Prairie passage
Subtitle: the Illinois and Michigan Canal corridor
By: photographs by Edward Ranney ; prologue by Tony Hiss ; essays by Emily J. Harris ; epilogue by William Least Heat-Moon.
Contributors: Harris, Emily.
Publisher: University of Illinois Press; Canal Corridor Association
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Urbana
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
Subjects: Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor (Ill.) -- Pictorial works.; Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor (Ill.) -- Description and travel.; Illinois and Michigan Canal National Heritage Corridor (Ill.) -- History, Local.
Description: Prairie Passage celebrates the remarkable ninety-seven-mile water highway known as the Illinois and Michigan Canal, completed in 1848 and closed in 1933, that helped turn the muddy settlement of Chicago into the most important city in the Midwest.

The photographs in Prairie Passage, which provide a fresh perspective on how we use and live on the land, are complemented by historical images and essays that document how people have traveled through, settled, and altered the region, as well as by a prologue that puts the Canal Corridor in a national context of regional conservation movements and an epilogue that offers a personal statement on the resonance of special places for those who care about the American landscape.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 208-211).