Contents
Articles
Simon Ortiz’s Poetry of Crisis Ordinariness: Spiritual Uncertainty during a Rosebud Reservation Winter
Reginald Dyck
Orsamus Charles Dake: The First Poet of Nebraska
Stephen Behrendt
Native American Art Today in the Great Plains: An Overview of the Exhibition Contemporary Indigeneity: Spiritual Borderlands
Melynda Seaton
Review Essay
Queerying the Countryside
Ellie Vainker
Book Reviews
Kathryn Cornell Dolan. Beyond the Fruited Plain: Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850–1905
Emily J. Rau
James Whiteside. Old Blue’s Road: A Historian’s Motorcycle Journeys in the American West
Christopher L. “Kit” Salter
Rebecca Kay Jager. Malinche, Pocahontas, and Sacagawea: Indian Women as Cultural Intermediaries and National Symbols
Sally McBeth
Brent M. S. Campney. This Is Not Dixie: Racist Violence in Kansas, 1861–1927
Paul Emory Putz
Willa Cather. Lucy Gayheart Scholarly Edition
Emily J. Rau
Jason Weems. Barnstorming the Prairies: How Aerial Vision Shaped the Midwest
Matt Dooley
Philip F. Anschutz. Out Where the West Begins: Profiles, Visions, and Strategies of Early Western Business Leaders
Clinton Mohs
Sam W. Haynes and Gerald D. Saxon, eds. Contested Empire: Rethinking the Texas Revolution
Graham B. Cox
Thomas E. Alexander and Dan K. Utley. Echoes of Glory: Historic Military Sites across Texas
Richard Lowe
Julianne Couch. The Small-Town Midwest: Resilience and Hope in the Twenty-First Century
John E. Miller
David W. Grua. Surviving Wounded Knee: The Lakotas and the Politics of Memory
Michael McLean
John A. Adams Jr. The Fightin’ Texas Aggie Defenders of Bataan and Corregidor
Donald K. Mitchener
Notes and News