Contents
Maps, Illustrations, and Diagrams
Acknowledgments
Prologue: Flyover Country; Scottsbluff, NE
1.1 Terra Incognita
1.2 Can’t Get Lost
1.3 Blank
Interim: Highway 36
1.4 Slow down!
Part I : Sun-sitting
Part II : A Day
Interim : Sense of Place
1.6 The Quest
Interim: Dream of Place
2.1 Wonderlands
2.2 National Grasslands
2.3 Animal Encounters
Interim: Medora to Marmarth (with some dinosaur statues in between)
2.4 Interpretation and Inspiration
3.1 Experiment and Experience; Or, How I Tried to Like a Prairie
Interim: In Which I Discover an Island and Fall in Love with a Forest
3.2 Conversations with Konza
4.1 The Return to the Plains
Interim: The Mapmaker’s Discipline
4.2: Winter
Conclusion - A Brief Meditation on Expectation and Emptiness
Endnotes
Bibliography
Index