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

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

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

A memoir of Nebraska, and beyond.

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

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

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.

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

Great Plains Politics (Discover the Great Plains)

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