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.
1984
Review of Lakota Society By James R. Walker, Herbert T. Hoover
Review of The Cattle Guard By James F. Hoy, R. Douglas Hurt
Review of Shadows of the Indian: Stereotypes in American Culture By Raymond William Stedman, Paul H. Hutton
Review of A Bibliographical Guide to the Study of Western American Literature By Richard W. Etulain, Frances W. Kaye
Review of With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s By Clyde A. Milner II, Robert H. Keller Jr.
Review of Montana's Righteous Hangmen: The Vigilantes in Action By Lew L. Callaway, William L. Lang
Indian Maps Their Place In The History Of Plains Cartography, G. Malcolm Lewis
Review of Farm Women on the Prairie Frontier: A Sourcebook for Canada and the United States By Carol Fairbanks and Sara Brooks Sundberg, Vernon R. Lindquist
Review of Conversations with wallace Stegner on Western History and Literature By Wallace Stegner and Richard W. Etulain, Kenneth C. Mason
Review of Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980 By Michael L. Lawson, Janet McDonnell
Review of Belle Starr and Her Times: The Literature, the Facts and the Legends By Glenn Shirley, Darlis A. Miller
Willa Cather Today, James E. Miller Jr.
Review of Wolves for the Blue Soldiers: Indian Scouts and Auxiliaries with the United States Army, 1860-1890 By Thomas W. Dunlay, Clyde A. Milner II
Mapping The North American Plains An Introduction, Gary E. Moulton
Nebraska Naturalism In Jamesian Frames, John J. Murphy
Review of Willa: The Life of Willa Cather By Phyllis C. Robinson, John J. Murphy
Review of The Great Kansas Bond Scandal By Robert Smith Bader, Patrick G. O'Brien
Review of Prairie Mosaic: An Ethnic Atlas of Rural North Dakota By William C. Sherman, Robert C. Ostergren
Review of The Thunderstorm in Human Affairs Edited by Edwin Kessler, Alec H. Paul
Willa Cather And The Swedes, Mona Pers
Review of Cowboy Life on the Texas Plains: The photographs of Ray Rector Edited by Margaret Rector, Charles S. Peterson
Review of Texas Woollybacks: The Range Sheep and Goat Industry By Paul H. Carlson, B. Byron Price
Review of Oil Booms: Social Changes in Five Texas Towns By Roger M. Olien and Diana Davids Olien & Oil in West Texas and New Mexico: A Pictorial History of the Permian Basin By Walter Rundell, Jr., Frederick W. Rathjen
Review of Gauchos and the Vanishing Frontier By Richard W. Slatta, Douglas W. Richmond
Review of The West of Wild Bill Hickok By Joseph G. Rosa, Gary L. Roberts
"A Chart In His Way" Indian Cartography And The Lewis And Clark Expedition, James P. Ronda
Review of Willa Cather: A Bibliography By Joan Crane, Susan J. Rosowski
Willa Cather's American Gothic Sapphira And The Slave Girl, Susan J. Rosowski
Mapping the Interior Plains of Rupert's Land By The Hudson's Bay Company To 1870, Richard I. Ruggles
The Image Of The Hired Girl In Literature The Great Plains, 1860 To World War I, Sylvia Lea Sallquist
Review of Wichita: The Early Years, 1865-1880 By H. Craig Miner, John C. Schneider
The Prairie Mermaid Love-Tests Of Pioneer Women, Robert H. Solomon
Review of Western American Literary Criticism By Martin Bucco, Helen Winter Stauffer
Review of Inventing Billy the Kid: Visions of the Outlaw in America, 1881-1981 By Stephen Tatum, Kent L. Steckmesser
Review of The Troll Garden By Willa Cather, David Stouck
Carl Schurz And The Indians, Hans L. Trefousse
Review of Jewels of the Plains: Wildflowers of the Great Plains Grasslands and Hills By Claude A. Barr, Curtis M. Twedt
Review of The Mexican Frontier, 1821-1846: The American Southwest Under Mexico By David J. Weber, Ralph H. Vigil
Review of Fur Trade and Exploration: Opening the Far Northwest, 1821-1852 By Theodore J. Karamanski, John Warkentin
Review of The Platte: Channels in Time By Paul A. Johnsgard, Leslie T. Whipp
Review of American Farm Tools: From Hand-Power to Steam-Power By R. Douglas Hurt, Reynold M. Wik
Review of Plains Families: Exploring Sociology Through Social History By Scott G. McNall and Sally Allen McNall, J. Allen Williams
Review of Labyrinths of Voice: Conversations with Robert Kroetsch By Shirley Neuman and Robert Wilson, George E. Wolf
Review of Four American Indian Literary Masters: N. Scott Momaday, James Welch, Leslie Marmon Silko, and Gerald Vizenor By Alan R. Velie, Charles L. Woodard
Light And Shadow In The Cather World A Personal Essay, Lucia Woods
Mapping The Missouri River Through The Great Plains, 1673-1895, W. Raymond Wood
Review of Men of the Steel Rails: Workers on the Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad, 1869- 1900 By James H. Ducker, Robert H. Zieger
1983
Title and Contents- Spring 1983
Title and Contents- Summer 1983
Review of Oklahoma Memories Edited by Anne Hodges Morgan and Rennard Strickland, Brad Agnew
Review of Mexican Emigration to the United States, 1897- 1931: Socio-economic Patterns By Lawrence A. Cardoso, Felix D. Almaraz Jr.
