ISSN 0275-7664
eISSN 2333-5092
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.
Volume 42, No. 1-2 (Winter/Spring 2022)
Articles
Bricklayers, Bronc Busters, and “Peddlers from the Spanish Country”: Nuevomexicanos and the Paradox of Labor and Trade in the Great Plains, 1834–1884
David C. Beyreis
The Thirsty Llano Estacado: The Manuel Maés Ballad Corpus
Timothy M. Foster and John Beusterien
“The Great Divide”: Isolation in Willa Cather’s O Pioneers! and The Song of the Lark
Sophie Farthing
The New Deal’s National Youth Administration in Kansas
Marilyn Irvin Holt
What Is (Not) Buried with Anton Pučelík? Revisiting Willa Cather’s Prophecy of the Tenacity of Czech American Culture in the Bohemian Alps, Nebraska
Hana Waisserova
Creative Nonfiction
The Women West of Here: Reckoning Their Place in the Western, Pop Culture, and History
Robert James Russell
Book Review Essay
The Meaning of Standing Rock: On Imperialism, Indigeneity, Industrialization, and Imagination
Sebastian Felix Braun
Book Reviews
Aldona Jaworska. Polish War Veterans in Alberta: The Last Four Stories
Anna Mazurkiewicz
Carson Vaughan. Zoo Nebraska: The Dismantling of an American Dream
Stephanie A. Marcellus
Jim Blanchard. A Diminished Roar: Winnipeg in the 1920s
Trevor J. Wideman
Gunlög Fur. Painting Culture, Painting Nature: Stephen Mopope, Oscar Jacobson, and the Development of Indian Art in Oklahoma
Yve Chavez
Mick Gidley. The Grass Shall Grow: Helen Post Photographs the Native American West
Cara A. Finnegan
L. K. Bertram. The Viking Immigrants: Icelandic North Americans
Kirsten Wolf
Guy J. Reynolds, ed. Willa Cather and the Arts. Cather Studies Vol. 12
Maura D’Amore
W. David Baird. Churches of Christ in Oklahoma: A History
Jason Fikes
Louis Kraft. Sand Creek and the Tragic End of a Lifeway
Pierre M. Atlas
Leo K. Killsback. A Sacred People: Indigenous Governance, Traditional Leadership, and the Warriors of the Cheyenne Nation
Joseph H. Morsette
Robert D. Jacobus. Black Man in the Huddle: Stories from the Integration of Texas Football. Foreword by Annette Gordon-Reed
J. Anthony Guillory
Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown. Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend
James E. Mueller
William C. Meadows. The First Code Talkers: Native American Communicators in World War I
Richard Hughes
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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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