MAINLY IN THE PLAINS
a selection of books set in the northern Great Plains states
Colorado
Burns, Rex Devlin Kirk series
(mystery) and Gabe Wagner series (mystery)
Cather, Willa The Song of the Lark
Dailey, Janet Aspen Gold
Grey, Zane The Vanishing American (western)
Greenberg, Joanne Simple Gifts
Haruf, Kent The Tie That Binds
Michener, James Centennial
The Dakotas
Adams, Harold Carl Wilcox series (mystery)
Deloria, Ella Cara Waterlily
Dexter, Pete Deadwood (western)
Erdrich, Louise The Bingo Palace
Jones, Douglas C. Arrest Sitting Bull and
A Creek Called Wounded Knee
O'Brien, Dan The Spirit of the Hills
Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth: a Saga of the
Prairie
Unger, Douglas Leaving the Land
Woiwoode, Larry Beyond the Bedroom Wall: a
Family Album
Kansas
Day, Robert The Last Cattle Drive
Hughes, Langston Not Without Laughter
Jones, Douglas C. Roman
Matthews, Greg Heart of the Country (western)
Parks, Gordon The Learning Tree
Roderus, Frank Leaving Kansas (western)
Temple, Lou Jane Heaven Lee series (mystery)
Montana
Bly, Stephen A. I'm Off to Montana for to Throw the
Hoolihan
Peter Bowen Gabriel Du Pre series (mystery)
Dallas, Sandra Buster Midnight's Cafe
Doig, Ivan English Creek (first in McCaskill
family trilogy)
Dorris, Michael A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
Farris, Jack Me and Gallagher ( western)
Ford, Richard Wildlife
Guthrie, A.B. Playing Catch-Up ( mystery) and The
Last Valley ( western)
Harrison, Jamie Jules Clement series (mystery)
Hoyt, Edwin P. The Last Stand: a novel about George
Armstrong Custer and the Indians of the Plains
Long, David Blue Spruce ( short story
collection)
McGuane, Thomas Keep the Change
MacLean, Norman A River Runs Through It and other stories
Savage, Thomas The Corner of Rife and Pacific
Svee, Gary D. Incident at Pishkin Creek (western)
Taylor, Robert Lewis A Roaring in the Wind: (being a history of Alder Gulch, Montana)
Nebraska
Cather, Willa O Pioneers
Harrison, Jim Dalva and The Road Home
Hansen, Ron Nebraska: stories (short stories)
McNeal, Tom Goodnight, Nebraska
Morris, Wright Plains Song, for Female Voices
Reynolds, William J. Nebraska, a private eye series (mystery)
Sandoz, Mari Miss Morissa, Doctor of the Gold Trail
Wiltse, David Heartland
Wyoming
Bean, Greg No Comfort in Victory (mystery)
Coel, Margaret Fr. O'Malley and Vicky Holden series (mystery)
Coolidge, Dane Man from Wyoming: a Western Story (western)
DeAndrea, William Lobo Black/Quinn Booker series (mystery)
Eagle, Kathleen The Last True Cowboy
Ehrlich, Gretel Heart Mountain
O'Hara, Mary My Friend Flicka
Garlock, Dorothy The Listening Sky
Schaefer, Jack Shane