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 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. Recent 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.
2009
Review of "Native American Fiction: A User's Manual." By David Treuer., James Ruppert
Review of Speak Like Singing: Classics of Native American Literature. By Kenneth Lincoln, James Ruppert
Review of Give Me Eighty Men: Women and the Myth of the Fetterman Fight By Shannon D. Smith, Ronald Schultz
Review of Trans.Can.Lit.: Resituating the Study of Canadian Literature Edited by Smaro Kamboureli and Roy Miki, J'Nan Morse Sellery
Review of Going West!: Quilts and Community By Roderick Kiracofe and Sandi Fox, Janneken Smucker
Review of Keepers of the Record: The History of the Hudson's Bay Company Archives. By Deidre Simmons, Scott Stephen
Review of Willa Cather: New Facts, New Glimpses, Revisions Edited by John J. Murphy and Merrill Maguire Skaggs, John N. Swift
Review of Historic Native Peoples of Texas By William C. Foster, Michael L. Tate
Review of Last Stand: George Bird Grinnell, the Battle to Save the Buffalo, and the Birth of the New West. By Michael Punke., Phillip Drennon Thomas
Review of "Charles M. Russell: A Catalogue Raisonne." Edited by B. Byron Price., Joan Carpenter Troccoli
Review of "William Clark: Indian Diplomat." By Jay H. Buckley., University of California, Los Angeles and Autry Institute for the Study of the American West
Review of Mayor Helen Boosalis: My Mother's Life in Politics. By Beth Boosalis Davis, Jan P. Vermeer
Review of A Call to Action: An Introduction to Education, Philosophy, and Native North America By Curry Stephenson Malott, Malia Villegas
Review of The Comanche Empire. By Pekka Hamalainen, Mariah F. Wade
A Prairie Parable The 1933 Bates Tragedy, Bill Walser
Review of "Charles Goodnight: Father of the Texas Panhandle," By William T. Hagan, West Texas A&M University
Review of The Seminole Freedmen: A History. By Kevin Mulroy, Murray Wickett
Review of Kiowa Humanity and the Invasion of the State By Jacki Thompson Rand, Nathan Wilson
Review of "White Man's Paper Trail: Grand Councils and Treaty-Making on the Central Plains." By Stan Hoig, John R. Wunder
Review of Reclaiming Charles Weidman (1901-1975): An American Dancer's Life and Legacy By Jonette Lancos, Ronald J. Zank
2008
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Review of The Cherokee Nation in the Civil War. By Clarissa W. Confer., Brad Agnew
Review of Chickasaw: Unconquered and Unconquerable By Jeannie Barbour, Amanda Cobb, and Linda Hogan, Donna L. Akers
Review of Texas Women on the Cattle Trails. Edited by Sara R. Massey, Judy Alter
Review of Alexander's Bridge. By Willa Cather, Elizabeth Ammons
Nebraska’s Live Stock Sanitary Commission and the Rise of American Progressivism, David Lee Amstutz
Review of True Tales of the Prairies and Plains By David Dary, Benjamin T. Arrington
Review of American Indian Literary Nationalism By Jace Weaver, Craig S. Womack, and Robert Warrior., Terri Baker
Review of Migrations: New Directions in Native American Art. Edited by Marjorie Devon, Janet Catherine Berlo
Review of Muting White Noise: Native American and European American Novel Traditions By James H. Cox, Susan Bernardin
Review of "Injuns!": Native Americans in the Movies By Edward Buscombe Killing the Indian Maiden: Images of Native American Women in Film. By M. Elise Marubbio, S. Elizabeth Bird
Review of Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music By Christopher J. Oglesby, Kent Blaser
Land, Speculation, and Manipulation Onthepecos, Stephen Bogener
Review of Rosie Sandifer: Language of Art. By Rosie Sandifer., Peter S. Briggs
Life and Landscapes In The Post-Office Communities of Holt County, Nebraska, Rebecca A. Buller
Review of After Lewis & Clark: The Forces of Change, 1806-1871. By Gary Allen Hood, Suzan Campbell
Review of Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves. By Art T. Burton, Amy E. Carreiro
Review of By His Own Hand?: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis Edited by John D. W. Guice, Robert Carriker
Review of White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation By Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Michael C. Coleman
Review of Blackfoot War Art: Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880-2000 By L. James Dempsey, Gerald T. Conaty
Review of Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West By Richard W. Etulain, Julie Courtwright
