Title and Contents- Winter 1997

GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY WINTER 1997 VOL. 17 NO. 1 CONTENTS BLACK SOLDIERS AT FORT HAYS, KANSAS, 1867 -1869: A STUDY IN CIVILIAN AND MILITARY VIOLENCE James N. Leiker ALLOTMENT, ALCOHOL, AND THE OMAHAS Benson Tong A SOCIOECONOMIC PORTRAIT OF PRINCE HALL MASONRY IN NEBRASKA, 1900-1920 Dennis N. Mihelich THE EARLY GROWTH OF THE CONRAD BANKING ENTERPRISE IN MONTANA, 1880-1914 Henry C. Klassen REVIEW ESSAY: THE EMPEROR ON THE AMERICAN FRONTIER Susan A. Miller A review of a traveling exhibition from the Newberry Library, The Frontier in American CuI ture, curated by Richard White. BOOK REVIEWS Becoming and Remaining a People: Native American Religions on the Northern Plains Voices of the Plains Cree Caddo Indians: Where We Come From The Dull Knifes of Pine Ridge: A Lakota Odyssey Indian School Days They Call Me Agnes: A Crow Narrative Based on the Life of Agnes Yellowtail Deernose The Biographical Directory of Native American Painters Mediation in Contemporary Native American Fiction The Nature of the Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction Bess Streeter Aldrich: The Dreams Are All Real This Fragile Land: A Natural History of the Nebraska Sandhills Born in the Country: A History of Rural America Age of the Gunfighter: Men and Weapons on the Frontier 1840-1900 The Drifting Cowboy I See ByYour Outfit: Historic Cowboy Gear of the Northern Plains NOTES&NEWS PUBLISHED BY THE CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIE