The Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American
literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this
volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described,
celebrated, and defined the region evoke the world of the American
prairie from the first recorded days of Native history to the
realities of life on a present-day reservation, from the arrival of
European explorers to the experience of early settlers, from the
splendor of the vast and rolling grasslands to the devastation of
the Dust Bowl. Several essays look to the future and explore
changes that would embolden the people of the Plains to continue to
call home this place they have learned to value in spite of its
persistent challenges. The infinite variety of the Great Plains
landscape and its people unfolds in works by writers as diverse as
Willa Cather, Loren Eiseley, Louise Erdrich (Ojibwe), Diane Glancy
(Cherokee), Langston Hughes, Wes Jackson, Garrison Keillor, William
Least Heat-Moon, Kathleen Norris, Wright Morris, Francis Parkman,
O. E. Rolvaag, Mari Sandoz, William Stafford, Mark Twain, Douglas
Unger, James Welch (Blackfeet), and Canadians Sharon Butala and
Sinclair Ross. From tribal histories to the impressions of
travelers today, from tales of isolation and nature's furious
storms to accounts of efforts to build communities, from flights of
fancy to nuanced observations of the ecology of the grasslands,
this comprehensive volume provides a history of the intricate
relationships of land and people in the Great Plains.
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