Great Plains Literature

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

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.

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

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

A study of regional identity and a sense of place on the Great Plains

The autobiography of the Willa Cather Foundation's first leader and visionary.

Mellen Press, NYC: 1989
Hardbound

ISBN: 0889462186
Dimensions: 9.4 × 6.5 × 0.75 in
Weight: 1.2 lb

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska

A study of what makes this region’s climate unique by presenting a historical climatology of extreme weather events

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

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

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