Great Plains Quarterly

Great Plains Quarterly

Edited by Ramón Guerra

ISSN 0275-7664

eISSN 2333-5092

About

Great Plains Quarterly publishes articles for scholars and interested laypeople on history, literature, culture, and social issues relevant to the Great Plains, which include Colorado, Kansas, Montana, Nebraska, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota, Texas, Wyoming, and the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Manitoba, and Saskatchewan. 

The journal, which is published for the Center for Great Plains Studies, is edited by a faculty member from the University of Nebraska and includes a distinguished international board of advisory editors. 

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Table Of Contents

Vol. 44, no. 1 (Winter 2024)
Contents

Articles
“Kansas Women Are Awake”: Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s Journeys in Kansas and the Origins of Women and Economics
Chase M. Billingham 

Following the Ruins: History and Memory in a Prairie Ghost Town
James Flath and Robert Wardhaugh 

Summit Springs: A Historiography in Stone
Terrence I. Dunn 

“There’s Never Been Much Use for Reality Out Here”: Theorizing a Great Plains Regional Gothic in Annie Proulx’s Wyoming Stories
Aaron LaDuke 

Creative Nonfiction
Out There: In Praise of the Horizonal Mandate
Philip Davis 

Book Reviews
Loyd Uglow. A Military History of Texas. Number 15 in the War and the Southwest Series
James V. Koch 

Tom Lynch. Outback and Out West: The Settler-Colonial Environmental Imaginary
Alyson L. Greiner 

Jacqueline Shea Murphy. Dancing Indigenous Worlds: Choreographies of Relation
Jessica Friedman 

Michael Sherwin. Vanishing Points
Allen Morris 

Benjamin J. Wetzel. American Crusade: Christianity, Warfare, and National Identity, 1860–1920
Harry DeVoe 

Richard Edwards and Jacob K. Friefeld. The First Migrants: How Black Homesteaders’ Quest for Land and Freedom Heralded America’s Great Migration
Michael K. Johnson

Submissions & Book Reviews

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Editorial Board

Editor
Ramón Guerra
English, University of Nebraska Omaha

Review Essays Editor
George E. Wolf
English, Emeritus, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Book Reviews Editor
Rebecca Buller
Geography, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Editorial Assistant
Melissa A. Amateis

Copyeditor
Lona Dearmont

Editorial Board
William E. Farr
History, Emeritus, University of Montana

P. Jane Hafen
English, University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Timothy J. Kloberdanz
Anthropology, North Dakota State University

Jessica Metcalfe
Native American Studies, University of Arizona

Elizabeth Theiss Smith
Political Science, University of South Dakota

Victoria Smith
History and Ethnic Studies/Native American Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln

Susan Shulten
History, University of Denver

Thomas Sanchez
Sociology and Latino/Latin American Studies, University of Nebraska–Omaha

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