Contents
2017 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Winner
Dan Flores’s
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains
George E. Wolf
Invited Essays: Expanding the Map of Great Plains Literature
Editor’s Introduction
Charles A. Braithwaite
Epicenter: Deep Mapping Place in Fiction and Nonfiction (
read the author's plain-language summary)
Rilla Askew
Mapping the Treacherous Path from Past to Present in Nonfiction Narrative
Richard Edwards
Deep Mapping Little Towns through Fiction
Linda Ray Pratt
Mapping Great Plains Poetry: Nebraska and Beyond
Daniel Simon
Articles
Karl Bodmer’s Hat (and Some Missing New Orleans Drawings)
Robert Klein Engler
More than a Façade: The Kenekuk Religion Revisited
Matthew Garrett
Diary Notes from a Teenager: Insights into Life on the Great Plains in the Late 1870s
Scott Scheuerell
Book Reviews
Akim D. Reinhardt, ed.
Welcome to the Oglala Nation: A Documentary Reader in Oglala Lakota Political History
Margaret Huettl
Courtney R. Baker.
Humane Insight: Looking at Images of African American Suffering and Death
Jovonna Jones
Jeffrey L. Meikle.
Postcard America: Curt Teich and the Imaging of a Nation, 1931–1950
Emily Godbey
Roger Welsch. Foreword by Dick Cavett.
Why I’m an Only Child and Other Slightly Naughty Plains Folktales
Dwayne Strasheim
James D. McLaird.
Hugh Glass: Grizzly Survivor
Steven J. Bucklin
Michael R. Grauer.
Rounded Up in Glory: Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man
Jana R. Fallin
Margot Liberty.
Horseback Schoolmarm: Montana, 1953–1954
Keith Graham
Nathalie Kermoal and Isabel Altamirano-Jimenez, eds.
Living on the Land: Indigenous Women’s Understanding of Place
Ashley Glassburn Falzetti
Bruce A. Glasrud and Michael N. Searles, eds.
Black Cowboys in the American West: On the Range, On the Stage, Behind the Badge
Gerald R. Butters Jr.
Daniel J. Silverman.
Thundersticks: Firearms and the Violent Transformation of Native America
Matthew Kruer
T. Lindsay Baker. Foreword by Joe Sonderman.
Portrait of Route 66: Images from the Curt Teich Postcard Archives
Hadley Jerman
B. Byron Price, ed. Foreword by John R. Lovett.
Picturing Indian Territory: Portraits of the Land that Became Oklahoma, 1819–1907
Sandy Barnard
Ryan Eyford.
White Settler Reserve: New Iceland and the Colonization of the Canadian West
David Arnason
Notes and News