The tallgrass prairie reader /
The tallgrass prairie reader /
edited by John T. Price.
- xxxi, 352 pages : map ; 23 cm
- A bur oak book .
- Bur oak book. .
Includes index.
Children of the sun and moon, as told by Black Dog (Osage) -- A tallgrass commonplace, 1673-1872 -- Prairie mirage / Edwin James -- Life on the prairies / Washington Irving -- Prairie burning / George Catlin -- A jaunt to the looking-glass prairie and back / Charles Dickens -- Chicago / Margaret Fuller -- Spring around Prairie Lodge / Eliza Woodson Farnham -- Jumping off / Francis Parkman Jr. -- Phil and the lost boy / John C. Van Tramp -- America's characteristic landscape / Walt Whitman -- A blizzard / Elizabeth B. Custer -- My uncle's farm / Mark Twain -- A runaway / Francis La Flesche -- The passing of the prairies / William J. Haddock -- The prairie / William A. Quayle -- A new world / John Muir -- The homestead on the knoll / Hamlin Garland -- The Great Spirit / Zitkala-S̈a -- The plant tribes / Melvin R. Gilmore -- Drought / Meridel Le Sueur -- Planting moon / John Joseph Mathews -- Prairie birthday / Aldo Leopold -- July / Josephine W. Johnson -- Three worlds / Winifred M. Van Etten -- The running country / John Madson -- Horizontal grandeur / Bill Holm -- Under Old Nell's skirt / William Least Heat-Moon -- Habits of the grass / Drake Hokanson -- Big grass / Louise Erdrich -- Playing God on the lawns of the Lord / Teresa Jordan -- What the prairie teaches us / Paul Gruchow -- Enclosure / Richard Manning -- The grasshopper year / Mary Swander -- Tallgrass dream / Don Gayton -- Tanji na Che: recovering the landscape of the Ioway / Lance M. Foster -- Far brought / Lisa Knopp -- Pulling weeds: community / Cindy Crosby -- Finding Devonian / Thomas Dean -- Man killed by pheasant / John T. Price -- Getting to know your neighbors / Steven I. Apfelbaum -- Platanthera praeclara / Benjamin Vogt -- Constellation / Elizabeth Dodd.
1609382463 9781609382469
2013953637
Prairies--History.--Middle West
Prairie ecology--Middle West.
Prairies--Middle West--Biography.
Includes index.
Children of the sun and moon, as told by Black Dog (Osage) -- A tallgrass commonplace, 1673-1872 -- Prairie mirage / Edwin James -- Life on the prairies / Washington Irving -- Prairie burning / George Catlin -- A jaunt to the looking-glass prairie and back / Charles Dickens -- Chicago / Margaret Fuller -- Spring around Prairie Lodge / Eliza Woodson Farnham -- Jumping off / Francis Parkman Jr. -- Phil and the lost boy / John C. Van Tramp -- America's characteristic landscape / Walt Whitman -- A blizzard / Elizabeth B. Custer -- My uncle's farm / Mark Twain -- A runaway / Francis La Flesche -- The passing of the prairies / William J. Haddock -- The prairie / William A. Quayle -- A new world / John Muir -- The homestead on the knoll / Hamlin Garland -- The Great Spirit / Zitkala-S̈a -- The plant tribes / Melvin R. Gilmore -- Drought / Meridel Le Sueur -- Planting moon / John Joseph Mathews -- Prairie birthday / Aldo Leopold -- July / Josephine W. Johnson -- Three worlds / Winifred M. Van Etten -- The running country / John Madson -- Horizontal grandeur / Bill Holm -- Under Old Nell's skirt / William Least Heat-Moon -- Habits of the grass / Drake Hokanson -- Big grass / Louise Erdrich -- Playing God on the lawns of the Lord / Teresa Jordan -- What the prairie teaches us / Paul Gruchow -- Enclosure / Richard Manning -- The grasshopper year / Mary Swander -- Tallgrass dream / Don Gayton -- Tanji na Che: recovering the landscape of the Ioway / Lance M. Foster -- Far brought / Lisa Knopp -- Pulling weeds: community / Cindy Crosby -- Finding Devonian / Thomas Dean -- Man killed by pheasant / John T. Price -- Getting to know your neighbors / Steven I. Apfelbaum -- Platanthera praeclara / Benjamin Vogt -- Constellation / Elizabeth Dodd.
1609382463 9781609382469
2013953637
Prairies--History.--Middle West
Prairie ecology--Middle West.
Prairies--Middle West--Biography.