Great Plains Literature

A study of what makes this region’s climate unique by presenting a historical climatology of extreme weather events

Great Plains Politics (Discover the Great Plains)

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

Poems recording the devastation unleashed on the Great Plains by the blizzard of January 12, 1888

A gritty noir novel set in rural Nebraska

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

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.

Homesteader Isaac Beckley Werner of Stafford County, Kansas and the Populist movement

The history and ecology of this American symbol from the origins of the great herds that once dominated the prairie

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.