HERITAGE OF THE GREAT PLAINS
VOL. XIV, #1WINTER 1981
Willa Cather’s Code Hero: Tom Outland as Shane. By
Glen A. Love. pg. 3
Mark Twain’s Angels. By Martin Bucco. pg. 13.
Romanticism, Realism and Reformism: Hamlin Garland’s
Three Views of the Indian. By Joe C. Underwood. pg 19.
Walt Whitman’s 1879 Visit to Missouri, Kansas, and
Colorado. By James R. Nicholl. pg 33.
VOL. XIV, #2 SPRING 1981
Industrialization in Southeastern Kansas, 1870-1915. By
Robert K. Ratzlaff and Thomas R. Walther. pg. 3.
The Colorado Beet Boom, 1899-1926: Growth and Development
of the State’s Sugar Industry. By Dena S. Markoff.
pg. 16
Public Industries to Save the Farm: Arthur C. Townley’s
1933 Plan For Diversifying the Rural Economy. By Larry Remele.
pg. 29.
VOL. XIV, #3 SUMMER 1981
Theatre and Society in Lincoln County, KS, 1886-1910. By Delmar Homan. pg. 3
VOL. XIV, #4 FALL 1981
“Der Cowboy”: A look at the German Fascination
with the Wild West. By Meredith McClain. pg. 3
Sirius Rising. By Jim Vandergriff. pg 13
(Wind) Wagons Ho! By Jean M. Brown. pg 15
The Swiss Mennonites of Moundridge, KS. By Sandra Smith Bales.
pg. 25
VOL. XV,#3 SUMMER 1982
McCarthyism before McCarthy: the 1938 election in South
Dakota. By John E. Miller. pg. 1
Alexander Thaddeus Biggs: Kansas Settler. By Myrna L. Rice.
pg. 22
William Allen White’s Theory of the West. By Diane
Dufva Quantic. pg. 27
Northern Great Plains Congressmen and Farm Legislation. By
Philip A. Grant, Jr. pg. 37
VOL. XV,#4 FALL 1982
The “Old Market”: Omaha’s Wholesale Jobbing
Development, 1880-1895. By Penelope Chatfield Sodhi. pg.
1
German in Texas Schools, 1849-1939. By Hubert Heinen. pg.
11
Sacred Circle Imagery and the Unity of Little Big Man. By
Edgar L. Chapman. pg. 21
Mundt vs. McGovern: The 1960 Senate Election. By Gerald Lange.
pg. 33
VOL. XVI, #1 WINTER 1983
PLAINS TALK
History and Geography of the Plains. pg. 2
Agriculture on the Plains. pg. 14
People on the Plains. pg. 24
Cowboys. pg. 32
Life on the Plains. pg. 40
Contributors: Lucy Eusey, Lisa Hall, Joseph Hickey, James Hoy, Tom Isern, Don Johnson, Julie Johnson, Douglas McGaw, Deanna Messerschmidt, Patrick O’Brien, William Seiler, Melvin Storm.
VOL. XVI, #2 SPRING 1983
Jews of South Dakota: The Adaptation of a Unique Minority.
By Orlando J. and Violet Goering. pg. 1
James C. Malin: Creative-Iconoclast. By Burton J. Williams.
pg. 18
The Western: An Elegy to a Vanishing America? By Clara R.
Ellis. pg. 29
The Land of Nebraska and Antonia Shimerda. By Mary Kemper
Sternshein. pg. 34
VOL. XVI, #3 SUMMER 1983
Prostitution in Grand Island, Nebraska, 1870-1913. By Anne P. Diffendal. pg. 1
Prostitutes - from PLAINS TALK. pg. 10
Honeymoon Across the Plains: the Ellen Bell Tootle Diary.
By Woodie Howgill. pg. 11
Schoolmarms - from PLAINS TALK. Pg. 18
Prostitutes and Schoolmarms: An Essay on Women in Western
Films. By Andrew Jefchak. pg. 19
Three Women Writers of Northeast Kansas (Brown and Doniphan
Counties, 1856-1910). By Isabel Sparks. pg. 27
Alice C. Nichols - from PLAINS TALK. pg. 40
Plains Women, History and Literature: A Selected Bibliography.
By June O. Underwood. pg. 41
VOL. XVI, #4 FALL 1983
Paul Iselin Wellman: American Writer. By Thomas Fox Averill.
pg. 1
Caught in a Blizzard. By Forrest Hintz. pg. 12
Winds of the Valley. By Barbara Booth. pg. 16
Language as Pioneering in Wright Morris’s The Field
of Vision and Ceremony in Lone Tree. By Diana Saluri. pg.
