JUST A PAGE OR TWO of any Bryan Jones' books reminds me why I’m a reader – I’m a sucker for great storytelling.  At the heart of North of the Platte, South of the Niobrara: A Little Further into the Nebraska Sand Hills are the stories of the region’s residents – ranchers, schoolteachers, bull riders and veterans – and of the historians, scientists and poets who’ve traveled and loved its rivers and dunes. This place, these voices, related to us by master storyteller Bryan Jones, compose a unique and unqualified treat.

— J. V. Brummels, author of frontpew@paradise and Book of Grass

BOOKS ABOUT THE VAST SAND HILLS region of Nebraska are scarce, and it follows that good books about the area are rare indeed. Bryan Jones found the people who love these Hills and lets them talk. Even Bryan’s geologist and hydrologists reveal an enthusiasm for this region essential to helping us and them understand this very uncommon place. This is a great book about the Sand Hills of Nebraska, and we will be forever grateful to Bryan Jones for the years he spent researching and writing North of the Platte, South of the Niobrara.

— Duane Gudgel, Plains Trading Company

SOMEWHERE IN THE MIDDLE of Bryan Jones’ purposely meandering exploration of the Nebraska Sand Hills is a quote from recently deceased native born poet Don Welch: “With the Sand Hills there’s an overtakelessness, an unendingness. There is a sense of becoming I think is utterly fascinating and mysterious.” Don could’ve been talking about Bryan’s book. Bryan lets his readers in on the secret ways of a place most of us who know it would really like to keep to ourselves.

— Mike Farrell, award-winning documentary film director, producer and writer of In Search of the Oregon Trail, A Sand Hills Story, The Platte River Road and Plowing Up a Storm.