Great Plains Literature

A wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country

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

A beautifully illustrated memoir of Nebraska farm life.

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 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

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