19
Kansas Congressmen during the Harding-Coolidge Era. By Philip
A. Grant. pg.25
VOL. XVII, #1 WINTER 1984*
William Allen White as seen by The Little Girl Across the
Street, Loverne Morris’ Unpublished Memoir. By William
R. Elkins. pg. 1
Russian-German architecture in South Dakota. By Anton H.
Richter. pg. 13
To a Deserted House. By Louise Monfredo. pg. 20
Land for Dakota’s Railroads. By Kenneth M. Hammer.
pg. 21
Railroads - from PLAINS TALK. pg. 26
Gerald Burton Winrod and the Politics of Kansas during the
Depression. By Darrell D. Garwood. pg. 27
VOL. XVII, #2 SPRING 1984*
Epidemic Disease and the Impact of the Santa Fe Trail on
the Kansas Indians. By William E. Unrau. pg. 1
Map: The Santa Fe Trail, pg. 10
Fighting the Bureaucracies: Agent Brennan and His Automobiles.
By Loren E. Pennington and Alan F. Perry. pg. 11
Black Elk Speaks As A Failure Narrative. By George W. Linden
and Fred W. Robbins. pg. 35
Ghost Dance from Plains Talk. pg. 45
VOL. XVII, #3 SUMMER 1984
Ben S. Paulen: Managerial Progressive. By Mary S. Rowland.
pg. 1
The Making of a Rural Boss: Cy Leland, Jr. and the Doniphan
County Railroad Bond Default. By Robert S. La Forte. pg.
17
North Dakota Noninterventionists and Corporate Culture. By
David A. Horowitz. pg.30
VOL. XVII, #4 FALL 1984
The Making of a Celebrity: Images of General Custer in Harper’s
Weekly. By William E. Huntzicker. pg. 1
Prudent Plain People: The Hutterian Brethren. By Lawrence
C. Anderson and Michael Engelhart. pg. 11
Lebanese Immigrants in Southeast Kansas. By Pat Kuhel. pg.
17
George A. Gray, Pioneer, Clay County, Kansas. By John R.
Warner, Jr. pg. 31
VOL. XVIII, #2 SPRING 1985
A 1911 Naturalists Journey to Western Nebraska: the Journal of Frank A. Shoemaker. By James E. Ducey. pg. 3
VOL. XVIII, #4 FALL 1985
“All the World Seemed Singing”: A Celebration
of Folksong in Observance of the Sesquiquartacentennial of
Kansas. By Tom Isern.
Table of Contents
Title Page
The Kansas Emigrants 2
Quantrell 4
Kansas Boys 6
In Kansas 8
Kansas Land 10
Old Chisholm Trail 12
The Cowboy’s Lament 14
Table of Contents
Title Page
Lane County Bachelor 16
The Old Bachelor 18
Little Old Sod Shanty on the Claim 20
The Dewey-Berry Feud 22
The Jail of Ellinwood 24
The Mortgage Foreclosed 26
Way Out West in Kansas 28
Home on the Range 30
VOL. XIX, #1 WINTER 1986*
New Deal Culture in Oklahoma: the Federal Theatre and Music
Projects. By Suzanne H. Schrems. pg. 1
Sing Me Back Home: Country Music and the Okie Migration to
California, 1930s-1950s. By Thomas D. Norris.
“
A Poor Argument for Convict Labor:” State Penitentiary
Prisoners and the Good Roads Movement in Oklahoma. By William
P. Corbett. pg. 22
VOL. XIX, #2 SPRING 1986
Great Plains Hamlet County Seats. By Steven L. Scott. pg.
1
The 1919 United States Army’s Canadian Invasion Plan
Revisited. By Lawrence H. Larson. pg. 15
Kansas Place-Name Scholarship. By William E. Koch. pg. 23
Kansas Towns - from PLAINS TALK. pg. 27-28
Sterility. By Louise Monfredo. pg. 29
VOL. XIX, #3 SUMMER 1986
Images, Myths, Perceptions on the Great Plains. pg. 1
Kansas: A Conglomerate of Contradictory Conceptions. By Burton
J. Williams. pg. 3
What Happened to Kansas? By Robert Haywood. pg. 12
Weather - from PLAINS TALK. pg. 16
Texas: A State of Mind and Media. By Gene Burd. pg. 17
VOL. XIX, #4 FALL 1986
Kansas and the Woman Suffrage Movement. By Philip A. Grant,
Jr. pg. 1
Hofstadter and The Huronite: Prairie Punditry on the James
River: 1894-1899. By Louis Y. Van Dyke. pg. 9
Avoiding the Bloody Confrontation: The Kansas National Guard’s
Experience with Civil Disturbances. By Brian Fowles. pg.
