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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... Hand - Book to Kansas Territory ( 1859 ) The stranger [ to Kansas ] , if he listened to the voice of experience , would not start upon his pilgrimage at any season of the year without an overcoat , a fan , a lightning rod , and an ...
... Hand - Book to Kansas Territory ( 1859 ) The stranger [ to Kansas ] , if he listened to the voice of experience , would not start upon his pilgrimage at any season of the year without an overcoat , a fan , a lightning rod , and an ...
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... hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it . He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind . He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk ...
... hands at every season and listens to the sounds that are made upon it . He ought to imagine the creatures there and all the faintest motions of the wind . He ought to recollect the glare of noon and all the colors of the dawn and dusk ...
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... hands and knees ; although the six million acres of the Flint Hills — also called the Bluestem Hills - were once a mere four percent of the Ameri- can long - grass prairie , they are now nearly all of it . The grasses can grow to ten ...
... hands and knees ; although the six million acres of the Flint Hills — also called the Bluestem Hills - were once a mere four percent of the Ameri- can long - grass prairie , they are now nearly all of it . The grasses can grow to ten ...
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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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Common terms and phrases
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