Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall
Front Matter
Article
Iowa Enters the Space Age: James Van Allen, Earth's Radiation Belts, and Experiments to Disrupt Them
- James Rodger Fleming
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 301-324
"A Small Town with a Pretty Big Idea": How Ames, Iowa, Came to Have the Most Enduring Resource Recovery Plant in the United States
- Angie Gumm
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 325-357
Review
Reinterpreting the Life and Art of Grant Wood: A Review Essay
- Travis E. Nygard
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 358-367
A French Aristocrat in the American West: The Shattered Dreams of De Lassus de Luzières
- Thomas J. Lappas
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 368-369
William Clark's World: Describing America in an Age of Unknowns
- David A. Walker
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 369-371
Ferdinand Hayden: A Young Scientist in the Great West, 1853–1855
- Michael D. Severs
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 371-372
Steamboats West: The 1859 American Fur Company Missouri River Expedition
- Paul F. Paskoff
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 372-373
Hearts Beating for Liberty: Women Abolitionists in the Old Northwest
- Barbara Cutter
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 374-375
Lincoln Looks West: From the Mississippi to the Pacific
- Patricia Ann Owens
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 375-377
Hinterland Dreams: The Political Economy of a Midwestern City
- Kathleen A. Brosnan
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 377-379
For Labor, Race, and Liberty: George Edwin Taylor, His Historic Run for the White House, and the Making of Independent Black Politics
- David Brodnax Sr.
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 379-381
The Brilliant Bandit of the Wabash: The Life of the Notorious Outlaw Frank Rande
- John E. Hallwas
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 381-383
For Home and Country: World War I Propaganda and the Home Front
- Barbara Jean Steinson
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 384-386
A Nation within a Nation: Voices of the Oneidas in Wisconsin
- Renee J. Zakhar
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 386-388
Triumph and Tragedy: The Inspiring Stories of Four Football Legends, Fred Becker, Jack Trice, Nile Kinnick, Johnny Bright
- Sarah Jane Eikleberry
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 388-389
Hmong America: Reconstructing Community in Diaspora
- Joseph Andrew Orser
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 389-390
Why Iowa? How Caucuses and Sequential Elections Improve the Presidential Nominating Process
- Norman E. Fry
Volume 70 • Issue 4 • 2011 • Fall • 391-392