Volume 39, Number 1 (Winter 2019) ContentsInvited Essay Some Sign Will Be Seen: The Aurora Borealis at Black Elk’s Death
Mark Hollabaugh
Articles African American Homesteader “Colonies” in the Settling of the Great Plains
Jacob K. Friefeld, Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom, and Richard Edwards
“Being Judged by Its Fruits”: Transforming Indian Land into Orchards along the Arkansas River, 1800–1867
John J. Buchkoski
Nebraska’s Pioneer and Heritage Farms: A Geographical and Historical Perspective
H. Jason Combs, Natasha Winfield, and Paul R. Burger
Review Essay Westward O-uch!
Linda Ray Pratt
Book Reviews Gary Lantz.
Heart Stays Country: Meditations from the Southern Flint Hills Elizabeth Dodd
John Paskievich.
The North End Revisited: Photographs by John Paskievich Sarah Ciurysek
Becca Gercken and Julie Pelletier, editors.
Gambling on Authenticity: Gaming, the Noble Savage, and the Not-So-New Indian Kathryn R. L. Rand and Steven Andrew Light
Kathryn A. Young and Sarah M. McKinnon.
No Man’s Land: The Life and Art of Mary Riter Hamilton Angela R. Cunningham
Harry Castlemon. Additional illustrations by Charles M. Russell. Introductions by Thomas A. Petrie and Thomas Minckler.
Frank on the Prairie Elizabeth Lloyd Oliphant
Sterling Evans, editor.
Farming across Borders: A Transnational History of the North American West David D. Vail
Laura M. Furlan.
Indigenous Cities: Urban Indian Fiction and the Histories of Relocation Lindsey Claire Smith
Sean Sherman with Beth Dooley.
The Sioux Chef’s Indigenous Kitchen Paul Kelley
Told and illustrated by Donald F. Montileaux. Lakota translation by Agnes Gay.
Muskrat and Skunk: A Lakota Drum Story Terri Davis
Frank Christianson, editor.
The Popular Frontier: Buffalo Bill’s Wild West and Transnational Mass Culture Roy R. Behrens
Donald L. Fixico.
“That’s What They Used to Say”: Reflections on American Indian Oral Traditions Priscilla M. Martinez
David M. Wrobel.
America’s West: A History, 1890–1950 Stephen Aron
Herbert G. Ruffin II and Dwayne A. Mack, editors. Foreword by Quintard Taylor.
Freedom’s Racial Frontier: African Americans in the Twentieth-Century West Michael K. Johnson