Visions Of The Tallgrass

Author : James P. Ronda
Publisher : University of Oklahoma Press
Page : 181 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-09-13
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9780806164571

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Visions of the Tallgrass by James P. Ronda Pdf

In centuries long past, a vast swath of grassland swept down the center of North America, from Canada’s Prairie Provinces to central Texas. This once-plentiful prairie has now all but disappeared. Humans have grazed, mowed, and plowed the plains, dammed the rivers, and imposed their will on the land and its creatures. Fortunately, some remnants have survived, including the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma. In this visually stunning volume, wildlife photographer Harvey Payne and historian James P. Ronda offer an intimate look at and into one of America’s Last Great Places. Spanning nearly 40,000 acres in Oklahoma’s Osage County, the Preserve is a living witness to a world that once existed. But the Osage prairie is not a museum or theme park—and it is not frozen in time. Under the stewardship of The Nature Conservancy, which has overseen its restoration, the Preserve lives on as a fully functioning ecosystem. And for twenty-five years, Payne and Ronda have explored these lands, together and in solitude. Rendered here in brilliant color and paired with Ronda’s informative yet deeply personal commentary, Payne’s photographs open our eyes to the ever-changing world of the Tallgrass Preserve. In chapters focused on grass, sky, birds, bison, and fire, Ronda and Payne reveal that the “Big Empty” is, in fact, teeming with life. Through interwoven images and words, Visions of the Tallgrass shows that our nation’s grasslands are sacred ground, a priceless piece of our American past—and future.

Author : R. Stacey Laforme
Publisher : Every River Poems
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-01-28
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1988824052

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Living in the Tall Grass by R. Stacey Laforme Pdf

In Living in the Tall Grass: Poems of Reconciliation, Chief Stacey Laforme gives a history of his people through stories and poetry to let Canadians see through the eyes of Indigenous people. Chief Laforme's universal message is, "We should not have to change to fit into society the world should adapt to embrace our uniqueness."

Author : Doug Alderson
Publisher : Quest Books
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0835608514

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The Vision Keepers by Doug Alderson Pdf

We are all seekers. Some find their path on pilgrimage to the Mahabodhi Temple in India or the Haji Ali mausoleum as they embark on a journey to Mecca; others find God at the burial site of St. James in the Cathedral de Santiago de Compostela in northwestern Spain. Author and environmentalist Doug Alderson meets the Great Spirit through the ancient spiritual practice of walking. The Vision Keepers is the compelling true story of a seeker who, under the guidance of Bear Heart, a Muskogee Creek Indian and Medicine Man, finds unity with our nation’s native people and reconnects with the earth through profound and mysterious means. At a time when our global community is in great conflict, we can learn much from Native Americans. The Vision Keepers not only recounts the story of one man’s experience with native people and their spirituality, but it offers unique insight into the struggles of an entire culture, personal reconciliation, world peace, and preservation of the Earth and its ancient wisdom.

Author : Bobby Bridger
Publisher : Fulcrum Publishing
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781555918521

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Where the Tall Grass Grows by Bobby Bridger Pdf

In this entertaining and thought-provoking book, noted historian and musician Bobby Bridger explores the impact of Native American culture on the American psyche. The book also examines the impact of indigenous American mythology on contemporary identity and the development of modern popular entertainment, particularly the Hollywood film industry.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 140 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : LOC:0018365357A

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H.R. 714, the Illinois Land Conservation Act of 1995 by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure Pdf

Author : Robert L. Dorman
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816528509

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Hell of a Vision by Robert L. Dorman Pdf

The American West has taken on a rich and evocative array of regional identities since the late nineteenth century. Wilderness wonderland, Hispanic borderland, homesteader’s frontier, cattle kingdom, urban dynamo, Native American homeland. Hell of a Vision explores the evolution of these diverse identities during the twentieth century, revealing how Western regionalism has been defined by generations of people seeking to understand the West’s vast landscapes and varied cultures. Focusing on the American West from the 1890s up to the present, Dorman provides us with a wide-ranging view of the impact of regionalist ideas in pop culture and diverse fields such as geography, land-use planning, anthropology, journalism, and environmental policy-making. Going well beyond the realm of literature, Dorman broadens the discussion by examining a unique mix of texts. He looks at major novelists such as Cather, Steinbeck, and Stegner, as well as leading Native American writers. But he also analyzes a variety of nonliterary sources in his book, such as government reports, planning documents, and environmental impact studies. Hell of a Vision is a compelling journey through the modern history of the American West—a key region in the nation of regions known as the United States.

