PrairyErth: (a Deep Map)Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 1999 - 624 pages NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER. By the author of Blue Highways, PrairyErth is "a majestic survey of land and time and people in a single county of the Kansas plains" (Hungry Mind Review). William Least Heat-Moon travels by car and on foot into the core of our continent, focusing on the landscape and history of Chase County--a sparsely populated tallgrass prairie in the Flint Hills of central Kansas--exploring its land, plants, animals, and people until this small place feels as large as the universe. Called a "modern-day Walden" by the Chicago Sun-Times, PrairyErth is a journey through place, through time, and into the human mind from the acclaimed author of Here, There, Elsewhere: Stories from the Road. "A sense of the American grain that will give [PrairyErth] a permanent place in the literature of our country."--Paul Theroux, New York Times |
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... : you may already have come across a set of detailed instructions , a map with every bush and stone clearly marked , the meandering courses of dry rivers and other geographical features noted , with dotted lines put down to represent II.
... : you may already have come across a set of detailed instructions , a map with every bush and stone clearly marked , the meandering courses of dry rivers and other geographical features noted , with dotted lines put down to represent II.
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... course over four time zones , over the Alleghenies , along the north- ern edge of the broken Ozark Plateau , across the Rockies , over the Sierra Nevadas . At times you will have followed the routes of the Overland - Butterfield Stage ...
... course over four time zones , over the Alleghenies , along the north- ern edge of the broken Ozark Plateau , across the Rockies , over the Sierra Nevadas . At times you will have followed the routes of the Overland - Butterfield Stage ...
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... course will be that of a Japanese reading a book : up to down , right to left . So. Sunrise : sometime last night just before I went into my sleeping bag , the south wind - the one that so blows here the Kansa Indians may have taken ...
... course will be that of a Japanese reading a book : up to down , right to left . So. Sunrise : sometime last night just before I went into my sleeping bag , the south wind - the one that so blows here the Kansa Indians may have taken ...
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... course ( sand " greens , " players in coveralls , hazards of curious cattle pressed to the barbed - wire fences ) , an annual rodeo , an airfield ( grass ) , a gun club ( Friday night shoots ) , a movie house ( piano still down front ) ...
... course ( sand " greens , " players in coveralls , hazards of curious cattle pressed to the barbed - wire fences ) , an annual rodeo , an airfield ( grass ) , a gun club ( Friday night shoots ) , a movie house ( piano still down front ) ...
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Contents
IV | 19 |
V | 21 |
VI | 27 |
VII | 31 |
VIII | 40 |
IX | 46 |
X | 49 |
XI | 57 |
XLIX | 272 |
L | 279 |
LI | 288 |
LII | 295 |
LIII | 301 |
LIV | 303 |
LV | 309 |
LVI | 317 |
XII | 59 |
XIII | 66 |
XIV | 71 |
XV | 76 |
XVI | 81 |
XVII | 85 |
XVIII | 91 |
XIX | 93 |
XX | 100 |
XXI | 106 |
XXII | 113 |
XXIII | 118 |
XXIV | 123 |
XXV | 131 |
XXVI | 133 |
XXVII | 142 |
XXVIII | 147 |
XXIX | 156 |
XXX | 162 |
XXXI | 167 |
XXXII | 173 |
XXXIII | 175 |
XXXIV | 181 |
XXXV | 187 |
XXXVI | 194 |
XXXVII | 202 |
XXXVIII | 207 |
XXXIX | 213 |
XL | 215 |
XLI | 222 |
XLII | 230 |
XLIII | 237 |
XLIV | 244 |
XLV | 253 |
XLVI | 257 |
XLVII | 259 |
XLVIII | 265 |
LVII | 326 |
LVIII | 334 |
LIX | 346 |
LX | 351 |
LXI | 353 |
LXII | 363 |
LXIII | 371 |
LXIV | 381 |
LXV | 386 |
LXVI | 400 |
LXVII | 413 |
LXVIII | 415 |
LXIX | 421 |
LXX | 430 |
LXXI | 439 |
LXXII | 446 |
LXXIII | 465 |
LXXIV | 475 |
LXXV | 477 |
LXXVI | 484 |
LXXVII | 493 |
LXXVIII | 505 |
LXXIX | 513 |
LXXX | 531 |
LXXXI | 537 |
LXXXII | 539 |
LXXXIII | 547 |
LXXXIV | 561 |
LXXXV | 583 |
LXXXVI | 592 |
LXXXVII | 597 |
LXXXVIII | 601 |
LXXXIX | 603 |
XC | 608 |
XCI | 623 |
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acres American asked Bazaar began bird bison Brandley building café called cattle Cedar Point Chase County Cottonwood Falls Cottonwood River Council Grove countians couple courthouse coyote Creek dark Diamond Spring dream Elmdale Emporia farm farmers feet fence fire Flint Hills gone grass highway horse hundred Indian John James Ingalls Kansas land later live look Matfield Matfield Green miles Missouri morning moved native nearly never night once Osage Hill Osage orange pasture plant prairie pulled quadrangle railroad ranch river road rock Saffordville Sam Wood Santa Fe Santa Fe Trail says seemed settlers soil stone story Strong City talk tallgrass things tion told took town Trail travelers tree tribe turn uplands village wagon walk watch wind woman Wood