Great Plains Literature

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

A novel in a series by Kent Haruf that unveils the immemorial truths about human beings

An essential reference tool on Nebraska

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

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

A gripping history and account of black enslavement in Nebraska

Discover the wonders of birds and their incredible migratory voyages

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

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

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

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