Peter Beeson's 2002 Bibliography

Aldrich, Bess Streeter.  The Rim of the Prairie.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1925.

Allison, Dorothy.  Bastard out of Carolina.  New York: The Penguin Group, 1992.

Allison, Dorothy.  Two or Three Things I Know for Sure.  New York: The Penguin Group, 1995.

Alfred, Norris W.  Butterfly Against the Gale.  Walthill: Center for Rural Affairs, 1991.

Alfred, Norris W.  There's So Much To Say In Polk.  Walthill: Center for Rural Affairs, 1994.

Bair, Julene.  One Degree West: Reflections of a Plainsdaughter.  Minneapolis:  Mid-List Press, 1991.

Bell, Margaret.  When Montana and I Were Young: A Frontier Childhood.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

Bissinger, H.G.  Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, and A Dream.  New York: HarperCollins, 1990.

Bloom, Stephen G.  Postville: A Clash of Cultures in Heartland America.  New York: Harcourt, Inc., 2000.

Blunt, Judy.  Breaking Clean.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2002.

Brown, Bruce. Lone Tree. Crown, 1989.

Butala, Sharon.  Perfection of the Morning: A Woman's Awakening in Nature.  St. Paul: Hungry Mind Press, 1994.

Cather, Willa.  The Song of the Lark.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.

Cather, Willa.  My Antonia.  Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1915.

Clifford, Frank.  The Backbone of the World.  New York: Broadway Books, 2002.

Conger, Rand D. and Glen H. Elder.  Families in Troubled Times.  New York: Aldine De Gruyter, 1994.

Crowther, Hal.  "Into the Brier Patch: A Yankee Pursues the Oral Literature of the South," p. 23 in The New York Times Book Review (August 22, 2002).

Danbom, David B.  Born in the Country: A History of Rural America.  Baltimore: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995.

Daun, Ann.  The Prairie in Her Eyes.  Minneapolis: Milkweed Editions, 2001.

Davidson, Osha Gray.  Broken Heartland: The Rise of America's Rural Ghetto. Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1996.

Davies, Pete.  Storm Country: A Journey Through the Heart of America.  New York: Random House, 1992.

Dyer, Joel.  Harvest of Rage. Boulder: Westview Press, 1997.

Ehrlich, Gretel.  The Solace of Open Spaces.  New York: Viking, 1985.

Friedberger, M.  Farm Families and Change in 20th Century America.  Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1988.

Graves, John.  Goodbye To A River.  Houston: Gulf Publishing Company, 1959.

Greene, Bob.  Once Upon a Town: The Miracle of the North Platte Canteen.  New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

Gruchow, Paul.  The Necessity of Empty Places.  New York: St. Martin's Press, 1988.

Hansen, Twyla.  "Why I Think I'm A Writer" in Nebraska Voices: Telling the Stories of Our State.  Lincoln: The Nebraska Humanities Council, 1993.

Hanson, Victor Davis.  The Land Was Everything: Letters From An American Farmer.  New York: The Free Press, 2000.

Linda Hasselstrom. Going Over East: Reflections of a Woman Rancher.  New York: Fulcrum, Inc., 1987.

Heilman, Robert Leo.  Overstory: Zero-Real Life in Timber Country.  Seattle: Sasquatch Books, 1995.

Hokanson, Drake.  Reflecting a Prairie Town: A Year in Peterson.  Iowa City: University of Iowa Press, 1994.

Jenkinson, Clay. Message on the Wind: A Spiritual Odyssey on the Northern Plains.  Reno: The Marmarth Press, 2002.

Kingsolver, Barbara.  Small Wonder.  New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

Kittredge, William.  Hole in the Sky.  New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

Kooser, Ted.  Local Wonders: Seasons in the Bohemian Alps.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002.

MacLean, Harry N. In Broad Daylight. Harper & Row, 1988.

Manning, Richard.  Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie.  New York: Viking, 1995.

Martin, Lee.  From Our House.  New York: Penguin Putnam, 2000.

Mason, Bobbie Ann.  Clear Springs.  New York: Random House, 1999.

Maynard, Lee.  Crum. New York: Washington Square Press, 1988.

McMurtry, Larry.  In A Narrow Grave: Essays on Texas.  New York: Simon and Schuster, 1968.

McMurty, Larry.  Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1999.

Meyers, Kent.  The Witness of Combines.  Minneapolis:  University of Minnesota Press, 1998.

Miller, Peter.  People of the Great Plains.  Waterbury: Silver Spring Press, 1996.

Morris, Wright.  The Home Place.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1948.

Norris, Kathleen.  Dakota: A Spiritual Geography.  New York: Houghton Mifflin, 1993.

Norton, Lisa Dale.  Hawk Flies Above: Journey to the Heart of the Sandhills.  New York: Picador USA, 1996.

Quantic, Diane Dufva.  The Nature of Place: A Study of Great Plains Fiction.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1995.

Quinney, Richard.  Borderland: A Midwest Journal. Madison:  The University of Wisconsin Press.

Sandoz, Mari.  Old Jules. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1935.

Schooler, Lynn.  The Blue Bear.  New York: HarperCollins, 2002.

Sherwood, Ben.  The Man Who Ate the 747.  New York: Random House, 2000.

Spragg, Mark.  Where Rivers Change Direction.  New York: Riverhead Books, 1999.

Stegner, Wallace.  Wolf Willow: A History, a Story, and a Memory of the Last Plains Frontier.  New York: Penguin Books, 1955.

Stevenson, Robert Lewis.  Across the Plains.

Stock, Catherine McNicol.  Rural Radicals. New York: Penguin Putnam, 1996.

White, Lyman.  Second Go ‘Round.  Kearney: Morris Publishing, 1995.

White, Lyman.  Fifty Years Beside the Chutes. Kearney: Morris Publishing, 1996.

White, Lyman.  The Bull Goes On. Kearney: Morris Publishing, 1998.

Yost, Nellie Snyder. Evil Obsession: The Annie Cook Story. Westport, 1991.

Other Rural Reading Options

Nonfiction

Abbey, Edward. Desert Solitaire. Random House, 1968.

Bass, Rick. Winter: Notes From Montana. Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1991.

Barnes, Kim. In The Wilderness. Doubleday, 1996.

Bilger, Burkhard.  Noodling for Flatheads: Moonshine, Monster Catfish and Other Southern Comforts. Scriber, 2000.

Blew, Mary Clearman. All But The Waltz. Penguin Books, 1991.

Bragg, Rick.  All Over but the Shoutin'. Pantheon Books, 1997.

Brown, Larry.  Billy Ray's Farm: Essays From a Place Called Tula.   Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2001.

Butterworth, Dan. Waiting for Rain.. Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 1992.

Caudill, Harry M. Night Comes to the Cumberlands: A Biography of a Depressed Area. Little Brown & Co., 1962.

Conway, Jill Ker.  The Road From Coorain.  Vintage Books, 1989.

Copote, Truman.  In Cold Blood.  Vintage Books, 1965.

Covington, Dennis.  Salvation on Sand Mountain:Snake Handling and Redemption in Southern Appalachia. Addison-Wesley, 1995.

Doig, Ivan. This House of Sky. Harcourt Brace Jovanich, 1978.

Duncan, Dayton. Out West: An American Journey. Viking, 1987.

Duncan, Dayton. Miles From Nowhere: Tales From America's Contemporary Frontier. Viking, 1993.

Ellis, Jerry. Walking the Trail. Delta Book, 1991.

Fedullo, Mick. Light of the Feather. William Morrow, 1992.

Fitchen, Janet M.  Endangered Spaces, Enduring Places: Change, Identity, and Survival in Rural America.  Boulder: Westview Press, 1991.

Foote, Horton. Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood. Scribner, 1999.

Frazier, Ian. Great Plains. Farrar/Straus/Giroux, 1989.

Fromm, Pete. Indian Creek Chronicles. St.Martin's Press, 1993.

Greene, Melissa Fay. Praying for Sheetrock. Addison-Wesley, 1991.

Hamilton, David.  Deep River: A Memoir of a Missouri Farm.  University of Missouri Press, 2001.

Hemphill, Paul.  The Ballad of Little River. The Free Press, 2000.

Hickman, Homer H.  Rocket Boys.  New York: Delacorte Press, 1998.

Higgs, Richard. Bringing In The Sheaves. Council Oak Books, 1996.

Hildebrand, John.  Mapping the Farm: The Chronicle of a Family.  Vintage Books, 1995.

Holland, Barbara. Bingo Night at the Fire Hall. Harcourt Brace, 1997.

Holm, Bill. Prairie Days. Saybrook Publishing Company, 1985.

Jager, Ronald.  Eighty Acres: Elegy for a Family Farm.  Beacon Press, 1990.

Janovy, John.   Keith County Journal. St. Martin's Press, 1978.

Jenkins, Peter.  A Walk Across America.  Willliam Morrow & Company, 1979.

Jordan, Teresa. Riding the White Horse Home. Pantheon Books, 1993.

Kagan, Daniel and Ian Summers. Mute Evidence. Bantam Books, 1983.

