Nancy Mayborn Peterson

The Homefront, Then and Now

Selected Works

Historical Fiction

It's 1942. The World's at war. Hiram's Spring, Nebraska, is awash in fear and hatred. Before it is over the passions the war arouses will forever mar the lives of Sis Greggory, her soldier-brother, Danny, and Horst, a German prisoner of war.

Western History

Walking in Two Worlds: Mixed-Blood Indian Women Seeking Their Path

Torn between two cultures, eleven mixed-blood women fight to discover who and what they are.

People of the Moonshell: A Western River Journal

Indians, artists, Mormons and scientists all left their footprints in this rich Platte River history.

People of the Troubled Water: A Missouri River Journal

“... a brilliant narrative of the successive cavalcade of fearless men and women who penetrated the far West... Aspects and biographies about the fur trade and the opening of the West have been published with consistency, but no one has used such a strong uniting force as does Peterson.”

--Dean Krakel, High Plains Heritage Society