Love Song to the Plains
Love Song to the Plains

Author: Mari Sandoz

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2024-05-16

Total Pages: 318

ISBN-13: 1496240820

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Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues—courageous, violent, indomitable, foolish—their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; of cattlemen and bad men, boomers and land speculators, and their feuds and rivalries. Above all, this is a portrait of the true Plainsman, the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day, every year, a gamble.

Plains Song for Female Voices
Plains Song for Female Voices

Author: Wright Morris

Publisher: Bison Books

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 252

ISBN-13:

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"This narrative, which on its surface is an account of three generations of women (and a few of their men) living on the plains of Nebraska ... only gets more strange and beautiful the more you look at it, like a photograph that slowly reveals its truth under very close inspection."--Introduction, p. [v].

Plainsong
Plainsong

Author: Kent Haruf

Publisher: Vintage

Published: 2001-04-03

Total Pages: 322

ISBN-13: 0375726934

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National Book Award Finalist A heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver. In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl—her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house—is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known. From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together—their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.

Plains Song
Plains Song

Author: Wright Morris

Publisher: Bison Books

Published: 2014-05-27

Total Pages: 225

ISBN-13: 9780803283312

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Nowhere in [Morris's] fiction does emotion emerge from detail so beautifully as in this precise and vivid book. . . . The triumph of the book, in terms of craft, is that we experience the sense of the slow passage of time so necessary to such a story. . . . The heart of the book is its tactful rendering of the emotional history of several women. . . . Precise, satisfying, and complete.OCo"New York Times Book Review""

Encyclopedia of the Great Plains
Encyclopedia of the Great Plains

Author: David J. Wishart

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2004-01-01

Total Pages: 962

ISBN-13: 9780803247871

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"Wishart and the staff of the Center for Great Plains Studies have compiled a wide-ranging (pun intended) encyclopedia of this important region. Their objective was to 'give definition to a region that has traditionally been poorly defined,' and they have