Prairyerth (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: William Lewis Trogdon
- First Published: 1991
- Type of Work: Natural history; history; travel
- Time of Work: Prehistory to the 1990’s
- Setting: Chase County, Kansas
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: Language or languages, United States or Americans, Midwest, Dreams, Native Americans or American Indians, Metaphysics, Mysticism, Environment or environmental health, Meditation, Natural history, Maps
- Locales: Chase County, KS
Why would you write 624 pages about a county in Kansas? William Least Heat-Moon says the book itself is the answer, but, if pushed, he might substitute one of his “commonplaces”—quotations from writers, that he gathers and cobbles into introductions for each of his thirteen sections. Henry David Thoreau’s journal observation would suffice: “The ancients, one would say, with their gorgons, sphinxes, satyrs, mantichora, etc., could imagine more than existed, while the moderns cannot imagine so much as exists.” The question posed about the value of Kansas as a topic displays...
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