carlin, reviewed by Christopher Nealon 52
Preserving the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains by Elaine Freed, reviewed by Amil Quayle 53
A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50 edited by John S. Tomer and Michael J. Bordhead, reviewed by David J. Harter 53
Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore edited by Ray A. Williamson and Claire E. Farrer, reviewed by Lee Irwin 55
The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana by Rob Kroes, reviewed by Frederick C. Luebke 55
Life at Four Corners: Region, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945 by Carol K. Coburn, reviewed by Lesley Ann Kawaguchi 57
Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860-1920 by Mary Hurlbut Cordier, reviewed by Sylvia Hunt 58
Kansas: A Pictorial History by Robert W. Richmond, reviewed by Virgil W. Dean 58
"A Funnie Place, No Fences": Teenagers' Views of Kansas, 1867-1900 edited by C. Robert Haywood and Sandra Jarvis, reviewed by Carol Miles Petersen 59
A Funny Bone That Was: Humor Between the Wars edited by David C. Jones, illustrated by Vance Rodewalt, reviewed by Jeremy Wild 59
Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains by Catherine McNicol Stock, reviewed by Thomas D. Isern 60
In the Kingdom of Grass by Margaret A. Mackichan and Bob Ross, reviewed by Bryan L. Jones 61
Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest, 1850-1920 by Fred W. Peterson, reviewed by Barry Newton 62
Great Lakes Lumber on the Great Plains: The Laird, Norton Lumber Company in South Dakota by John N. Vogel, foreword by Wayne Franklin, reviewed by John E. Miller 62
Ace of Hearts: The Westerns of Zane Grey by Arthur G. Kimball, reviewed by Alan Wilkinson 63
North American Cattle Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation by Terry G. Jordan, reviewed by Brad A. Bays 64
Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land: A Historical Study in the Possibilities for American Sustainable Agriculture by John Opie, reviewed by James E. Sherow 66
NEBRASKAland Magazine's The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska reviewed by Luann Wandsnider 67
Whiskey Peddler: Johnny Healy, North Frontier Trader by William R. Hunt, reviewed by Paul F. Sharp 68
Then to the Rock Let Me Fly: Luther Bohanon and Judicial Activism by Jace Weaver, reviewed by Gordon Morris Bakken 68
Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 by Jeffrey Ostler, reviewed by Christina L. Wolak 69
Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail by Jacqueline Williams, foreword by Sam'l P. Arnold, reviewed by Roger Welsch 70
Flat Water: A History of Nebraska and Its Water edited by Robert Kuzelka, Charles Flowerday, Robert Manley, Brakley Rundquist, and Sally Herrin, reviewed by James E. Sherow 71
Alberta's Petroleum Industry and the Conservation Board by David H. Breen, reviewed by Mary L. McRoberts 72
A Vast Amount of Trouble: A History of the Spring Creek Raid by John W. Davis, reviewed by David A. Wolfe 72
Revolt of the Provinces: The Regionalist Movement in America, 1920-1945 by Robert L. Dorman, reviewed by C. Elizabeth Raymond 73
Standing on New Ground: Women in Alberta edited by Catheine A. Cavanaugh and Randi R. Warne, reviewed by Anita Clair Fellman 74
The Most Promising Young Officer: A Life of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie by Michael D. Pierce, reviewed by Michael L. Tate 75
NOTES & NEWS, 77
SPRING 1995 VOL. 15/NO. 2
"Same Horse, New Wagon": Tradition and Assimilation Among the Jews of Wichita Hal Rothman 83
Breaking the Silence: Hymns and Folk Songs in O.E. Rølvaag's Immigrant Trilogy Philip R. Coleman-Hull 105
Sense of Place in the Prairie Environment: Settlement and Ecology in Rural Geary County, Kansas Nina Veregge 117
Hunt, Capture, Raise, Increase: The People Who Saved the Bison Ken Zontek 133
BOOK REVIEWS
The Cowboy: Representations of Labor in an American Work Culture by Blake Allmendinger, reviewed by Matt Hokom 150
Soils in Archaeology: Landscape Evolution and Human Occupation edited by Vance T. Holliday, reviewed by William C. Johnson 150
The Loner: Three Sketches of the Personal Life and Ideas of R. B Bennett, 1870-1947 by P.B. Waite, reviewed by Dale Jacobs 152
The Sioux and Other Native American Cultures of the Dakotas: An Annotated Bibliography compiled by Herbert T. Hoover and Karen P. Zimmerman, reviewed by Steve Potts 152
The Orphan Trains: Placing Out in America by Marilyn Irvin Holt, reviewed by Fred Erisman 153
