Where The Sky Began: Land of the Tallgrass Prairie

Contents

Contents Prologue xi Preface to the Revised Edition xiii PART I. THE PLACE I. Beyond the Wooden Country 3 2. Fire, Ice, and Mountain 29 3. The Lawns of God 51 4. The Far Gardens 81 5. Prairyerths 107 6. A Prairie Bestiary 125 7. The Great Weathers 166 PART 11. T H E PEOPLE 8. Grandfather Country 197 9. After the Plow 236 10. People Pastures 257 Appendix A. Sources 297 Appendix B. Directory of Representative Tallgrass Prairies 299 Selected References 307 Index 315 To Don and Luella Reese, thesmall house on thesunset side of the Loess Hills-and the celebratedBatch 13 To make a prairie it takes a clover and one bee,One clover, and a bee, And revery. The revery alone will do If bees are few. -EMILY D I C K I N S O N MAJOR GRASSLANDS OF THE WORLD MAJOR GRASSLANDS OF THE UNITED STATES ...