29
VOL. XX, #1 WINTER 1987
A German-Russian Family in North Dakota. By Elizabeth Hampsten.
pg. 1
Notes on the Theme of Collective Guilt in Western American
Literature. By Michael Cohen. pg. 9
Vigilantes - from PLAINS TALK. pg. 13
Willa Cather - from PLAINS TALK. pg. 14
“
History with a Heart”--A Frontier Historian Looks at
the “Little House” books of Laura Ingalls Wilder.
By Ronald Ridgley. pg. 21
Laura Ingalls Wilder - from PLAINS TALK. pg. 28
Imagine. By Louise Monfredo. pg. 29
Mother’s Birthplace. By Louise Monfredo. pg.30
VOL. XX, #2 SPRING 1987*
The Hispanic Presence in Aztlan/USA. By Lee Daniel. pg.
1
Concepcion: The Forgotten Battle of the Texas Revolution.
By Stephen L. Hardin. pg. 10
The Origins and Determinants of Indochinese Secondary In-Migration
to S.W. Kansas. By Michael J. Broadway. pg. 22
VOL. XX, #3 SUMMER 1987
Two Letters From Kansas: Economics and Adventure as Homesteading
Motivation. By Robert Haywood. pg. 1
Demeanor and the Survival of the American Cowboy. By William
E. Thompson and Joseph V. Hickey. pg. 9
Lore Acyl and Lowry Wimberly: Companions in Alienation. By
Gale E. Christianson. pg. 21
Herd Laws in Kansas. By Alvin Peters. pg. 29
VOL. XX, #4 FALL 1987
Great Plains Blizzards. By Charles E. Webb. pg. 1
Great Plains Climate. - from PLAINS TALK. pg. 2
A Pioneer’s Experience on the Western Prairies. By
G.W.C. Jones. pg. 3
The Merciless Days of Snow, Ice, Floods - 1880-81. By Stanley
E. Votruba. pg. 17
VOL. XXI, #1 WINTER 1988
The Welsh. By Lucina Jones. pg. 1
Early Immigrant Settlements near Oldham, South Dakota. By
Emil Loriks. pg. 15
The Exodus of the Hutterites from South Dakota. By Lawrence
C. Anderson. pg. 21
VOL. XXI, #2 SPRING 1988
Shakespearean Festivals in Western Kansas. By Delmar C.
Homan. pg. 1
Indian-White Relations as Reflected in Twentieth Century
Wyoming Town Celebrations. By Audrey C. Shalinsky. pg. 21
VOL. XXI, #3 SUMMER 1988
Introduction to “Agricultural Technology on the Great
Plains”. By Thomas D. Isern. pg. 1
Herd Laws and Hedge Posts: Fencing in a Kansas County. By
Jan Orton Farrar. pg. 3
Kafir Culture in Wabaunsee County, Kansas, 1920-1939. By
Joyce Thierer. pg. 11
From Hopperdozers to DDT: Agricultural Insects in Butler
County, Kansas. By Mark D. Weeks. pg. 19
The Krause Plow Corporation. By Steven R. Sears. pg. 26
The Milling Industry in Inman, Kansas. By Allen Pauls. pg.
32
VOL. XXI, #4 FALL 1988
The Glaciation of Kansas. By James S. Aber
Introduction. pg. 1
Glacial Features of Kansas. pg. 5
Glacial Sediment Composition. pg. 9
Stratigraphy of Kansan Glacial Deposits. pg. 10
Age of the Kansan Glaciation. pg. 16
Drainage Diversions. pg. 20
Environment of the Kansan Glaciation. pg. 26
Two-Ice-Lobe Model for Kansan Glaciation. pg. 27
VOL. XXII, #1 WINTER 1989
Introduction to “Education in Kansas”. By Steven
F. Hanschu. pg. 1
Vachel Lindsay’s Athens of America. By Charles E. Webb.
pg. 3
The Rural Intellectuals: Kansas Country Schools. By Roy Bird.
pg. 12
Lakeside School (1876-1942): A One-Teacher School District
in Kansas. By Dave Schroeder. pg. 20
Learning and the One-Room Country School. By Joanne McBane.
pg. 26
VOL. XXII, #2 SPRING 1989
Studying Flint Hills Folklife. By James Hoy. pg. 1
The French Colony of the Cottonwood Valley. By Barbara Livingston.
