Great Plains Literature

How black Homesteaders' heralded America's Great Migration

A searing coming-of-age memoir set against the arid landscape of rural North Dakota, where homosexuality “seems akin to a ticking bomb.”

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.

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

The history, geography, and geology of the plains and the birds that inhabit it. 

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

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska