Great Plains Literature

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

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

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska

The autobiography of the Willa Cather Foundation's first leader and visionary.

Mellen Press, NYC: 1989
Hardbound

ISBN: 0889462186
Dimensions: 9.4 × 6.5 × 0.75 in
Weight: 1.2 lb

An eloquent tribute to the arduous demands of rural America, and of the tenacity of the human spirit

Three women, decades apart from each other, fight for love and agency in a rural Kansas community seemingly frozen in time.

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.

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