Table of Contents:
  • Black Elk speaks as epic and ritual attempt to reverse history / by Paul A. Olson
  • Materialism and mysticism in Great Plains literature / by John R. Milton
  • Agrarian versus frontiersman in Midwestern fiction / by Barbara Meldrum
  • Mythic aspects of Giants in the earth / by Paul Reigstad
  • Life on the Great Plains in Scandinavian-American literature / by Dorothy Burton Skardal
  • Willa Cather and Plains culture / by Bernice Slote
  • Oscar Micheaux, Black novelist and film maker / Chester J. Fontenot, Jr.
  • The Great Plains as refuge in Chicano literature / by Thomas Rivera.