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.
2008
Review of Fire in the Water, Earth in the Air: Legends of West Texas Music By Christopher J. Oglesby, Kent Blaser
Land, Speculation, and Manipulation on the Pecos, Stephen Bogener
Review of Rosie Sandifer: Language of Art. By Rosie Sandifer., Peter S. Briggs
Life and Landscapes In The Post-Office Communities of Holt County, Nebraska, Rebecca A. Buller
Review of After Lewis & Clark: The Forces of Change, 1806-1871. By Gary Allen Hood, Suzan Campbell
Review of Black Gun, Silver Star: The Life and Legend of Frontier Marshal Bass Reeves. By Art T. Burton, Amy E. Carreiro
Review of By His Own Hand?: The Mysterious Death of Meriwether Lewis Edited by John D. W. Guice, Robert Carriker
Review of White Man's Club: Schools, Race, and the Struggle of Indian Acculturation By Jacqueline Fear-Segal, Michael C. Coleman
Review of Blackfoot War Art: Pictographs of the Reservation Period, 1880-2000 By L. James Dempsey, Gerald T. Conaty
Review of Beyond the Missouri: The Story of the American West By Richard W. Etulain, Julie Courtwright
Review of Forty Years a Legislator: Elmer ThomasBy Elmer Thomas, Suzanne Jones Crawford
Constructing a Home on the Range Homemaking in Early-Twentieth-Century Plains Photograph Albums, Christina E. Dando
Review of Beyond Madness: The Art of Ralph Blakelock, 1847-1919 By Norman A. Geske, Abraham A. Davidson
Review of Alberta Art and Artists: An Overview By Patricia Ainslie and Mary-Beth Laviolette, Leslie Dawn
Review of Riding to the Rescue: The Transformation of the RCMP in Alberta and Saskatchewan, 1914- 1939. By Steve Hewitt, Michael Dawson
Review of A Fate Worse Than Death: Indian Captivities in the West, 1830-1885 By Gregory and Susan Michno, Kathryn Zabelle Derounian-Stodola
Review of Cather Studies 6: History, Memory, and War Edited by Steven Trout, Margaret Doane
Review of Everett Baker's Saskatchewan: Portraits of an Era. Selected by Bill Waiser, Patrick C. Douaud
Why the Homesteading Data Are So Poor (And What Can Be Done About It), Richard Edwards
U.S. Indian Policy, 1865-1890 As Illuminated Through the Lives Of Charles A. Eastman and Elaine Goodale Eastman, Gretchen Cassel Eick
Review of Searching for Sacred Ground: The Journey of Chief Lawrence Hart, Mennonite By Raylene Hinz-Penner, Clyde Ellis
Review of Beloved Women: The Political Lives of LaDonna Harris and Wilma Mankiller By Sarah Eppler Janda, Robert E. England
Review of The Border between Them: Violence and Reconciliation on the Kansas-Missouri Line By Jeremy Neely, Nicole Etcheson
Review of The Big Empty; Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers Edited by Ladette Randolph and Nina Shevchuk-Murray, Becky Faber
Review of Ruling Pine Ridge: Oglala Lakota Politics from the IRA to Wounded Knee By Akim D. Reinhardt, James V. Fenelon
Review of Axes: Willa Cather and William Faulkner By Merrill Maguire Skaggs, Ed Folsom
Review of Radical Hope: Ethics in the Face of Cultural Devastation. By Jonathan Lear, Rodney Frey
Review of Lady Blackrobes: Missionaries in the Heart of Indian Country By Irene Mahoney, William Furdell
Review of The Calgary Project: Urban Form/Urban Life. By Beverly A. Sandalack and Andrei Nicolai., Pierre Gauthier
Review of The Texas Book: Profiles, History, and Reminiscences of the University. Edited by Richard A. Holland, Dwonna Naomi Goldstone
Review of Saskatchewan: The Luminous Landscape By Courtney Milne, Terry Graff
Review of Texas Quilts and Quilters: A Lone Star Legacy By Marcia Kaylakie with Janice Whittington, Virginia Gunn
Review of John Graves, Writer Edited by Mark Busby and Terrell Dixon, Pete Gunter
Review of Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution By Brian Mann, Donald Haider-Markel
Review of Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America's Conservative Revolution By Brian Mann, Donald P. Haider-Markel
Review of Forging an American Identity: The Art of William Ranney: With a Catalogue of His Works. By Linda Bantel and Peter H. Hassrick, Kenneth Haltman
Review of Cowtown Wichita and the Wild, Wicked West. By Stan Hoig, Robin C. Henry
Review of Policing the Great Plains: Rangers, Mounties, and the North American Frontier, 1875-1910 By Andrew R. Graybill, Michael Hogue
Review of American Windmills: An Album of Historic Photographs. By T. Lindsay Baker, Jim Hoy