The End of American Exceptionalism: Frontier Anxiety from the Old West to the New Deal by David M. Wrobel, reviewed by Kathleen A. Boardman 154
Owning Western History: A Guide to Collecting Rare Documents, Historical Letters,and Valuable Photographs from the Old West by Warren B. Anderson, reviewed by Warren W. Caldwell 155
Chasing Rainbows: A Recollection of the Great Plains, 1921-1975 by Gladys Leffler Gist, edited by James Marten, reviewed by Deborah Fink 155
NOTES & NEWS, 157
SUMMER 1995 VOL. 15/NO. 3
Grasslands: An Introduction Kathleen H. Keeler 163
Bluestem and Tussock: Fire and Pastoralism in the Flint Hills of Kansas and the Tussock Grasslands of New Zealand James F. Hoy and Thomas D. Isern 169
Not So Plain: Art of the American Prairies Joni L. Kinsey 185
BOOK REVIEWS
The Wealth of Nature: Environmental History and the Ecological Imagination by Donald Worster, reviewed by Andrew C. Isenberg 201
The Prairie in Nineteenth-Century American Poetry by Steven Olson, reviewed by Mark Kamrath 202
A Guide to Kansas Mushrooms by Bruce Horn, Richard Day, and Dean Abel, reviewed by Wendell Gauger 202
Into the Wilderness Dreams: Exploration Narratives of the American West, 1500-1805 edited by Donald A. Barclay, James H. Maquire, and Peter Wild, reviewed by William J. Scheick 203
What This Awl Means: Feminist Archaeology at a Wahpeton Dakota Village by Janet F. Spector, reviewed by Jennifer S.H. Brown 204
Yanktonai Sioux Water Colors: Cultural Remembrances of John Saul by Martin Brokenleg, reviewed by Mary Jane Schneider 205
The Flag in American Indian Art by Toby Herbst and Joel Kopp, reviewed by Russel Lawrence Barsh 206
Buckeye Blake: Art on the Western Front by Sarah E. Boehme, reviewed by Martha H. Kennedy 207
Painting Texas History to 1900 by Sam DeShong Ratcliffe, reviewed by Pamela Walker 208
The Northern Pacific Railroad and the Selling of the West: A Nineteenth-Century Public Relations Venture by Sig Mickelson, reviewed by William L. Lang 208
They Called It Prairie Light: The Story of Chilocco Indian School by K. Tsianina Lomawaima, reviewed by Matthew L. Jones 209
Birger Sanden: An Illustrated Biography by Emory Lindquist, foreword by Willian H. Gerdts, reviewed by Ann Davis 210
Pioneer Woman Educator: The Progressive Spirit of Annie Webb Blanton by Debbie Mauldin, reviewed by Claudine Barnes 211
Archaeology, History, and Custer's Last Battle by Richard Allan Fox, Jr., foreword by W. Raymond Wood, reviewed by Vergil E. Noble 212
A Generation of Boomers: The Pattern of Railroad Labor Conflict in Nineteenth-Century America by Sheldon Stromquist, reviewed by James W. Ely, Jr. 212
A Reader's Companion to the Fiction of Willa Cather by John March, edited by Marilyn Arnold with Debra Lynn Thornton, reviewed by Kari Ronning 213
American Indian Law Deskbook edited by Julie Wrend and Clay Smith, reviewed by John R. Wunder 214
The Political Economy of North American Indians edited by John H. Moore, reviewed by Larry Burt 215
Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little Town: Where History and Literature Meet by John E. Miller, reviewed by William Holtz 216
Indian Water in the New West edited by Thomas R. McGuire, William B. Lord, and Mary G. Wallace, reviewed by Lawrence C. Kelly 217
Singing an Indian Song: A Biography of D'Arcy McNickle by Dorothy R. Parker, reviewed by Robert F. Gish 218
NOTES & NEWS, 219
FALL 1995 VOL. 15/NO. 4
The Progressive Context of the Nebraska Capitol: The Collaboration of Goodhue and Tack Frederick C. Luebke 227
The 1992 Secession Movement in Southwest Kansas Peter J. McCormick 247
Bison Ecology Brulè and Yankton Winter Hunting and the Starving Winter of 1832-33 Richmond Clow 259
BOOK REVIEWS
An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians by David J. Wishart, reviewed by Francis Paul Prucha 271
The Lance and the Shield: The Life and Times of Sitting Bull by Robert M. Utley, reviewed by Roger L. Nichols 272
Following the Indian Wars: The Story of the Newspaper Correspondents among the Indian Campaigners by Oliver Knight, foreword by Sherry L. Smith, reviewed by Todd Kerstetter 272
On Turner's Trail: 100 Years of Writing Western History by Wilbur R. Jacobs, reviewed by Mary Young 273
The Life and Legacy of Annie Oakley by Glenda Riley, reviewed by Donald Arthur Clark 274
Redefining the American Dream by Sally Peltier Harvey, reviewed by Evelyn I. Funda 275
Where the Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie by John Madson, reviewed by Mikko Saikku 276