WINTER 1996 VOL. 16/NO. 1
Mari Sandoz, Nebraska Sandhills Author: A Centennial Recognition
An Introduction Barbara Rippey and John R. Wunder 3
"She Does Not Write Like a Historian": Mari Sandoz and the Old and New Western History Betsy Downey 9
Mari Sandoz's Slogum House: Greed as Woman Glenda Riley 29
Recasting Epic Tradition: The Dispossessed as Hero in Sandoz's Crazy Horse and Cheyenne Autumn Lisa R. Lindell 43
Mari Sandoz's Portrait of an Artists's Youth: Robert Henri's Nebraska Years Helen Winter Stauffer 54
BOOK REVIEWS
Prairie University: A History of the University of Nebraska by Robert E. Knoll, reviewed by Paul F. Sharp 67
Rooted in the Dust: Surviving Drought and Depression in Southwestern Kansas by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg, reviewed by Thomas R. Wessel 68
Dry Farming in the Northern Great Plains: Years of Readjustment, 1920-1990 by Mary W. M. Hargreaves, reviewed by David C. Jones 68
Lakol Wokiksuye: La Mémorie Visuel des Lakota by Helga Lomosits and Paul Harbaugh, reviewed by Olive Patricia Dickason 69
A Dose of Frontier Soldiering: The Memoirs of Corporal E. A. Bode, Frontier Regular Infantry, 1877-1882 edited by Thomas T. Smith, reviewed by Markku Henriksson 70
Elizabeth Bacon Custer and the Making of a Myth by Shirley A. Leckie, reviewed by Kimberly Jensen 71
Lone Wolf v. Hitchcock: Treaty Rights and Indian Law at the End of the Nineteenth Century by Blue Clark, reviewed by Ramona Skinner 71
We Are a People in This World: The Lakota Sioux and the Massacre at Wounded Knee by Conger Beasley, Jr., reviewed by Joe Starita 72
Cowgirls of the Rodeo: Professional Athletes by Mary Lou LeCompte, reviewed by Joan Wells 73
Cowboys and Kansas: Stories from the Tallgrass Prairie by Jim Hoy, reviewed by Timo Heiskanen 74
"That Man Partridge": E. A. Partridge, His Thoughts and Times by Murray Knuttila, reviewed by Mary Higginbotham 74
The Metropolitan Frontier: Cities in the Modern West by Carl Abbott, reviewed by Robert B. Fairbanks 75
Dangerous Passage: The Santa Fe Trail and the Mexican War by William Y. Chalfant, reviewed by Duane A. Smith 76
Looking for History on Highway 14 by John E. Miller, reviewed by Mark Ellis 76
Roadside History of South Dakota by Linda Hasselstrom, reviewed by Chuck Vollan 77
NOTES AND NEWS, 78
SPRING 1996 VOL. 16/NO. 2
African Americans and the Great Plains: An Introduction Keith D. Parker 83
The Great Plains Sit-In Movement, 1958-60 Ronald Walters 85
Prelude to Brownsville: The Twenty-Fifth Infantry at Fort Niobrara, Nebraska, 1902-06 Thomas R. Buecker 95
Frompin' in the Great Plains: Listening and Dancing to the Jazz Orchestras of Alphonso Trent, 1925-44 Marc Rice 107
"With One Mighty Pull": Interracial Town Boosting in Nicodemus, Kansas Claire O'Brien 117
BOOK REVIEWS
Talking Up a Storm: Voices of the New West by Gregory L. Morris, reviewed by Gerald Shapiro 131
Girl on a Pony by La Verne Hanners, reviewed by Sharon Butala 132
Tough Daisies: Kansas Humor from "The Lane County Bachelor" to Bob Dole by C. Robert Haywood, reviewed by William Kloefkorn 132
Faded Dreams: More Ghost Towns of Kansas by Daniel C. Fitzgerald, reviewed by James R. Shortridge 133
Indians and the American West in the Twentieth Century by Donald L. Parman, reviewed by Leonard R. Bruguier 134
Rachel Calof's Story: Jewish Homesteader on the Northern Plains by Rachel Calof, edited by J. Sanford Rikoon, reviewed by H. Elaine Lindgren 135