Karr, Mary. The Liars' Club. Viking, 1995.

Katz, Jon.  Running to the Mountain: A Midlife Adventure.  Broadway Books, 1999.

Keizer, Garret. A Dresser of Sycamore Trees. Viking, l991.

Kesselheim, Alan S. Silhouettee On A Wide Land. Fulcrum Publishing, 1992.

Kloefkorn, William.  This Death by Drowning.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1985.

Kohn, Howard.  The Last Farmer: An American Memoir.  Summit Books, 1988.

Krakauer, Jon.  Into the Wild. Villard, 1996.

Latham, Aaron. The Ballad of Gussie & Clyde.  1997.

Leopold, Aldo.  A Sand County Almanac.  Oxford University Press, 1949.

Lopez, Barry Holstun. Desert Notes. Avon Books, 1976.

Lopez, Barry Holstun. River Notes. Avon Books, 1979.

Lopez, Barry Holstun. Winter Count. Charles Schribner's Sons, 1981.

Lord, Nancy.  Green Alaska: Dreams from the Far Coast.  Counterpoint, 1999.

Maclean, Norman. A River Runs Through It and Other Stories. University               of Chicago Press, 1976.

Maclean, Norman. Young Men and Fire. University of Chicago Press, 1992.

Malcolm, Andrew H.   Final Harvest. Random House, 1986.

Matthews, Anne. Where the Buffalo Roam. Grove Weidenfeld, 1992.

Matthiessen, Peter. In The Spirit Of Crazy Horse. Viking, 1980.

Martin, Gregory. Mountain City. North Point Press, 2000.

McGinniss, Joe.  Going To Extremes.  Peguin Books, 1980.

McKervill, Hugh W. The Sinbuster of Smoky Burn: The Memoirs of a Student Minister on the Prairies. Vancouver: Whitecap Books, 1993.

McLaurin, Tim. Keeper of the Moon. Norton, 1991.

McPhee, John. Coming to the Country.

Meloy, Ellen.  The Last Cheater's Waltz.  The University of Arizona Press, 1999.

Moon, William Least Heat. Blue Highways: A Journey Into America. Atlantic-Little Brown, 1982.

Moon, William Least Heat. Prairy Erth. Houghton Mifflin Company, 1991.

Nickerson, Sheila. Disappearance: A Map. Doubleday, 1996.

Neihardt, John.  Black Elk Speaks.  Simon & Schuster, 1932.

O'Brien, Dan. Equinox: Life, Love, and Birds of Prey. Lyons & Burford Publishers, 1997.

Olsen, Brent. The Lay of the Land: A View from the Prairie. J&L Lee Co., 1998.

Paulsen, Gary.  Winterdance: The Fine Madness of Running the Iditarod.    Harcourt Brace & Company, 1994.

Ringholz, Raye C. (Text) & K.C. Muscolino (Photographs). Little Town Blues: Voices From the Changing West. Gibbs-Smith, 1992.

Rhodes, Richard.  Farm: A Year in the Life of An American Farmer.  University of Nebraska Press, 1989.

Schrieber, Le Anne. Light Years: A Memoir. Lyons & Burford, 1996.

Scot, Barbara J. Prairie Reunion. Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.

Scully, Julia.  Outside Passage: A Memoir of an Alaskan Childhood.  Random House, 1998.

Welsch, Roger.  Shingling the Fog & Other Plains Lies.  University of Nebraska Press, 1972.

Welsch, Roger.  It's Not the End of the Earth, But You Can See It From Here: Tales of the Great Plains. Villard Books, 1990.

White, Bailey. Mama Makes Up Her Mind. Addison-Wesley, 1993.

Williams, Terry Tempest. Refuge: An Unnatural History of Family and Place. Pantheon, 1991.

Young, Carrie. Nothing to Do but Stay. Delta, 1991.

Fiction

Agee, Jonis. The Weight of Dreams. Viking,1999.

Agee, Jonis.  South of Resurrection.  Peguin Books, 1997.

Aldrich, Bess Streeter.  The Rim of the Prairie.  Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1925.

Abbott, Raymond H. That Day in Gordon. The Vanguard Press, 1986.

Askew, Rilla. Strange Business. Viking, 1992.

Banks, Russell. Affliction. Harper & Row, 1989.

Banks, Russell. The Sweet Hereafter. HarperCollins, 1991.

Beer, Ralph. The Blind Corral. Penguin, 1986.

Bradford, Richard. Red Sky At Morning.  Harper Perennial, 1968.

Cather,Willa.   O Pioneers.  New York: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1913.

