GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY FALL 1985 VOL. 5 NO.4 CONTENTS THE GARDEN-DESERT CONTINUUM: COMPETING VIEWS OF THE GREAT PLAINS IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY John L. Allen THE EMERGENCE OF THE AMERICAN AGRICULTURE MOVEMENT, 1977-1979 William P. Browne and John Dinse MAPPING THE QUALITY OF LAND FOR AGRICULTURE IN WESTERN CANADA James M. Richtik BENJAMIN HARRISON AND THE AMERICAN WEST Homer E. Socolofsky BOOK REVIEWS Prairie Fire: The 1885 North-West Rebellion Riel and the Rebellion 1885 Reconsidered The Roots of Dependency: Subsistence, Environment, and Social Change Among the Choctaws, Pawnees, and Navajos NOTES & NEWS INDEX PUBLISHED BY THE CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIE