March Book of the Month
Visions of the Tallgrass: Prairie Photographs by Harvey Payne
By James P. Ronda
Details: Art & Photography, Oklahoma, Osage
Publisher: University of Oklahoma Press, 2018
Wildlife photographer Harvey Payne and historian James P. Ronda take a close look at the Joseph H. Williams Tallgrass Prairie Preserve in northeastern Oklahoma. They have explored the 40,000 acres of the Preserve, established 25 years ago in Oklahoma’s Osage County. In chapters examining grass, sky, birds, bison, and fire, Ronda and Payne reveal that the “Big Empty” is abounding with life. James P. Ronda, is Professor (Ret.) H. G. Barnard Chair of Western American History, University of Tulsa. Professor Ronda’s recent publications include The West the Railroads Made, and he has been a frequent contributor to Great Plains Quarterly.
“In this book, you will see the natural world as intended when the Nature Conservancy first set out to protect this land. The Tall Grass Prairie Preserve is one of the Last Great Places on earth.”
— Geoffrey M. Standing Bear, Principal Chief of the Osage Nation
Past Great Plains Books of the Month:
American Serengeti: The Last Big Animals of the Great Plains, Dan Flores
A Chorus of Cranes: The Cranes of North America and the World, Paul Johnsgard
Encounter on the Great Plains: Scandinavian Settlers and the Dispossession of Dakota Indians, 1890-1930, Karen Hansen
Wild Again: The Struggle to Save the Black-Footed Ferret, David Jachowski
A Warrior of the People: How Susan La Flesche Overcame Racial and Gender Inequality to Become America's First Indian Doctor, Joe Starita
Natives of a Dry Place: Stories of Dakota Before the Oil Boom, Richard Edwards
Towards a Prairie Atonement, Trevor Herriot
Walking the Llano, Shelley Armitage
Barnstorming the Prairie, Jason Weems
Homesteading the Plains, Richard Edwards, Rebecca Wingo, Jacob Friefeld
Nebraska Poetry: A Sesquicentennial Anthology 1867-2017, Edited by Daniel Simon
This Blessed Earth: A Year in the Life of an American Family Farm, Ted Genoways
Grasses of the Great Plains, By James Stubbendieck, Stephan L. Hatch, Cheryl D. Dunn
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree, Ann Weisgarber
The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899: Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle by Wendy Katz
Jewels of the Plains: Wildflowers of the Great Plains Grasslands and Hills by Claude Barr and James Locklear
Chemical Lands: Pesticides, Aerial Spraying, and Health in North America's Grasslands Since 1945 by David Vail
Converting the Rosebud: Catholic Mission and the Lakota, 1886-1916 by Harvey Markowitz
The Sea of Grass: A Family Tale from the American Heartland by Walter Echo-Hawk
Prairie Fires: The American Dreams of Laura Ingalls Wilder by Caroline Fraser.
Great Plains Literature by Linda Ray Pratt
Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth by Sarah Smarsh
American Trinity: Jefferson, Custer, and the Spirit of the West by Larry Len Peterson
Native but Foreign: Indigenous Immigrants and Refugees in the North American Borderlands by Brenden Rensink
Slavery on the Periphery: The Kansas-Missouri Border in the Antebellum and Civil War Eras by Kristen Epps