Larry Saves the Prairie

Larry Saves the Prairie
Author: Matt Bergles
Publisher:
Total Pages: 68
Release: 2015-09-01
Genre:
ISBN: 9781939919298

"Hi! I'm Annabelle. And I'm Angus. We are black-tailed prairie dogs who live in Kansas. We want to tell you a story about a real wildlife hero, our friend Larry Haverfield." Through the voices of Annabelle and Angus, discover what almost happened to wildlife on the Kansas prairie. When Larry receives a letter that says he must destroy the prairie dogs on his land, he and some of his neighbors join together to make certain that all wildlife remain unharmed. Not only were black-tailed prairie dogs at risk of destruction but the already-endangered black-footed ferrets were at risk of becoming extinct. In Larry Saves the Prairie, with the help of Annabelle and Angus, you'll discover what it means to be a true hero, and most especially, what it took to save prairie wildlife in Kansas.

Prairiescapes

Prairiescapes
Author: Larry Kanfer
Publisher: Visions of Illinois
Total Pages: 101
Release: 1987
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 9780252014826

A former student of architecture at the University of Illinois, Kanfer has developed a kinship with the rural regions of the Prairie State. He draws upon a rich background in art, design, and travel to focus on the unique qualities of the midwesten landscape, exhibiting an unusual sensitivity to composition, color, texture, and light. Kanfer isolates singular images--a solitary barn, a rural mailbox atop a roadside post, a red stop sign caught in the nighttime glare of a car's headlight, cornflower blossoms springing from a ditch--as well as broader prairie scenes.

Enchanted by Prairie

Enchanted by Prairie
Author: Osha Gray Davidson
Publisher:
Total Pages: 102
Release: 2009
Genre: Nature
ISBN:

June grass at sunset, Indian grass at sunrise, hawk moths and monarch butterflies nectaring on purple fringed orchids and rough blazing star, little bluestem and saw-tooth sunflowers and butterfly milkweed in hill prairies and sand prairies, and blue skies and one bright rainbow arching over them all. Bill Witt has been photographing Iowa's wild places for more than thirty years, and the result is this collection of splendid images that reveal the glorious beauty and diversity of the state's prairie remnants. Witt gives us close-ups of pasque flower shoots covered with ice in spring, coneflowers dancing in a summer breeze, and prairie dropseed in its autumn colors as well as such prairie companions as sandhill cranes, northern harriers, and bison. His panoramic visions of prairie landscapes in all seasons focus on the personal pleasure and spiritual sustenance that connecting with prairies, even small and neglected ones, can bring us. Osha Davidson's essay compares today's prairie remnants with yesterday's expanses and calls for us to restore balance to this damaged landscape. Altogether, Enchanted by Prairie celebrates today's prairie landscape and encourages us, in Davidson's words, to restore its "beauty and scents and textures and sounds."

Barns of Illinois

Barns of Illinois
Author: Alaina Kanfer
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Total Pages: 13
Release: 2009
Genre: Photography
ISBN: 0252032748

An endearing tribute to the well-grounded majesty of Illinois barns

Prairie Promises

Prairie Promises
Author: Kelly Eileen Hake
Publisher: Barbour Publishing
Total Pages: 903
Release: 2012-05-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1620295237

You’ll be delighted with the wit and humor of three stories of marriage plans that don’t go as expected. Clara Fields tries to escape a difficult situation by finding a bride for a storekeeper’s son, only to discover that the task is more complicated than she thought. The shotgun wedding that results from Opal Speck’s hasty confession—that Adam Grogan is the father of her unborn baby—ends up creating more problems than it solves. Gavin Miller’s mistaken proposal to the wrong cousin leads to tension when Marguerite Chandler—the wrong bride—and Daisy—the right bride—both arrive in town.

Montana

Montana
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 686
Release: 1927
Genre:
ISBN:

As a Pierian Spring

As a Pierian Spring
Author: Larry Troxel
Publisher:
Total Pages: 282
Release: 2011-12
Genre: Poetry
ISBN: 9781432781866

In his anthology As a Pierian Spring, Larry Troxel has compiled poems from his first two books on which favorable reviews were given and are blended with many new ones. Each are topically indexed to fit the momentary mood of the reader, hoping he or she might have the thoughtful or up lifting experience of supping from the Pierian Spring as they thumb through its pages. As you read and consider some of the poems in this anthology, open your mind and think beyond the mere words, to a fuller meaning these symbols might convey. Sound words in poetry, well chosen and thoughtfully placed, serve as tips of truth.Words are pointers for our sensesFor things they representOf mysteries behind invisible fencesOurs to learn their full intent. From Tips of Truth

Morning for Dove

Morning for Dove
Author: Martha Rogers
Publisher: Charisma Media
Total Pages: 303
Release: 2010-05-04
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1616382511

When Luke Anderson falls in love with Dove Morris, he is aware of her Native American heritage. What he is not prepared for is the prejudice suddenly exhibited by his parents against Dove.

Sacagawea's Nickname

Sacagawea's Nickname
Author: Larry McMurtry
Publisher: New York Review of Books
Total Pages: 196
Release: 2001
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781590170991

In these 11 essays, all originally published in "The New York Review of Books," McMurtry brings his unique narrative gift and dry humor to a variety of western topics.