Great Plains Literature

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

A gripping Dust Bowl epic about five characters whose fates become entangled after a storm ravages their small Nebraskan town.

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

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

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska

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

The history of the greatest migration in the United States

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

A compelling account of one woman's childhood captivity within Native Americans, her adult life of freedom and celebrity, and the reality that she never wanted to leave.

Poems recording the devastation unleashed on the Great Plains by the blizzard of January 12, 1888

A novel about the real people and events that were shaped by the land, animals, and plants of the Central Plains

A gripping history and account of black enslavement in Nebraska