The Center for Great Plains Studies has several purposes in publishing the Great Plains Quarterly. Its general purpose is to use this means to promote appreciation of the history and culture of the people of the Great Plains and to explore their contemporary social, economic, and political problems. The Center seeks further to stimulate research in the Great Plains region by providing a publishing outlet for scholars interested in the past, present, and future of the region." [GPQ 1981 (1:1:3)]
Great Plains Quarterly is published four times a year and includes peer-reviewed articles on a wide variety of regional topics. Great Plains Quarterly seeks a readership of scholars and interested laypersons, and publishes articles on history, literature, culture, and social issues relevant to the Great Plains, which include the US states of Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. The journal is edited by a faculty member from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln and includes a distinguished international board of advisory editors. Issues include articles on Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park, transient services in Kansas during 1933-35, maps of the Kiowa-Comanche-Apache Reservation, sea and prairiescapes in contemporary art, racial violence in Kansas, and critical essays on Mari Sandoz and Willa Cather.
Starting with Volume 34 (2014), Great Plains Quarterly is published by University of Nebraska Press and distributed online through Project Muse, http://muse.jhu.edu/journal/627.
2012
THE 2012 GREAT PLAINS DISTINGUISHED BOOK PRIZE, Andrew Jewell
Review of All Indians Do Not Live in Teepees (or Casinos) by Catherine C. Robbins, Bruce E. Johansen
Review of Portraits of the Prairie: The Land that Inspired Willa Cather by Richard Schilling, Richard Jussel
Review of Toward a More Perfect Union: The Settlement of Union Township, Clay County, Kansas by James R. Beck, Bruce R. Kahler
Review of Westward Bound: Sex, Violence, the Law, and the Making of a Settler Society by Lesley Erickson, William Katerberg
Review of Lone Stars III: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1986- 2011 by Karoline Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes, Marcia Kaylakie
Review of Shot in Oklahoma: A Century of Sooner State Cinema by John Wooley, Joseph A. Kestner
INDIANS AND EMPIRES CULTURAL CHANGE AMONG THE OMAHA AND PAWNEE, FROM CONTACT TO 1808, Kurt E. Kinbacher
Review of Will Rogers: A Political Life by Richard D. White Jr., Paul F. Lambert
CHRISTOPHER LASCH AND PRAIRIE POPULISM, Jon K. Lauck
FROM MOTHERS' PENSIONS TO AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN THE GREAT PLAINS THE COURSE FROM CHARITY TO ENTITLEMENT, R. Alton Lee
NOT YOUR FAMILY FARM APICULTURE IN SOUTH,CENTRAL MONTANA, Miles Lewis
NEW DEAL LEFTISTS, HENRY WALLACE AND "GIDEON'S ARMY," AND THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY IN MONTANA, 1937-1952, Hugh T. Lovin
Review of Llano Estacada: An Island in the Sky edited by Stephen Bogener and William Tydeman, George Lubick
CONVERTING THE ROSEBUD SICANGU LAKOTA CATHOLICISM IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES, Harvey Markowitz
Review of Eyewitness at Wounded Knee by Richard E. Jensen, R. Eli Paul, and John E. Carter, Dawn G. Marsh
Review of Museum Pieces: Toward the Indigenization of Canadian Museums by Ruth B. Phillips, Lee-Ann Martin
CUSTER, CRAZY HORSE, SITTING BULL, AND THE LITTLE BIGHORN, Ron McCoy
Review of Montana Moments: History on the Go by Ellen Baumler, Amy L. McKinney
Review of Goodlands: A Meditation and History on the Great Plains by Frances W. Kaye, Curtis McManus
Review of Grand Procession: Contemporary Artistic Visions of American Indians: The Diker Collection at the Denver Art Museum by Lois Sherr Dubin, Jessica R. Metcalfe
Review of Where the Tall Grass Grows: Becoming Indigenous and the Mythological Legacy of the American West by Bobby Bridger, John H. Monnett
Review of Principle over Party: The Farmers' Alliance and Populism in South Dakota, 1880-1900 by R. Alton Lee, Francis Moul
Review of America's School for War: Fort Leavenworth, Officer Education, and Victory in World War II by Peter J. Schifferle, Donald J. Mrozek
Review of Indigenous Dance and Dancing Indian: Contested Representation in the Global Era by Matthew Krystal, Jacqueline Shea Murphy
Review of Empires, Nations, and Families: A History of the North American West, 1800-1860 by Anne F. Hyde, Walter Nugent
Review of Always an Adventure: An Autobiography by Hugh A. Dempsey, Michael Payne
Review of Rich Indians: Native People and the Problem of Wealth in American History by Alexandra Harmon, Kathleen Pickering Sherman
Review of Valentine T. McGillycuddy: Army Surgeon, Agent to the Sioux by Candy Moulton, Jason Pierce
Review of The Philosophy of the Western edited by Jennifer L. McMahon and B. Steve Csaki, Robert B. Pippin
Ligia Grischa: A successful Swiss colony on the Dakota Territory frontier, Todd Quinn, Karl Benedict, and Jeff Dickey
Review of American Indians and the Mass Media edited by Meta G. Carstarphen and John P. Sanchez, Dean Rader
Review of A Separate Country: Postcoloniality and American Indian Nations by Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Akim D. Reinhardt
Review of A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America by Janet Galligani Casey, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Review of A New Heartland: Women, Modernity, and the Agrarian Ideal in America by Janet Galligani Casey, Pamela Riney-Kehrberg
Review of Myth, Memory, and Massacre: The Pease River Capture of Cynthia Ann Parker by Paul H. Carlson and Tom Crum, Joaquin Rivaya-Martinez
Review of Great Sioux War Orders of Battle: How the United States Army Waged War on the Northern Plains, 1876-1877 by Paul L. Hedren, Charles M. Robinson III
Review of The Notorious Dr. Flippin: Abortion and Consequence in the Early Twentieth Century by Jamie Q. Tallman, Sarah B. Rodriguez
Review of West-words: Celebrating Western Canadian Theatre and Playwriting edited by Moira J. Day, Scott Sharplin
Review of Engaged Resistance: American Indian Art, Literature, and Film from Alcatraz to the NMAI by Dean Rader, Beverly R. Singer
Review of William Clark's World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns by Peter J. Kastor, Thomas P. Slaughter
Review of My Ruby Slippers: The Road Back to Kansas by Tracy Seeley., Sarah Smarsh
LEADING THE "FATHER" THE PAWNEE HOMELAND, COUREURS DE BOIS, AND THE VILLASUR EXPEDITION OF 1720, Christopher Steinke
Review of The Art of John Snow by Elizabeth Herbert, Robert Steven
Review of Empire of the Summer Moon: Quanah Parker and the Rise and Fall of the Comanches, the Most Powerful Indian Tribe in American History by S. C. Gwynne, Joseph A. Stout Jr.
Review of Writing in Dust: Reading the Prairie Environmentally by Jenny Kerber, Aubrey Streit Krug
Review of Texas Through Women's Eyes: The Twentieth-Century Experience by Judith N. McArthur and Harold L. Smith, Jean A. Stuntz
Review of Life Stages and Native Women: Memory, Teachings, and Story Medicine by Kim Anderson, Rebeka Tabobondung
Review of For King and Kanata: Canadian Indians and the First World War by Timothy C. Winegard, Robert J. Talbot
Review of Re-Imagining Ukranian Canadians: History, Politics, and Identity edited by Rhonda L. Hinther and Jim Mochoruk, Myroslaw Tateryn
Review of Indian Voices: Listening to Native Americans by Alison Owings, Sally Thompson
Review of Assault on the Deadwood Stage: Road Agents and Shotgun Messengers by Robert K. DeArment, David A. Walker
Review of Alexandre Hogue: An American Visionary -- Paintings and Works on Paper by Susie Kalil, Mark White
Review of Working the Land: The Stories of Ranch and Farm Women in the Modern American West by Sandra K. Schackel, Mary Zeiss Stange
2011
GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY Volume 31 / Number 1 / Winter 2011
GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY Volume 31 / Number 2 / Spring 2011
GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY Volume 31/Number 3/ Summer 2011
GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY Volume 31 / Number 4/ Fall 2011