Review of Forty Years a Legislator: Elmer ThomasBy Elmer Thomas, Suzanne Jones Crawford
Constructing a Home on the Range Homemaking in Early-Twentieth-Century Plains Photograph Albums, Christina E. Dando
Review of Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 By Norman A. Geske, Abraham A. Davidson
Review of Alberta Art and Artists: An Overview By Patricia Ainslie and Mary-Beth Laviolette, Leslie Dawn
Review of Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914- 1939. By Steve Hewitt, Michael Dawson
Review of A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885 By Gregory and Susan Michno, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
Review of Cather Studies 6: History, Memory, and War Edited by Steven Trout, Margaret Doane
Review of Everett Baker's Saskatchewan: Portraits of an Era. Selected by Bill Waiser, Patrick C. Douaud
Why the Homesteading Data Are So Poor (And What Can Be Done About It), Richard Edwards
U.S. Indian Policy, 1865-1890 As Illuminated Through the Lives Of Charles A. Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman, Gretchen Cassel Eick
Review of Searching for Sacred Ground: The Journey of Chief Lawrence Hart, Mennonite By Raylene Hinz-Penner, Clyde Ellis
Review of Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller By Sarah Eppler Janda, Robert E. England
Review of The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line By Jeremy Neely, Nicole Etcheson
Review of The Big Empty; Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers Edited by Ladette Randolph and Nina Shevchuk-Murray, Becky Faber
Review of Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee By Akim D. Reinhardt, James V. Fenelon
Review of Axes: Willa Cather and William Faulkner By Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Ed Folsom
Review of Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. By Jonathan Lear, Rodney Frey
Review of Lady Blackrobes: Missionaries in the Heart of Indian Country By Irene Mahoney, William Furdell
Review of The Calgary Project: Urban Form/Urban Life. By Beverly A. Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai., Pierre Gauthier
Review of The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University. Edited by Richard A. Holland, Dwonna Naomi Goldstone
Review of Saskatchewan: The Luminous Landscape By Courtney Milne, Terry Graff
Review of Texas Quilts and Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy By Marcia Kaylakie with Janice Whittington, Virginia Gunn
Review of John Graves, Writer Edited by Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon, Pete Gunter
Review of Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution By Brian Mann, Donald Haider-Markel
Review of Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution By Brian Mann, Donald P. Haider-Markel
Review of Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney: With a Catalogue of His Works. By Linda Bantel and Peter H. Hassrick, Kenneth Haltman
Review of Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West. By Stan Hoig, Robin C. Henry
Review of Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 By Andrew R. Graybill, Michael Hogue
Review of American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs. By T. Lindsay Baker, Jim Hoy
Review of The Force of Vocation, By Adele Wiseman, Leslie Ianno
Review of 900 Miles from Nowhere: Voices from the Homestead Frontier. By Steven R. Kinsella, Thomas Isern
Review of New Indians, Old Wars By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Bruce E. Johansen
Review of War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners. By Brad D. Lookingbill, Michael Jordan
Review of American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study By Michael C. Coleman, Katie Kane
Shaping Nebraska An Analysis Of Railroad And Land Sales, 1870-1880, Kurt E. Kinbacher and William G. Thomas III
Review of A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen by Faith Johnston, Valerie Korinek
Review of Living Blue in the Red States Edited by David Starkey, Greg Kosmicki
Review of Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land Text and photographs by Laura L. Camden and Susan Gaetz Duarte., Marilyn E. Lehman
Review of The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76. By Eugene H. Berwanger, Stephen J. Leonard
Review of Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada By Arthur Kroeger, Royden Loewen
Review of Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas By Robert K. DeArment, Christopher Lovett