In this deep geography, An American Corner of the World uses Richardson County, Nebraska, as a case study of the development and decline of rural communities in the northern Great Plains.
David J. Wishart is an emeritus professor of geography at the University of Nebraska–Lincoln. He is the editor of Encyclopedia of the Great Plains (Nebraska, 2004) and Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians (Nebraska, 2007), and the author of several books, including An Unspeakable Sadness: The Dispossession of the Nebraska Indians (Nebraska, 1997).
