Great Plains Literature

Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as she searches for her father in the American West

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

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.

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 study of what makes this region’s climate unique by presenting a historical climatology of extreme weather events

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

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

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.

USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight.