In 1981, noted historian Frederick C. Luebke edited the first issue of Great Plains Quarterly. In his editorial introduction, he wrote

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.

2004

Book Review: Margaret Laurence: Critical Reflections, Sheryl Allen

Review of Coacoochee's Bones: A Seminole Saga By Susan A. Miller, Alcione M. Amos

Book Review: Brian Dickson: A Judge's Journey, Chris Axworthy

Book Review: The Montana Frontier: One Woman's West, Allison Badger

Book Review: Morning Star Dawn: The Powder River Expedition and the Northern Cheyennes, 1876, William Bauer

Book Review: The Waltz He Was Born For: An Introduction to the Writing of Walt McDonald, Stephen C. Behrendt

Book Review: On Teaching and Writing Fiction, Jackson J. Benson

Review of Out of Place: The Writings of Robert Kroetsch By Simona Bertacco, Carol L. Beran

Great Plains Native American Representations Along the Lewis and Clark Trail, Kevin S. Blake

Book Review: Between Grass and Sky: Where I Live and Work, Mary Clearman Blew

Book Review: Rural Voices: Place-Conscious Education and the Teaching of Writing, Susanne George Bloomfeld

Book Review: A Companion to the Regional Literatures of America, Kathleen A. Boardman

Book Review: Marriage, Violence, and the Nation in the American Literary West, Christine Bold

Book Review: Rodeo Queens and the American Dream, Lawrence R. Borne

Book Review: Creating Christian Indians: Native Clergy in the Presbyterian Church, Henry Warner Bowden

Book Review: Texas Trilogy: Life in a Small Texas Town, Jean A. Boyd

Book Review: The Road to Lame Deer, Alan Boye

The New Negro Arts and Letters Movement Among Black University Students in the Midwest, 1914-1940, Richard M. Breaux

Book Review: The Invention of Native American Literature, Lori Burlingame

Book Review: Carol Shields, Narrative Hunger, and the Possibilities of Fiction, Alison Calder

Entering Sacred Landscapes: Cultural Expectations Versus Legal Realities in the Northwestern Plains, Gregory R. Campbell and Thomas A. Foor

Book Review: Wyoming Trucks, True Love, and the Weather Channel: A Woman's Adventure, Laura E. Casari

Telling Stories About Lewis and Clark: Does History Still Matter?, Andrew R. L. Cayton

Review of Pathfinder: John Charles Fremont and the Course of American Empire By Tom Chaffin, Robert J. Chandler

Review of Archbishop A.-A. Tache of St. Boniface: The "Good Fight" and the Illusive Vision By Raymond J. A. Hue!, Robert Choquette

Book Review: Visions of the Land: Science, Literature, and the American Environment from the Era of Exploration to the Age of Ecology, Gale E. Christianson

Book Review: A Great Plains Reader, Philip R. Coleman-Hull

Book Review: Taking Indian Lands: The Cherokee (Jerome) Commission, 1889-1893, Sally Ann Cummings

Canada's Campaign For Immigrants And The Images In Canada West Magazine, Laura A. Detre

Book Review: Texas Rangeland, Rick Dingus

Book Review: One Woman's Political Journey: Kate Barnard and Social Reform, 1875-1930, Linda Edmondson

Native American Photography at the Smithsonian: The Shindler Catalogue, Elizabeth Edwards

Book Review: Toward a Native American Critical Theory, Renate Eigenbrod

Book Review: Interpreters with Lewis and Clark: The Story of Sacagawea and Toussaint Charbonneau, Lisa E. Emmerich

Book Review: The New Warriors: Native American Leaders since 1900, Gregory O. Gagnon

Book Review: Genocide of the Mind: New Native American Writing, Thomas C. Gannon

The effect of redundant stimulus elements on visual discrimination as a function of element heterogeneity, equal discriminability, and position uncertainty, W. R. Garner and J. H. Flowers

Book Review: One Hundred Years of Old Man Sage: An Arapaho Life, Daniel J. Gelo

Book Review: Place: Lethbridge, A City on the Prairie, Don Gill

Rangers, Mounties, And The Subjugation Of Indigenous Peoples, 1870 .. 1885, Andrew R. Graybill

Book Reviews and Notes & News, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly

Book Reviews, Notes and News, Great Plains Quarterly

Book Review: Vaqueros, Cowboys, and Buckaroos, Great Plains Quarterly

Fall 2004 Table of Contents, Great Plains Quarterly

Summer 2004 Book Notes, Notes & News, Great Plains Quarterly

Summer 2004 Cover and Table of Contents, Great Plains Quarterly

Table of Contents, Fall 2004, Great Plains Quarterly

Book Review: Icelanders in North America: The First Settlers, Gudren Björk Gudsteins

Book Review: Around the Sacred Fire: Native Religious Activism in the Red Power Era, Francis Guth

