Rediscovering the Great Plains
Subtitle: Journeys by dog, canoe, & horse
By: by Norman Henderson ; drawings by Robert Cook.
Series: Creating the North American landscape
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2001
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 214
Subjects: Transportation -- Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.); Transportation -- Great Plains; Qu'Appelle River Valley (Sask. and Man.) -- Description and travel; Great Plains -- Description and travel
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 197-202) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: CHAPTER ONE Night Vision-Of the Moonlit Plains by Train, 5; title: CHAPTER TWO Dog-OftheDogs of the Old Plains; title: and of Building a Travois, 13; title: CHAPTER THREE "Mush!"-Of Plains Journeys through Heat, Snow,; title: and Mosquitoes with a Remarkable Husky, 29; title: CHAPTER FOUR Canoe-Of the Extraordinary River Voyages; title: of Plains Navigators, 63; title: CHAPTER FIVE "En Avant!"-Of Coyotes, Cattle, and Wire,; title: and of the Many Wonders of the Prairie River, 83; title: CHAPTER SIX Horse-Of the "Great Gift" of the Spanish; title: and of What-Might-Have-Been, 127; title: CHAPTER SEVEN "Gee Up!"-Of a Final Journey in the Great Valley; title: and of Adventures with a Philosophical Horse, 145; title: CHAPTER EIGHT Day Flight-Of Home and the View from Above, 173.