My role as a senior historian of the Great Plains experience is something I take seriously. Perhaps the most important facet of that role is to point to the good work of others and help bring it into both scholarly currency and public memory. Thus my recent writing about the reinterpretation–a historical salvage operation–done on the Homestead Act by Richard Edwards’s team at the University of Nebraska. This Goodreads review points to what I have written about Homesteading the Plains and Great Plains Homesteaders. I encourage my fellow #PrairieScholars to take note of the new work on homesteading and my friends across the plains to read it.
