Volume 29, Number 2 (Fall 2019)
Contents
Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Winner: No Place Like Home: Lessons in Activism from LGBT Kansas by C. J. Janovy
Christina E. Dando, Book Prize Committee Chair
Invited Essay: Field Notes: Exploring the STEM-Humanities History of Nebraska’s Agriculture
David D. Vail
Invited Essay: Ecology, Culture, and Spirituality in the Nebraska Sandhills
John O’Keefe, James L. Leighter, and Mary Ann Vinton
Immigration, Threat, and Trust in Government in Changing Rural Communities
Brian R. Hanson, Thomas A. Ringenberg, and Juan L. Urbano
Campus-Based Ecotourism: A Case Study on the Power of Local Ecotourism
Regina E. Robbins, Travis R. Robbins, and Mark Frailey
Appeal for a Comprehensive Assessment of the Potential Ecological Impacts of the Proposed Platte-Republican Diversion Project
Andrew J. Caven, Emma M. Brinley Buckley, Joshua D. Wiese, Bill Taddicken, Brice Krohn, Timothy J. Smith, and Andrew Pierson
Revealing “Salt City’s” Geological and Mining Heritage at Strataca
Catherine L. Ronck and William R. Price
Solving a Periglacial Puzzle: Pleistocene Polygonal Ground in North-Central Nebraska
R. M. Joeckel, P. R. Hanson, and L. M. Howard
Book Reviews
Christopher Walmsley and Terrance Kading, eds. Small Cities, Big Issues: Reconceiving Community in a Neoliberal Era
Mervyn Horgan
Brian James Leech. The City That Ate Itself: Butte, Montana and Its Expanding Berkeley Pit
Frank Van Nuys
Melinda Harm Benson and Robin Kundis Craig. The End of Sustainability: Resilience and the Future of Environmental Governance in the Anthropocene
Margot Hurlbert
Raymond J. Orr. Reservation Politics: Historical Trauma, Economic Development, and Intratribal Conflict
Keith Richotte Jr.
Ian Urquhart. Costly Fix: Power, Politics, and Nature in the Tar Sands
Kyle Conway
J. F. Conway. The Prairie Populist: George Hara Williams and the Untold Story of the CCF
Brian Gribben
Judith C. Kulig. Caring for the Low German Mennonites: How Religious Beliefs and Practices Influence Health Care
Joseph B. Martin
Donald K. Grayson. Sex and Death on the Western Emigrant Trail: The Biology of Three American Tragedies
Jane E. Buikstra
Stephen Brooks and Andrea Olive, eds. Transboundary Environmental Governance across the World’s Largest Border
Paul Todhunter
Michael Smith and Clint King. Herping Texas: The Quest for Reptiles and Amphibians
J. Whitfield Gibbons
David R. Montgomery. Growing a Revolution: Bringing Our Soil Back to Life
Rebecca Young
Hilary Parsons Dick. Words of Passage: National Longing and the Imagined Lives of Mexican Migrants
Alyshia Gálvez
News and Notes