Great Plains Literature

A five-year diary of the Depression as experienced on a Nebraska farm.

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

A fast-paced noir novel set in Omaha, Nebraska in 1930

A searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality “seems akin to a ticking bomb.”

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

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

A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.

The history of the greatest migration in the United States

Great Plains Politics (Discover the Great Plains)

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