Great Plains Literature

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

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

Calling for a Blanket Dance

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

A gripping history and account of black enslavement in Nebraska

A memoir set amidst the natural realm of the Great Plains.

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

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

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska

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

A memoir of Nebraska, and beyond.

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