Great Plains Literature

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

The Pulitzer Prize-winning Iowa twentieth century family farm epic based on Shakespeare’s “King Lear”

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

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 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 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

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska