Visit the Museum of the Great Plains in Lawton, Oklahoma. The museum has tour guides or you can go on a self-guided tour. The exhibits depict history, culture, and life on the Great Plains and will provide you with an overall view of the Great Plains area. For starters, go online to the museum's website, museumgreatplains.org.
Subscribe to "Great Plains Quarterly," which is edited by a faculty member of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. Articles about such topics as the Blackfeet Reservation and Glacier National Park and racial violence in the state of Kansas will give you insight into this region. This journal is published four times a year and focuses on appreciation of the Great Plains areas. It is an excellent resource for scholars to learn about the past, present, and future of this history-filled part of the country.
Read the journals of the Lewis and Clark expedition online. They take you through the travels of Meriwether Lewis and William Clark and offer insight into the history of the Great Plains region. Their adventures are documented in this collection and cover the years 1803 through 1806. Other books that cover aspects of the Great Plains history are "Encyclopedia of the Great Plains Indians" by David J. Wishart published in March 2007 and "The Great Plains" by Walter Prescott Webb published in 1981.
Travel through part of the Great Plains area, and explore areas such as the Neal Smith National Wildlife Refuge in Iowa, the Fort Abraham State Park in Nebraska, and the Museum of Westward Expansion underneath the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri.