Great Plains Literature

Nebraskan Jeri Shute recounts tales from a bygone era.

A joyous and personal exploration of the realm of the Kaw River, which stretches from the High Plains of Colorado to the Kansas City metro area

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.

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

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