Great Plains Literature

A concise guide through the geological development of the Great Plains region

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

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

A memoir of Nebraska, and beyond.

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.

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

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

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

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska