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.
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Volume 43, Number 1 (Winter 2023)
Contents
Articles
The Oldest Maps of the Great Plains
Donald J. Blakeslee
Link to the Past and Prosperity for the Future: Niitsitapi Horse Culture in the Twenty-First Century
Brandi Bethke
The Early Open-Range Cattle Ranching Industry in Nebraska: America’s Greatest Farmer Plays a Role
H. Jason Combs
Storms and Swarms: The Role of the US Army Signal Corps’ Weather Observers during the Rocky Mountain Locust Plague of the 1870s
Rebecca Robbins Raines
Creative Nonfiction
A Letter to Monticello
Bernard Quetchenbach
Book Review Essay
Climate Change: Localizing a Complex Global Issue
Martha E. Durr
Book Reviews
James A. Hanson, editor. Spotted Tail: Renaissance Man of the Lakota
Tim Trudell
Jerome A. Greene, compiler and editor. “All Guns Fired at One Time”: Native Voices of Wounded Knee, 1890
Rani-Henrik Andersson
Nancy Marie Mithlo, editor. Making History: The IAIA Museum of Contemporary Native Arts
David Titterington
Justin B. Richland. Cooperation without Submission: Indigenous Jurisdictions in Native Nation–US Engagements
Hayden L. Nelson
Laurie A. Wilkie. Unburied Lives: The Historical Archaeology of Buffalo Soldiers at Fort Davis, Texas, 1869–1875
Ayme J. Swartz
Thomas Aiello. Hoops: A Cultural History of Basketball in America
Wade Davies
Ben Railton. Of Thee I Sing: The Contested History of American Patriotism
Brian Whetstone
Candy Moulton. The Mormon Handcart Migration: “Tounge nor pen can never tell the sorrow”
Danae Jacobson
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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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