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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl
by Timothy Egan  
Powells.com Staff Pick A fresh, stirring look at the Dust Bowl and Depression, Timothy Egan follows the personal dramas of a handful of families, allowing their voices to reveal the environmental and human tragedies that rocked the nation. Grippingly detailed, this exciting...
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The Legend of Colton H. Bryant
by Alexandra Fuller Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight and Scribbling the Cat, the unforgettable true story of a boy who comes of age in the oil-fields and open plains of Wyoming; a heartrending story of the human spirit that lays bare where...
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Horizontal World Growing Up in the Middle of Nowhere : Growing Up in the Middle of Nowhere: (06 Edition)
by Debra Marquart Publisher Comments Debra Marquart Grew Up On a Family farm in rural North Dakota--on land her family had worked for generations. From the earliest age she knew she wanted out; surely life had more to offer than this unyielding daily grind, she thought. But she was never...
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The Children's Blizzard (P.S.)
by David Laskin Publisher Comments The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,...
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The Great Plains
by Walter Prescot Webb Publisher Comments This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history...
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Bring Warm Clothes: Letters and Photos from Minnesota's Past
by Peg Meier Publisher Comments This best-selling book is a look at Minnesota's history as told through the letters, diaries and photographs of people who lived it. You'll find actual letters, journal entries, photos and more woven into a marvelous documentary of Minnesota. Discover...
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Dakota: A Spiritual Geography (Dakotas)
by Kathleen Norris Publisher Comments '\"A book of stories, a book of prayer, a book to be read meditatively and well,\" DAKOTA offers a timeless tribute to a place in the American landscape that is at once desolate and sublime, harsh and forgiving, steeped in history and myth. From the...
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Colorado 1870-2000 Revisited: The History Behind the Images
by Thomas Noel Publisher Comments The actual retail price on this book is now $9.98....
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Badlands of the High Plains
by Chuck Haney Publisher Comments An appreciation, in color photography, of the subtle and dramatic beauties of the badlands of the northern plains. Included are: The Monuments, Toadstool Geological Park, Oglala National Grasslands, and Fort Robinson State Park, Nebraska; Badlands...
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Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains
by Merrill Gilfillan Publisher Comments The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska's Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid--stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled--in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy...
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Coyote Nowhere: In Search of America's Last Frontier
by John Holt Publisher Comments The land out here stands alone beneath skies filled with so many stars, planets, moons, and fizzling meteors that to look at all of it is to knock out your head. The brain can't take in all of the information, all of the truth that shines away up in the...
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The Children's Blizzard
by David Laskin
Publisher Comments The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota,...
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Love Song to the Plains
by Mari Sandoz Publisher Comments Sandoz offers a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains. 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....
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Great Plains
by Frazier Ian Publisher Comments National Bestseller With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of...
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900 Miles from Nowhere: Voices from the Homestead Frontier
by Steven R. Kinsella Publisher Comments The voices of Great Plains homesteaders soar from deeply personal letters, diary entries, and vivid photographs, revealing the promise and hardship of early life on the American grasslands....
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American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the Twentieth Century (Plains Histories)
by Richard Lowitt Publisher Comments To settle and remain in the American Outback, the unforgiving land of the Oklahoma Panhandle, was an achievement. Prosperity and risk were present in equal measure. Comprising land that Kansas, Colorado, and New Mexico did not want, and that Texas, after...
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Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen
by Bob Greene Publisher Comments North Platte, Nebraska, is a solitary outpost in the vast midwesternplains. But from Christmas Day 1941 to the end of WorId War II, American soldiers rolled through the town on troop trains, en route to their ultimate destinations in Europe and the...
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The Buffalo Hunters: The Story of the Hide Men
by Mari Sandoz Publisher Comments In 1867 the total number of buffaloes in the trans-Missouri region was conservatively estimated at fifteen million. By the end of the 1880s that figure had dwindled to a few hundred. The destruction of the great herds is the theme of this book. Mari...
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Set the Ploughshare Deep: A Prairie Memoir
by Timothy Murphy Publisher Comments These were the words of Robert Penn Warren to Timothy Murphy when he graduated from college in 1972.<P>Fifteen years in the making, Set the Ploughshare Deep is a memoir in prose, verse, and wood cuts. It depicts the consequences of Warren's advice...
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Dakota :a spiritual geography
by Kathleen Norris Publisher Comments An evocation of the Great Plains and its influence on the human spirit, Dakota describes the harsh, desolate, yet sublime landscape that embodies the contradictions of American life as lived in the small towns where history and myth have become...
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