Great Plains Research 10:1

Great Plains Research 10:1

Edited by Svata M. Louda

Table Of Contents

GREAT PLAINS RESEARCH AWARDS

FEATURE ARTICLE

Thinking Like a Dune Field: Geologic History in the Nebraska Sand Hills
David B. Loope and James B. Swinehart

CRITICAL DIALOGUE

Introduction: The Platte— Wooded or Prairie River?
Svata M. Louda, Editor

The Presettlement Platte: Wooded or Prairie River?
W. Carter Johnson and Susan E. Boettcher

The Platte as a Prairie River: A Response to Johnson and Boettcher
Paul J. Currier and Craig A. Davis

The Platte as a Wooded River: A Response to Currier and Davis
W. Carter Johnson and Susan E. Boettcher

NATURAL SCIENCES

Production Agriculture versus the Environment: The Role of Statistics
Linda J. Young

Influence of Past Interactions on the Prairie Today: A Hypothesis
Kathleen H. Keeler

Use of Fatty Acid Store by Larvae and Adults of a Nebraska Salt Marsh Tiger Beetle, Cicindela togata globicollis Casey
W.W. Hoback, R.L. Rana, and D.W. Stanley

SOCIAL SCIENCES

Strengths and Stresses of Omaha Indian Families Living on the Reservation
Douglas A. Abbott and Glenna Slater

Occupational Segregation of Women on the Great Plains
Ann Mari May and Robert H. Watrel

Presidential Voting Regions of the Northern Great Plains: No Need for an East Dakota and West Dakota
Robert H. Watrel and Erin Hogan Fouberg

BOOK REVIEWS

Meinig, D.W.
Transcontinental America, 1850-1915, Volume 3 of the The Shaping of America: A Geographical Perspective on 500 Years of History
By G. Malcolm Lewis

Kehoe, Alice Beck
The Land of Prehistory: A Critical History of America Archaeology
By W. Raymond Wood

Jensen, Richard E.
The Fontenelle & Cabanne Trading Posts: The History and Archaeology of Two Missouri River Sites
By Thomas D. Thiessen

Shoemaker, Nancy
American Indian Population Recovery in the Twentieth Century
By Dean R. Snow

Sawchuk, Joe
The Dynamics of Native Politics: The Alberta Metis Experience
By Chris Andersen

Lang, Sabine
Men as Women, Women as Men: Changing Gender in Native American Cultures
By Claire R. Farrer

Bright, David
The Limits of Labour: Class Formation and the Labour Movement in Calgary, 1883-1929
By Alvin Finkel

Widdis, Randy W.
With Scarcely a Ripple: Anglo-Canadian Migration into the United States and Western Canada, 1820-1920
By Robert M. Bone

American Farmland Trust
Saving American Farmland: What Works
By Lonnie L. Schulze

Schertz, Lyle P., and Otto C. Doering III
The Making of the 1996 Farm Act
By Roy Frederick

Schneiders, Robert Kelley
Unruly River: Two Centuries of Change Along the Missouri
By John E. Thorson

Carrels, Peter
Uphill Against Water: The Great Dakota Water War
By John M. Donahue

Denne, Jane E. et al.
Hydrology and Geochemistry of Glacial Deposits in Northeastern Kansas
By Edwin D. Gutentag

Murdock, Steven H., Richard S. Krannich, and F. Larry Leistritz
Hazardous Wastes in Rural America: Impacts, Implications, and Options for Rural Communities
By Larry E. Erickson

News and Notes