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Egan, Timothy

1 hold on 5 copies

Summary: "The dust storms that terrorized America's High Plains in the darkest years of the Depression were like nothing ever seen before or since, and the stories of the people who held on have never been fully told. Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Times journalist and author Timothy Egan follows a half-dozen families and their communities through the rise and fall of the region, going from sod homes...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mariner Books/Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2006

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Adult, Call number: 978 EGA

Copies Available at Fife Lake

1 available in Adult, Call number: 978.03 EGA

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US Egan

Brown, Don

Summary: A graphic novel account of the giant dust storms in the Midwest in the 1930s discusses the ecological and agricultural damage caused by the storms.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt 2013

Copies Available at Woodmere

1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.032 BRO

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1 available in Juvenile Graphic Novels, Call number: J FIC BRO

Powell, Marie

Summary: "The Plains region stretches across the Midwest from Canada to Texas. Traditional Stories of the Plains Nations features stories from several of the region's Native Nations, including the Lakota, Cree, and Siksika. Easy-to-read text, vivid images, and helpful back matter give readers a clear look at this subject. Features include a table of contents, infographics, a glossary, additional...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2018

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1 available in JT Non-Fiction, Call number: JT Native Powell

Duncan, Dayton

Summary: "The epic story of the buffalo in America, from prehistoric times to today-a moving and beautifully illustrated work of natural history. The American buffalo-our nation's official mammal-is an improbable, shaggy beast that has found itself at the center of many of our most mythic and sometimes heartbreaking tales. The largest land animals in the Western Hemisphere, they are survivors of a mass...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2023

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Lajimodiere, Denise K.

Summary: Education professor Denise Lajimodiere's interest in American Indian boarding school survivors stories evolved from recording her father and other family members speaking of their experiences. The journey to record survivors stories led her through the Dakotas and Minnesota and into the personal and private space of boarding school survivors. While there, she heard stories that they had never...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: North Dakota State University Press 2019

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.829 LAJ

Dobson, Patrick.

Contents: A leap into the prairie sea -- I'm going to Helena, Montana : the Kansas cities -- Don't worry, kid, you'll be all right : Lawrence, Topeka, Saint Marys, Wamego -- It's the best you're gonna find here : Manhattan, Randolph, Marysville -- You'll find everything you need there : Beatrice, Nebraska; Wilber -- The Jims : Friend, Hastings, Hansen, Minden -- It's better to try something and apologize...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University of Nebraska Press 2009

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.804 DOB

Reis, Ronald A.

Summary: Housewives hung wet sheets and blankets over windows, struggling to seal every crack with gummed paper strips. A man avoided shaking hands, lest the static electricity gathered from a dust storm knock his greeter flat. Children's tears turned to mud. Horses chewed feed filled with dust particles that sandpapered their gums raw. Dead cattle, when pried open, were filled with pounds of...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House 2008

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 978.032 REI

Gannon, Thomas C.

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Summary: "Thomas C. Gannon's Birding While Indian spans more than fifty years of childhood walks and adult road trips to deliver, via a compendium of birds recorded and revered, the author's life as a part-Lakota inhabitant of the Great Plains. Great Horned Owl, Sandhill Crane, Dickcissel: such species form a kind of rosary, a corrective to the rosaries that evoke Gannon's traumatic time in an Indian...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Mad Creek Books, an imprint of The Ohio State University Press 2023

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 GANNON, THOMAS C. GAN

Miller, Sarah Elizabeth

Summary: In this novel authorized by Little House Heritage Trust, Sarah Miller vividly recreates the beauty, hardship, and joys of the frontier in a dazzling work of historical fiction, a captivating story that illuminates one courageous, resilient, and loving pioneer woman as never before--Caroline Ingalls, "Ma" in Laura Ingalls Wilder's beloved Little House books. In the frigid days of February, 1870,...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Large Print, Call number: LP Fiction Miller 2017

Egan, Timothy.

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: Tantor Media 2006

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1 available in Audiobook on MP3 CD, Call number: MP3CD 978.03 EGA

Freedman, Russell.

Summary: Examines the importance of the buffalo in the lore and day-to-day life of the Indian tribes of the Great Plains and describes hunting methods and the uses found for each part of the animal that could not be eaten.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Holiday House 1988

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 970.1 FRE

Frazier, Ian.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Picador USA 2001

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 FRA

Jones, Jennifer Berry.

