Great Plains Literature

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

Calling for a Blanket Dance

An exploration of influential literature of the Plains region in both the United States and Canada

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

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

Readers will delight in the story of Harriet as she searches for her father in the American West

A gripping history and account of black enslavement in Nebraska

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

The history of the greatest migration in the United States

An essential reference tool on Nebraska

A fast-paced noir novel set in Omaha, Nebraska in 1930

A study of regional identity and a sense of place on the Great Plains