Review of War Party in Blue: Pawnee Scouts in the U.S. Army by Mark van de Logt, Kevin Adams
Review of Native American Performance and Representation edited by S. E. Wilmer, T. Christopher Aplin
Review of Historical Atlas of the American West: With Original Maps by Derek Hayes, J. Clark Archer
SOME THOUGHTS ON "TAKING" PICTURES IMAGING "INDIANS" AND THE COUNTER-NARRATIVES OF VISUAL SOVEREIGNTY, Morgan F. Bell
Review of Tillie Olsen: One Woman, Many Riddles by Panthea Reid, Cinzia Biagiotti
Review of Vernon Fisher by Vernon Fisher, Matthew Bourbon
Review of Historic Photos of Nebraska text and captions by Ted Stryker, Charles A. Braithwaite
Review of In the Footsteps of Lewis and Clark: Early Commemorations and the Origins of the National Historic Trail by Wallace G. Lewis, Jay H. Buckley
Review of The Masterworks of Charles M. Russell: A Retrospective of Paintings and Sculpture edited by Joan Carpenter Troccoli, Sarah L. Burt
Review of Wyoming Range War: The Infamous Invasion of Johnson County by John W. Davis, Ross F. Collins
Review of The Indian Commissioners: Agents of the State and Indian Policy in Canada's Prairie West, 1873-1932 by E. Brian Titley, George Colpitts
FROM "NO PLACE" TO HOME THE QUEST FOR A WESTERN HOME IN BREWSTER HIGLEY'S "HOME ON THE RANGE", C. M. Cooper
Review of Frontier Feminist: Clarina Howard Nichols and the Politics of Motherhood by Marilyn S. Blackwell and Kristen T. Oertel, Barbara Cutter
Review of Spirit Matters: Ron [Gyo-zo] Spickett, Artist, Poet, Lay-Priest by Geoffrey Simmins, Leslie Dawn
Review of Cather Studies 8: Willa Cather: A Writer's Worlds edited by John J. Murphy, Francoise Palleau-Papin, and Robert Thacker, Derek Driedger
Review of Proving Up: Domesticating Land in US. History by Lisi Krall, Richard Edwards
Review of Modernism and Mildred Walker by Carmen Pearson, Ken Egan
Review of Reopening the Frontier: Homesteading in the Modern West by Brian Q. Cannon, Mark Engler
Review of The West and Beyond: New Perspectives on an Imagined Region edited by Alvin Finkel, Sarah Carter, and Peter Fortna, Ryan C. Eyford
Review of Bad Land Pastoralism in Great Plains Fiction by Matthew J. C. Cella, Becky Faber
Review of American Indians and the Fight for Equal Voting Rights by Laughlin McDonald, Matthew L. M. Fletcher
Review of The Rhythm Boys of Omaha Central: High School Basketball at the '68 Racial Divide by Steve Marantz, Amy Helene Forss
Review of And Grace Will Lead Me Home: African American Freedmen Communities of Austin, Texas, 1865-1928 by Michelle M. Mears, Maria Franklin
Review of Everything You Know about Indians Is Wrong by Paul Chaat Smith, Laura M. Furlan
Review of Julius Seyler and the Blackfeet: An Impressionist at Glacier National Park by William E. Farr, Alexandra Ganser
IMMIGRATION TO THE GREAT PLAINS, 1865-1914 WAR, POLITICS, TECHNOLOGY, AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, Bruce Garver
Review of Art of West Texas Women: A Celebration by Kippra D. Hopper and Laurie J. Churchill, Michael R. Grauer
Review of Hancock's War: Conflict on the Southern Plains by William Y. Chalfant, Steven C. Haack
Review of When Did Indians Become Straight?: Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty by Mark Rifkin, Clark D. Hafen
Review of Lee Lawrie's Prairie Deco: History in Stone at the Nebraska State Capitol by Gregory Paul Harm, Robert Haller
Review of Painting Indians and Building Empires in North America, 1710-1840 by William H. Truettner, John Hausdoerffer
Review of Here You Have My Story: Eyewitness Accounts of the Nineteenth-Century Central Plains edited by Richard E. Jensen, Adam R. Hodge
Review of Like No Other Place: The Sandhills of Nebraska photographs and text by David A. Owen, Drake Hokanson
Review of The Death of Meriwether Lewis: A Historical Crime Scene Investigation by James E. Starrs and Kira Gale, James J. Holmberg
NEW DEAL EXPERIMENTATION AND THE POLITICAL ECONOMY OF THE YANKTON SIOUX, 1930-1934, Teresa M. Houser
ACTING FOR THE CAMERA HORACE POOLAW'S FILM STILLS OF FAMILY, 1925-1950, Hadley Jerman
Review of Prairie Republic: The Political Culture of Dakota Territory, 1879-1889 by Jon K. Lauck, Mark S. Joy