Great Plains Literature

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

The history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie

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.

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

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

A memoir of Nebraska, and beyond.

Homesteader Isaac Beckley Werner of Stafford County, Kansas and the Populist movement

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

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