Great Plains Literature

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 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

A wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country

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

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

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 gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska