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
Pieced in the Plains: Kansas Amish Quilts and Cultural Adaptation, Janneken L. Smucker
Book Review: Unsettling the Literary West: Authenticity and Authorship, J. David Stevens
Book Review: The False Traitor: Louis Riel in Canadian Culture, Jill St. Germain
Book Review: Interpreting the Legacy: John Neihardt and "Black Elk Speaks", Dale Stover
Book Review: Who Owns Native Culture?, April R. Summit
But What is There to See?: An Exploration of a Great Plains Aesthetic, Shaunanne Tangney
Book Review: Gone: Photographs of Abandonment on the High Plains, David Taylor
Book Review: Five Shades of Shadow, Gordon O. Taylor
Book Review: Kit Carson and His Three Wives: A Family History, Robert A. Trennert
Review of Cather Studies 5: Willa Cather's Ecological Imagination Edited by Susan J. Rosowski, Steven Trout
Book Review: Barns of Kansas: A Pictorial History, John Michael Vlach
Book Review: The Coronado Expedition from the Distance of 460 Years, David J. Weber
Book Review: Children's Voices from the Trail: Narratives of the Platte River Road, Emmy E. Werner
Book Review: More Ghost Towns of Texas, David Wharton
Congregationalist Richard Cordley and the Impact of New England Cultural Imperialism in Kansas, 1857-1904, Nathan Wilson
Book Review: The Real Rosebud: The Triumph of a Lakota Woman, Norma C. Wilson
Book Review: Kansas: The History of the Sunflower State, 1854-2000, Raymond Wilson
Review of Real Indians: Identity and the Survival of Native America By Eva Marie Garroutte, Terry P. Wilson
Book Review: One Vast Winter Count: The Native American West Before Lewis and Clark, W. Raymond Wood
Book Review: The American West in 2000: Essays in Honor of Gerald D. Nash, John R. Wunder
2003
Title and Contents- Spring 2003
Title and Contents- Summer 2003
Title and Contents- Winter 2003
Review of Brown v. Board of Education: A Civil Rights Milestone and Its Troubled Legacy By James T. Patterson, Kristin Leigh Ahlberg
Review of Studies in American Indian Art: A Memorial Tribute to Norman Feder Edited by Christian F. Feest, Bill Anthes
Review of The Snow Geese: A Story of Home By William Hennes, Bruce D.J. Batt
Review of The Methodist Church on the Prairies, 1896- 1914 By George Emery, Sandra Beardsall
Review of Dreams and Thunder: Stories, Poems, and The Sun Dance Opera By Zitkala-Sa, Susan Bernardin
Review of Performing the American Frontier, 1870-1906 By Roger A. Hall, Sarah J. Blackstone
Review of Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections Edited by Colin G. Calloway, Gerd Gemiinden, and Susanne Zantop, Peter Bolz and Ann Davis
Editor's Introduction- Spring 2003, Charles A. Braithwaite
Review of Fort Robinson and the American Century, 1900- 1948 By Thomas R. Buecker, Paul H. Carlson
Review of Racial Frontiers: Africans, Chinese, and Mexicans in Western America, 1848-1890 By Arnoldo De Leon, Sucheng Chan
RELIGION, IDEALISM, AND AFRICAN AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN THE NORTHERN PLAINS: ERA BELL THOMPSON’S AMERICAN DAUGHTER, Kevin L. Cole and Leah Weins
Review of Red Matters : Native American Studies By Arnold Krupat, James H. Cox
Review of The Middle of Everywhere: The World's Refugees Come to Our Town By Mary Pipher, Rochelle L. Dalla
Come To The "Champagne Air" Changing Promotional Images Of The Kansas Climate, 1854 -1900, Karen De Bres
Waving "A Bough Of Challenge" Forestry On The Kansas Grasslands, 1868-1915, Brian Allen Drake
Review of Geometry in Architecture: Texas Buildings Yesterday and Today By Clovis Heimsath, Robert Duncan
Review of Grave Concerns, Trickster Turns: The Novels of Louis Owens By Chris LaLonde, Margaret Dwyer
Willa Cather's Reluctant New Woman Pioneer, Reginald Dyck
Review of Heartbeat of the People: Music and Dance of the Northern Pow-wow By Tara Browner, Clyde Ellis
ANCIENT WAY IN A NEW LAND: BENEDICTINE EDUCATION IN THE GREAT PLAINS, Marielle Frigge O.S.B.
