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| Foreword: What Is in This Reader | |
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| Introduction: Toward a Definition of the Great Plains | |
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| The Lay of the Land | |
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| The Nature of the Plains: Impressions | |
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| Excerpt from The Names | |
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| Excerpt from Great Plains | |
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| The Subtlety of Land | |
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| The Flow of the River | |
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| Atop the Mound | |
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| Plains Nature: Natural Histories | |
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| The Lawns of God | |
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| In Response to a Question | |
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| Songs | |
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| Excerpt from The Rites of Autumn | |
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| Seasons of the Sandhill Crane | |
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| Spring 4 | |
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| From a Naturalist's Notebook | |
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| Coffee Cup Cafe | |
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| Red Glow in the Western Sky | |
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| Under Old Nell's Skirt | |
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| Another Tornado Dream | |
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| The Question Mark in the Circle | |
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| Natives and Newcomers on the Great Plains | |
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| First Stories: Native American Accounts | |
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| When the Buffalo Herd Went West | |
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| A Legend of Devil's Lake | |
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| The Great Vision | |
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| Crow Butte | |
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| The Holy Dog | |
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| Excerpt from Waterlily | |
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| Impressions of an Indian Childhood | |
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| Father's Milk | |
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| Grace | |
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| Deer Dancer | |
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| For Anna Mae Pictou Aquash ... | |
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| Deer Ghost | |
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| Stories of Exploration and Travel: Newcomers' Accounts | |
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| Excerpts from "The Narrative of the Expedition of Coronado," | |
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| Excerpt from The Lewis and Clark Journals | |
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| Excerpt from From Pittsburgh to the Rocky Mountains | |
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| On the Trail | |
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| October \ From the Back Screen of the Country | |
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| Excerpts from Down the Santa Fe Trail and into Mexico | |
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| The Grand Prairie--A Buffalo Hunt | |
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| The Platte and the Desert | |
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| Preface to The Oregon Trail, 4th ed. | |
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| Preface to The Oregon Trail, illustrated ed. | |
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| Land of the Crippled Snake | |
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| Excerpts from Roughing It | |
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| Arriving and Settling in | |
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| Pioneers | |
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| Ishmael Bush's Camp | |
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| Prairie Land | |
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| Settlers | |
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| Calling Myself Home | |
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| Red Clay | |
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| Heritage | |
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| Return: Buffalo | |
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| Crossings | |
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| Among the Corn Rows | |
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| A Story of the Highlands | |
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| September \ Peru, Kansas | |
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| Home-founding | |
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| A New Homestead | |
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| The Farm on the Great Plains | |
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| God's Country | |
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| Excerpt from Killing Custer | |
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| Dear John Wayne | |
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| Adapting to a New Country | |
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| Surviving Nature's Storms | |
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| Wickedness | |
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| A Field of Wheat | |
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| Dust Bowl (A Sequence) | |
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| The Water Witch | |
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| Creating Communities in America | |
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| Neighbour Rosicky | |
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| Excerpt from Peder Victorious | |
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| The Christmas of the Phonograph Records | |
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| A Gravestone Made of Wheat | |
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| What the Indian Means to America | |
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| Americanize the First American | |
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| End of the Failed Metaphor | |
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| Oklahoma, 1922 | |
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| The Great Plains Community | |
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| The Great Plains Community | |
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| The Passing of Priscilla Winthrop | |
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| Dance | |
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| Carnival | |
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| The Old Halvorson Place | |
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| A Person in My Life | |
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| Wild Land | |
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| Excerpt from The Home Place | |
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| Excerpt from Badlands | |
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| Excerpt from Leaving the Land | |
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| A Tropical Holiday | |
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| Collection | |
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| Life Is Good | |
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| Home on the Range | |
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| Red-Letter Days | |
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| The Tomahawk Factory | |
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| Going to the Post Office | |
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| The Rescued Year | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Sustaining America's Grasslands | |
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| Sea Change | |
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| Matfield Green | |
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| Source Acknowledgments | |
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| Index of Works by Author | |