WINTER 1984 VOL. 4/NO.1
Mapping the North American Plains: An Introduction Gary E. Moulton 3
Patterns of Promise Mapping the Plains and Prairies, 1800-1860 John L. Allen 5
Mapping the Missouri River through the Great Plains W. Raymond Wood 29
"A Chart in His Way". Indian Cartography and the Lewis and Clark Expedition James P. Ronda 43
The Scientific Instruments of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Silvio A. Bedini 54
BOOK REVIEWS
Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition edited by Gary Moulton, reviewed by John L. Allen 70
Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening the Far Northwest, 1821-1852 by Theodore J. Karamanski, reviewed by John Warkentin 70
NOTES & NEWS, 72
SPRING 1984 VOL. 4/NO. 2
Closing the Circle: The American Optimism of Laura Ingalls Wilder William Holtz 79
Indian Maps: Their Place in the History of Plains Cartography G. Malcolm Lewis 91
Carl Schurz and the Indians Hans L. Trefousse 109
The Beginnings of Wheeled Transport in Western Canada Barry Kaye and John Alwin 121
BOOK REVIEWS
With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s by Clyde A. Milner II, reviewed by Robert H. Keller, Jr. 135
Lakota Society by James R. Walker, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie, reviewed by Herbert T. Hoover 136
Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980 by Michael L. Lawson, reviewed by Janet McDonnell 137
American Farm Tools: From Hand-Power to Steam-Power by R. Douglas Hurt, reviewed by Reynold M. Wik 138
NOTES & NEWS, 139
SUMMER 1984 VOL. 4/NO. 3
The Prairie Mermaid: Love-Tests of Pioneer Women Robert H. Solomon 143
Mapping the Interior Plains of Rupert's Land by the Hudson's Bay Company to 1870 Richard I. Ruggles 152
The Image of the Hired Girl in Literature: The Great Plains, 1860 to World War I Sylvia Lea Sallquist 166
BOOK REVIEWS
Red Harvest: The Communist Party and American Farmers by Lowell K. Dyson, reviewed by Robert W. Cherny 178
Interwoven: A Pioneer Chronicle by Sallie Reynolds Matthews, reviewed by Sandra L. Myers 179
Lambshead Before Interwoven: A Texas Range Chronicle, 1848-l 878 by Frances Mayhugh Holden, reviewed by Sandra L. Myres 179
Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 by Sandra L. Myres, reviewed by John Mack Faragher 179
Montana's Righteous Hangmen: The Vigilantes in Action by Lew L. Callaway, reviewed by William L. Lang 180
Belle Star and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts and the Legends by Glenn Shirley, reviewed by Darlis A. Miller 181
Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981 by Stephen Tatum, reviewed by Kent L. Steckmesser 182
The West of Wild Bill Hickok by Joseph G. Rosa, reviewed by Gary L. Roberts 183
Singing Cowboys and All That Jazz: A Short History of Popular Music in Oklahoma by William W. Savage, Jr., reviewed by Stephen Cox 183
Cowboy Life on the Texas Plains: The Photographs of Ray Rector edited by Margaret Rector, reviewed by Charles S. Peterson 184
Shadows of the Indian: Stereotypes in American Culture by Raymond William Stedman, reviewed by Paul A. Hutton 184
Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor by Alan R. Velie, reviewed by Charles L. Woodard 185
The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico by David J. Weber, reviewed by Ralph H. Vigil 186
Wichita: The Early Years, 1865-1880 by H. Craig Miner, reviewed by John C. Schneider 187
The Gate City: A History of Omaha by Lawrence H. Larsen and Barbara J. Cottrell, reviewed by Harl A. Dalstrom 188
Oil Booms: Social Changes in Five Texas Towns by Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien, reviewed by Frederick W. Rathjen 188
Oil in West Texas and New Mexico: A Pictorial History of the Permian Basin by Walter Rundell, Jr., reviewed by Frederick W. Rathjen 188
Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame by Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, reviewed by John W. Bennett 189
