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.
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
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
Statement of Publishing Ethics
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Editor
Charles A. Braithwaite
Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln
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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