Chute, Carolyn. The Beans of Egypt, Maine. Warner Books, 1985.

Cooke, John Byrne.  The Snowblind Moon.  Simon and Schuster, 1984.

Coomer, Joe. Kentucky Love.  St. Martin's/Marek, 1985.

Coomer, Joe.   A Flatland Fable. McGraw-Hill, 1986.

Cullin, Mitch. Whompyjawed. The Permanent Press, 1999.

Day, Robert.  The Last Cattle Drive. University of Kansas Press, 1977.

Doig, Ivan. English Creek. Penguin Books, 1984.

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Doig, Ivan. Dancing at the Rascal Fair. Harper and Row, 1987.

Dexter, Pete. Paris Trout. Penguin, 1988.

Drury, Tom. The End of Vandalism. Houghton Mifflin/Seymour Lawrence, 1994.

Erdrich, Louise. Love Medicine. Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1984.

Erdrich, Louise. The Beet Queen. Henry Holt, 1986.

Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café. McGraw-    Hill, 1987.

Ford, Richard. Wildlife. Vintage, 1990.

Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying. Vintage Books, 1993.

Galvin, James. The Meadow. Henry Holt and Company, 1992.

Giardina, Denise.  Storming Heaven.  Ballantine Books, 1987.

Griffin, Patricia Browning. The World Around Midnight. Washington Square Press, 1991.

Guterson, David. Snow Falling On Cedars. Vintage, 1995.

Harrison, Jim. Farmer. Delta/Seymour Lawrence, 1976.

Harrison, Jim. Dalva. Washington Square Press, 1988.

Harrison, Jim.  The Road Home. Atlantic Monthly Press, 1998.

Haruf, Kent. The Tie That Binds. Holt, Rinehard and Winston, 1984.

Haruf, Kent. Where You Once Belonged. Summit Books, 1990.

Haruf, Kent. Plainsong. Alfred A. Knoph, 1999.

Hauptman, William. The Storm Season. Bantam, 1992.

Hendrie, Laura. Stygo. MacMurray & Beck, Aspen, 1994.

Hillerman, Tony. Skinwalkers. Harper and Row,

Hillerman, Tony. Talking God. Harper and Row,

Hillerman, Tony. The Dark Wind. Harper and Row,

Houston, Pam. Cowboys Are My Weakness. Pocket Books, 1992.

Hudson, Lois Phippips.  The Bones of Plenty.  Minneapolis: Minnesota Historical Society Press,  1984.

Jones, Matthew F. The Cooter Farm. Hyperion, 1991.

Kay, Terry. The Year the Lights Came On.  The University of Georgia Press, 1976.

Kay, Terry. To Dance With The White Dog. Washington Square Press, 1990.

Kinsella, W.P. The Moccasin Telegraph and other stories. Penguin, 1983.

Kurtz, Don. South of the Big Four. Chronicle Books, 1995.

Manfred, Frederick.  The Golden Bowl.  Dakota Press, 1969.

McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. Alfred A. Knopf, 1992.

McMurtry, Larry. The Last Picture Show. Simon & Schuster, 1966.

McMurtry, Larry. Texasville. Simon & Schuster, 1987.

McMurtry, Larry. Duane's Depressed. Simon & Schuster, 1999.

McNeal, Tom. Goodnight, Nebraska. Random House, 1998.

Morris, Wright. Plains Song. Penguin Books, 1980.

Nichols, John. The Milegro Bean Field War.

Norman, Howard. The Northern Lights. Washington Square Press, 1987.

Norman, Howard. The Bird Artist. Picador USA, 1994.

O'Brien, Dan. Eminent Domain. Crown, 1987.

O'Brien, Dan. Spirit of the Hills. Pocket Books, 1988.

Owen, Howard. Littlejohn. Villard Books, 1992.

Paulsen, Gary. Clabbered Dirt, Sweet Grass. Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

Peery, Janet. Alligator Dance. Southern Methodist University Press, Dallas, 1993.

Proulx, E. Annie. Postcards. Collier Books, 1992.

Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News. Charles Schribner's Sons, 1993.

Proulx, E. Annie.  Close Range: Wyoming Stories.  Schriber, 1999.

Robbins, Tom.  Even Cowgirls Get the Blues. A Bantam Book, 1976.

Rolvaag, O.E. Giants in the Earth. Harper Perennial, 1927.

Ross, Sinclair. As for Me and My House. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1941.

Smilely, Jane. A Thousand Acres. Fawcett Columbine, 1991.

Spanbauer, Tom. Faraway Places. Penguin,1988.