Great Plains Literature

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 beautifully illustrated memoir of Nebraska farm life.

An eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit

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

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

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.

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

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

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska