Great Plains Literature

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

This 2023 One Book One Nebraska selection was originally released in 1930.

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska

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

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

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

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

A five-year diary of the Depression as experienced on a Nebraska farm.

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

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

A story of freedom through bold action, strong testimony, and heartfelt eloquence from one of Native America's greatest heros.

Homesteader Isaac Beckley Werner of Stafford County, Kansas and the Populist movement