The Tallgrass Prairie Reader

Since his first book, "It's not just a land: a trip to individuals and literature in American grasslands" (2004), John Price has established itself as one of the leading museums in the American grassland It was. This position was the selection of autobiographical nonfiction stories on Dakota, Oklahoma, Nebraska, His latest work from Kansas to the east, high grass area. "The real prairie" Wisconsin and the western part of the state of Illinois The agricultural development for hundreds of years has been almost completely destroyed. Various direct information on the rich history of the area is published in the article of Place Collection. Some were celebrating their unique beauty, others to mourn some losses, and other grass prairies restored to the former glory appearance

Indeed, as Price noted in his introduction, one of the aims of the anthology is to fulfill the need of "from the collection of high ground prairie fields and historical highland meadows" as a method to explain in part. "Relationship" between the aesthetic treatment of popular literary prairie and ecological abuse (xiv). This method is reflected in the chronological structure of this book, and it is divided into "19th century", "20th century", and "21st century". Although each paper is independent, reading these collections back and forth reveals a small change in culture attitude towards high grassland with human-driven exploration, settlements, development, depletion, and a change in recovery period It becomes. Articles of the 19th century were written by explorers and tourists who encountered the high wilderness of the meadow and tried to grasp their unique ecological structure. Many of the 19th century writers such as Charles Dickens considers high grasslands as "poor and monotonous repression" (33), but many other people like Margaret Fuller and Walt Whitman are filled with grasslands I will. Poetic, treat it as a unique symbol. Character of the United States itself. As authors began working to solve the agricultural consequences of conquering the community, appreciation and nostalgia for this high grassed wilderness is a permanent theme of the 20th century. Meridel Le Seur's "drought" is symbolic in this regard. Because she witnessed the phenomenon of sandstorms, the tragic signs of the economic development of the wilderness of the meadow over the century. This loss is an important part of high grass literature in the 20th century, but by the middle of this century most real prairies are growing rapidly, but in the latter half of the century protection and restoration as well as emphasis on sustainability There is a place. In our own era, writers like John Madson, Don Gayton, Cindy Crosby literally support efforts to reclaim native grasslands and regain high grass.

Finally, the reader of the meadow steppe offers a rich and diverse "deep map" that reveals a unique American landscape and a comprehensive literary drawing of "real meadow". In this respect, it is a valuable resource for those who are interested in high grasslands.

The answer to this question is the first collection of books on his tall grass prairie readers, high grass biological areas. Such as adventure stories, spiritual reflexes, childhood memoirs, native American opinion, literary natural history, humor, writing of writing, a report commemorating the ecological diversity of the tall grass itself Focus on the form, sound and method of nonfiction. And it offers a range of models for natural writers and students.

In his exquisite and important nature articles. Where the sky starts: John Madsen, a land of high grasslands, opens up new possibilities for natural literature in the Midwest. Madison rebuilt meadows that welcomed European pioneers in the 18th and 19th centuries and explained the transition to a modern pasture where bluegrass replaces blues. In chapter 10 we will explain the historical ecology of weeds and climates and the establishment and change of grasslands. Madsen vividly wrote. In his most powerful passage he remembered duck hunting in Iowa. When he was a teenager, he and a friend were taken with a snowstorm. Aesthetic and personal testimony play an important literary role as a medium to promote readers' appreciation for nature in the essay of nature.