The New York Review of Books - USA (2020-03-12)

From the Center for Great Plains Studies

at the University of Nebraska

Serious books for non-specialist

readers who want to be engaged,

informed, amused.

And inspired, outraged, astonished,

and intrigued.

“The authors draw on their personal

experiences to examine key dynamics

shaping the Great Plains. The series

sets a notable example of accessible

scholarly studies that regionalists in

other parts of the country should

consider emulating.”

Series editor: Richard Edwards

COMING SOON:

ALSO FROM THE CENTER FOR GREAT PLAINS STUDIES & THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA PRESS:

Homesteading the Plains: Toward a New History

by Richard Edwards, Jacob K. Friefeld & Rebecca S. Wingo

Great Plains Women, Great Plains Forts, Great Plains Prairies, & Great Plains Insects

UNL does not discriminate based upon any protected status. Please see go.unl.edu/nondiscrimination.

go.unl.edu/discovergp

Great Plains

Indians

David Wishart

Wishart “covers an

astonishing range of

time and territory” in

“a magnificent

encapsulation” that is

“essential reading for

any westerner.”

Great Plains

Geology

R.F. Diffendal Jr.

This book “should

be in the travel bag

of anyone interested

in exploring... the

heart of America.”

Great Plains

Bison

Dan O’Brien

O’Brien “describes our

kinship with the buffalo

and the moral imperative

to keep this wild creature,

its landscape, and our

indigenous cultures from

going completely extinct.”

Great Plains

Literature

Linda Ray Pratt

Pratt provides “a

comprehensive yet

intimate and

personal survey of a

literary landscape of

international

importance.”

Great Plains

Birds

Larkin Powell

“Powell’s book is not just

about birds, it’s about a

sense of place on the

Great Plains of North

America. Great Plains

Birds is a keeper. Put it

on your life list.”

Great Plains

Politics

Peter Longo

“...a brilliant snapshot

of a place I recognized

as home. [It] left me

with the urge to email

Longo—a complete

stranger—and catch

up on old times.”

Great Plains

Weather

Kenneth Dewey

Dewey “captures the

strength, power, and

extremes of weather on

the Great Plains in a book

that you will not soon

forget.”

:

“Homesteading the

Plains [is] the first

major scholarly study

of homesteading in a

generation... .”

“Attractively and accurately

written, this book

demolishes much

conventional wisdom

about homesteading.”

“...fundamentally alters the dominant frame for

understanding the costs and consequences of settling

the Great Plains. Engagingly written, full of lively

people’s stories, this book upends many tired and

baseless myths about the settlement of the continent.”

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