Book Review: Karl Bodmer's Studio Art: The Newberry Library Bodmer Collection, Kenneth Haltman

Book Review: Profiting from the Plains: The Great Northern Railway and Corporate Development of the American West, Barbara Handy-Marchello

Review of The Standing Bear Controversy: Prelude to Indian Reform By Valerie Sherer Mathes and Richard Lowitt, Sidney L. Harring

Book Review: Bienfait: The Saskatchewan Miners' Struggle of '31, Craig Heron

Book Review: The Word Rides Again: Rereading the Frontier in American Fiction, Eric Heyne

Book Review: Going Places: Transportation Redefines the Twentieth-Century West, John C. Hudson

Book Review: Encyclopedia of Indian Wars: Western Battles and Skirmishes, 1850-1890, Lance Janda

"This Strange White World" Race And Place In Era Bell Thompson's American Daughter, Michael K. Johnson

Review of Prairie Peddlers: The Syrian-Lebanese in North Dakota By William C. Sherman, Paul Whitney, and John Guerrero, Philip M. Kayal

Book Review: African American Women Confront the West, 1600-2000, Michael Lansing

Book Review: The Lewis and Clark Journals: An American Epic of Discovery, Richard Littlebear

Discrimination Against and Adaptation of Italians in the Coal Counties of Oklahoma, David G. Loconto

Book Review: Twenty Thousand Roads: Women, Movement, and the West, Beth Loffreda

Book Review: Teaching Places, Catherine Mackie

Book Review: Moving Out: A Nebraska Woman's Life, Susan Naramore Maher

Book Review: The Texas Post Office Murals: Art for the People, Karal Ann Marling

Review of The Bizarre Careers of John R. Brinkley By R. Alton Lee, Bob McCoy

Book Review: Kansas and the West: New Perspectives, Ron McCoy

Book Review: First to Fight, William C. Meadows

Book Review: West of Emerson: The Design of Manifest Destiny, Charles W. Mignon

Book Review: "This Is America?" The Sixties in Lawrence, Kansas, Craig Miner

Book Review: Red Cloud: Photographs of a Lakota Chief, Joel Minor

Book Review: Buffalo Bill and Sitting Bull: Inventing the Wild West, John H. Monnett

Book Review: The Roots of Texas Music, Kevin E. Mooney

Review of Lynching in Colorado, 1859-1919 By Stephen J. Leonard, Jesse T. Moore Jr.

Book Review: Bound for Sante Fe: The Road to New Mexico and the American Conquest, Harry C. Myers

Book Review: Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929-1945, Paula M. Nelson

Book Review: Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees, Raymond Nelson

Book Review: Galvanized Yankees on the Upper Missouri: The Face of Loyalty, Vance E. Nelson

Book Review: The Extraordinary Work of Ordinary Writing: Annie Ray's Diary, Julie Nichols

A Dakota Boomtown: Sioux Falls, 1877-1880, Gary D. Olsen

Review of Children of the Western Plains: The Nineteenth Century Experience By Marilyn Irvin Holt, Rosemary G. Palmer

Book Review: Indigenous American Women: Decolonization, Empowerment, Activism, Theda Perdue

Review of Invisible Natives: Myth and Identity in the American Western By Armando Jose Prats, Peter N. Peregrine

Review of Restoring the Burnt Child: A Primer By William Kloefkom, David Pichaske

Book Review: The Life and Political Times of Tommy Douglas, James M. Pitsula

Book Review: On Fire, John Pultz

Refining Rural Spaces: Women and Vernacular Gentility in the Great Plains, 1880-1920, Andrea G. Radke

Book Review: The Future of the Southern Plains, Ken Rainwater

Book Review: Black Masculinity and the Frontier Myth in American Literature, Riché Richardson

Book Review: Woman Walking Ahead: In Search of Catherine Weldon and Sitting Bull, Glenda Riley

Book Review: The American Statehouse: Interpreting Democracy's Temples, Robert C. Ripley

Review of Native Voices: American Indian Identity and Resistance Edited by Richard A. Grounds, George E. Tinker, and David E. Wilkins, Beth R. Ritter

Book Review: Reading "The Virginian" in the New West, Forrest G. Robinson

Book Review: Speak to Me Words: Essays on Contemporary American Indian Poetry, Kimberly Roppolo

Book Review: Memorial Fictions: Willa Cather and the First World War, Mary R. Ryder

Book Review: Edward S. Curtis and the North American Indian Project in the Field, Joanna Cohan Scherer

Book Review: Showman: The Life and Music of Perry George Lowery, Roberta Freund Schwartz

Book Review: Promised Lands: Promotion, Memory, and the Creation of the American West, James R. Shortridge

Book Review: William S. Hart: Projecting the American West, Scott Simon

Review of The Native Americans of the Texas Edwards Plateau, 1582-1799 By Maria F. Wade, F. Todd Smith