Summary: A Dakota woman learns a hard lesson about greed and selfishness when she takes the winter supply of earth beans from Heetunka, the Bean Mouse, and leaves nothing in return.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Roberts Rinehart Publishers in conjunction with the Council for Indian Education 1998

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 398.2 JON

Korté, Steve

Summary: "On January 12, 1888, a surprise blizzard broke out in the middle of the day across the Midwest. In its path, hundreds of children and teachers found themselves stranded inside schoolhouses with no food, no heat, and very few options. Days passed, and over 235 people died as result of the harsh snow of the Schoolhouse Blizzard, but many were able to survive thanks to the bravery of others in...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Workshop 2023

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Loh-Hagan, Virginia

Summary: "The events surrounding the Dust Bowl did not look the same to everyone involved. Step back in time and into the shoes of an Oklahoma farmer, a migrant farm worker, and a government journalist as readers act out scenes that took place in the midst of this historic event. Written with simplified, considerate text to help struggling readers, books in this series are made to build confidence as...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: 45th Parallel Press/Cherry Lake Publishing 2019

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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 973.917 LOH

Erdrich, Louise.

Summary: In 1866, Omakayas's son Chickadee is kidnapped by two ne'er-do-well brothers from his own tribe and must make a daring escape, forge unlikely friendships, and set out on an exciting and dangerous journey to get back home.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper 2012

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERD

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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC ERD

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1 available in JT Fiction, Call number: JT Fiction Erdrich 2012

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Summary: The third book in Laura Ingalls Wilder's treasured Little House series. The adventures continue for Laura Ingalls and her family as they leave their little house in the Big Woods of Wisconsin and set out for the big skies of the Kansas Territory. They travel for many days in their covered wagon until they find the best spot to build their house. Soon they are planting and plowing, hunting wild...

Format: sound recording-nonmusical

Publisher / Publication Date: 2017

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1 available in Juvenile Audiobooks, Call number: J PA FIC WIL

Winckler, Suzanne

Contents: Missouri -- Kansas -- Nebraska -- Iowa -- South Dakota -- North Dakota -- Notes on architecture.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Stewart, Tabori & Chang 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 917.8 PLAINS STATES WIN

Summary: "The plow that broke the plains" depicts the social and economic history of the Great Plains from the settlement of the prairies by cattlemen and farmers through the World War I boom to drought and depression. "The river" traces life in the Mississippi River Valley during the previous 150 years, showing the consequences of sharecropping, soil exhaustion, unchecked erosion and floods, and...

Format: moving image

Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2007

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1 available in Documentary DVDs, Call number: DVD DOC PLO

Erdrich, Louise

Summary: Living with their Ojibwe family on the Great Plains of Dakota Territory in 1866, twin brothers Makoons and Chickadee must learn to become buffalo hunters, but Makoons has a vision that foretells great challenges that his family may not be able to overcome.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2016

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC ERD

West, Elliott

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: University Press of Kansas 1998

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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 978 West,

Miller, Sarah Elizabeth

Summary: In the frigid days of February, 1870, Caroline Ingalls, her husband Charles, and their little girls, Mary and Laura, leave the familiar comforts of the Big Woods of Wisconsin and head west to settle in a beautiful, unpredictable land full of promise and peril--the Kansas Indian Territory. The pioneer life is a hard one, especially for a pregnant woman with no friends or kin to turn to for...

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC MIL

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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FICTION MIL

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1 available in Adult, Call number: Fiction Miller 2017

Wilder, Laura Ingalls

Summary: A family travels from the big woods of Wisconsin to a new home on the prairie, where they build a house, meet neighboring Indians, build a well, and fight a prairie fire.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 1953

Copies Available at East Bay

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIL

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2 available in Juvenile Fiction Series, Call number: J FIC WIL

Copies Available at Kingsley

1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC WIL

Copies Available at Peninsula

1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JFIC WIL

Marshall, Joseph

Summary: Teased for his fair coloring, eleven-year-old Jimmy McClean travels with his maternal grandfather, Nyles High Eagle, to learn about his Lakota heritage while visiting places significant in the life of Crazy Horse, the nineteenth-century Lakota leader andwarrior, in a tale that weaves the past with the present. Includes historical note and glossary.

Format: text

Publisher / Publication Date: Amulet Books 2015

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1 available in Juvenile Fiction, Call number: J FIC MAR

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