The tallgrass prairie reader
By: edited by John T. Price
Series: A bur oak book; Bur oak book
Publisher: University of Iowa Press; University Of Iowa Press
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Iowa City
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
ISBN-13: 9781609382469
Copyright date: 2014
Subjects: Prairies; History; Prairie ecology; Biography
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Children of the sun and moon, as told by Black Dog (Osage); title: A tallgrass commonplace, 1673-1872; title: Prairie mirage / Edwin James; title: Life on the prairies / Washington Irving; title: Prairie burning / George Catlin; title: A jaunt to the looking-glass prairie and back / Charles Dickens; title: Chicago / Margaret Fuller; title: Spring around Prairie Lodge / Eliza Woodson Farnham; title: Jumping off / Francis Parkman Jr.; title: Phil and the lost boy / John C. Van Tramp; title: America's characteristic landscape / Walt Whitman; title: A blizzard / Elizabeth B. Custer; title: My uncle's farm / Mark Twain; title: A runaway / Francis La Flesche; title: The passing of the prairies / William J. Haddock; title: The prairie / William A. Quayle; title: A  new world / John Muir; title: The homestead on the knoll / Hamlin Garland; title: The Great Spirit / Zitkala-S̈a; title: The plant tribes / Melvin R. Gilmore; title: Drought / Meridel Le Sueur; title: Planting moon / John Joseph Mathews; title: Prairie birthday / Aldo Leopold; title: July / Josephine W. Johnson; title: Three worlds / Winifred M. Van Etten; title: The running country / John Madson; title: Horizontal grandeur / Bill Holm; title: Under Old Nell's skirt / William Least Heat-Moon; title: Habits of the grass / Drake Hokanson; title: Big grass / Louise Erdrich; title: Playing God on the lawns of the Lord / Teresa Jordan; title: What the prairie teaches us / Paul Gruchow; title: Enclosure / Richard Manning; title: The grasshopper year / Mary Swander; title: Tallgrass dream / Don Gayton; title: Tanji na Che: recovering the landscape of the Ioway / Lance M. Foster; title: Far brought / Lisa Knopp; title: Pulling weeds: community / Cindy Crosby; title: Finding Devonian / Thomas Dean; title: Man killed by pheasant / John T. Price; title: Getting to know your neighbors / Steven I. Apfelbaum; title: Platanthera praeclara / Benjamin Vogt; title: Constellation / Elizabeth Dodd.