Books by Bryan L. Jones

A collection of humorous essays portraying western Nebraska life and culture of the 1950s. It includes anecdotes on small-town baseball and the polio epidemic of 1952 that provide a historic backdrop to the story of a wide-eyed boy exploring the limits of his universe.

Filled with adventurous writing, sharp scrutiny, meticulous and audacious use of language, North of the Platte, South of the Niobrara: A Little Further into the Nebraska Sand Hills winds around its subjects the way the rivers and creeks of the Great Plains twist around humps of prairie grass, ranches and rock outcroppings.

Gives descriptions of the lending policies of banks, the government price controls and the production methods of agribusiness that make it difficult for the independent farmer to compete. This title provides portraits of different types of farmers, then the various barbed asides in the three long essays on how farmers can and do make money.