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Agriculture, Ranching, and Rural Life

Alonzo, Armando C., “Hispanic Farmers and Ranchers in the Soil and Water Conservation Movement in South Texas, 1940s to Present,” Agricultural History 78 (Spring 2004): 201--21.

DeJong, David H., “An Equal Chance? The Pima Indians and the 1916 Florence-Casa Grande Irrigation Project,” Journal of Arizona History 45 (Spring 2004): 63--102.

Diggle, Susan E., and Louis A. Hieb, “From La Tijera to San Luis: Farm and Faith on the Rio Puerco,” Agricultural History 78 (Spring 2004): 166--90.

Drozd, David J., and Bruce B. Johnson, “Dynamics of a Rural Land Market Experiencing Farmland Conversion to Acreages: The Case of Saunders County, Nebraska,” Land Economics 80 (May 2004): 294--311.

Fair, Ross D., “A Most Favourable Soil and Climate: Hemp Cultivation in Upper Canada, 1800--1813,” Ontario History 96 (Spring 2004): 41--61.

Hendricks, Rick, “Viticulture in El Paso del Norte during the Colonial Period,” Agricultural History 78 (Spring 2004): 191--200.

Biography

Belko, William S., “A Founding Missourian: Duff Green and Missouri’s Formative Years, 1816--1825, Part 2,” Missouri Historical Review 98 (April 2004): 177--200.

Ferguson, Gillum, “‘He acted well his part’: Hamlet Ferguson and Southern Illinois,” Journal of Illinois History 6 (Winter 2003): 271--96.

Finch, L. Boyd, “The Variegated Life of Norfolk’s Diamond Dick,” Nebraska History 84 (Winter 2003): 181--93.

Goldsborough, L. Gordon, “Reginald Buller: The Poet-Scientist of Mushroom City,” Manitoba History (Spring/Summer 2004): 17--41.

Harper, Katherine, “In Commemoration of Ellis: The Iowa Beginnings of a Great American Humorist,” Iowa Heritage 84 (Fall 2003): 134--9.

Potter, James E., ed., “‘The Prairie Plow was at Work’: J. Sterling Morton’s 1859 Address on Nebraska Agriculture,” Nebraska History 84 (Winter 2003): 206--13.

Rydell, Robert W., “Grand Crossings: The Life and Work of Alexander Saxton,” Pacific Historical Review 73 (May 2004): 263--85.

Stern, Norton B., “Isaac Cohen: Southern California Merchant, Local Politico, Federal Official, 1848--1930,” Western States Jewish History 36 (Spring 2004): 263--71.

Business and Economics

Nerbas, Don, “Wealth and Privilege: An Analysis of Winnipeg’s Early Business Elite,” Manitoba History (Spring/Summer 2004): 42--64.

Reed, Jeri L., “The Corn King of Mexico in the United States: A South-North Technology Transfer,” Agricultural History 78 (Spring 2004): 155--65.

Sidford, Robert C., “‘To the Devil By Any Road They Please’: Cache Valley’s Entrepreneurial Challenge to Cooperation,” Utah Historical Quarterly 72 (Spring 2004): 119--35.

Community and Urban

Bérubé, Harold, “Commémorer la Ville: Une Analyse Comparative des Célébrations du Centenaire de Toronto et du Tricentenaire de Montréal,” Revue D’Histoire de L’Amérique Française 57 (Automne 2003): 209--36.

Clark, Shelley Hickman, and James W. Clark, eds., “Lawrence in 1854: Recollections of Joseph Savage,” Kansas History 27 (Spring-Summer 2004): 30--43.

Colombo, Louis J., “Implementing the Vision: Impact Fees and the Albuquerque Metropolitan Planned Growth Strategy,” Natural Resources Journal 43 (Summer 2003): 887--902.

Freilich, Robert H., “Smart Growth in Western Metro Areas,” Natural Resources Journal 43 (Summer 2003): 687--702.

Harvey, David W., and Katheryn Hill Krafft, “The Hanford Engineer Works Village: Shaping a Nuclear Community,” Columbia 18 (Spring 2004): 29--35.

Hobbs, Lenora, “Sizing Up the Queen City: Frances Trollope and Harriet Martineau,” Timeline 21 (May-June 2004): 14--27.

Olson, Gary D., “A Dakota Boomtown: Sioux Falls, 1877--1880,” Great Plains Quarterly 24 (Winter 2004): 17--30.

Ragsdale, Kenneth B., “Barnstormers, Businessmen, and High Hopes for the Future: Austin, Texas, Enters the Modern Air Age,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 107 (April 2004): 534--57.

