Research Catalog

Title

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.

Publication

Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, c2008.

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Additional Authors

• Smith, Annick, 1936-
• O'Connor, Susan.
• Hunter, Fredericka
• Glennie, Ian

Description

200 p. : ill.; 28 cm.

Summary

• "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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subject

• American literature > Montana
• Prairies > Montana > Literary collections
• Landscapes > Montana > Literary collections
• Prairies > Montana > Pictorial works
• Landscapes > Montana > Pictorial works
• Montana > Literary collections
• Montana > Pictorial works

Genre/Form

• Literary collections
• Pictorial works

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part one: Home on the range: Becoming / Mary Clearman Blew -- Evolution / Judy Blunt -- Excerpts from The death of Jim Loney / James Welch -- No bastion / James Galvin -- A foal / Thomas McGuane -- Grandfather poem. Letter to Richard Hugo. Birthright. Crosscurrent / M.L. Smoker --- To a meadowlark / Jim Harrison -- Portfolio one / Lee Friedlander -- Part two: Hunting and gathering: The bear in the road / Barry Lopez -- Bird hunter / Rick Bass -- Four excerpts from the novella: What the prairie has to say about fly fishing / David James Duncan -- Excerpt from The willow field. Far point / William Kittredge -- A summer journal / Gretel Ehrlich -- Portfolio two / Lois Conner -- Part three: Travels across the plains: Don't fence me in / Jim Harrison -- Excerpt from Crossing the plains with Bruno / Annick Smith -- Empire / Richard Ford -- Portfolio three / Geoffrey James -- Part four: Natural history: An entire heaven and an entire earth / Dan Flores -- Excerpt from: Plains, prairies, and the shining mountains / Peter Matthiessen -- Instructions from a misanthrope's paradise / Richard Manning -- Driving Montana. Distances. High grass prairie. Bear paw / Richard Hugo -- Source acknowledgments -- Contributors.

ISBN

• 9780803217515 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 080321751X (cloth : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2008003471

OCLC

191697405

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library