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.

1986

Review of A Tropical Plains Frontier: The Llanos of Colombia 1531-1831 By Jane M. Rausch., Kristine L. Jones

Review of Plains Country Towns By John C. Hudson, Lawrence H. Larsen

Review of Lewis and Clark Among the Indians By James P. Ronda, G. Malcom Lewis

Review of Kansas Geology; An Introduction to Landscapes, Rocks, Minerals, and Fossils Edited by Rex Buchanan, David B. Loope

Review of Views and Viewmakers of Urban America: Lithographs of Towns and Cities in the United States and Canada, Notes on the Artists and Publishers, and a Union Catalog of their Work, 1825-1925 By John W. Reps, Frederick C. Luebke

COMP ARA TIVE DROUGHT STRATEGIES THE SOVIET UNION, Paul E. Lydolph

THE BIG ROCK CANDY MOUNTAIN THE CONSEQUENCES OF A DELUSORY AMERICAN DREAM, Kenneth C. Mason

DUST BOWL HISTORIOGRAPHY, Harry C. McDean

Review of A Buffalo Round-up: A Selected Bibliography By George W. Arthur, Roy W. Meyer

Review of Women and Indians on the Frontier, 1825-1915 By Glenda Riley, Darlis A. Miller

Review of The History of Prairie Theatre By E. Ross Stuart, Susan Minsos

Review of The Sixth Grandfather: Black Elk's Teachings Given to John G. Neihardt, edited by Raymond J. DeMallie, Paul Olson

THE GREAT PLAINS TRANSITION AREA REVISITED: A REVIEW ESSAY, Howard W. Ottoson

ABIDETH FOREVER? GLOBAL USE OF SEMIARID LANDS IN THE INTERWAR YEARS, J. M. Powell

THE DUST BOWL HISTORICAL IMAGE, PSYCHOLOGICAL ANCHOR, AND ECOLOGICAL TABOO, William E. Riebsame

Review of Sophus K. Winther By Barbara Howard Meldrum, Joy Ritchie

Review of ] effason and Southwestern Exploration: The Freeman and Custis Accounts of the Red River Expedition of 1806 Ed. by Dan L. Flores, James P. Ronda

ADAPTATIONS TO ADVERSITY AGRICULTURE, CLIMATE AND THE GREAT PLAINS OF NORTH AMERICA, Norman J. Rosenburg

Review of Forging New Rights in Western Waters By Robert G. Dunbar, William D. Rowley

RITUAL PAGEANTRY IN THE AMERICAN WEST A WYOMING CASE STUDY, Audrey C. Shalinsky

Review of A Field Guide to American Windmills By T. Lindsay Baker, Homer E. Socolofsky

Review of Phil Sheridan and His Army By Paul Andrew Hutton, Michael L. Tate

Review of Kit Carson: A Pattern for Heroes By Thelma S. Guild and Harvey L. Carter, Stephen Tatum

Review of Native Faces: Indian Cultures in American Art by Patricia Trenton and Patrick Houlihan, Patricia Trenton, Patrick Houlihan, and Marsha V. Gallagher

Review of America's Country Schools By Andrew Guilliford, Courtney Ann Vaughn-Roberson

Review of The Great Father: The United States Government and the American Indians,The Great White Father: The United States Government and the American Indian, and In his American Indian Policy in the Formative Years: The Indian Trade and Intercourse Acts, 1790-1834 (1962) By Francis Paul Prucha, Wilcomb E. Washburn

Review of Gennan-Russian Folk Architecture In Southeastern South Dakota By Michael Koop and Stephen Ludwig, Roger L. Welsch

THE FUTURE OF THE GREAT PLAINS RE-VISITED, Gilbert F. White

INTERNATIONAL DROUGHT MITIGATION AN INTRODUCTION, Donald A. Wilhite

THE DIRTY THIRTIES A STUDY IN AGRICULTURAL CAPITALISM, Donald Worster

Review of Sharing The 49th Parallel: A Handbook for Montana Officials, Robert W. Wright

1985

Index- Fall 1985

Notes and News- Spring 1985

Notes and News- Summer 1985

Notes and News- Winter 1985

Notes & News- Fall 1985

Review of Kinsmen of Another Kind: Dakota-White Relations in the Upper Mississippi Valley, 1650- 1852 By Gary Clayton Anderson

Title and Contents- Fall 1985

Title and Contents- Spring 1985

Title and Contents- Summer 1985

Title and Contents- Winter 1985

The Garden-Desert Continuum Competing Views Of The Great Plains In The Nineteenth Century, John L. Allen

Review of Prairie Wildflowers: An illustrated manual of species suitable for cultivation and grassland restoration By R. Currah, A. Smreciu, and M. Van Dyk, Paul Barnes

Originality And Influence In George Caleb Bingham's Art, Stephen C. Behrendt

Review of The Archaeology of Colorado By E. Steve Cassells, Warren C. Caldwell

The Emergence Of The American Agriculture Movement, 1977-1979, John Dinse and William P. Browne

Review of The Rocky Mountains: A Vision for Artists in the Nineteenth Century By Patricia Trenton and Peter H. Hassrick & Karl Bodmer's America Introduction by william H. Goetzmann, Richard W. Etulain

Review of Riel and the Rebellion 1885 Reconsidered By Thomas Flanagan, John E. Foster

Review of The Explorers: Nineteenth Century Expeditions in Africa and the American West By Richard A. Van Orman, William H. Goetzmann

Review of Ohiyesa: Charles Eastman, Santee Sioux By Raymond Wilson, Janet Goldenstein-Ahler

Mapping Kansas And Nebraska The Role Of The General Land Office, Ronald E. Grim

Review of Historians and the American West Edited by Michael P. Malone, Dick Harrison

Review of The Indian Arts and Crafts Board: An Aspect of New Deal Indian Policy By Robert Fay Schrader, C. Adrian Heidenreich

Review of A Guide to American Indian Resource Materials in Great Plains Repositories By Joseph G. Svoboda, Herbert T. Hoover

Women On The Plains An Introduction, Frances W. Kaye

Birger Sandzén: A Painter And His Two Worlds, Emory Lindquist

Review of The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos By Richard White, David Reed Miller

European Influence On The Visual Arts Of The Great Plains An Introduction, Jon Nelson

A Widening Horizon Catholic Sisterhoods On The Northern Plains, 1874-1910, Susan C. Peterson

Cowboy Knights and Prairie Madonnas American Illustrations Of The Plains And Pre-Raphaelite Art, Kirsten H. Powell

Mapping The Quality Of Land For Agriculture In Western Canada, James M. Richtik

Women On The Great Plains Recent Developments Research, Glenda Riley

Benjamin Harrison And The American West, Homer E. Socolofsky

Review of John Steuart Curry and Grant Wood: A Portrait of Rural America By Joseph S. Czestochowski, Robert Spence

Packaging The Great Plains The Role Of The Visual Arts, Roger B. Stein

Western Women And True Womanhood Culture And Symbol In History And Literature, June O. Underwood

Having A Purpose In Life Western Women Teachers In The Twentieth Century, Courtney Ann Vaughn-Roberson

Review of A Borderlands Town in Transition: Laredo, 1755-1870 By Gilberto Miguel Hinojosa, Ralph H. Vigil

Pawnee Geography Historical And Sacred, Waldo R. Wedel and Douglas R. Parks

Review of Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion By Bob Beal and Rod Macleod, George Woodcock

1984

Index- Fall 1984

Notes and News- Spring 1984

Notes and News- Summer 1984

Notes and News- Winter 1984

Notes & News- Fall 1984

Title and Contents -Spring 1984

Title and Contents- Summer 1984

Title and Contents- Winter 1984

Title & Contents- Fall 1984

Patterns Of Promise Mapping The Plains And Prairies, 1800-1860, John L. Allen

Review of Atlas of the Lewis and Clark Expedition Edited by Gary Moulton & The Journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, John L. Allen

The Beginnings Of Wheeled Transport In Western Canada, John Alwin and Barry Kaye

Cather's Last Three Stories A Testament of Life and Endurance, Marilyn Arnold

Review of Critical Essays on Willa Cather Edited by John J. Murphy, Bruce P. Baker

Review of The Matador Land and Cattle Company By W. M. Pearce, Richard A. Bartlett

The Scientific Instruments Of The Lewis And Clark Expedition, Silvio A. Bedini

Review of Rodeo: An Anthropologist Looks at the Wild and the Tame By Elizabeth Atwood Lawrence, John W. Bennett

Willa Cather Today An Introduction, Mildred R. Bennett and Susan J. Rosowski

Willa Cather's Nebraska Priests And Death Comes For The Archbishop, L. Brent Bohlke

Review of Plains Indian Studies: A Collection of Essays in Honor of John C. Ewers and Waldo R. Wedel Edited by Douglas H. ubelaker and Herman J. Viola, Warren W. Caldwell

Review of Western Oklahoma: A Photographic Essay Photographs by Daisy Decazes, introduction and text by William S. Banowsky, John E. Carter

Review of Red Harvest: The Communist Party and American Farmers By Lowell K. Dyson, Robert W. Cherny

Review of Singing Cowboys and All That Jazz: A Short History of Popular Music in Oklahoma By William W. Savage, Jr., Stephen Cox

Review of The Gate City: A History of Omaha By Lawrence H. Larsen and Barbara J. Cottrell, Harl a. Dalstrom

Review of Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870 By Sylvia Van Kirk, Olive Patricia Dickason

Review of Westering Women and the Frontier Experience, 1800-1915 By Sandra L. Myres, John Mack Faragher

Review of Mari Sandoz: Story Catcher of the Plains By Helen Winter Stauffer, Robert Gish

Review of The American Farmer and the New Deal By Theodore Saloutos, David E. Hamilton

Review of Southwestern Agriculture: Pre-Columbian to Modern Edited by Henry C. Dethloff and Irwin M. May, Jr., Mary W.M. Hargreaves

Closing The Circle The American Optimism Of Laura Ingalls Wilder, William Holtz