Volume 39, Number 3 (Summer 2019)
Invited Essay
“Canaan on the Prairie”: New Evidence on the Number of African American Homesteaders in the Great Plains
Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld, and Mikal Brotnov Eckstrom
“Our Eyes Ached with the Very Vastness”: Reimagining the Great American Desert as the Great American Prairie (
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Jimmy L. Bryan Jr.
Rage of the Rural Minority: The High Plains Farm Crisis and Farmer Activism in Colorado and Kansas
James N. Leiker
Unsettling Landscapes: Prairie Madness and EcoGothic Themes in US Plains Literature
Vanessa Steinroetter
Book Reviews
Wendy Jean Katz, editor.
The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Rachel McLean Sailor
Shawn Morton-Cain and Pamela Jumper Thurman, editors.
Cherokee National Treasures: In Their Own Words
Brett D. Burkhart
Matthew Hansen and Sarah Baker Hansen.
The Better Half: Nebraska’s Hidden Treasures
Margaret Davenport
Benjamin R. Kracht.
Religious Revitalization among the Kiowa: The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity
Dennis Wiedman
Sophie McCall, Deanna Reder, David Gaertner, and Gabrielle L’Hirondelle, editors.
Read, Listen, Tell: Indigenous Stories from Turtle Island
Michael P. Taylor
Jonathan D. Cohen and David G. Schwartz, editors.
All In: The Spread of Gambling in Twentieth-Century United States
Helen Breen
Robert M. Utley.
The Commanders: Civil War Generals Who Shaped the American West
Harry W. Fritz
Heidi Brady and Scott White. Foreword by Glenn Blodgett.
Horses in the American West: Portrayals by Twenty-Four Artists
Ki Doolittle Slaymaker
Ken Roberts.
The Cedar Choppers: Life on the Edge of Nothing
James Benes
Michael L. Collins.
A Crooked River: Rustlers, Rangers, and Regulars on the Lower Rio Grande, 1861–1877
Justin A. Joyce
Sandy Barnard, editor. Compiled by Thomas E. Singelyn.
An Aide to Custer: The Civil War Letters of Lt. Edward G. Granger
John R. Legg
Glenda Riley and Richard W. Etulain.
Presidents Who Shaped the American West
Katherine Joslin
Artwork and stories by Catherine Rademacher Gibson.
Recounted by Mary Gibson Sprague. Glorious Fourth of July and Other Stories from the Plains
Cynthia Culver Prescott
Thomas Bailey and Katherine Joslin.
Theodore Roosevelt: A Literary Life
Curt Smith
Mary Budd Flitner. Foreword by Teresa Jordan.
My Ranch, Too: A Wyoming Memoir
Marva Dee Rich