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1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgements ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1 A Unified Field Theory of the Great Plains 17
6. 2 Exploring the Explorers 45
7. 3 Spiritual and Intellectual Resistance to Conquest, Part 1: Custer and Riel 63
8. 4 Spiritual and Intellectual Resistance to Conquest, Part 2: Messianism, the 1885 Northwest Resistance, and the 1890 Lakota Ghost Dance 79
9. 5 Spiritual and Intellectual Resistance to Conquest, Part 3: John Joseph Mathews’ Wah’Kon-Tah and John G. Neihardt’s Black Elk Speaks 111
10. 6 Intellectual Justification for Conquest: Comparative Historiography of the Canadian and US Wests 127
11. 7 Homesteading as Capital Formation on the Great Plains Dedicated to Paul Wallace Gates, America’s greatest public lands historian 143
12. 8 The Women’s West 167
13. 9 And Still the Waters 185
14. 10 Dust Bowls 205
15. 11 Mitigating but Not Rethinking: George W. Norris, Tommy Douglas, and the Great Plains 217
16. 12 Planning and Economic Theory 243
17. 13 Mouse Beans and Drowned Rivers 265
18. 14 Oil 275
19. 15 Arts, Justice, and Hope on the Great Plains 291
20. Conclusion 319
21. Notes 333
22. Credits 365
23. Index 367