Start with high-confidence prairie life books, then narrow by subgenre or adjacent topics.
Land of the Underground Rain
Donald E. Green
Prairyerth
William Least Heat-Moon
Sea of Grass
Dave Hage, Josephine Marcotty
The Worst Hard Time
Timothy Egan
Wild Idea
Dan O'Brien, Dan O'Brien
Bitter Waters
Patrick Dearen
The Ecological Buffalo
Wes Olson
Prairie Wildflowers
Don Kurz
Under Prairie Skies
C. Thomas Shay
The Nebraska Sandhills
Monica Norby, Judy Diamond
The Year Yellowstone Burned
Jeff Henry
