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.

2001

Title and Contents- Spring 2001

Title and Contents- Summer 2001

Title and Contents- Winter 2001

A Conversation with Jane Smiley, Jonis Agee

Review of Making a Real Killing: Rocky Flats and the Nuclear West By Len Ackland, Michael A. Amundson

The Earth Says Have A Place William Stafford And A Place Of Language, Thomas Fox Averill

Review of Sam Bass & Gang By Rick Miller, Larry D. Ball

Review of Voices in the Wind: A Waterton-Glacier Anthology Edited by Barbara Grinder, Valerie HaigBrown, and Kevin Van Tighem, Pamela Banting

Review of Willa Cather: Queering America By Marilee Lindemann, Michele Aina Barale

Review of Something in the Soil: Legacies and Reckonings in the New West By Patricia Nelson Limerick, Mark Daniel Barringer

Review of Happy as a Big Sunflower: Adventures in the West, 1876-1880. By Rolf Johnson., H. Arnold Barton

Review of The Limits of Multiculturalism: Interrogating the Origins of American Anthropology By Scott Michaelsen, Nathan E. Bender

Review of Contemporary American Indian Writing: Unsettling Literature By Dee Horne, Susan Bernardin

Review of Native American Art: The Collections of the Ethnological Museum Berlin By Peter Bolz and Hans-Ulrich Sanner, Bruce Bernstein

Review of The Frontier World of Edgar Dewdney By Brian Titley, J. William Brennan

Review of Documents of American Indian Diplomacy: Treaties, Agreements, and Conventions, 1775-1979 Edited by Vine DeloriaJr. and Raymond J. DeMallie, Jay H. Buckley

Review of To Hell With Honor: Custer and the Little Bighorn By Larry Sklenar, Thomas R. Buecker

Review of Buffalo Jump: A Woman's Travels By Rita Moir, Sharon Butala

Review of Into the West: The Story of lts People By Walter Nugent, Anne M. Butler

Review of Waiting on the Bounty: The Dust Bowl Diary of Mary Knackstedt Dyck Edited by Pamela RineyKehrberg, Brian Q. Cannon

Review of Wagons for the Santa Fe Trade: Wheeled Vehicles and Their Makers, 1822-1880 By Mark L. Gardner, Mike Capps

Review of Willa Cather's Sexual Aesthetics and the Male Homosexual Literary TraditionBy John P. Anders & Willa Cather and the Politics of Criticism By Joan Acocella, Deborah Carlin

Review of With Unshakeable Persistence: Rural Teachers of the Depression Era By Elizabeth McLachlan, Robert J. Carney

Review of Sing with the Heart of a Bear: Fusions of Native and American Poetry, 1890~ 1999 By Kenneth Lincoln, William M. Clements

Review of Some Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys: A Collection of Articles and Essays By John R. Erickson, Michael C. Coleman

Managing The Farm, Educating The Farmer O Pioneers! And The New Agriculture, William Conlogue

The New Deal's Land Utilization Program In The Great Plains, Geoff Cunfer

Women's Sense Of Place On The American High Plains, Cary W. DeWit

Review of Aboriginal People and Colonizers of Western Canada to 1900 By Sarah Carter, Olive Patricia Dickason

Review of Rudolfo A. Anaya: A Critical Companion By Margarite Fernandez Olmos, Bruce Allen Dick

Review of Baum's Road to Oz: The Dakota Years Edited by Nancy Tystad Koupal, Patricia DiMond

Review of The American West: Out of Myth, Into Reality By Peter H. Hassrick & Visions of the West: Art and Artifacts from the Private Collection of J. P. Bryan, Torch Energy Advisors Incorporated and Others Edited by Melissa Baldridge, with an introduction by Patricia Nelson Limerick, Brian W. Dippie

Review of The Destruction of the Bison: An Environmental History, 1750-1920 By Andrew C. Isenberg, William A. Dobak

Review of One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter By Julene Bair, Elizabeth Dodd