pg. 3
The Chase County Park of 1935. By Daniel D. Menke. pg. 11
The Germanic-Apostolics of Gridley. By Frances A. Force.
pg. 14
The River Shaped our Lives. By Sally Neill Bridge. pg. 20
VOL. XXII, #3 SUMMER 1989
Myth and History: Turkey Red Wheat and the “Kansas Miracle”. By Norman E. Saul. pg. 1
Patriots and Dissidents: The Role of Ethnicity in Civil
War Texas. By James Marten. pg. 14
Abandonment in the Greeley-Poudre Irrigation District. By
Steven L. Scott. pg. 24
Imagining the Land: Five Versions of the Landscape in Willa
Cather’s My Antonia. By Richard Dillman. pg. 30
VOL. XXII, #4 FALL 1989
Gilbert C. Fite. Interviewed by Kenneth E. Hendrickson,
Jr. pg. 3
L.G. Thomas. Interviewed by Gerald Friesen. pg. 33
VOL. XXIII, #1 WINTER 1990
Paul F. Sharp. Interviewed by Thomas D. Isern. pg. 4
William Lewis Morton. Interviewed by Gerald Friesen. pg.
20
Donald J. Berthrong. Interviewed by Ronald McCoy. pg. 36
VOL. XXIII, #2 SPRING 1990
Plains Indian Shields: A Kiowa Miscellany. By Ronald McCoy.
pg. 2
Thomas W. Custer--Valor Personified. By Erving E. Beauregard.
pg. 9
Touring Melodramas and Midwest Frontier Values. By Judith
Zivanovic. pg. 18
Rodeo in American Film. By Jim Hoy. pg. 26
VOL. XXIII, #3 SUMMER 1990
“Dear Old Kansas”: Toward a New History. By
Thomas D. Isern. pg. 2
Propagandists for a Free-State Kansas: New York Times’ Correspondents
and Bleeding Kansas, 1856. By Erik S. Schmeller. pg. 7
Women in Populism, 1888-1892. By Lawrence E. Roberts. pg.
15
Wheat Bundles and Blue Ribbons: Shawnee County Collective
Agricultural Exhibit, 1926-1970. By Rachel R. Vukas. pg.
28
VOL. XXIII, #4 FALL 1990
Remittance Men, Romantics, and Regular Guys: The Image of
British Immigrants in Popular Western Canadian Fiction. By
Frances W. Kaye. pg. 1
The Artist as Busker: Woody Guthrie’s Bound for Glory.
By James C. McKelly. pg. 11
The Unknown Indian Monument. By Timothy S. Fry. pg. 19
The Saga of the Armour Family in Kansas City, 1870-1900.
By Edwin D. Shutt. pg. 25
VOL. XXIV, #1 & 2 WINTER-SPRING 1991*
Life and Lore of the Tallgrass Prairie
An Annotated Bibliography of the Flint Hills of Kansas
by Jim Hoy
Part I, Social History 6
Life in the Flint Hills: an Overview 6
Ranching and Farming in the Flint Hills 10
Flint Hills Ranchers and Farmers 18
Flint Hills Cowboys and Cowgirls 20
Heroes, Hardcases, and Other Sorts 23
Memoirs and Personal Histories 29
Literature from and about the Flint Hills 32
Art and Artists in the Flint Hills 39
Sports, Entertainment, and Rodeo 42
Material Culture of the Flint Hills 46
Ethnicity in the Flint Hills 50
Local and County History and Histories 54
Family Histories 69
VOL. XXIV, #3 & 4 SUMMER-FALL 1991*
Life and Lore of the Tallgrass Prairie
An Annotated Bibliography of the Flint Hills of Kansas
by James Hoy
Part II, Natural History and Early Settlement 3
Tallgrass Ecology 3
Flint Hills Fauna 7
Flint Hills Flora 12
Grass and Range Management 14
Grass and Fire 18
The Prairie Park 28
Flint Hills Geology 32
Flint Hills Soils 38
Water in the Flint Hills 39
Minerals in the Flint Hills 42
Caves in the Flint Hills 46
Archaeology, Pre-History, and Native Americans 47
Explorers, Early Travelers, and Trails 55
Promotional Materials, Historical and Modern 59
Travel and Transportation 62
The Flint Hills Overland Wagon Train 68
VOL. XXV, #1 WINTER 1992
Beyond the Dark Divide: The Frontier Poetry of Orange Scott
Cummins, the Pilgrim Bard. By Michael L. Johnson. pg. 1
John Geary, Kansas, and the 1856 National Election. By Tony
R. Mullis. pg. 13
Folk Music Clubs in Wichita: Melody and Protest. By Patrick
Joseph O’Conner. pg. 25
The Evolution of the Fellow’s Seventy-Year-Long Romance
with the Great Plains. By John E. Peterson. pg.31
VOL. XXV, #2 SUMMER 1992
F.T. Ransom and the Wichita Cattle Loan Company: Financing
the Cattle Trade in South Central Kansas and North Central
Oklahoma in the Early Twentieth Century. By O. James Hassled.