A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature by Richard W. Etulain, reviewed by Frances W. Kaye 190
Western Oklahoma: A Photographic Essay by Daisy Decazes, introduction and text by William S. Banowsky, reviewed by John E. Carter 191
This Remarkable Continent: An Atlas of United States and Canadian Society and Cultures edited by John F. Rooney, Jr., Wilbur Zelinsky, and Dean R. Louder, reviewed by David J. Wishart 192
Southwestern Agriculture: Pre-Columbian to Modern edited by Henry C. Dethloff and Irwin M. May, reviewed by Mary W. M. Hargreaves 193
Prairie Mosaic: An Ethnic Atlas of Rural North Dakota by William C. Sherman, reviewed by Robert C. Ostergren 193
The Matador Land and Cattle Company by W. M. Pearce, reviewed by Richard A. Bartlett 194
The American Farmer and the New Deal by Theodore Saloutos, reviewed by David E. Hamilton 195
Texas Woollybacks: The Range Sheep and Goat Industry by Paul H. Carlson, reviewed by B. Byron Price 196
Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier by Richard W. Slatta, reviewed by Douglas W. Richmond 196
The Cattle Guard by James F. Hoy, reviewed by R Douglas Hurt 197
Jewels of the Plains: Wildflowers of the Great Plains Grasslands and Hills by Claude A. Barr, reviewed by Curtis M. Twedt 198
The Thunderstorm in Human Affairs edited by Edwin Kessler, reviewed by Alec H. Paul 199
Plains Indian Studies: A Collection of Essays in Honor of John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedel edited by Douglas H. Ubelaker and Herman J. Viola, reviewed by Warren W. Caldwell 199
Wolves for the Blue Soldiers: Indian Scouts and Auxiliaries with the United States Army, 1860-1890 by Thomas W. Dunlay, reviewed by Clyde A. Milner II 200
Plains Families: Exploring Sociology Through Social History by Scott G. McNall and Sally Allen McNall, reviewed by J. Allen Williams, Jr. 201
Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870 by Sylvia Van Kirk, reviewed by Olive Patricia Dickason, reviewed by Robert H. Zieger 201
Men of the Steel Rails: Workers on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 1869-1900 by James H. Ducker, reviewed by Robert H. Zieger 202
The Great Kansas Bond Scandal by Robert Smith Bader, reviewed by Patrick G. O'Brien 203
The Platte: Channels in Time by Paul A. Johnsgard, reviewed by Leslie T. Whipp 204
NOTES & NEWS, 205
FALL 1984 VOL. 4/NO. 4
Willa Cather Today: An Introduction Mildred R. Bennett and Susan J. Rosowski 211
Willa Cather and the Swedes Mona Pers 213
Willa Cather's American Gothic: Sapphira and The Slave Girl Susan J. Rosowski 220
Nebraska Naturalism in Jamesian Frames John J. Murphy 231
Cather's Last Three Stories: A Testiment of Life and Endurance Marilyn Arnold 238
Light and Shadow in the Cather World: A Personal Essay Lucia Woods 245
Willa Cather's Nebraska Priests and Death Comes for the Archbishop L. Brent Bohlke 264
Willa Cather Today James E. Miller, Jr. 270
BOOK REVIEWS
The Troll Garden by Willa Cather, edited by James Woodress, reviewed by David Stouck 278
Willa Cather: A Bibliography by Joan Crane, reviewed by Susan J. Rosowski 279
Critical Essays on Willa Cather edited by John J. Murphy, reviewed by Bruce P. Baker 279
Willa: The Life of Willa Cather by Phyllis C. Robinson, reviewed by John J. Murphy 280
Mari Sandoz: Story Catcher of the Plains by Helen Winter Stauffer, reviewed by Robert Gish 281
Western American Literary Criticism by Martin Bucco, reviewed by Helen Winter Stauffer 282
Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier: A Sourcebook for Canada and the United States by Carol Fairbanks and Sara Brooks Sundberg, reviewed by Vernon R. Lindquist 282
Labyrinths of Voice: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch by Shirley Neuman and Robert Wilson, reviewed by George E. Wolf 283
Conversations with Wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature by Wallace Stegner and Richard W. Etulain, reviewed by Kenneth C. Mason 284