Review of Cowboys, Gentlemen and Cattle Thieves By Warren M. Elofson, Patrick A. Dunae

Review of Land of Enchantment, Land of Conflict: New Mexico in English-Language Fiction By David L. Caffey, David King Dunaway

Review of The American West: A New Interpretive History By Robert V. Hine and John Mack Faragher, Keith Edgerton

Review of Black Cowboys of Texas Edited by Sara R. Massey, Chiyuma Elliott

Review of Noble, Wretched, & Redeemable: Protestant Missionaries to the Indians in Canada and the United States, 1820-1900 By C. L. Higham, Clyde Ellis

Review of Frederic Remington: The Writer By Roscoe L. Buckland, Fred Erisman

"When We Were First Paid" The Blackfoot Treaty, The Western Tribes, And The Creation Of The Common Hunting Ground, 1855, William E. Farr

The Price of Patriotism Alberta Cattlemen and the Loss of the American Market, 1942-48, Max Foran

Review of Sacred Fireplace (Oceti Wakan): Life and Teachings of a Lakota Medicine Man By Pete S. Catches Sr. Edited by Peter V. Catches, Daniel J. Gelo

Review of Cowgirls: Commemorating the Women of the West Photography by David R. Stoecklein, Joyce Gibson-Roach

Review of European Immigrants in the American West: Community Histories Edited by Frederick Luebke, Jon Gjerde

Review of The Rapid City Indian School, 1898-1933 By Scott Riney, Amy M. Goodburn

Review of The Five Crows Ledger: Biographic Warrior Art of the Flathead Indians By James D. Keyser, Candace Greene

Review of George Washington Grayson and the Creek Nation, 1843-1920 By Mary Jane Warde, Michael D. Green

Review of The Literary History of Alberta: Volume Two By George Melnyk, Kristjana Gunnars

Review of A Reader's Guide to the Novels of Louise Erdrich By Peter G. Beidler and Gay Barton & The Chippewa Landscape of Louise Erdrich Edited by Allan Chavkin, P. Jane Hafen

"We Anishinaabeg Are The Keepers Of The Names Of The Earth" Louise Erdrich's Great Plains, P. Jane Hafen

The First Phase Of Destruction Killing The Southern Plains Buffalo, 1790-1840, Pekka Hamalainen

Review of Repatriation Reader: Who Owns American Indian Remains? Edited by Devon A. Mihesuah, Julia D. Harrison

A New Vision Of America Lewis And Clark And The Emergence Of The American Imagination, James P. Hendrix Jr.

Review of The Family Farmers' Advocate: South Dakota Farmers Union, 1914-2000 By Lynwood E. Oyos, Herbert T. Hoover

From Feikema To Manfred, From The Big Sioux Basin To The Northern Plains, Arthur R. Huseboe

Review of Lies Across America: What Our Historic Sites Get Wrong By James W. Loewen, Thomas D. Isern

Review of Red on Red: Native American Literary Separatism By Craig S. Womack, Daniel Justice

"The Worst Floods In History" Federal Government And The Floods Of 1944 In The Elkhorn River Basin, Todd Kerstetter

Review of The Earth Shall Weep: A History of Native America By James Wilson, Clara Sue Kidwell

Review of The Piikani Blackfeet: A Culture Under Siege By John C. Jackson, Darrell R. Kipp

Land, Justice, And Angie Debo Telling The Truth To-And About-Your Neighbors, Patricia Nelson Limerick

Review of Frontier Children By Linda Peavy and Ursula Smith, Susan Arrington Madsen

Review of Cather Studies 4: Willa Cather's Canadian and Old World Connections Edited by Robert Thacker and Michael A. Peterman, Merrill Maguire-Skaggs

Review of Reclaiming Indigenous Voice and Vision Edited by Marie Battiste, Dennis Martinez

Review of The Wichita Indians: Traders of Texas and the Southern Plains, 1540-1845 By F. Todd Smith, Howard Meredith

