Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Map of the Original Tallgrass Region
Children of the Sun and Moon, as told by Black Dog (Osage)
A Tallgrass Commonplace, 1673–1872
The Nineteenth Century
Edwin James, Prairie Mirage
Washington Irving, Life on the Prairies
George Catlin, Prairie Burning
Charles Dickens, A Jaunt to the Looking-Glass Prairie and Back
Margaret Fuller, Chicago
Eliza Woodson Farnham, Spring around Prairie Lodge
Francis Parkman Jr., Jumping Off
John C. Van Tramp, Phil and the Lost Boy
Walt Whitman, America’s Characteristic Landscape
Elizabeth B. Custer, A Blizzard
Mark Twain, My Uncle’s Farm
The Twentieth Century
Francis La Flesche, A Runaway
William J. Haddock, The Passing of the Prairies
William A. Quayle, The Prairie
John Muir, A New World
Hamlin Garland, The Homestead on the Knoll
Zitkala-Ša, The Great Spirit
Melvin R. Gilmore, The Plant Tribes
Meridel Le Sueur, Drought
John Joseph Mathews, Planting Moon
Aldo Leopold, Prairie Birthday
Josephine W. Johnson, July
Winifred M. Van Etten, Three Worlds
John Madson, The Running Country
Bill Holm, Horizontal Grandeur
William Least Heat-Moon, Under Old Nell’s Skirt
Drake Hokanson, Habits of the Grass
Louise Erdrich, Big Grass
Teresa Jordan, Playing God on the Lawns of the Lord
Paul Gruchow, What the Prairie Teaches Us
Richard Manning, Enclosure
Mary Swander, The Grasshopper Year
Don Gayton, Tallgrass Dream
Lance M. Foster, Tanji na Che: Recovering the Landscape of the Ioway
The Twenty-First Century
Lisa Knopp, Far Brought
Cindy Crosby, Pulling Weeds: Community
Thomas Dean, Finding Devonian
John T. Price, Man Killed by Pheasant
Steven I. Apfelbaum, Getting to Know Your Neighbors
Benjamin Vogt, Platanthera praeclara
Elizabeth Dodd, Constellation
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Index