PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country

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PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country

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Three months on the New York Times bestseller list, PrairyErth is now in paperback. Robert Penn Warren pronounced Heat-Moon's Blue Highways "a masterpiece." Now Heat-Moon has pulled to the side of the road and set off on foot to take readers on an exploration of time and space, landscape and history in the Flint Hills of central Kansas.

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PrairyErth (A Deep Map): An Epic History of the Tallgrass Prairie Country CustomerReview

In reading several books by John Janovy Jr. about Keith County, Nebraska, I soon discovered that Nebraska was certainly not a boring state, especially to a biologist. That this should be evident to anyone in the field almost goes without saying, but the dull image of the Midwest grasslands still lives on. Here there are no tall forests, no majestic mountains or spectacular sea beaches and cliffs. Still this country has its charm and often a lot of history and lore if truth be told.

I was convinced to read "PrairyErth" by a botanist who specializes in grasses. This book has been recommended to his class in grass systematics every year as suplementary reading, but so far none of his students has ever taken him up on this recommendation. This is certainly a great pity as William Least Heat-Moon has produced a masterpiece of over 620 pages that would open the eyes of the readers to the real wonder inherent in even such closely circumscribed areas as Chase County, Kansas, which is the main subject of the book.

The author certainly delivers on his minutely detailed examination of almost every aspect of this nearly square county a little over 150 miles of the geographic center of the continental United States. We learn about the grassland, the Native Americans, the development of the railroad, the local colorful characters, the murders, the geology, and in short William Least Heat-Moon gives us the heart and soul of a county that turns out to not only be not like the gray Kansas of the "Wizard of Oz", but a living and fascinating piece of real estate, right down to the roots of the tall grass prairie and the cottonwoods along the creeks.

If you would really learn about our country, I would suggest you start with this book. I can give it no higher recommendation.




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