Great Plains Literature

Chronicle of a devastating flood in Nebraska on May 31, 1935.

A wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Iowa twentieth century family farm epic based on Shakespeare’s “King Lear”

Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as she searches for her father in the American West

A gripping history and account of black enslavement in Nebraska

A fast-paced noir novel set in Omaha, Nebraska in 1930

A searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality “seems akin to a ticking bomb.”

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska

A chronicle of Standing Bear's six-hundred-mile walk to return the body of his only son to their traditional burial ground and the complex relationship between the U.S. Government and the Ponca Indian tribe.

The history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie

The history, geography, and geology of the plains and the birds that inhabit it. 

Award-winning stories of matter-of-fact cruelty and the hopeful fragility of humanity