About 36,000 words, the brief novel has just been republished. It was previously published only once, serially and anonymously in 1852 in a New York weekly, the Sunday Dispatch.

A cooperative project convened by the Folger Shakespeare Library in observance of the writer's 400th birthday, the site features high-quality scans of 400 documents otherwise scattered among various libraries and museums. Scans are presented with three views: a thumbnail on the image's main page plus two enlarged versions.

“Prairie Schooner,” founded in 1926, is published with the support of the University of Nebraska-Lincoln’s Department of English.