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SOME OBSERVATIONS ON THE LABOR FORCE OF THE CANADIAN RANCHING FRONTIER DURING ITS GOLDEN AGE, 1882-1901 (Simon M. Evans) THE FRONT -GABLED LOG CABIN AND THE ROLE OF THE GREAT PLAINS IN THE FORMATION OF THE MOUNTAIN WEST\u27S BUILT LANDSCAPE (Jon T. Kilpinen) SMALL HISTORIC SITES IN KANSAS: MERGING ARTIFACTUAL LANDSCAPES AND COMMUNITY VALUES (Cathy Ambler) BOOK REVIEWS Isolation and Masquerade: Willa Cather\u27s Women Willa Cather Cather, Canon, and the Politics of Reading Preserving the Great Plains and Rocky Mountains A Naturalist in Indian Territory: The Journals of S. W. Woodhouse, 1849-50 Earth and Sky: Visions of the Cosmos in Native American Folklore The Persistence of Ethnicity: Dutch Calvinist Pioneers in Amsterdam, Montana Life at Four Corners: Region, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868-1945 Schoolwomen of the Prairies and Plains: Personal Narratives from Iowa, Kansas, and Nebraska, 1860-1920 Kansas: A Pictorial History A Funnie Place, No Fences : Teenagers\u27 Views of Kansas, 1867-1900 A Funny Bone That Was: Humor Between the Wars Main Street in Crisis: The Great Depression and the Old Middle Class on the Northern Plains In the Kingdom of Grass Homes in the Heartland: Balloon Frame Farmhouses of the Upper Midwest, 1850-1920 Great Lakes Lumber on the Great Plains: The Laird, Norton Lumber Company in South Dakota Ace of Hearts: The Westerns of Zane Grey North American Cattle-Ranching Frontiers: Origins, Diffusion, and Differentiation Ogallala: Water for a Dry Land: A Historical Study in the Possibilities for American Sustainable Agriculture NEBRASKAland Magazine\u27s The Cellars of Time: Paleontology and Archaeology in Nebraska Whiskey Peddler: Johnny Healy, North Frontier Trader Then to the Rock Let Me Fly: Luther Bohanon and Judicial Activism Prairie Populism: The Fate of Agrarian Radicalism in Kansas, Nebraska, and Iowa, 1880-1892 Wagon Wheel Kitchens: Food on the Oregon Trail Flat Water: A History of Nebraska and Its Water Alberta\u27s Petroleum Industry and the Conservation Board A Vast Amount of Trouble: A History of the Spring Creek Raid Revolt of the Provinces: The Regionalist Movement in America, 1920-1945 Standing on New Ground: Women in Alberta The Most Promising Young Officer: A Life of Ranald Slidell Mackenzie NOTES & NEW