Vol. 41, Nos. 3-4 (Summer-Fall 2021)
Contents
Announcing a New Feature for
Great Plains Quarterly: Creative Nonfiction
Articles
A Slave to Yellow Peril: The 1886 Chinese Ouster Attempt in Wichita, Kansas—With an Updated Introduction (
read the author's plain-language summary)
Julie Courtwright
The Homestead Act and the Struggle for African American Rights
Richard Edwards
Heart of the Earth: A 1940s Lakota Map of Black Hills Sacred Sites
Linea Sundstrom
“Where Meteorologists Fear to Tread”: Rainmakers and the 1890s Great Plains Drought
Justin Scott Horn
Bias on the Byways: An Indigenous Analysis of Nebraska Historical Markers
Gerry Robinson, Jeff Mohr, and Kurt E. Kinbacher
African American Entrepreneurship in Wichita, Kansas: Past and Present
Robert E. Weems Jr.
Book Review Essay
Empire and Borderlands
Andrew C. Isenberg
Book Reviews
Daniel L. Wuebben.
Power Lined: Electricity, Landscape, and the American Mind
Melissa Bollman
Daryl W. Palmer.
Becoming Willa Cather: Creation and Career
Charles Johanningsmeier
David M. Gitlitz. Living in Silverado:
Secret Jews in the Silver Mining Towns of Colonial Mexico
Michael P. Carroll
Jimmy L. Bryan Jr., ed.
Inventing Destiny: Cultural Explorations of US Expansion
Donna Rae Devlin
John Gifford.
Red Dirt Country: Field Notes and Essays on Nature
Cheyenne Marco
John White.
The Contemporary Western: An American Genre Post-9/11
Mike Kugler
Deborah Hunt, Gregory Cajete, Benjamin Broome, Phyllis Gagnier, and Jonodev Chaudhuri.
Re-Creating the Circle: The Renewal of American Indian Self-Determination
David R. M. Beck
Ellen Klinkel and Nick Gerlich.
A Matter of Time: Route 66 through the Lens of Change
Adam A. Payne
Richard W. Etulain.
Abraham Lincoln: A Western Legacy
Jacob K. Friefeld
Renée M. Laegreid and Shannon D. Smith, eds.
Women in the Writings of Mari Sandoz, Sandoz Studies, Volume 1
Betsy Downey
Richard and Shirley Cushing Flint.
A Most Splendid Company: The Coronado Expedition in Global Perspective
Patrick Funiciello
