Katherine Cope is twenty-seven years old and is striking out on her own. The year is 1914 and she...

Although representations of the Midwest in the twentieth century often draw on the tropes of empt...

Harold W. Foght's 1906 book The Trail of the Loup is a gem of Nebraska history. In addition to ch...

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The only problem that clouds Lucien and Silvia Wade's calm, comfortable life is that Lucien wants...

The narrator of one of the stories in Mary Wilkins Freeman's 1903 collection Six Trees asks, 'A m...

The brilliant and sinister Martin writes a novel from the perspective of a murderer-and if you re...

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Ernst Weiman is a resourceful German immigrant who lives the American Dream by becoming a success...

Plainsongs's title suggests not only its location on the Great Plains, but also its preference fo...

This edition of Madge Vertner was produced with the assistance of Accessible Archives.Mattie Grif...

The American Midwest does not feature prominently in studies of modernism. Modernism is cosmopoli...