Books in the Plains Histories Series series

Incorporating previously overlooked materials, including tribal council records, oral histories, and reservation newspapers, this title explores the political history of South Dakotas Oglala Lakota reservation during the mid-twentieth century.

Hugh Hawkins was seven years old when his fathers job with the Rock Island Railroad forced his family to relocate to far western Kansas. This memoir paints a portrait of a middle-class family's traditions and values in the heartland of the 1930s and 1940s.

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. Only with the creation of the Oklahoma Territory in 1890 was the area finally claimed by a government entity. This title presents the history of the Oklahoma Panhandle.

Resulting from an arduous series of six journeys along the two-thousand-mile line that divides East from West, this title includes photographs that provide the intimate yet dispassionate observations of a person who chose to explore the meanings inherent in the great empty middle between our coasts.

Mohammed (Ed) Aryain saw Syrians who had been to America returning home with gold watches and money to purchase land, and he vowed to do the same. Ed began a 120-mile walk to Beirut to board a steamship. This book tells of his emotional first view of the Statue of the Liberty and of his traumatic passage through Ellis Island.

On a horrific night in October 1975, Erwin Simants brutally murdered six members of the Henry Kellie family in tiny Sutherland, Nebraska. This title tells the story of the complex legal battles set in motion that tragic night on the western Nebraska plains.

Examining Raymond Yellow Thunders death at the hands of four white men in 1972, this title looks deep into the past that gave rise to the tragedy. It recounts the largely forgotten struggles of American Indian Movement activist Bob Yellow Bird and tells the story of Whiteclay, Nebraska, and the controversial border hamlet.