The wide open : prose, poetry, and photographs of the prairie

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The wide open : prose, poetry, and photographs of the prairie

edited by Annick Smith and Susan O'Connor ; Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie, photo editors

University of Nebraska Press, c2008

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It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the adventurous heart. The Wide Open reveals how some of the most interesting and accomplished writers and photographers in the country have met that challenge and given the genius of the prairie a vision and a voice. Their stories are as diverse as the tellers, ranging from fiction by Barry Lopez, Richard Ford, and William Kittredge, to the childhood histories of Mary Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt and the nonfiction narratives of Jim Harrison, Gretel Ehrlich, and Rick Bass. There are works by Native American prairie dwellers such as M. L. Smoker and James Welch and the photographic interpretations of Lee Friedlander, Lois Conner, and Geoffrey James. Personal or poetic, journalistic or scientific, these works eloquently attest to the prairie's abundance in all its human and natural variety, offering pictures as wide open and rich as the land they depict.

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Preface Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs Acknowledgments Introduction Notes on the Photographs Ian Glennie Part 1: Home on the Range Mary Clearman Blew Becoming Judy Blunt Evolution James Welch Excerpt from The Death of Jim Loney James Galvin No Bastion Thomas McGuane A Foal M. L. Smoker Grandfather Poem Letter to Richard Hugo (1) Birthright Crosscurrent Jim Harrison To a Meadowlark Lee Friedlander Portfolio 1 Part 2: Hunting and Gathering Barry Lopez The Bear in the Road Rick Bass Bird Hunter David James Duncan Four Excerpts from the Novella "What the Prairie Has To Say about Fly Fishing" William Kittredge Far Point Gretel Ehrlich A Summer Journal Lois Conner Portfolio 2 Part 3: Travels across the Plains Jim Harrison Don't Fence Me In Annick Smith Excerpt from "Crossing the Plains with Bruno" Richard Ford Empire Geoffrey James Portfolio 3 Part 4: Natural History Dan Flores An Entire Heaven and an Entire Earth Peter Matthiessen Excerpt from "Plains, Prairies, and the Shining Mountains" Richard Manning Instructions from a Misanthrope's Paradise Richard Hugo Driving Montana Distances High Grass Prairie Bear Paw Source Acknowledgments Contributors

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