The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction WritersLadette Randolph, Nina Shevchuk-Murray |
Contents
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Two Views of the Oregon Trail | 8 |
Seasons in the Bohemian Alps | 15 |
Nuts | 21 |
A Lexicon and Essays | 31 |
Excerpt from In the Kingdom of Grass | 46 |
Hereafter in Fields | 56 |
Organic Vertegration from The Farming Game | 62 |
An Indian Candidate for Public Office | 159 |
Weighed Down by Buckskin | 181 |
Excerpt from From Pine Ridge to Paris | 188 |
In the Time of the Buffalo | 205 |
Sketches from the Great Plains | 217 |
Excerpt from Tending to Ruin | 226 |
A Memoir | 241 |
Excerpt from Being Home | 249 |
Excerpt from This Death by Drowning | 66 |
Uncle Vics Mule | 81 |
Solomon Butcher from Cottonwood Roots | 88 |
Two Wrens | 96 |
The Missouri and I | 110 |
Excerpt from Stranger to the Game | 122 |
Excerpts from Prairie Homeboys | 147 |
Excerpt from Children of Hope Children of Tears | 252 |
Immigration Technology and Sense of Place | 262 |
Concerning Freaks Book Clubs and the Unbearable Distances of the Plains | 271 |
Source Acknowledgments | 293 |
Contributors | 297 |
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Page 5 - In the early days the animals probably roamed over a very wide, country until they found their proper place. An animal depends a great deal on the natural conditions around it. If the buffalo were here to-day, I think they would be different from the buffalo of the old days because all the natural conditions have changed.