Author : Susan W. Vince,Mary L. Duryea,Edward A. Macie,Annie Hermansen
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2004-11-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780203484463

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Forests at the Wildland-Urban Interface by Susan W. Vince,Mary L. Duryea,Edward A. Macie,Annie Hermansen Pdf

Forests at the wildland-urban interface are at increasing risk due to the impacts of urbanization. Conserving and managing these forestlands for continued ecological and social benefits is a critical and complex challenge facing natural resource managers, land-use planners, and policymakers. Forests at the Wildland-Urban Interface: Conservat

Author : BEN A. MINTEER,Mark Klett,Stephen J. Pyne
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-22
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9780300260724

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Wild Visions by BEN A. MINTEER,Mark Klett,Stephen J. Pyne Pdf

A stunning combination of landscape photography and thematic essays exploring how the concept of wilderness has evolved over time Our ideas of wilderness have evolved dramatically over the past one hundred and fifty years, from a view of wild country as an inviolable "place apart" to one that exists only within the matrix of human activity. This shift in understanding has provoked complicated questions about the importance of the wild in American environmentalism, as well as new aesthetic expectations as we reframe the wilderness as (to some degree) a human creation. Wild Visions is distinctive in its union of landscape photography and environmental thought, a merging of short, thematic essays with a striking visual narrative. Often, the wild is viewed in binary terms: either revered as sacred and ecologically pure or dismissed as spoiled by human activities. This book portrays wilderness instead as an evolving gamut of understandings, a collage of views and ideas that is still in process.

Author : Michael A. Bryson
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2002-06-29
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780813921723

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Visions of the Land by Michael A. Bryson Pdf

The work of John Charles Fremont, Richard Byrd, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, John Wesley Powell, Susan Cooper, Rachel Carson, and Loren Eiseley represents a widely divergent body of writing. Yet despite their range of genres—including exploration narratives, technical reports, natural histories, scientific autobiographies, fictional utopias, nature writing, and popular scientific literature—these seven authors produced strikingly connected representations of nature and the practice of science in America from about 1840 to 1970. Michael A. Bryson provides a thoughtful examination of the authors, their work, and the ways in which science and nature unite them. Visions of the Land explores how our environmental attitudes have influenced and been shaped by various scientific perspectives from the time of western expansion and geographic exploration in the mid-nineteenth century to the start of the contemporary environmental movement in the twentieth century. Bryson offers a literary-critical analysis of how writers of different backgrounds, scientific training, and geographic experiences represented nature through various kinds of natural science, from natural history to cartography to resource management to ecology and evolution, and in the process, explored the possibilities and limits of science itself. Visions of the Land examines the varied, sometimes conflicting, but always fascinating ways in which we have defined the relations among science, nature, language, and the human community. Ultimately, it is an extended meditation on the capacity of using science to live well within nature.

Author : John Warfield Simpson
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 422 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1999-04-15
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0520213645

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Visions of Paradise by John Warfield Simpson Pdf

This book synthesizes views of America's changing environment, and the Ideal of that environment, from the time of the Founding Fathers to the present. It is an exceptionally engaging account of American attitudes toward pristine and altered landscapes which they encountered, settled in, modified, and moved westward from during the last three centuries.

