Great Plains Literature

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

A drama about the complicated relationships connecting the residents of a small-town farming community

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

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

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

Award-winning stories of matter-of-fact cruelty and the hopeful fragility of humanity

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