Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Children of the sun and moon, as told by Black Dog (Osage)
  • A tallgrass commonplace, 1673-1872
  • Prairie mirage / Edwin James
  • Life on the prairies / Washington Irving
  • Prairie burning / George Catlin
  • A jaunt to the looking-glass prairie and back / Charles Dickens
  • Chicago / Margaret Fuller
  • Spring around Prairie Lodge / Eliza Woodson Farnham
  • Jumping off / Francis Parkman Jr.
  • Phil and the lost boy / John C. Van Tramp
  • America's characteristic landscape / Walt Whitman
  • A blizzard / Elizabeth B. Custer
  • My uncle's farm / Mark Twain
  • A runaway / Francis La Flesche
  • The passing of the prairies / William J. Haddock
  • The prairie / William A. Quayle
  • A new world / John Muir
  • The homestead on the knoll / Hamlin Garland
  • The Great Spirit / Zitkala-S̈a
  • The plant tribes / Melvin R. Gilmore
  • Drought / Meridel Le Sueur
  • Planting moon / John Joseph Mathews
  • Prairie birthday / Aldo Leopold
  • July / Josephine W. Johnson
  • Three worlds / Winifred M. Van Etten
  • The running country / John Madson
  • Horizontal grandeur / Bill Holm
  • Under Old Nell's skirt / William Least Heat-Moon
  • Habits of the grass / Drake Hokanson
  • Big grass / Louise Erdrich
  • Playing God on the lawns of the Lord / Teresa Jordan
  • What the prairie teaches us / Paul Gruchow
  • Enclosure / Richard Manning
  • The grasshopper year / Mary Swander
  • Tallgrass dream / Don Gayton
  • Tanji na Che: recovering the landscape of the Ioway / Lance M. Foster
  • Far brought / Lisa Knopp
  • Pulling weeds: community / Cindy Crosby
  • Finding Devonian / Thomas Dean
  • Man killed by pheasant / John T. Price
  • Getting to know your neighbors / Steven I. Apfelbaum
  • Platanthera praeclara / Benjamin Vogt
  • Constellation / Elizabeth Dodd.