Author : Jim Bowering
Publisher : elgin
Page : 205 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-11-01
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781999512323

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The Prime by Jim Bowering Pdf

Business as usual turns out to be something else. When Tallgrass shuttles diplomatic staff out to the big cargo vessel, it turns out to be not as routine as expected. When a merchant tries to set up shop there, he discovers another meaning for business as usual. Business as usual a million kilometers from home has a lot in common with the business of greed and intimidation back on the street. When the aliens came, returning their stolen resources, Tallgrass thought it meant a bright, enlightened future for his people. When he finds more of the same old thing, he's tempted to forget about it and just do his job. Why should it matter to him who's running the business? Honest merchants or thugs and criminals, what business is it of his? It would be easy to keep his head down and mind his own business, but it's not likely to work out that way.

Author : James Chambers
Publisher : Infobase Holdings, Inc
Page : 4510 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780780816589

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Holidays Around the World, 6th Ed. by James Chambers Pdf

A comprehensive reference guide that covers over 3,500 observances. Features both secular and religious events from many different cultures, countries, and ethnic groups. Includes contact information for events; multiple appendices with background information on world holidays; extensive bibliography; multiple indexes.

Author : Ilis Trudie Palmer
Publisher : BookLocker.com, Inc.
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2023-03-15
Category : Body, Mind & Spirit
ISBN : 9798885314572

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Dancing Between Tall Grass by Ilis Trudie Palmer Pdf

This book of tiny stories is the third in an ever-expanding series. The author dances through tall grass as she shares the experiences of a soul triggered by the ‘who am I and why am I here’ question. Mystical moments, happy happenings and joyful oracles reveal themselves in every dance of words across page. Simple, ordinary language has become her trademark style, as she artfully crafts stories and poems which transports the reader along this soul adventure. Stories are birthed out of everyday living, and demonstrate the beauty and magic in the mundane, an experience missed by many.

Author : Samantha Specks
Publisher : SparkPress
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2021-08-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781684630943

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Dovetails in Tall Grass by Samantha Specks Pdf

As war overtakes the frontier, Emma’s family farmstead is attacked by Dakota-Sioux warriors; on that same prairie, Oenikika desperately tries to hold on to her calling as a healer and follow the orders of her father, Chief Little Crow. When the war is over and revenge-fueled war trials begin, each young woman is faced with an impossible choice. In a swiftly changing world, both Emma and Oenikika must look deep within and fight for the truth of their convictions—even as horror and injustice unfolds all around them. Inspired by the true story of the thirty-eight Dakota-Sioux men hanged in Minnesota in 1862—the largest mass execution in US history—Dovetails in Tall Grass is a powerful tale of two young women connected by the fate of one man.

Author : Nick Brokhausen
Publisher : Casemate
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2019-10-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9781612007762

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Whispers in the Tall Grass by Nick Brokhausen Pdf

“[An] exceptionally raw look at the Vietnam War . . . an excellent tribute to the generation that fought, laughed, and died in Southeast Asia.” —New York Journal of Books This is the second volume of a Green Beret’s riveting memoir of his time serving in Recon Teams Habu and Crusader, CNN, part of Military Assistance Command, Vietnam—Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG). Picking up where We Few left off, Whispers in the Tall Grass opens as the war moves into a new phase. The enemy are using special formations to hunt recon teams and missions are now rarely accomplished without heavy contact. Despite the teams’ careful prep, losses are mounting. More and more missions are extracted by Bright Lights until eventually classic recon missions are almost impossible, and the teams briefly trial HALO insertion. Finally, as the US prepares to withdraw, the teams undertake back-to-back missions directing air strikes and disrupting supply lines to ease the pressure on the ARVN. Broken by the pace, but desperate not to leave the Yards, Brokhausen is ordered to out-process, his request for extension denied, and is forced to leave his friends—his brothers—behind. Written in the same vivid, immediate style that made We Few a cult classic, Whispers in the Tall Grass follows Habu, Crusader and other teams as they undertake missions in this new, deadlier phase of the war. The narrative veers from hair-raising to tragic and back as the teams insert into hot targets, act as Bright Light for stricken teams, and play hard in between missions to diffuse the ever-rising tension. “Brokhausen tells all in a masterfully gonzo style of reporting and recollection shaped by clever gallows humor.” —Booklist