TY - BOOK AU - Glennie,Ian AU - Hunter,Fredericka AU - O'Connor,Susan AU - Smith,Annick TI - The wide open: prose, poetry, and photographs of the prairie SN - 080321751X (cloth : alk. paper) PY - 2008/// CY - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press KW - American literature KW - Montana KW - Landscapes KW - Literary collections KW - Pictorial works KW - Prairies N1 - Includes bibliographical references; Part one: Home on the range; Becoming; Mary Clearman Blew --; Evolution; Judy Blunt --; Excerpts from; The death of Jim Loney; James Welch --; No bastion; James Galvin --; A foal; Thomas McGuane --; Grandfather poem; Letter to Richard Hugo; Birthright; Crosscurrent; M.L. Smoker ---; To a meadowlark; Jim Harrison --; Portfolio one; Lee Friedlander --; Part two: Hunting and gathering; The bear in the road; Barry Lopez --; Bird hunter; Rick Bass --; Four excerpts from the novella; What the prairie has to say about fly fishing; David James Duncan --; Excerpt from; The willow field; Far point; William Kittredge --; A summer journal; Gretel Ehrlich --; Portfolio two; Lois Conner --; Part three: Travels across the plains; Don't fence me in; Jim Harrison --; Excerpt from; Crossing the plains with Bruno; Annick Smith --; Empire; Richard Ford --; Portfolio three; Geoffrey James --; Part four: Natural history; An entire heaven and an entire earth; Dan Flores --; Excerpt from; Plains, prairies, and the shining mountains; Peter Matthiessen --; Instructions from a misanthrope's paradise; Richard Manning --; Driving Montana; Distances; High grass prairie; Bear paw; Richard Hugo --; Source acknowledgments --; Contributors ER -