Tsichlis, Michael G., “Calamity and Glory: Phelim O’Toole, Mike Hester, and the Legacy of Heroism at the Southern Hotel Fire,” Missouri Historical Review 98 (April 2004): 223--48.

Environment

Chiang, Connie Y., “Monterey-by-the-Smell: Odors and Social Conflict on the California Coastline,” Pacific Historical Review 73 (May 2004): 183--214.

Hunt, Robert R., “Fire Paths on the Lewis & Clark Trail,” We Proceeded On 30 (May 2004): 14--9.

Imperial, Mark T., and Derek Kauneckis, “Moving from Conflict to Collaboration: Watershed Governance in Lake Tahoe,” Natural Resources Journal 43 (Fall 2003): 1009--56.

Lucero, Lora, and A. Dan Tarlock, “Water Supply and Urban Growth in New Mexico: Same Old, Same Old or a New Era?” Natural Resources Journal 43 (Summer 2003): 803--36.

Mumme, Stephen P., “Revising the 1944 Water Treaty: Reflections on the Rio Grande Drought Crises and Other Matters,” Journal of the Southwest 45 (Winter 2003): 649--70.

Parson, Robert, “‘The Hardest Worked River in the World’: The 1962 Bear River Project, Utah and Idaho,” Utah Historical Quarterly 72 (Spring 2004): 136--55.

Walcheck, Kenneth C., “Of Wolves and Prairie Wolves,” We Proceeded On 30 (May 2004): 20--6.

Ethnicity and Race

Arredondo, Gabriela F., “Navigating Ethno-Racial Currents: Mexicans in Chicago, 1919--1939,” Journal of Urban History 30 (March 2004): 399--427.

Barde, Robert, “An Alleged Wife: One Immigrant in the Chinese Exclusion Era,” Prologue 36 (Spring 2004): 24--35.

Carrigan, William D., and Clive Webb, “The Lynching of Persons of Mexican Origin or Descent in the United States, 1848 to 1928,” Journal of Social History 37 (Winter 2003): 411--38.

Dirck, Brian R., “By the Hand of God: James Montgomery and Redemptive Violence,” Kansas History 27 (Spring-Summer 2004): 100--15.

Griffith, Sarah M., “Border Crossings: Race, Class, and Smuggling in Pacific Coast Chinese Immigrant Society,” Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Winter 2004): 473--492.

Jew, Victor, “‘Chinese Demons’: The Violent Articulations of Chinese Otherness and Interracial Sexuality in the U. S. Midwest, 1885--1889,” Journal of Social History 37 (Winter 2003): 389--410.

Lang, Clarence, “Between Civil Rights and Black Power in the Gateway City: The Action Committee to Improve Opportunities for Negroes (ACTION), 1964--75,” Journal of Social History 37 (Spring 2004): 725--54.

Ling, Huping, “Governing ‘Hop Alley’: On Leong Chinese Merchants and Laborers Association, 1906--1966,” Journal of American Ethnic History 23 (Winter 2004): 50--84.

Mack, Dwayne A., “Crusade for Equality: Spokane’s Civil Rights Movement during the Early 1960s,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 95 (Winter 2003/2004): 16--25.

Monhollon, Rusty, and Kristen Tegtmeier Oertel, “From Brown to Brown: A Century of Struggle for Equality in Kansas,” Kansas History 27 (Spring-Summer 2004): 116--33.

Mulder, William, “Willem Jacobus DeBry and De Utah Nederlander, 1914--1935,” Utah Historical Quarterly 72 (Spring 2004): 100--18.

Gender and Sexuality

Baxter, Randolph W., “‘Homo-Hunting’ in the Early Cold War: Senator Kenneth Wherry and the Homophobic Side of McCarthyism,” Nebraska History 84 (Fall 2003): 118--32.

Boag, Peter, “‘Does Portland Need a Homophile Society?’ Gay Culture and Activism in the Rose City between World War II and Stonewall,” Oregon Historical History 105 (Spring 2004): 6--39.

Cairns, Kathleen, “‘Enigma Woman’ Nellie Madison: Femme Fatales & Noir Fiction,” Montana The Magazine of Western History 54 (Spring 2004): 14--25.

Cotcher, Maryanne, “A National Organisation in a Prairie City: The Regina Voice of Women, 1961--1963,” Saskatchewan History 56 (Spring 2004): 21--9.

Dearinger, Ryan L., “Violence, Masculinity, Image, and Reality on the Antebellum Frontier,” Indiana Magazine of History 100 (March 2004): 26--55.

Laegreid, Renee M., “‘Performers Prove Beauty & Rodeo Can Be Mixed’: The Return of the Cowgirl Queen,” Montana The Magazine of Western History 54 (Spring 2004): 44--55.

Levy, Jo Ann, “Two Remarkable California Pioneers: Eliza Farnham and Georgiana Bruce Kirby,” California Territorial Quarterly (Winter 2003): 24--32.

Risch, Barbara, “Wife, Mother, Provider, Defender, God: Women in Lakota Winter Counts,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 27, no. 3 (2003): 1--30.

Historiography and Bibliography

Miner, Craig, “Historic Ground: The Ongoing Enterprise of Kansas Territorial History,” Kansas History 27 (Spring-Summer 2004): 4--13.

Potter, James E., “Nebraska History on Nebraska Territory: A Reader’s Guide,” Nebraska History 84 (Winter 2003): 162--75.

Immigration, Migration, and Settlement

Fox, John, “Revisiting Eugene Macnamara’s Irish Colony Scheme in California,” California Territorial Quarterly (Winter 2003): 36--43.

Jonsson, Stefan Hrafn, and Michael S. Rendall, “The Fertility Contribution of Mexican Immigration to the United States,” Demography 41 (February 2004): 129--50.

Waldinger, Roger, and David Fitzgerald, “Transnationalism in Question,” American Journal of Sociology 109 (March 2004): 1177--95.

International Borderlands

García-Acevedo, María Rosa, “Politics across Borders: Mexico’s Policies toward Mexicans in the United States,” Journal of the Southwest 45 (Winter 2003): 533--55.

Insley, Jennifer, “Redefining Sodom: A Latter-Day Vision of Tijuana,” Mexican Studies/ Estudios Mexicanos 20 (Winter 2004): 99--121.

Kelley, Sean, “‘Mexico in His Head’: Slavery and the Texas-Mexico Border, 1810--1860,” Journal of Social History 37 (Spring 2004): 709--24.

Limón, José E., “Translating Empire: The Border Homeland of Rio Grande City, Texas,” American Quarterly 56 (March 2004): 25--32.

Vaught, David, “A Tale of Three Land Grants on the Northern California Borderlands,” Agricultural History 78 (Spring 2004): 140--54.

Labor and Working-class

Amberg, Stephen, “Governing Labor in Modernizing Texas,” Social Science History 28 (Spring 2004): 145--88.

Dielman, Gary, ed., “‘May Live and Die a Miner’: The 1864 Clarksville Diary of James W. Virtue,” Oregon Historical History 105 (Spring 2004): 62--95.

Nicolaides, Becky M., “The Neighborhood Politics of Class in a Working-Class Suburb of Los Angeles, 1920--1940,” Journal of Urban History 30 (March 2004): 428--51.

Parks, Virginia, “Access to Work: The Effects of Spatial and Social Accessibility on Unemployment for Native-Born Black and Immigrant Women in Los Angeles,” Economic Geography 80 (April 2004): 141--72.

Sachs, Aaron, “Civil Rights in the Field: Carey McWilliams as a Public-Interest Historian and Social Ecologist,” Pacific Historical Review 73 (May 2004): 215--48.

Literature, Film, and the Arts

Alberta History 52 (Spring 2004). Special Issue, “Russell and Remington and the Canadian Frontier.”

Matchie, Thomas, “Miracles at Little No Horse: Louise Erdrich’s Answer to Sherman Alexie’s Reservation Blues,” North Dakota Quarterly 70 (Spring 2003): 151--62.

Nigro, Frank, “Traditionalizing Convention in Leslie Silko’s Ceremony: ‘Seems Like I Already Heard These Stories Before,’” North Dakota Quarterly 70 (Summer 2003): 56--65.

Saxton, Alexander, “In Dubious Battle: Looking Backward,” Pacific Historical Review 73 (May 2004): 249--62.

Steinle, John F., “Frontier Artist and Solidier: Caspar Collins,” Timeline 21 (May-June 2004): 2--13.

Military and Exploration

Brandt, Anthony, “The Perilous Afterlife of the Lewis and Clark Expedition,” American Heritage 55 (June/July 2004): 50--8.

Cavendish, Bob, “Anvil of Ceres: The Confederate Foundry at Waller Creek,” Southwestern Historical Quarterly 107 (April 2004): 558--70.

Cutrer, Thomas W., ed., “‘Emphatically a General of Cavalry’: A Tribute to Major General John Austin Wharton from Chaplain Robert Franklin Bunting, Terry’s Texas Rangers,” Military History of the West 33 (2003): 13--32.

Grear, Charles David, “For Land and Family: Local Attachments and the Grapevine Volunteers in the Civil War,” Military History of the West 33 (2003): 1--12.

Raugh, Harold E., Jr., “Quarters 327, The ‘Commander’s Quarters,’ Presidio of Monterey: A Centennial Perspective,” Journal of America’s Military Past 30 (Winter 2004): 52--73.

Seeley, Mark W., “Mother Nature Smiled: The Grand Excursion of 1854,” Minnesota History 59 (Spring 2004): 36--8.

Thompson, Tommy R., “John D. Brady, the Philippine-American War, and the Martial Spirit in Late 19th Century America,” Nebraska History 84 (Fall 2003): 142--53.

Vogt, Michael W., “The Fighting 51st Iowa in the Philippines,” Iowa Heritage 84 (Fall 2003): 114--33.

Wood, Larry, “Harry Truman: Federal Bushwhacker,” Missouri Historical Review 98 (April 2004): 201--22.

Native Americans

Clifford, James, “Looking Several Ways: Anthropology and Native Heritage in Alaska,” Current Anthropology 45 (February 2004): 5--30.

Farr, William E., “Going to Buffalo: Indian Hunting Migrations across the Rocky Mountains: Part 2, Civilian Permits, Army Escorts,” Montana The Magazine of Western History 54 (Spring 2004): 26--43.

Furniss, Elizabeth, “Cycles of History in Plateau Sociopolitical Organization: Reflections on the Nature of Indigenous Band Societies,” Ethnohistory 51 (Winter 2004): 137--70.

Greene, Shane, “Indigenous People Incorporated?: Culture as Politics, Culture as Property in Pharmaceutical Bioprospecting,” Current Anthropology 45 (April 2004): 211--38.

Hart, E. Richard, “Field Notes: Return of the Water Horse,” Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Winter 2004): 493--99.

Jacobs, Margaret D., “A Battle for the Children: American Indian Child Removal in Arizona in the Era of Assimilation,” Journal of Arizona History 45 (Spring 2004): 31--62.

Kruger, Arnold, “To Find a Treasure: The Nuu-chah-nulth Wolf Mask,” American Indian Culture and Research Journal 27, no. 3 (2003): 71--86.

Olson, Alexander, “Our Leschi: The Making of a Martyr,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 95 (Winter 2003/2004): 26--36.

Rader, Benjamin G., “‘The Greatest Drama in Indian Life’: Experiments in Native American Identity and Resistance at the Haskell Institute Homecoming of 1926,” Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Winter 2004): 429--50.

Shover, Michele, “The Indian Removal to Round Valley in 1863: A Reconsideration, Part One: Malarial Indians, Muddled Military, and Befuddled Bureaucrats,” California Territorial Quarterly (Winter 2003): 4--17, 20--1.

Stabler, Scott L., “Ulysses S. Grant and the ‘Indian Problem,’” Journal of Illinois History 6 (Winter 2003): 297--316.

Wicazo sa 19 (Spring 2004). Special Issue, “American Indian Encounters with Lewis and Clark.”

Political and Legal

Bird, Kenton, “Tom Foley’s Last Campaign: Why Eastern Washington Voters Ousted the Speaker of the House,” Pacific Northwest Quarterly 95 (Winter 2003/2004): 3--15.

California History 81, no. 3/4 (2003). Special Issue, “Taming the Elephant: Politics, Government, and Law in Pioneer California.”

Cherny, Robert W., “William Jennings Bryan and His ‘Cross of Gold’ Speech,” Iowa Heritage 84 (Fall 2003): 110--3.

Etcheson, Nicole, “The Great Principle of Self-Government: Popular Sovereignty and Bleeding Kansas,” Kansas History 27 (Spring-Summer 2004): 14--29.

Gaster, Patricia C., “‘Straight Politics Pays After All’: Political Patronage and the Lincoln Post-office Fight, 1893--1894,” Nebraska History 84 (Winter 2003): 194--205.

Gilbertson, John, “Plane Politics: Lyndon Johnson, Howard Cannon, and Nevada’s 1964 Senatorial Election,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 46 (Winter 2003): 257--85.

Green, William D., “‘To Remove the Stain’: The Trial of the Duluth Lynchers,” Minnesota History 59 (Spring 2004): 22--35.

Hild, Matthew, “Labor, Third-Party Politics, and New South Democracy in Arkansas, 1884--1896,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 63 (Spring 2004): 24--43.

Ledbetter, Calvin R., Jr., “The Special Senatorial Election of 1937 and Its Legacy for Arkansas Politics,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 63 (Spring 2004): 1--23.

Mitchell, Robert B., “‘Get Ready for ’96’: The Decatur County Press, Partisanship, and the Presidential Campaign of 1896,” Iowa Heritage 84 (Fall 2003): 98--108.

Mullis, Tony R., “The Dispersal of the Topeka Legislature: A Look at Command and Control (C2) During Bleeding Kansas,” Kansas History 27 (Spring-Summer 2004): 62--75.

Napier, Rita G., “The Hidden History of Bleeding Kansas: Leavenworth and the Formation of the Free-State Movement,” Kansas History 27 (Spring-Summer 2004): 44--61.

Ponce, Pearl T., “Pledges and Principles: Buchanan, Walker, and Kansas in 1857,” Kansas History 27 (Spring-Summer 2004): 86--99.

Quiring, Brett, “The Social and Political Philosophy of Woodrow S. Lloyd,” Saskatchewan History 56 (Spring 2004): 5--20.

St. Amand, Matthew G., and Dwight H. Merriam, “Defensible Moratoria: The Law Before and After the Tahoe-Sierra Decision,” Natural Resources Journal 43 (Summer 2003): 703--52.

Public History and Material Culture

Cantrell, Andrea, “WPA Sources for African-American Oral History in Arkansas: Ex-Slave Narratives and Early Settlers’ Personal Histories,” Arkansas Historical Quarterly 63 (Spring 2004): 44--67.

Public Historian 26 (Winter 2004). Special Issue, “Environmental History as Public History.”

Religion

Brimhall, Sandra Dawn, and David A. Hales, “Frances R. Burke: Toquerville Presbyterian Missionary,” Utah Historical Quarterly 72 (Spring 2004): 156--66.

Brumberg, Stephan F., “The Cincinnati Bible War (1869--1873) and its Impact on the Education of the City’s Protestants, Catholics, and Jews,” American Jewish Archives Journal 54, no. 2 (2003): 11--46.

Herzog, Jonathan P., “Our Sacred Lithuanian Word: St. Anthony’s Thirst for Cultural Homogeneity,” Nebraska History 84 (Fall 2003): 133--41.

Kerstetter, Todd, “‘That’s just the American way’: The Branch Davidian Tragedy and Western Religious History,” Western Historical Quarterly 35 (Winter 2004): 453--71.

Williams, Jacqueline B., “Was It Strictly Kosher? Washington State, 1889--1937,” Western States Jewish History 36 (Spring 2004): 225--36.

Science, Technology, and Industry

Berg, Erik, “The Eagle and the Anasazi: The Lindberghs’ 1929 Aerial Survey of Prehistoric Sites in Arizona and New Mexico,” Journal of Arizona History 45 (Spring 2004): 1--30.

Duckworth, Harry W., and L. Gordon Goldsborough, “Science Comes to Manitoba,” Manitoba History (Spring/Summer 2004): 2--16.

Engstrand, Iris H. W., “José Moziño & Archibald Menzies: Crossroads of the Enlightenment in the Pacific Northwest,” Columbia 18 (Spring 2004): 24--8.

Sherow, James E., “‘The Fellow Who Can Talk the Loudest and Has the Best Shotgun Gets the Water’: Water Regulation and the Montana State Engineer’s Office, 1889--1964,” Montana The Magazine of Western History 54 (Spring 2004): 56--69.

Taylor, Joseph E., III, “Master of the Seas? Herbert Hoover and the Western Fisheries,” Oregon Historical History 105 (Spring 2004): 40--61.

Social and Cultural

Ahmad, Diana L., “The Campaign Against Smoking Opium: Nevada Journalists as Agents of Social Reform, 1875--1882,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 46 (Winter 2003): 243--56.

Bovey, Seth, “The Texas Armadillo: From Psychedelic Totem to Regional Icon,” Journal of Popular Culture 37 (August 2003): 7--14.

Imada, Adria L., “Hawaiians on Tour: Hula Circuits through the American Empire,” American Quarterly 56 (March 2004): 111--50.

Leonoff, Cyril E., “Harry ‘Gizzy’ Hart and the Victoria Cougars, Stanley Cup Champions of 1925,” Western States Jewish History 36 (Spring 2004): 237--46.

Scheele, Dorothy R., “Notes and Documents: For Nevada Only: The Friendship and Merci Trains in Nevada, 1947--1949,” Nevada Historical Society Quarterly 46 (Winter 2003): 287--98.

Smucker, Janneken L., “Pieced in the Plains: Kansas Amish Quilts and Cultural Adaptation,” Great Plains Quarterly 24 (Winter 2004): 3--15.

Winkler, Scott A., “Is This Heaven? No, It’s Iowa. -or- The Avant-Garde in a Cornfield Cures What Ails You,” Journal of Popular Culture 37 (May 2003): 704--18.