Results for keyword: Great Plains
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Mapping the Hi-Line: A review of Honyocker Dreams
Writer David Mogen sets out to understand his childhood and his rural ancestors, who lived along Montana’s Hi-Line, just below the Canadian border.
by Andrea Clark Mason, Oct 30, 2011 -
Bring on the immigrants
Pete Letheby says the vanishing towns of the Great Plains and Midwest ought to open a welcoming door for immigrants.
by Pete Letheby, May 28, 2007 -
Dust in the wind
In his new book, The Worst Hard Time, Tim Egan interviews survivors to tell the story of the great American Dust Bowl on the southern Great Plains in the 1930s
by Gail Binkly, Jul 24, 2006 -
Not just any book about the grasslands
In his serious and poetic first book, Not Just Any Land, John Price takes a literary journey into the heart of America’s grasslands
by Kirk Zebolsky, Dec 12, 2005 -
Crossing hearts on Colorado's plains
Laura Pritchett’s first novel, Sky Bridge, perfectly captures the speech and rhythms of everyday life in the hardscrabble ranchland of the eastern Colorado plains
by Malcolm McCollum, Nov 14, 2005 -
Peering into the life of the prairie
Photos and drawings from Candace Savage’s Prairie: A Natural History give glimpses of a beautiful, diverse region
by Staff, Jun 27, 2005 -
You can't plant a prairie
Prairie advocates like Jim Stubbendieck are trying to restore sodbusted land and replant prairies, a task they acknowledge may be almost impossible
by Josh Garrett-Davis, Aug 02, 2004 -
Waxing and waning in the Modern West
Collaborative conservation may help revive both endangered prairie ecosystems and the struggling farm communities of the Great Plains
by Paul Larmer, Aug 02, 2004 -
The Greening of the Plains
A conservation movement is stirring on the Great Plains, but local farmers are stuck with a harsh reality: It still pays to plow up virgin prairie
by Josh Garrett-Davis, Aug 02, 2004 -
The charm of a dying place
A South Dakota native ponders the lure of the Dying Plains
by Joshua Garrett-Davis, Mar 15, 2004
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