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Ten-year-old Little Wolf, an imaginative and courageous boy, is determined to observe the buffaloes rise out of the middle of the lake, and his quest leads not only to a miraculous vision but also to the salvation of his tribe.

This book relays the factual details of the Dust Bowl through multiple accounts of the event. Readers learn details from the point of view of an Oklahoma farmer, a migrant farm worker, and a government journalist. This book offers opportunities to compare and contrast various narrative perspectives in the text while gathering and analyzing information about an historical event.

A modern memoir anthology by Kansas writers in the Great Plains Writers Group, Echoes from the Prairie consists of short creative non-fiction stories of birth and death; accounts of parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles, and siblings; tales recalling the emotion-filled relationships between children and their parents; narratives dealing with interactions between the writer and the natural world; and, of course, memoirs of childhooda great many of these,...

In order to establish trade with the Spanish in Santa Fe, the French turn to the People (the Indian tribe) to serve as guides for the hazardous trek.

Presents accounts of people, animals, and events on the plains and prairies of the Old West.

A continuation of the Spanish Bit Saga, this story tells of the confrontation between the white man and the native American Indian during the earliest years of exploration of the new world.

"Tells how our Southern Plains developed into a sea of dust in the 1930's, and discusses what farmers are doing today to prevent further erosion of their land."