The Great North American Prairie
Subtitle: A Literary Field Guide (Stories from Where We Live)
Contributors: Sara St. Antoine (Editor); Trudy Nicholson (Illustrator); Paul Mirocha (Illustrator)
Publisher: Milkweed Editions
Published: June 1, 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 208
ISBN-13: 9781571316455
Subjects: History - United States/State & Local; People & Places - United States - Other; Juvenile literature; History; Prairies; Juvenile Geography; Miscellanea; Juvenile Nonfiction; Children's Books/Ages 9-12 Nonfiction; Children: Grades 4-6; United States; History - General; Literary Criticism & Collections; Juvenile Fiction / People & Places / United States; Canada; Natural history; People & Places - Canada; Great Plains
First sentence: Gary Penley spent his boyhood living with his mother, brother, and grandfather on a remote cattle ranch on the prairie of eastern Colorado.