pg. 1
How Contemporary Native American Women Authors View the Education
of their People. By Mary Sheldon. pg. 13
Polictics on the Plains: Thomas Carney and the Pursuit of
Office during the Gilded Age. By Kyle S. Sinisi. pg. 25
The Native American Voice in Willa Cather’s The Song
of the Lark and other Writings. By Stephen C. Swinehart.
pg. 39
VOL. XXVI, #1 WINTER 1993
Foraging the Flint Hills: A guidebook for Identifying Edible and Medicinal Plants. By Tom Eddy
VOL. XXVI, #2 SUMMER 1993
The 1913 Omaha Tornado: A Calamity Overcome. By Sally Torpy.
pg. 5
Mankaya and the Kiowa Indians: Survival, Myth and the Tornado.
By Michael Marchand. pg. 19
Prairie Fires: Pasture Burning in the Flint Hills. By Jim
Hoy. pg. 31
“
A Great Deal Like Smallpox”: “Destitution Business” and
State Drought Relief in Nebraska, 1890-1895. By Sam S. Kepfield.
pg. 37
VOL. XXVII, #1 WINTER 1994
“Let the Golden Gates be Opened”: Chautauqua
and the Quest for Subcommunity in Nebraska, 1882-1900. By
James P. Eckman. pg. 5
The Necessary Imagination: European Writers Encounter the
West. By Thomas Austenfeld. pg. 13
Re-Opening the West: Thomas James, Josiah Gregg, and the
Rhetoric of the “Prairie Ocean”. By George L.
Sebastion-Coleman. pg. 19
From Military Forts to “Nigger Towns”: African Americans in North Dakota, 1890-1940. By Stephanie Abbot Roper. pg. 37
VOL. XXVII, #2 SUMMER 1994
The German Heritage of Kansas: An Introduction. By William
D. Keel. pg. 5
Russion Loan Words in Ellis County Volga German Dialects.
By Christopher Johnson. pg. 9
Enacting Gemeinde in the Language and Style of Swiss Volhynian
Mennonite Storytelling. By John McCabe-Juhnke. pg. 21
From the Netherlands to Kansas: Mennonite Low German. By
William D. Keel. pg. 39
The German Bohemian Cultural and Linguistica Heritage of
the Catholic Bucovinians in Ellis, Kansas. By Gabriele
Lunte. pg. 51
VOL. XXVIII, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 1995
Willa Cather and Bess Streeter Aldrich: Contrasting Portrayals
of Money-Grubbers and “Olafarians”. By Daniel
J. Holtz. pg. 5
Allusions and Echoes: Multi-Cultural Blending and Feminine
Spirituality in Death Comes for the Archbishop. By Karen
M. Hindhede. pg. 11
Variations on the Gunfight in Western Short Stories. By James
C. Work. pg. 21
Reimagining Kansas: Emmett Dalton, Ron Hansen, and the Great
Coffeyville, Kansas Raid. By Gregory L. Morris. pg. 31
Sacred Siouxland: Wakan Places in some Novels by Frederick
Manfred. By Nancy Owen Nelson. pg. 41
VOL. XXVIII, #2 FALL/WINTER 1995
Plains Goddesses: Heroines in Willa Cather’s Prairie
Novels. By Marilyn A. Carlson Aronson. pg. 5
Bess Streeter Aldrich’s Frontier Omaha, 1866-1868.
By Harl A. Dalstrom. pg. 17
Mari Sandoz’s Confrontational Rhetoric and the Composition
of Capital City. By Richard Nielsen. pg. 35
Shattering the Myth: Mary and Laura as Antagonists in Little
House in the Big Woods, Little House on the Prairie, and
On the Banks of Plum Creek. By Ellen Simpson Novotny. pg.
48
VOL. XXIX, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 1996
“The Lick that St. John Got”: Prohibition, Republican
Party Politics and the Press in Ellis County, Kansas 1878-1882.
By Gia Lane. pg. 5
Cowboy Nicknames in Nineteenth-Century Great Plains Cattle
Country. By C. Robert Haywood. pg. 14
Deep Time and Space out West: The Fossil Trilogy by Kathryn
Lasky and the Sternberg Museum of Natural History. By Nancy
Vogel. pg. 23
An Editor Hails the Automobile: Al J. Adams and the Sisseton
Courier. By Keith A. Sculle. pg. 37
A Great Plains Potpourri: Poems. By Michael L. Johnson. pg.
50
VOL. XXIX, #2 FALL/WINTER 1996
“
Perceptions of an Era”: Northwest Kansas Women Remember
the Dust Bowl. By Kay Ellen Weller. pg. 5
Long Way From Home, A Selection from The Baptism of Howie
Cobb. By Kenneth Robbins. pg. 14
Depression Album. pg 24
“
The Living and the Dead Land”: The Great Plains Environment
and the Literature of Depression America. By Brad Lookingbill.
pg. 38
VOL. XXX, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 1997
Skillful in the Management of the Horse: The Comanches as
Southern Plains Pastoralists. By Gerald Betty. pg. 5
Indian Shield Heraldry. By James Mooney. pg. 15
Bison, Corn, and Power: Plains-New Mexico Exchange in the
Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries. By William Carter.
pg. 20
Nineteenth Century Native American Autobiography as Captivity
Narrative. By Susanne George. pg. 33
VOL. XXX, #2 FALL/WINTER 1997
The Years That Were Eaten: The Tree as Sacred Symbol in
the Works of McPherson, Manfred, and Neihardt. By Patricia
Marie Murphy. pg. 5
Indian-Hating and Popular Culture: The Iconography of John
Wayne in The Searchers. By Seth Bovey. pg. 15
Homestead National Monument: An Album. By Lisa Knopp. pg.
27
Conquering a Wilderness: Destruction and Development on the
Great Plains in Mari Sandoz’s Old Jules. By Lisa R.
Lindell. pg. 43
Ephemera. By Ron McCoy. pg. 55
VOL. XXXI, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 1998
The Battle of the Historians of Round Mountain: An Examination
of Muriel Wright and Angie Debo. By Patricia Loughlin. pg.
5
Progressivism in a Frontier Town: Bowman, North Dakota, 1911-1917.
By Lowell L. Blaisdell. pg. 19
Ross’s Disappearing Prairie in Contemporary Fiction.
By Anne L. Kaufman. pg. 35
A Woman Ahead of Her Time: Willa Cather and Women’s
Domestic Art in O Pioneers! and Shadows on the Rock. By Tricia
Currans-Sheehan. pg. 45
Ephemera. By Ron McCoy. pg. 55
VOL. XXXI, #2 FALL/WINTER 1998
The Cowboy: Some Views on the Area of His Origin. By Lawrence
Clayton. pg. 5
Ranch Rodeos. By Jim Hoy. pg. 13
“
On the Cowboy’s Golden Shore”: The Cowboy as
Presented in Cowboy Poetry. By Andrew Elkins. pg. 22
A Cowboy Portfolio. pg. 41
Ephemera. By Ron McCoy. pg. 47
VOL. XXXII, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 1999
Every Picture Tells a Story..But Which Story? Seeking Meaning
in a Kiowa Warrior Drawing. By Ron McCoy. pg. 5
Searching for a New Story to Inhabit: Larry Watson’s
Montana 1948 and the Dilemma of the Post Modern American
West. By Mark A. Eifler. pg. 8
Henry Ford and Mr. Goodnight. By Alan Boye. pg. 23
The Arrival of the Horse on the Northern Plains. By David
Kvernes. pg. 31
Watermarks: Drops, Draws, Creeks, Rivers, Droughts and Floods
in the Literature of Kansas. By Thomas Fox Averill. pg. 38
Ephemera. By Ron McCoy. pg. 55
VOL. XXXII, #2 FALL/WINTER 1999
Blue Flame Dance: An Interview With Chuck Suchy. By Tom
Isern. pg. 5
Oscar Micheaux: African American Novelist, Film Maker and
South Dakota Homesteader. By Betti. C. VanEpps-Taylor. pg.
25
Kansas Hobo: A Saga of the Dirty Thirties. By Dean L Foster,
edited by C. Robert Haywood. pg. 43
“
Repositories for the Souls”: Driving Through the Fiction
Of Louise Erdrich. By P. Jane Hafen. pg. 53
VOL. XXXIII, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 2000
Fortunate Lives: A.B. Facey And Ivan Doig Memoirists Of
The Frontier. By William Huber. pg. 5.
Striking It Rich In The South Island Grassland, 1848-1914.
By Jim McAloon. pg. 17.
