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Frances W. Kaye is a professor in the Department ofEnglish at the University of Nebraska. She has held two FulbrightTeaching Program positions, in Montreal and in Calgary, the first ofwhich resulted in the book Hiding the Audience: Arts and ArtsInstitutions on the Prairies. Kaye divides her time between afarmstead outside Lincoln, Nebraska, and a house in Calgary, so thatshe may always be close to the prairie land that drives her research.

• Introduction 11. A Unified Field Theory of the Great Plains 172. Exploring the Explorers 453. Spiritual and Intellectual Resistance to Conquest, Part1: Custerand Riel 634. Spiritual and Intellectual Resistance to Conquest, Part2:Messianism, the 1885NorthwestResistance, and the 1890Lakota Ghost Dance 795. Spiritual and Intellectual Resistance to Conquest, Part3: JohnJoseph Mathews' Wah'Kon-Tah and John G. Neihardt'sBlack Elk Speaks 1116. Intellectual Justification for Conquest: ComparativeHistoriography of the Canadian and US Wests 1277. Homesteading as Capital Formation on the Great Plains 1438. The Women's West 1679. And Still the Waters 18510. Dust Bowls 20511. Mitigating but Not Rethinking: George W. Norris, Tommy Douglas,and the Great Plains 21712. Planning and Economic Theory 24313. Mouse Beans and Drowned Rivers 26514. Oil 27515. Arts, Justice, and Hope on the Great Plains 291 Conclusion 319Notes 333Credits 365Index 367