Great Plains Literature

Nebraskan Jeri Shute recounts tales from a bygone era.

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

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

Three women, decades apart from each other, fight for love and agency in a rural Kansas community seemingly frozen in time.

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, 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 tribute to the writing of Willa Cather and the prairie world of Webster County, Nebraska

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

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

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