Great Plains Literature

Nebraskan Jeri Shute recounts tales from a bygone era.

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

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

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.

The history of the greatest migration in the United States

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

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

A tribute to the writing of Willa Cather and the prairie world of Webster County, Nebraska

A beautifully illustrated memoir of Nebraska farm life.

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