| Listen to recent High Plains in Words episodes: |
 Grass - Buck Ramsey - Celebrate Cowboy Poetry Week with one of the greatest cowboy poems ever written in a recording of the author from 1990.
(aired 4/24/2009) |
 The Other Side of Oz - Antonya Nelson - A Kansas native reflects on the paradoxes of Kansas' place in the US.
(aired 4/17/2009) |
 We Fed Them Cactus - Fabiola Cabeza de Baca - A slice of life on the Llano Estacado.
(aired 4/10/2009) |
 Land of Grass and Sky - Mary Taylor Young - This journal of High Plains' landscapes and wildlife has been called a "love letter to the prairies"
(aired 4/3/2009) |
 The Persian Pickle Club - Sandra Dallas - A group of Kansas women are held together by quilting and murder.
(aired 3/27/2009) |
 If You're Not From The Prairie - David Bouchard - A view of the harsh extremes of the prairie through the eyes of a small boy.
(aired 3/20/2009) |
 Death on the Western Frontier - Eugene D Fleharty and Gary K Hulett - Newspaper accounts of the many ways to die in 19th Century Kansas
(aired 3/13/2009) |
 The Xit Ranch & Early Days of the Llano Estacado - J.Evetts Haley - Join us for tales of cowboying in the Texas Panhandle
(aired 3/6/2009) |
 The Great Whale of Kansas - Richard W Jennings - A young boy digging in his Kansas backyard discovers a fantastic fossil
(aired 2/27/2009) |
 Letter to a Newborn Niece, Woody Guthrie - from the book Reflections - A letter that is every bit as poetic and witty as author Woody Guthrie's songs
(aired 2/20/2009) |
 Pretty Boy Floyd - by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry - A reaction of the life of a charming St. Louis country boy who becomes a notorious bank robber during the Depression
(aired 2/13/2009) |
 Ted Kooser Poetry - by Ted Kooser - Poems by America's Poet Laureate
(aired 2/6/2009) |
 Survival in the Storm - by Katelan Janke - 12 year old Grace Edwards uses her journal to tell the story of a year (1935) in the Texas Panhandle town of Dalhart during the days of the Dust Bowl.
(aired 1/30/2009) |
 Plainsong - by Kent Haruf - A touching and funny story of an unlikely family.
(aired 1/23/2009) |
 Garden City, Dreams in a Kansas Town - by Holly Hope - Meet folks with Dorothy Gales syndrome, people who moved away only to decide there's no place like home.
(aired 1/16/2009) |
 That Old Ace in the Hole - by Annie Prouix - A warm-hearted novel about an awkward misfit making his way among the old kooks and rawhide toughmen of the Texas Panhandle.
(aired 1/9/2009) |
 More than Petticoats: Remarkable Texas Women - by Greta Anderson - Biographies of ten extraordinary women whose contributions made a profound impact on Texas.
(aired 1/2/2009) |
 A Cold Christmas - by Charlene Weir - Murder threatens to ruin Christmas in a small Kansas Town.
(aired 12/26/2008) |
 Worth - by A. LaFaye - Two very different boys are brought together by their efforts to save a High Plains Farm.
(aired 12/19/2008) |
 Tascosa: It's Life and Gaudy Times - by Fred Nolan - The true, detailed, down-and-dirty story of Tascosa-the cowboy capital of the Texas Panhandle.
(aired 12/12/2008) |
 100 Cupboards - by Nathan D. Wilson - Sent to live with family in smalltown Kansas, a young boy discovers something magic in his new home.
(aired 12/5/2008) |
 Gonzalo, Cornado's Shepherd Boy - by Mary Joe Clendenin - The story of the real first Thanksgiving.
(aired 11/28/08) |
 Eureka - by Jim Lehrer - A Kansas man's mid-life crisis sends him West across Kansas and High Plains.
(aired 11/14/08) |
 Tallgrass - by Sandra Dallas - A Colorado farm girl reaches out to Japanese Americans held in a WWII Internment Camp.
(aired 11/7/08) |
 The Ghost of Mary Prairie by Lisa Polisar - A teenage boy uncovers a ghost story and murder mystery in small town Oklahoma
(aired 10/31/08) |
 First Dawn by Judith Miller - An inspirational novel about early settlers to Hill City and Nicodemus, Kansas
(aired 10/24/08) |
 Cadillac Desert: The American West and it's Disappearing Water by Mark Reisner - An updated look at Man's Styruggle to discover and control water in the West.
(aired 10/17/08) |
 Romancing the Panhandle by Mariwynn McPherson Webb - A tribute to the unique beauty of the Texas Panhandle.
(aired 10/10/08) |
 The Stone Children by CJ Morris-Facing an uncertain future, four children must make their way across the High Plains.
(aired 10/3/08) |
 Life Out Here by Lynn Allen-A collection of newspaper columns about life on a farm in the plains of Southeastern Colorado.
(aired 9/26/08) |
 Branding Texas: Performing Culture in the Lone Star State by Leigh Clemons A theatre professor's examination of how performance has shaped America's concept of "Texan-ness".
(aired 09/19/08) |
 Railwayman's Son: A Plains Family Memoir by Hugh Hawkins - A poignant memoir of life in the Rock Island towns of Western Kansas in the 30's and 40's.
(aired 09/12/08) |
 To Honor the Dead by Joseph W. Shaw- the tragedy of tribal relocations and military campaigns haunts a Western Oklahoma homestead.
(aired 09/05/08) |
 Hard Road West: History & Geology Along the Gold Rush Trail by Keith Heyer Meldahl.
(aired 08/29/08) |
 Spring's Edge: A Ranch Wife's Chronicle - by Laurie Wagner. Buyer Accounts of life on a modern day Colorado ranch reflect the astonishing beauty of life on the land.
(aired 08/22/08) |
 Train to Estelline - by Jane Roberts Wood. A young woman's adventures as a teacher in West Texas, first of the Lucinda Richards trilogy.
(aired 08/08/08) |
 Uncertain Pilgrims by Lenore Carroll A grief-stricken history buff finds comfort in a journey along the Santa Fe Trail.
(aired 08/08/08) |
 Rights in the Balance - Free Press, Fair Trial and Nebraska Press Association v. Stuart by Mark R. Scherer A brutal murder in Wneb spawns historic conflict between the constitutional protections of the first and sixth amendments.
(aired 08/01/08) |
 American Outback: The Oklahoma Panhandle in the 20th Century by Richard Lowitt- Despite concerns about water, pollution, and population growth, the Panhandle remains the most prosperous part of the state.
(aired 07/25/08) |
 Buffalo Music - by Tracey Fern. The story of Mary Ann Goodnight and how she helped to save Palo Duro Canyon’s buffalo.
(aired on 07/18/08) |
 Bleeding Kansas - by Sara Paretsky - A gripping contemporary novel of three farm families who trace their roots back to the violent clashes between antislavery and proslavery forces in Bleeding Kansas.
(aired on 07/11/08) |
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