GREAT PLAINS QUARTERLY SPRING 1984 VOL. 4 NO.2 CONTENTS CLOSING THE CIRCLE: THE AMERICAN OPTIMISM OF LAURA INGALLS WILDER William Holtz INDIAN MAPS: THEIR PLACE IN THE HISTORY OF PLAINS CARTOGRAPHY G. Malcolm Lewis CARL SCHURZ AND THE INDIANS Hans L. Trefousse THE BEGINNINGS OF WHEELED TRANSPORT IN WESTERN CANADA Barry Kaye and John Alwin BOOK REVIEWS With Good Intentions: Quaker Work among the Pawnees, Otos, and Omahas in the 1870s Lakota Society Dammed Indians: The Pick-Sloan Plan and the Missouri River Sioux, 1944-1980 American Farm Tools: From Hand-Power to Steam-Power NOTES & NEW