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Ranchers’ Perceptions of Vegetation Heterogeneity in the Northern Great Plains by Sliwinski, Maggi, Burbach, Mark, Powell, Larkin, Schacht, Walter

“…Most rangelands in the United States are privately owned and managed for beef production. There is little understanding of ranchers’ perceptions about…”
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Invited Essay: My Path to the River by Farrell, Michael

“…Farrell shares that in 1909, the Platte River was altered profoundly and fundamentally when Pathfinder Dam and Reservoir were completed just below the…”
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Geography of Ecotourism Potential in the Great Plains: Incentives for Conservation by Powell, Larkin A., Edwards, Richard, Powell, Kelly D. J., Nieland, Katie

“…Ecotourism on private lands may be an incentive for conservation because of potential profits to landowners. Conservation planners in southern Africa have…”
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University of Nebraska Student Views of the Iowa Hawkeyes and Wisconsin Badgers: New Football Rivalries and Implications for Schools in the Great Plains by Havard, Cody T., Ryan, Timothy D., Workman, Skylar S.

“…We investigated how students at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln perceived and behaved toward their primary rivals within the Big Ten Conference…”
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Invited Essay: The New Learning about Homesteading by EDWARDS, RICHARD

“…Historians' conventional or textbook view of homesteading has changed little in a half century, and most historians lost interest in doing further research on…”
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Residential Internet Access Cost in Nebraska by Obermier, Timothy R.

“…This study compares the cost of accessing the internet via digital subscriber line, terrestrial wireless, fiber optic cable, and television cable systems…”
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NEW DEAL LEFTISTS, HENRY WALLACE AND "GIDEON'S ARMY," AND THE PROGRESSIVE PARTY IN MONTANA, 1937—1952 by LOVIN, HUGH T.

“…Many forces occupied America's sociopolitical terrain to the left of New Dealers who dominated U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt's administration of the 1930s…”
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Geologic Mapping of Nebraska: Old Rocks, New Maps, Fresh Insights by Joeckel, R. M., Diffendal, R. F., Hanson, P. R., Korus, J. T.

“…Geologic mapping in Nebraska and environs is an ongoing endeavor that has spanned more than 170 years, involved dozens of scientists, and evolved through many…”
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CONVERTING THE ROSEBUD: SICANGU LAKOTA CATHOLICISM IN THE LATE NINETEENTH AND EARLY TWENTIETH CENTURIES by MARKOWITZ, HARVEY

“…This article discusses a number of the dominant features of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Indian Catholicism on the Rosebud Reservation,…”
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2017 Stubbendieck Great Plains Distinguished Book Prize Winner: Dan Flores's American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains by WOLF, GEORGE E.

“…In a corner of northeast Nebraska, at Ashfall Fossil Beds State Historical Park, twenty-first-century visitors can view the startling articulated remains of…”
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Late Pleistocene Pollen and Plant Macrofossils from a Buried Wetland Deposit in the Platte River Valley, South-Central Nebraska by Dillon, Jeremy S., Stolze, Susann, Larsen, Ashley K.

“…We present a pollen and plant macrofossil record from a 47-cm-thick deposit that dates from approximately 23,400 to 22,600 cal yr BP. Th e site is in the…”
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PUBLIC OPINION IS MORE THAN LAW: POPULAR SOVEREIGNTY AND VIGILANTISM IN THE NEBRASKA TERRITORY by KAMMER, SEAN M.

“…After months of intense debate, Congress finally passed the Kansas-Nebraska Act on May 30, 1854, largely along sectional lines. Over the next several years…”
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"I FEAR THE CONSEQUENCES TO OUR ANIMALS": EMIGRANTS AND THEIR LIVESTOCK ON THE OVERLAND TRAILS by AHMAD, DIANA L.

“…The diaries, letters, and guidebooks written by the emigrants who crossed North America on the overland trails during the mid-nineteenth century reveal a new…”
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BEYOND THE VIOLENCE: INDIAN AGRICULTURE, WHITE REMOVAL, AND THE UNLIKELY CONSTRUCTION OF THE NORTHERN CHEYENNE RESERVATION, 1876—1900 by ALLISON, JAMES R.

“…Eighty-six Cheyenne families followed Little Wolf to his self-imposed exile near Rosebud Creek. To most observers, this blind loyalty to a fallen leader…”
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Ring-Necked Pheasant Nest Success and Habitat Selection in Central South Dakota by Pauly, Brian J., Runia, Travis J., Solem, Alex J., Dieter, Charles D., Jensen, Kent C.

“…Nesting habitat is a limiting factor for pheasant populations in much of the Great Plains. Pheasants select for and are generally most successful nesting in…”
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"A LITTLE PLACE GETTING SMALLER": PERCEPTIONS OF PLACE AND THE DEPOPULATION OF GOVE COUNTY, KANSAS by GILBREATH, AARON

“…Go west on Interstate 70, past Salina and Highway 81, the unofficial line of demarcation between eastern and western Kansas. Beyond Bob Dole's childhood home…”
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FROM MOTHERS' PENSIONS TO AID TO DEPENDENT CHILDREN IN THE GREAT PLAINS: THE COURSE FROM CHARITY TO ENTITLEMENT by LEE, R. ALTON

“…The most important third-party movement in American history emerged out of the social and economic chaos brewing in the Great Plains in the last two decades of…”
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LIGIA GRISCHA: A SUCCESSFUL SWISS COLONY ON THE DAKOTA TERRITORY FRONTIER by QUINN, TODD, BENEDICT, KARL, DICKEY, JEFF

“…In 1877 a small group of Swiss immigrants from the Graubunden canton formed a cooperative with another Swiss group in Stillwater, Minnesota, to begin a colony…”
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Out Where the West Begins: Measuring Land-Use Preferences and Environmental Attitudes across the Great Plains Transition Zone by Fergen, Joshua T., Jacquet, Jeffrey B., Kasu, Bishal, Barnett, Matthew, Junod, Anne, Kumar, Sandeep

“…The Northern Plains is a region in central North America where the more humid and fertile prairies of the Midwest transition to the arid and mountainous…”
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INDIANS AND EMPIRES: CULTURAL CHANGE AMONG THE OMAHA AND PAWNEE, FROM CONTACT TO 1808 by KINBACHER, KURT E.

“…The collision of Indian and European cultures created new relationships all across the Great Plains. Native peoples responded to the European presence by…”
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