Review of Termination Revisited: American Indians on the Trail to Self-Determination, 1933-1953 By Kenneth R. Philp, Warren Metcalf

Review of Holding Stone Hands: On the Trail of the Cheyenne Exodus By Alan Boye, John H. Monnett

Review of Lines of Site: Ideas, Forms, and Materialities Curated by Desmond Rochfort with Ryoji Ikeda, Gary Olson

"The Last Buffalo Hunt" And Beyond Plains Sioux Economic Strategies In The Early Reservation Period, Jeffrey Ostler

Review of Massacre along the Medicine Road: A Social History of the Indian War of 1864 in Nebraska Territory By Ronald Becher, Eli Paul

Review of Indian Fall: The Last Great Days of the Plains Cree and the Blackfoot Confederacy By D'Arcy Jenish, Katherine Pettipas

Review of Buffalo Soldiers and Officers of the Ninth Cavalry, 1867-1898: Black & White Together By Charles L. Kenner, Tom Phillips

Review of Larry McMurtry: A Critical Companion By John M. Reilly, Tom Pilkington

Review of A Country in the Mind: Wallace Stegner, Bernard DeVoto, History, and the American Land By John L. Thomas, Frank J. Popper

Review of Susan La Flesche Picotte, M.D.: Omaha Indian Leader and Reformer By Benson Tong, Malea Powell

Review of Woman of the Plains: The]ournals and Stories of Nellie M. Perry Edited by Sandra Gail Teichmann, Maureen E. Reed

Review of The Annotated Wizard of Oz: Centennial Edition By L. Frank Baum, Michael O. Riley

Review of The Last Prairie: A Sandhills Journal By Stephen R. Jones, Ron Block

Five Voices One Place An Introduction, Susan J. Rosowski and John R. Wunder

Review of The Texas Sheriff; Lord of the County Line By Thad Sitton, Nail Sapper

Review of Hard Travelin'; The Life and Legacy of Woody Guthrie Edited by Robert Santelli and Emily Davidson, Timothy E. Scheurer

Review of The Black Elk Reader Edited by Clyde Holler, John R. Schneider

Review of Will Rogers: A Biography By Ben Yagoda, James M. Smallwood

Review of Set the Ploughshare Deep: A Prairie Memoir By Timothy Murphy, David R. Solheim

Review of New Moon at Batoche: Reflections on the Urban Prairie By George Melnyk, Birk Sproxton

Review of Birthing a Nation: Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature By Susan J. Rosowski, Janis P. Stout

Review of Art of the North American Indians: The Thaw Collection Edited by Gilbert T. Vincent, Sherry Brydon, and Ralph T. Coe, Joyce M. Szabo

Review of Little Gray Men: Roswell and the Rise of a Popular Culture By Toby Smith, David E. Thomas

Review of The Changing Presentation of the American Indian: Museums and Native Cultures By W. Richard West et al., Russell Thornton

Review of Singing for a Spirit: A Portrait of the Dakota Sioux By Vine Deloria Jr, George E. Tinker

Review of LaDonna Harris: A Comanche Life By La Donna Harris, Barbara Torralba-Hobson

Review of Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond By Larry McMurtry, University of Texas at Austin

Early Civil Rights Activism In Topeka, Kansas, Prior To The 1954 Brown Case, Jean Van Delinder

Review of The Animals Came Dancing: Native American Sacred Ecology and Animal Kinship By Howard L. Harrod, Christopher Vecsey

Review of Cowboys, Ranchers and the Cattle Business: Cross-Border Perspectives on Ranching History Edited by Simon Evans, Sarah Carter, and Bill Yeo, Paul Voisey

Review of Warriors of the King: Prairie Indians in World War 1 By James Dempsey, Bill Waiser

Review of The Prairie People: Forgotten Anabaptists By Rod Janzen, Courtney Muir Wallner

Review of Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women By Patricia Janis Broder, Mary Jo Watson

Review of Western Stories: From Buffalo Bill to Larry McMurtry By Richard W. Etulain, Roger Welsch