Reflections On Dog Kennel Corner: Fencing and Fence Law In
New Zealand. By Thomas Isern. pg. 40
Bandits and Bushrangers. By Jim Hoy. pg. 51.
VOL. XXXIII, #2 FALL/WINTER 2000
The Battle To Save The Court: The Kansas Press and The Court
Packing Fight Of 1937. By James C. Duram. pg. 5.
Dividing The Horses: Trail-Driving Practices and The Realist
Novel, An Example From Andy Adams’ The Outlet. By Richard
Hutson. pg. 19.
O.E. Rolvaag’s Giants In The Earth And The Importance
of Story Telling. By Kevin Jett. pg. 39.
Every Educated Feller Ain’t Plumb Greenhorn: Cowboy
Poetry’s Polyvocal Narrator. By Barbara Barney Nelson.
pg. 49.
VOL. XXXIV, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 2001
Travels and Travails: Young Emigrants Endure Exceptional Burdens on the Overland Trails. By Molly Kizer. pg. 5.
VOL XXXIV, #2 FALL/WINTER 2001
O Kansas Pioneer. By C. Robert Haywood. pg. 5.
S.P.Dinsmoor, Lucas, and the Grassroots Art Capital of Kansas.
By Hiram Lucke. pg. 11.
Rural Women and the Depression in the Novels of Dorothy Thomas.
By Rebecca Faber. pg. 32.
VOL XXXV, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 2002
Not a Melting Pot: A Comparative Study of Swedes and Czechs
in Saunders County, Nebraska, 1880-1910. By Raymond D. Screws.
pg. 5
“
Deconstructing Dependency”: Osage Subsistence and United
States Indian Policy, 1800-1830. By Jeff Means. Pg. 23
The Emigrant’s Voice: Crossing the Great Plains During
the Great Migration to California, 1849-1851. By Robert Willoughby.
Pg. 39
VOL XXXV, #2 FALL/WINTER 2002
People, Land, and Spirit: A Bridge to the Great Plains.
Review of 25 years of ESU’s Center for Great Plains
Studies. Pg. 5
The Yale Scientific Expeditions in Kansas. By Mary Faith
Pankin. Pg. 21
Oklahoma’s Carnegie Libraries, 1899 to 1920: Temples
for Books During the Progressive Period. By Susan Booker.
Pg. 37
VOL XXXVI, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 2003
A Sense of Place, A Sense of Time: Memories and Knowledge of Place in the Great Plains. Personal interviews by students in Ellen Hansen’s Geography of Kansas class.
VOL XXXVI, #2 FALL/WINTER 2003
“The Savage Dance of Death”: The Omaha Newspapers’ Coverage
of the Ghost Dance, 1890-1891. By Hugh Reilly. Pg. 5
The Dessicated Plain: Comanche and Non-Indian Settler Responses
to Drought in the Southern Plains, 1854-1897. By Kevin Sweeney.
Pg. 29
The Economic Survival of Louisville, Nebraska During the
Great Depression. By Amy Helene Forss. Pg. 41
“
We Felt Like We Were Serving Humanity”: McPherson County,
Kansas Conscientious Objectors During World War II. By Nicholas
A. Krehbiel. Pg. 50
VOL XXXVII, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 2004
Missouri River at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and Weston,
Missouri: Lewis and Clark’s Expedition and Two Hundred
Years of Change. By James S. Aber. Pg. 5
What Ever Happened to Sacagawea? The Debate Between Grace
Hebard (1861-1936) and Blanche Schroer (1907-1998) by Pennie
L. Magee. Pg. 27
“
A Purely Literary Expedition”: The Death of Sergeant
Charles Floyd as Perceived by Captains Lewis and Clark. By
Mark B. Hamilton. Pg. 41
Exploration in a Continental Climate: Weather in the Central
Plains Recorded in the Journal of William Clark. By Karen
Jean De Bres. Pg. 63
Finding Latitude and Longitude: Celestial Navigation of the
Lewis and Clark Expedition. By Eileen M. Starr. Pg. 75
My Lewis and Clark–Discovery is at the Core. By Julianne
Couch. Pg. 91
VOL XXXVII, #2 FALL/WINTER 2004
Baseball is all the Rage: Lincoln Joins the National Pastime.
By Daniel J.J. Ross. Pg 5
Deserts, Gardens, and Cities: Rethinking Colorado’s
Arkansas Basin in the 20th Century. By Michael Welsh. Pg.
33
“
In Our Own History”: Julia Louisa Lovejoy and the Politics
of Benevolence in Bleeding Kansas. By Michael D. Pierson.