Review of Laird of the West By John W. Chalmers, John H. Archer
Review of Saving the Prairies: The Life Cycle of the Founding School of American Plant Ecology, 1895-1955 By Ronald C. Tobey, Royce E. Ballinger
Review of The Collapse of Small Towns on the Great Plains: A Bibliography By Nancy Burns, Brian W. Blouet
Review of Heck Thomas: Frontier Marshal By Glenn Shirley, David J. Bodenhamer
Review of Chief Left Hand: Southern Arapaho By Margaret Coel, Robert C. Carriker
Willa Cather And The Populists, Robert W. Cherny
Review of Yuwipi: Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual By William K. Powers, Raymond J. De Mallie
Transportation And Transformation The Hudson's Bay Company, 1857-1885, A. A. den Otter
American Literary Images Of The Canadian Prairies, 1860-1910, James Doyle
Review of Soils of the Great Plains: Land Use, Crops, and Grasses By Andrew R. Aandahl, James V. Drew
Review of The Frontier in History: North America and Southern Africa Compared Edited by Howard Lamar and Leonard Thompson., Leslie C. Duly
Review of Slim Buttes, 1876: An Episode of the Great Sioux War By Jerome A. Greene, Thomas William Dunlay
The Origin Of Ranching In Western Canada American Diffusion Or Victorian Transplant?, Simon M. Evans
Review of The Dust Bowl: An Agricultural and Social History By R. Douglas Hurt, Gilbert C. Fite
Western Myth And Northern History The Plains Indians Of Berger And Wiebe, Sherrill E. Grace
Pioneer Landscape Paintings In Australia And The United States, R. Leslie Heathcote
Review of The Prairies and Plains: Prospects for the 80s Edited by John R. Rogge, R. Leslie Heathcote
Review of Town and City: Aspects of Western Canadian Urban Development Edited by Alan F. J. Artibise, John C. Hudson
Review of Grasses and Grasslands: Systematics and Ecology Edited by James R. Estes, Ronald J. Tyrl, and Jere N. Brunken, Robert B. Kaul
Intersections Studies In The Canadian And American Great Plains, Frances W. Kaye
Nineteenth-Century Patterns Of Railroad Development On The Great Plains, Russell S. Kirby
Review of Hooded Empire: The Ku Klux Klan in Colorado By Robert Alan Goldberg, Robert Larson
Social Scientists And Farm Poverty On The North American Plains, 1933-1940, Harry C. Mcdean
Review of Indian-White Relations in the United States: A Bibliography of Works Published 1975- 1980 By Francis Paul Prucha, Roy W. Meyer
Review of The Red River in Southwestern History By Carl Newton Tyson, Forrest D. Monahan
Review of Elliott Coues: Naturalist and Frontier Historian By Paul Russell Cutright and Michael J. Brodhead, Gary E. Moulton
Review of The Tejano Community, 1836-1900 By Arnoldo De Leon, Richard L. Nostrand
Review of Professors, Presidents, and Politicians By George Lynn Cross, James C. Olson
Review of Ceremonies of the Pawnee. Part I, The Skiri. Part II, The South Bands By James R. Murie, Paul A. Olson
Review of The Gift of the Sacred Pipe By Black Elk, Paul A. Olson
Escape From The Great Plains The Icelanders In North Dakota And Alberta, Howard Palmer
Across The 49th Thunderstorms In The Northern Great Plains, Alec H. Paul
Review of Alfred Jacob Miller: Artist On the Oregon Trail, Joseph C. Porter
Review of Arapahoe Politics, 1851-1978: Symbols in Crisis of Authority By Loretta Fowler, William K. Powers
Review of The West and Reconstruction By Eugene H. Berwanger, James A. Rawley
Competition For Settlers The Canadian Viewpoint, James M. Richtik
Prairie Poetry And Metaphors Of Plain/S Space, Laurie Ricou
Review of Read This Only to Yourself: The Private Writings of Midwestern Women, 1880-1910 By Elizabeth Hampsten, Julie Roy-Jeffrey
Review of The Forgotten Frontier: Urban Planning in the American West before 1890 By John W. Reps, Charles S. Sargent