Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall
Front Matter
Article
Annie Wittenmyer and Nineteenth-Century Women's Usefulness
- Lisa Guinn
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 351-377
As Gay as Any Gypsy Caravan: Grant Wood and the Queer Pastoral at the Stone City Art Colony
- Christopher Hommerding
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 378-412
Review
Midwest Maize: How Corn Shaped the U.S. Heartland
- Christopher Cumo
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 413-414
Pemmican Empire: Food, Trade, and the Last Bison Hunts in the North American Plains, 1780-1882
- Michel Hogue
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 414-416
Securing the West: Politics, Public Lands, and the Fate of the Old Republic, 1785-1850
- James W. Oberly
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 416-418
A Store Almost in Sight: The Economic Transformation of Missouri from the Louisiana Purchase to the Civil War
- Kim M. Gruenwald
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 418-420
The Great Medicine Road: Narratives of the Oregon, California, and Mormon Trails, part 1, 1840-1848
- J. T. Murphy
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 420-421
Dubuque's Forgotten Cemetery: Excavating a Nineteenth-Century Burial Ground in a Twenty-First-Century City
- Thomas G. Connors
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 421-423
Busy in the Cause: Iowa, the Free-State Struggle in the West, and the Prelude to the Civil War
- Michael A. Morrison
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 423-425
Necessary Evil: Settling Missouri with a Rope and a Gun
- Catherine McNicol Stock
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 425-426
The Iowa Route: A History of the Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern Railway
- Simon Cordery
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 428-429
American Railroads: Decline and Renaissance in the Twentieth Century
- Jeff Schramm
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 430-431
Jewish Federation of Greater Des Moines 100th Anniversary, 1914-2014: Celebrating a Century of Benevolence
- Oliver Pollak
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 431-432
How Dutch Americans Stayed Dutch: An Historical Perspective on Ethnic Identities
- Douglas Firth Anderson
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 432-434
Little Hawk and the Lone Wolf: A Memoir
- Thomas A. Britten
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 435-436
Sounds of the New Deal: The Federal Music Project in the West
- Kenneth J. Bindas
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 436-437
Prairie Forge: The Extraordinary Story of the Nebraska Scrap Metal Drive of World War II
- Lisa Payne Ossian
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 438-440
Gathering the Potawatomi Nation: Revitalization and Identity
- John P. Bowes
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 440-441
Boom, Bust, Exodus: The Rust Belt, the Maquilas, and a Tale of Two Cities
- Ralph Scharnau
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 441-443
Tangible Things: Making History through Objects
- Erika Doss
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 443-445
Water and What We Know: Following the Roots of a Northern Life
- Barbara J. Dilly
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 445-446
Whispers and Shadows: A Naturalist’s Memoir
- James A. Pritchard
Volume 74 • Issue 4 • 2015 • Fall • 446-447