Review of The Force of Vocation, By Adele Wiseman, Leslie Ianno
Review of 900 Miles from Nowhere: Voices from the Homestead Frontier. By Steven R. Kinsella, Thomas Isern
Review of New Indians, Old Wars By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Bruce E. Johansen
Review of War Dance at Fort Marion: Plains Indian War Prisoners. By Brad D. Lookingbill, Michael Jordan
Review of American Indians, the Irish, and Government Schooling: A Comparative Study By Michael C. Coleman, Katie Kane
Shaping Nebraska An Analysis Of Railroad And Land Sales, 1870-1880, Kurt E. Kinbacher and William G. Thomas III
Review of A Great Restlessness: The Life and Politics of Dorise Nielsen by Faith Johnston, Valerie Korinek
Review of Living Blue in the Red States Edited by David Starkey, Greg Kosmicki
Review of Mennonites in Texas: The Quiet in the Land Text and photographs by Laura L. Camden and Susan Gaetz Duarte., Marilyn E. Lehman
Review of The Rise of the Centennial State: Colorado Territory, 1861-76. By Eugene H. Berwanger, Stephen J. Leonard
Review of Hard Passage: A Mennonite Family's Long Journey from Russia to Canada By Arthur Kroeger, Royden Loewen
Review of Ballots and Bullets: The Bloody County Seat Wars of Kansas By Robert K. DeArment, Christopher Lovett
Review of Jim Lane: Scoundrel, Statesman, Kansan By Robert Collins, Craig Miner
Review of Hot Coffee and Cold Truth: Living and Writing the West. Edited by W. C. Jameson, David Mogen
Review of The Rise and Fall of Indian Country, 1825-1855 By William E. Unrau., Roger Nichols
Review of The Cherokee Trail of Tears Essay by Duane King, James W. Parins
Review of Jane Gilmore Rushing: A West Texas Writer and Her Work By Lou Halsell Rodenberger, Tom Pilkington
Review of In the Days of Our Grandmothers: A Reader in Aboriginal Women's History in Canada Edited by Mary-Ellen KeIm and Lorna Townsend, Gillian Poulter
Jewish Community In Wichita, 1920-1970 Same Wagon, New Horses, Jay M. Price
Review of Mennonites, Politics, and Peoplehood: Europe-Russia- Canada, 1525-1980 By James Urry, Benjamin W. Redekop
Review of Lakotas, Black Robes, and Holy Women: German Reports from the Indian Missions in South Dakota, 1886-1900 Edited by Karl Markus Kreis, Joshua M. Rice
Naming A Place Nicodemus, Rosamond C. Rodman
Extending the Security Net The Impact of Rangeland Insurance On Ranching Economy and Culture, Rex J. Rowley
Review of One West, Two Myths II: Essays on Comparison Edited by C. L. Higham and Robert Thacker, Molly Rozum
Review of What Becomes You. By Aaron Raz Link and Hilda Raz, Gayle Salamon
Review of Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians Edited by David J. Wishart, James Sherow
Review of Marking the Land: Jim Dow in North Dakota Photographs and narrative by Jim Dow, Robert Silberman
Review of Writing the Trail: Five Women's Frontier Narratives By Deborah Lawrence, Sherry Smith
Review of Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country Edited by Tiya Miles and Sharon P. Holland, Susan Stebbins
The Pageant of Paha Sapa An Origin Myth of White Settlement In The American West, Linea Sundstrom
Review of Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940-1960. By Bill Anthes, Joyce M. Szabo
Review of Of This Earth: A Mennonite Boyhood in the Boreal Forest By Rudy Wiebe, Hildi Froese Tiessen
Review of Gall: Lakota War Chief By Robert W. Larson, Herman Viola
Review of The Cowboy Girl: The Life of Caroline Lockhart By John Clayton, Karen Walcott
Review of Art of the Cherokee: Prehistory to the Present By Susan C. Power, Mary Jo Watson
Review of Notebooks of Elizabeth Cook-Lynn By Elizabeth Cook-Lynn, Jace Weaver
Contradictory Subtexts In Willa Cather's O Pioneers! And Thomas Hardy's Far From the Madding Crowd, Grace Wetzel
2007
Title and Contents- Summer 2007
Title and Contents- Winter 2007
Review of Elias Cornelius Boudinot: A Life on the Cherokee Border By James W. Parins, Brad Agnew
Review of An Opportunity Lost: The Truman Administration and the Farm Policy Debate By Virgil W. Dean, Kristin L. Ahlberg
Vengeance Without Justice, Injustice Without Retribution The Afro-American Council’s Struggle Against Racial Violence, Shawn Leigh Alexander
Review of The Broidered Garment: The Love Story of Mona Martinsen andlohn G. Neihardt By Hilda Martinsen Neihardt, Timothy G. Anderson