Great Plains Literature

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 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

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

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska

A beautifully illustrated memoir of Nebraska farm life.

An essential reference tool on Nebraska

An eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit