Editing Great Plains (section)

=== Secondary sources ===
* Bonnifield, Paul. ''The Dust Bowl: Men, Dirt, and Depression'' (University of New Mexico Press, 1978), {{ISBN|0-8263-0485-0}}.
* Cherny, Robert W. "The Great Plains" in Michael Kazin, ed. ''The Concise Princeton Encyclopedia of American Political History'' (2011) pp.&nbsp;272–279.
* Courtwright, Julie. ''Prairie Fire: A Great Plains History'' (University Press of Kansas, 2011) 274 pp.
* Danbom, David B. ''Sod Busting: How Families Made Farms On the 19th-Century Plains'' (2014)
* Drummond, Mark A., et al. "Land change variability and human–environment dynamics in the United States Great Plains". ''Land Use Policy'' 29.3 (2012): 710–723. [https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1925&context=usgsstaffpub online]
* Eagan, Timothy. ''The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl''. (Houghton Mifflin, 2006).
* [[Michael Forsberg|Forsberg, Michael]], ''Great Plains: America's Lingering Wild'' (University of Chicago Press, 2009), {{ISBN|978-0-226-25725-9}}
* Gilfillan, Merrill. ''Chokecherry Places, Essays from the High Plains'', (Boulder, Colorado, Johnson Press) {{ISBN|1-55566-227-7}}.
* Grant, Michael Johnston. ''Down and Out on the Family Farm: Rural Rehabilitation in the Great Plains, 1929–1945'', (Univ. of Nebraska Press, 2002), {{ISBN|0-8032-7105-0}}
* Havighurst, Walter. ''Midwest and Great Plains'' (1967), for secondary schools. [https://archive.org/details/midwestgreatplai00havi/mode/2up online]
* Hurt, R. Douglas. ''The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century'' (University of Arizona Press; 2011) 315 pages; the environmental, social, economic, and political history of the region. [https://archive.org/details/bigemptygreatpla0000hurt/page/267/mode/2up online]
* Hurt, R. Douglas. ''The Great Plains During World War II''. (University of Nebraska Press. 2008). Pp. xiii, 507. [https://archive.org/details/greatplainsdurin0000hurt online]
* Lavin, Stephen J., Fred M. Shelley, and J. Clark Archer. ''Atlas of the Great Plains'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2011) [https://books.google.com/books?id=ZkcqDwAAQBAJ&dq=Plains&pg=PP1 online].
* Luebke, Frederick C. "Regionalism and the Great Plains: Problems of concept and method". ''Western Historical Quarterly'' 15.1 (1984): 19–38. [https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1166&context=historyfacpub online]
* Maher, Susan Naramore. ''Deep Map Country: Literary Cartography of the Great Plains'' (University of Nebraska Press, 2014), covers nonfiction and environmental writing.
* Miner, Craig. ''West of Wichita: Settling the High Plains of Kansas, 1865-1890'' (1986) [https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/business-history-review/article/abs/west-of-wichita-settling-the-high-plains-of-kansas-18651890-by-minercraig-lawrence-university-press-of-kansas-1986-vii-303-pp-maps-illustrations-notes-bibliography-and-index-1995/ADD71E0F7C78890332497B51BFB1996A online book review]
* Parton, William J., et al. "Ecological impact of historical land‐use patterns in the Great Plains: a methodological assessment". ''Ecological Applications'' 15.6 (2005): 1915–1928. [https://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/handle/2027.42/117101/eap20051561915.pdf?sequence=1 online]
* Peirce, Neal R. ''The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States'' (1973); Comprehensive coverage of the 1950s and 1960s in each state.
* Raban, Jonathan. ''Bad Land: An American Romance'' (Vintage 1996); winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction.
* Rees, Amanda. ''The Great Plains Region: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures'' (2004)
* Rossum, Sonja, and Stephen Lavin. "Where are the Great Plains? A cartographic analysis". ''Professional Geographer'' 52.3 (2000): 543–552. 
* Shortridge, James R. "The heart of the prairie: Culture areas in the central and northern Great Plains". ''Great Plains Quarterly'' (1988): 206–221. [https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1367&context=greatplainsquarterly online]
* Turner, B. L., et al. "An investigation into land use changes and consequences in the Northern Great Plains using systems thinking and dynamics". (2013). [https://openprairie.sdstate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1104&context=nrm_pubs online]
* Wood, Frances Elizabeth, and Ed Morgan. ''Panoramic Plains, the Great Plains States: Iowa, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, South Dakota'' (1962) for middle schools.