High Plains in Words This feature is currently on broadcast hiatus. The High Plains in Words is a look at writings about the High Plains and the people who choose to live here.  Selections are chosen from history, drama, poetry and fiction, always with the intention of highlighting those works which describe the environment and express the values that make our region, and our people unique.  It is written and produced by Stacy Yates as part of HPPR's regional programming mission.

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	The Brute - by Mike Klassen— A teenage boy confronts his own inner demons while facing down a Kansas twister
	Reciprocity - by Art Crosser—Poetry - Reflections on the Texas panhandle wildfires of 2006
	The God of Animals - by Aryn Kyle.  A young girl narrates her family’s struggles on a horse ranch in a small Colorado town
	Stormy Weather - by Paulette Jiles.  Texas women weather storms in family & community—and the black dusters of the ‘30s
	The Dalton Gang and their Family Ties by Nancy Ohnick—  The story of the Dalton Gang hideout in Meade, Kansas
	True Stories of a Young Cowboy by Gene Barksdale - A working ranch cowboy commits to paper the stories he once told around the campfire
	My Pardner, from For the Love of a Horse by Max Evans— A young boy grows up fast driving a herd of horses across the high plains
	A Soccer Season in Kansas from Antonio’s Gun and Delfino’s Dream - by Sam Quinones - The triumphant 2003 soccer season changed the lives of Garden City High School  students
	Everlasting - by Carol Johnson.  Married off young to a much older man, a young woman forges a life in rural Oklahoma.
	Amarillo, The Story of a Western Town - by Paul H. Carlson-  A comprehensive history of Amarillo, from early settlement to economic hub of the High Plains
	Kansas Troubles - by Earlene Fowler.   This murder mystery was inspired by the quilting pattern of the same name
	The Simple Life - by Donald Mace Williams.   A novelist and newspaper editor reminisces about neighbors in Miami, Texas
	Cimarron Chronicles, Saga of the Open Range - by Carrie Schmoker Anshutz & M.W. “Doc” Anshutz; Edited by LaDonna Meyers.  First-person accounts by two early settlers in Crooked Creek Valley near Dodge City
	Grandfather's Christmas Tree - by Keith Strand A true story of a long loved christmas family tradition
	My Prairie Christmas - by Brett Harvey.  A little girl's first Christmas on the prairie is full of fear and joy.
	Christmas at the Ranch - by Elmer Kelton.  Ranch kids of the depression era in West Texas find their own ways to have fun at Christmas.
	The Christmas of the Phonograph Records - by Mari Sandoz.  A father's extravagant purchase draws a community together at Christmas.