The Big Empty: Contemporary Nebraska Nonfiction Writers

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Ladette Randolph, Nina Shevchuk-Murray
U of Nebraska Press, Dec 1, 2007 - Nature - 302 pages

 

Contents

The Land That Time Forgot
1
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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