Review of Muskekowuck Athinuwick: Original People of the Great Swampy Land By Victor P. Lytwyn, Peter Geller
Review of Comanche Society; Before the Reservation By Gerald Betty, Daniel J. Gelo
Review of Telling Stories, Writing Songs: An Album of Texas Songwriters By Kathleen Hudson, Cary Ginell
Review of America's Second Tongue: American Indian Education and the Ownership of English, 1860- 1900 By Ruth Spack, P. Jane Hafen
Review of Jeannette Rankin: America's Conscience By Norma Smith, Sara Hayden
Review of Laura Ingalls Wilder and the American Frontier: Five Perspectives Edited by Dwight M. Miller, Philip Heldrich
Review of How Should I Read These?: Native Women Writers in Canada By Helen Hoy, Dee Horne
Review of Native American Representations: First Encounters, Distorted Images, and Literary Appropriations Edited by Gretchen M. Bataille, Shari Huhndorf
Review of Riot and Remembrance: The Tulsa Race War and Its Legacy By James S. Hirsch, Hannibal B. Johnson
Review of West of the American Dream: An Encounter with Texas By Paul Christensen, Roger Jones
Review of Breaking Clean By Judy Blunt, Linda Karell
Review of Frontier Blood: The Saga of the Parker Family By Jo Ella Powell Exley, Thomas W. Kavanagh
Review of The Jesus Road: Kiowas, Christianity, and Indian Hymns By Luke Eric Lassiter, Clyde Ellis, and Ralph Kotay, Benjamin R. Kracht
Review of Sacagawea's Nickname: Essays on the American West By Larry McMurtry, Shirley A. Leckie
Review of Chasing the Glitter: Black Hills Milling, 1874- 1959 By Richmond L. Clow, Chris H. Lewis
Review of Willa Cather Remembered Edited by Sharon Hoover, Mark Madigan
"The Greatest Evil" Interpretations Of Indian Prohibition Laws, 1832-1953, Jill E. Martin
Black Enclaves of Violence: Race and Homicide in Great Plains Cities, 1890-1920, Clare V. McKanna Jr.
Review of Gold Rush: The Black Hills Story Compiled by John D. McDermott, John E. Miller
Excerpts from the Lewis and Clark Journals: An Epic of Discovery, The Abridgment of the Definitive Nebraska Edition The Journey across the Plains, Gary E. Moulton
Review of Learning to Be an Anthropologist and Remaining "Native": Selected Writings By Beatrice Medicine, edited with Sue-Ellen Jacobs, Thomas P. Myers
Review of Feathering Custer By W. S. Penn, Joshua B. Nelson
The Cups of Blood Are Emptied Pietism and Cultural Heritage in Two Danish Immigrant Schools on the Great Plains, John Mark Nielsen
Review of Moving Stories: Migration and the American West, 1850-2000. Edited by Scott E. Casper and Lucinda M. Long, Walter Nugent
Review of Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen By Bob Greene, Charles A. Peek
Review of The American Midwest: Essays on Regional History Edited by Andrew R. L. Cayton and Susan E. Gray, Paula Petrik
FAIRY CASTLE OR STEAMER TRUNK? CREATING PLACE IN O. E. RØLVAAG’S GIANTS IN THE EARTH, Diane D. Quantic
Review of Willa Cather and the American SouthwestEdited by John N. Swift and Jospeh R. Urgo, Guy Reynolds
Review of The Nature of Home By Lisa Knopp, Jonathan Ritz
Review of Harvest Wobblies: The Industrial Workers of the World and Agricultural Laborers in the American West, 1905-1930 By Greg Hall, William G. Robbins
Review of Contrary Neighbors: Southern Plains and Removed Indians in Indian Territory By David LaVere, Willard Hughes Rollings
Review of The Indian Association of Alberta: A History of Political Action By Laurie Meijer Drees, Joe Sawchuk
Review of Hidden Worlds: Revisiting the Mennonite Migrants of the 1870s By Royden Loewen, Kimberly D. Schmidt
Review of Common and Contested Ground: A Human and Environmental History of the Northwestern Plains By Theodore Binnema, James E. Sherow
Review of The Indian Frontier, 1763-1846 By R. Douglas Hurt, Victoria Smith
Review of Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps By Ted Kooser, Judith Sorenberger
''A Prairie Childhood" By Edith Abbott An Excerpt from the Children's Champion, A Biography Of Grace Abbott, John Sorensen
Review of The Light Crust Doughboys Are on the Air: Celebrating Seventy Years of Texas Music By John Mark Dempsey, Joe W. Specht
Review of Father Francis M. Craft: Missionary to the Sioux By Thomas W. Foley, Michael F. Steltenkamp
Review of When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood By Margaret Bell, Randi Tanglen
Review of Anti-Indianism in Modern America: A Voice from Tatekeya's Earth By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Jacki Thompson-Rand
Review of The Professor's House By Willa Cather, Steven Trout
Review of Toward Defining the Prairies: Region, Culture, and History Edited by Robert Wardhaugh, Nina van Gessel
Review of The Nature of Native American Poetry By Norma C. Wilson, Andrew Wiget
Review of Growing Up with the Town: Family and Community on the Great Plains By Dorothy Hubbard Schwieder, David A. Wolff
Review of The Black Regulars, 1866-1898 By William A. Dobak and Thomas D. Phillips, Robert Wooster