Great Plains Literature

Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as she searches for her father in the American West

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

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

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

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska

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.

The history of the greatest migration in the United States

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

USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight.