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Prairie time : a Blackland portrait / Matt White.
- Title
- Prairie time : a Blackland portrait / Matt White.
- Author
- White, Matt
- Publication
- College Station : Texas A&M University Press, c2006.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | F392.B546 W48 2006 | Off-site |
Details
- Description
- 251 p.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- The author discusses his discoveries in the search for remaining areas of tallgrass prairie in northeast Texas, helping readers understand what a prairie is and how to appreciate its beauty and importance, and also increasing the awareness of past and present prairies, in an effort to support their overall survival.
- Series Statement
- Sam Rayburn series on rural life ; no. 10
- Uniform Title
- Project Muse UPCC books
- Sam Rayburn series on rural life no. 10.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Biographies
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Ingredients -- 1. Grass -- 2. Soil -- 3. Fire and rain -- 4. Buffalo -- Discovering dream land -- 5. A tale of two prairies -- 6. The Garden of Eden -- 7. The lost prairies -- 8. Dancing chickens -- 9. Wide-leaf false aloe -- 10. Living history -- 11. Julian Reverchon's prairie -- 12. Where the pavement ends -- 13. A girl named Daphne -- 14. Manifest destiny -- 15. The bee-loud glade -- 16. Prairie harvest -- 17. The tallgrass capital of Texas -- 18. Survival of the fittest -- 19. Stalking the wild prairie grass.
- ISBN
- 1585445010 (cloth : alk. paper)
- LCCN
- ^^2005025898
- OCLC
- 61704694
- SCSB-12161867
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library