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The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people that held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod huts to new framed houses to huddling in basements with the windows...

Focuses on the homesteaders of the Great Plains, including who they were, their houses, hardships, farms, towns, food, laws, commerce and entertainment.

"Black Elk Speaks" is the powerful and inspirational story of the Lakota visionary and healer Nicholas Black Elk and his people during the momentous twilight years of the 19th century, as told to distinguished poet, writer, and critic Neihardt in 1930.

Reprint of a 1931 text that describes the interaction between the central plains of America and the people who lived there.

"[A]n epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America's most defining eras--the Great Depression. Texas, 1934. Millions are out of work and a drought has broken the Great Plains. Farmers are fighting to keep their land and their livelihoods as the crops are failing, the water is drying up, and dust threatens to bury them all. One of the darkest periods of the Great Depression, the Dust Bowl era, has arrived with...

Eight-year-old Cassie Witting is upset when she finds out that her mother, Sarah, is expecting a baby, but writing in the journal that was her brother Caleb's helps her sort out her feelings and she finally learns that Sarah will always love her.

Julie McCloud was saved as an infant from a disease doomed wagon train. Windmillers Cap and Mike Shanahan raised Julie teaching her their trade.

Norris reveals the contradictions of small town life on the Great Plains, where gracious hospitality blends with provincial wariness, local history is valued by writers, and truth and myth collide.

Chronicles the history of the American plains and eastern Rocky Mountains, and discusses the major battles that occured between the Indians and the whites as they fought for control of the continent. "A major re-interpretation, eloquently written by one of the best and brightest Colorado historians." -- from "101 Best Books on Colorado" bibliography.

A youth in a tribe of Plains Indians gives up a girlfriend to serve as a holy man's pipe bearer, first step in becoming a holy man himself. The novel follows his training in communicating with spirits and in preserving tribal legends and culture. By the author of Child of the Dead.