Great Plains Literature

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

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

A joyous and personal exploration of the realm of the Kaw River, which stretches from the High Plains of Colorado to the Kansas City metro area

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

A drama about the complicated relationships connecting the residents of a small-town farming community

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

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 of the greatest migration in the United States

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

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

An exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada

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