Pg. 49
VOL XXXVIII, #1 SPRING/SUMMER2005
Father Eugene Buechel and the Lakota Sioux. By Anthony H. Richter. Pg. 5.
A Daunting Task: Enforcement Issues involving Prohibition of Liquor in Oklahoma Prior to 1920. By James E. Klein. Pg. 15
Deep Mapping History: Wallace Stegner's Wolf Willow and William Least Heat-Moon's Prairyerth: A Deep Map. Susan Naramore Maher. Pg. 39
VOL XXXVIII, #2 FALL/WINTER 2005
Colonizing African American Places in Kansas 1857-1885. Kay Ellen Weller. Pg. 5
How to Read a Farm: Stories from the Material Culture of Bowman County, North Dakota. Tom Isern and Tricia Velure Nissen. Pg. 22
VOL XXXIX, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 2006
Drought and Depression on the Great Plains: The Kansas Transition from New Deal Work Relief to Old Age Pensions. R. Alton Lee. Pg. 5
"A People's Dream Died There:" Shatter Zones and the Trans-Mississippi West. Brian Craig Miller. Pg. 30.
The Massacre of a Movement: The 1973 Federal Siege at Wounded Knee and its Sociopolitical Significance. Joseph Roberson-Kitzman. Pg. 47.
VOL XXXIX, #2 FALL/WINTER 2006
Discovering Images of an American Wasteland: A Study of Willa Cather's Midwestern Landscapes. Jami Huntsinger. Pg. 5
Seven Ways of Looking at the Great Plains Literary Landscape. Diane Quantic. Pg. 23
The Syndrome of Open Spaces: Envisioning the Great Plains in the 20th Century. Amanda Rees. Pg. 42
VOL XL, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 2007
Marion Marsh Brown Country: A Worthwhile Stop in Nebraska Literary Geography. Dan Holtz. Pg. 5
Missing the Massacre: Charles I. Eaton's Civil War Service in the West. Mary Faith Pankin. Pg. 17
Baseball Can Survive: How Semi-Pro Baseball Thrived in Wichita during the 1930s and 1940s. Travis Larsen. Pg. 29
VOL XL, #2 FALL/WINTER 2007
After Lewis and Clark: Expedition Personalities and South Dakota History. Brad Tennant. Pg. 5
Jim Burden, Lost in Space: How Liminality and Temperament Theory Work to Produce a Tragic Ending in Willa Cather's My Antonia. Angela Glover. Pg. 17
"The Fear of the Tongue, That Terror of Little Towns": Overcoming the Oppression of Gossip in Cather's Nebraska Novels. Joseph Nieto III and Dr. Margaret Doane. Pg. 29
VOL XLI, #1 SPRING/SUMMER 2008
American Icon: the Appeal of the Cowboy. Jim Hoy. Pg. 5
The Canadian Mountie. Jenny Harder, Todd Kahle, and Jennifer Tilton. Pg. 11
Don Segundo Sombra and Argentina's Iconic Gaucho. Terrie Nichols, Joyce W. Njau, and Cheryl Robinson. Pg. 21
The Aztec Connection: Exploring the Construction of Azuela's Revolutionaries in The Underdogs. Margie McCrary and Michael Myers. Pg. 31
The Swagman: Icon of the Australian Outback. Joe Cline, Amanda Ruble, and Sonny Rae Thomas. Pg. 41
VOL XLI, #2 Winter 2009
Sugar Candy, Sage Dressing, and Seed Wheat: The Immediacy of Food in Laura Ingalls Wilder's LIttle Houses on the Prairies, A Cautionary Tale for Modern America. Karen Ray. pg. 5
Sacagawea: A Fascination with Story Gaps. Stephanie Gray. pg. 19
William Ross Bigham: Great Plains Entrepreneur and Diplomat. R. Alton Lee. pg. 39
VOL XLII, #1 Summer 2009
Reflecting on F. M. Steele. Tom Rankin. pg 5
F.M. Steele - The Tourist Photo Artist. Larry Schwarm. pg. 9
A Chronology of the Life of F. M. Steele. Jim Hoy. pg 19
Steele, Photography, and the Difficulty of Context. John Carter. pg 23
VOL XLII, #2 Winter 2010
Preserving the Heritage of the People: Local Historical Societies of the American West and Their Contributions to the History of the Region. Sandra Amponsah. pg 5
The Business of Life: Work and Humor in the Writings of E.W. Howe. Amy Cummins. pg. 19
In the Spirit of Old Friends: Reflections on Repatriation at Agate Fossil Beds National Monument, Nebraska. Melissa F. Baird & Ruthann Knudson. pg 35.