The Big Empty

  • The Big Empty
    The Big Empty
    By Stan Jones, Patricia Watts

    Kay-Chuck's Gospel Hour blared from a clock radio on the counter. Its time display blinked “12:00” in red numerals. “I'm making sour-dock tea," Nelda announced as they took seats at her kitchen table. On the stove, water in a battered ...

  • The Big Empty: Essays on Western Landscapes as Narrative
    The Big Empty: Essays on Western Landscapes as Narrative
    By Leonard Engel

    Explores the relationship between landscape and history, literature, photography, painting, and film in the American West.

  • The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century
    The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century
    By R. Douglas Hurt

    The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century R. Douglas Hurt ... Thomas D. Isern, “Custom Combining in North Dakota,” North Dakota History 49 (Spring 1982): 4–11; see also Thomas D. Isern, Custom Combining on the Great Plains (Norman: ...

  • The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers
    The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers
    By Ladette Randolph, Nina Shevchuk-Murray

    He scolded Hat for almost three weeks after they ran into each other with their cars at the highway intersection. “You damned fool,” Vic shouted in Hat's face, “why did you run into me like that?” “Well, you old idiot, you didn't even ...

  • The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century
    The Big Empty: The Great Plains in the Twentieth Century
    By R. Douglas Hurt

    Using the voices of women homesteaders, agrarian socialists, Jewish farmers, Mexican meatpackers, New Dealers, and Native Americans, this book creates a sweeping survey of contested race relations, radical politics, and agricultural ...

  • The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers
    The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers
    By Ladette Randolph, Nina Shevchuk-Murray

    ... Deadwood Stage Line. Entering to the music of a twenty-piece band, the troupe soon launched into a series of well-rehearsed performances: a Pony Express ride, an assault on the Deadwood stagecoach, an Indian attack on a settler's cabin ...

  • The Big Empty: Real World Relevance
    The Big Empty: Real World Relevance
    By Tom Fox, Loren Steffy

    The result was a five-part podcast series, The Big Empty and Economic Issues Facing 21st Century Texas. The series examined key issues that the book examines: Water, power, land investment, housing, and of course, the clash of cultures.

  • The Big Empty
    The Big Empty
    By Loren C. Steffy

    The Big Empty, the debut novel from longtime journalist and nonfiction author Loren C. Steffy, combines a sweeping appreciation for history and the struggles of small-town America with an examination of technology and the social and ...

  • The Big Empty
    The Big Empty
    By Jim Jones

    Bodies pile up at an alarming rate as Jake Flynt goes on a murderous rampage. It all comes down to a showdown on the top of Black Mesa out in the Big Empty.