Catch Rope: The Long Arm of the Cowboy: The History and Evolution of Ranch Roping by John R. Erickson, reviewed by Michael C. Coleman 136
NOTES AND NEWS, 139
SUMMER 1996 VOL. 16/NO. 3
Sacramental Language: Ritual in the Poetry of Louise Erdrich P. Jane Hafen 147
The Frontier Medical Community of Leavenworth, Kansas Charles R. King 157
William McKinley Holt and the Indian Claims Commission Francis Moul 169
The Missouri River Basin on the 1795 Soulard Map: A Cartographic Landmark W. Raymond Wood 183
REVIEW ESSAYS
Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West by Stephan E. Ambrose. Reviewed by John L. Allen, Clara Sue Kidwell, and Donald Worster 199
BOOK REVIEWS
The Way to the West: Essays on the Central Plains by Elliot West, reviewed by A. Yvette Huginnie 207
The Amazing Death of Calf Shirt and Other Blackfoot Stories by Hugh A. Dempsey, reviewed by Gregory R. Campbell 208
Stephen Long and American Frontier Exploration by Roger L. Nichols and Patrick L. Halley, reviewed by Seppo Tamminen 209
Father Peter John DeSmet: Jesuit in the West by Robert C. Carriker, reviewed by Robert H. Keller 210
Go West Young Man! Horace Greeley's Vision for America by Coy Cross II, reviewed by Michael Allen 211
Education for Extinction: American Indians and the Boarding School Experience, 1875-1928 by David Wallace Adams, reviewed by Rebecca Dobkins 212
The Limits of Agrarian Radicalism: Western Populism and American Politics by Peter H. Argersinger, reviewed by David F. Prindle 213
Linoleum, Better Babies, and the Modern Farm Woman, 1890-1930 by Marilyn Irvin Holt, reviewed by Pamela Riney-Kehrberg 213
Black Elk's Religion: The Sun Dance and Lakota Catholicism by Clyde Holler, reviewed by John R. Schneider 214
Willa Cather's Transforming Vision: New France and the American Northeast by Gary Brienzo, reviewed by Richard Nielsen 215
O Little Town: Remembering Life in a Prairie Village by Harlo L. Jones, reviewed by Sharon Butala 216
Critical Spaces: Margaret Laurence and Janet Frame by Lorna M. Irvine, reviewed by Robert L. Ross 217
An Indian in White America by Mark Monroe, edited by Carolyn Reyer, reviewed by David Murray 217
Vision Quest: Men, Women and Sacred Sites of the Sioux Nation photographs by Don Doll, S.J., introduction by Vine Deloria, Jr., reviewed by John E. Carter 218
Soul in the Stone: Cemetery Art from America's Heartland by John Gary Brown, reviewed by Robert Duncan 219
NOTES AND NEWS, 221
FALL 1996 VOL. 16/NO. 4
The Left and Labor on the Plains: An Introduction Frances W. Kaye 227
Workers, Unions, and Historians on the Northern Plains William C. Pratt 229
"Who's Going to Dance with Somebody Who Calls You a Mainstreeter": Communism, Culture and Community in Sheridan County, Montana, 1918-1934 Gerald Zahavi 251
REVIEW ESSAYS
The Way West: Episode I, Westward, the Course of Empire Takes Its Way, 1845-1864; Episode II, The Approach of Civilization, 1865-1869; Episode III, The War for the Black Hills, 1870-1876; Episode IV, Ghost Dance, 1877-1893 by Ric Burns. Reviewed by Martin Blythe, Mia Graeffe, Sanna Heinsalo, Ossi Heinanen, Ari Helo, Kari Hirvinen, Piia Kivinimemi, Vello Ruus, John Wright, and John R. Wunder 287
BOOK REVIEWS
Along Ancient Trails: The Mallet Expedition of 1739 by Donald J. Blakeslee, reviewed by James P. Ronda. 291
Nebraska: An Illustrated History by Frederick C. Luebke, reviewed by Michael W. Schyler. 292