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.
2009
Review of "Playing Ourselves: Interpreting Native Histories at Historic Reconstructions." By Laura Peers, Sandra Dudley
Changing Perceptions of Homesteading As A Policy of Public Domain Disposal, Richard Edwards
Review of Before the Country: Native Renaissance, Canadian Mythology. By Stephanie McKenzie, Jo-Ann Episkenew
Review of African Creeks: Estelvste and the Creek Nation. By Gary Zellar, Robbie Ethridge
Review of "Interior Places." By Lisa Knopp, Becky Faber
Review of Women in Texas Music: Stories and Songs By Kathleen Hudson, Gail Folkins
Review of "Landscapes of Colorado: Mountains and Plains." By Ann Scarlett Daley and Michael Paglia, Rose Glaser Fredrick
Review of The Importance of Being Monogamous: Marriage and Nation Building in Western Canada to 1915 By Sarah Carter, Jean Friesen
Review of Working Girls in the West: Representations of Wage-Earning Women. By Lindsey McMaster, Judy Fudge
Review of Bertram Goodhue: His Life and Residential Architecture. By Romy Wyllie, Benet Haller
Review of The Great Plains during World War II By R. Douglas Hurt, Greg Hall
Review of Willie Wells: "EI Diablo" of the Negro Leagues, By Bob Luke, Leslie Heaphy
Review of Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932, By Joshua David Bellin, Edward W. Huffstetler
Review of The People Have Never Stopped Dancing: Native American Modern Dance Histories By Jacqueline Shea Murphy, Margaret Jacobs
Review of Seeding Civil War: Kansas in the National News, 1854-1858. By Craig Miner, Bruce R. Kahler
Review of John Steuart Curry's "Hoover and the Flood": Painting Modern History. By Charles C. Eldredge, Wendy Jean Katz
Review of Dark Storm Moving West, by Barbara Belyea, Arn Keeling
Review of The Line from Here to There: A Storyteller's Scottish West Texas By Rosanna Taylor Herndon, Allan O. Kownslar
Review of "Cather Studies 7: Willa Cather as Cultural Icon," Edited by Guy Reynolds, Susan Kress
Review of One Step over the Line: Toward a History of Women in the North American Wests. Edited by Elizabeth Jameson and Sheila McManus, Renee M. Laegreid
Review of Beyond Red Power: American Indian Politics and Activism since 1900. Edited by Daniel M. Cobb and Loretta Fowler, Donna Langston
Review of The Painted Valley: Artists along Alberta's Bow River, 1845-2000, By Christopher Armstrong and H. V. Nelles, Mary-Beth Laviolette
Review of Exiles and Pioneers: Eastern Indians in the TransMississiPPi West. By John P. Bowes, Tracy Neal Leavelle
Review of The Chouteaus; First Family of the Fur Trade By Stan Hoig, B. Pierre Lebeau
Review of Pat Green's Dance Halls & Dreamers , By Luke Gilliam, Cory Lock
Review of Out of the Shadow: Ecopsychology, Story, and Encounters with the Land. By Rinda West, Tom Lynch
Review of "So this is the world & here I am in it," By Di Brandt, Tanis MacDonald
Review of How Cities Won the West: Four Centuries of Urban Change in Western North America. By Carl Abbott, Timothy Mahoney
Review of The Nez Perces in the Indian Territory: Nimiipuu Survival. By J. Diane Pearson, Alan Marshall
Review of The Cherokee Nation and the Trail of Tears. By Theda Perdue and Michael D. Green, Rowena McClinton
Review of Yard Art and Handmade Places: Extraordinary Expressions of Home By Jill Nokes with Pat Jasper, Judith McWillie
Review of "Forty Acres and a Fool: How to Live in the Country and Still Keep Your Sanity." By Roger Welsch, Gwendolyn K. Meister
Review of Inkpaduta: Dakota Leader. By Paul N. Beck, John H. Monnett
Review of Native America, Discovered and Conquered: Thomas Jefferson, Lewis & Clark, and Manifest Destiny. By Robert J. Miller, Jenry Morsman
Review of "Nuclear Nebraska: The Remarkable Story of the Little County That Couldn't Be Bought." By Susan Cragin., Francis Moul
Death, Murder, and Mayhem Stories of Violence and Healing On the Plains, Susan Naramore Maher
Cultural Survival and the Omaha Way Eunice Woodhull Stabler's Legacy of Preservation On The Twentieth,Century Plains, Elaine M. Nelson
Review of Cree Narrative Memory: From Treaties to Contemporary Times. By Neal McLeod, Bret Nickels
"Rejoicing In the Beauties of Nature" The Image of the Western Landscape During The Fur Trade, Kerry R. Oman
Review of Imagined Homes: Soviet German Immigrants in Two Cities By Hans Werner, Anke Ortlepp
Coronado and Aesop Fable and Violence on the Sixteenth-Century Plains, Daryl W. Palmer
Review of Defamiliarizing the Aboriginal: Cultural Practices and Decolonization in Canada. By Julia V. Emberley., Laura Peers
Review of Violence, the Arts, and Willa Cather. Edited by Joseph R. Urgo and Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Karsten H. Piep
Review of Divining Margaret Laurence: A Study of Her Complete Writings By Nora Foster Stovel, Lyall H. Powers
Review of William F. Cody's Wyoming Empire: The Buffalo Bill Nobody Knows. By Robert E. Bonner, Jack R. Preston
Review of Carol Shields and the Extra-Ordinary. Edited by Marta Dvorak and Manina Jones, Alex Ramon
Review of The Death of Raymond Yellow Thunder and Other True Stories from the Nebraska-Pine Ridge Border Towns By Stew Magnuson, Akim D. Reinhardt
Review of A Texas Journey: The Centennial Photographs of Polly Smith By Evelyn Barker, Carol Roark
Review of Intimate Modernism: Fort Worth Circle Artists in the 1940s. By Scott Grant Barker and Jane Myers, Katie Robinson-Edwards
Review of Navigating the Missouri: Steamboating on Nature's Highway, 1819-1935 By William E. Lass, Ken Robison
Review of Arc of the Medicine Line: Mapping the World's Longest Undefended Border across the Western Plains By Tony Rees, Molly P. Rozum
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
Table of Contents- Winter 2008
Title and Contents- Summer 2008
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