Contents
Invited Essay
To Commute or Not Commute, the Homesteader’s Dilemma
Richard Edwards
Articles
Farming by Rail: Demonstration Trains and the Rise of Mobile Agricultural Science in the Great Plains
David D. Vail
For Race and Region: A Brief History of the Western Negro Press Association, 1896–1920
Paul Emory Putz
Making the Buffalo Commons New Again: Rangeland Restoration and Bison Reintroduction in the Montana Highline
John Davenport
Review Essay
In Search of
Wakȟáŋ
Rani-Henrik Andersson
Book Reviews
Arthur Bear Chief,
My Decade at Old Sun, My Lifetime of Hell
Jennifer Stern
Edward B. Westermann,
Hitler’s Ostkrieg and the Indian Wars: Comparing Genocide and Conquest
Roy G. Koepp
James C. Juhnke,
A People of Two Kingdoms: Stories of Kansas Mennonites in Politics
Mark Marston Norris
Sarah Carter,
Imperial Plots: Women, Land, and the Spadework of British Colonialism on the Canadian Prairies
Sheila McManus
Delphine Red Shirt,
George Sword’s Warrior Narratives: Compositional Processes in Lakota Oral Tradition
Debra K. S. Barker
Michael J. Lansing,
Insurgent Democracy: The Nonpartisan League in North American Politics
Ben Keppel
Derek S. Oden,
Harvest of Hazards: Family Farming, Accidents, and Expertise in the Corn Belt, 1940–1975
Brandi Janssen
Byrd M. Williams IV. Foreword by Roy Flukinger. Afterword by Anne Wilkes Tucker.
Proof: Photographs from Four Generations of a Texas Family
Robin Dru Germany
Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Rebecca S. Wingo,
Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History
Andrew Husa
Linda Civitello,
Baking Powder Wars: The Cutthroat Food Fight that Revolutionized Cooking
Cynthia Ross
Ted Cable and Wayne Maley,
Driving Across Kansas: A Guide to I-70
Travis Smith
Julie M. Fenster,
Jefferson’s America: The President, the Purchase, and the Explorers who Transformed a Nation
Gene Allen Smith
Steven Sabol,
The Touch of Civilization: Comparing American and Russian Internal Colonization
David Moon
Benjamin R. Kracht,
Kiowa Belief and Ritual (
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Andrew McKenzie
