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