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It is hard to love the high, cold plains of the American West. They are vast and harsh and demanding. And perhaps because they are so hard to love, prairies challenge the imaginative mind and the adventurous heart. The Wide Open reveals how some of the most interesting and accomplished writers and photographers in the country have met that challenge and given the genius of the prairie a vision and a voice. Their stories are as diverse as the tellers, ranging from fiction by Barry Lopez, Richard Ford, and William Kittredge, to the childhood histories of Mary Clearman Blew and Judy Blunt and the nonfiction narratives of Jim Harrison, Gretel Ehrlich, and Rick Bass. There are works by Native American prairie dwellers such as M. L. Smoker and James Welch and the photographic interpretations of Lee Friedlander, Lois Conner, and Geoffrey James. Personal or poetic, journalistic or scientific, these works eloquently attest to the prairie's abundance in all its human and natural variety, offering pictures as wide open and rich as the land they depict.
Contents
Preface
Stephenie Ambrose Tubbs
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Notes on the Photographs
Ian Glennie
Part 1: Home on the Range
Mary Clearman Blew
Becoming
Judy Blunt
Evolution
James Welch
Excerpt from The Death of Jim Loney
James Galvin
No Bastion
Thomas McGuane
A Foal
M. L. Smoker
Grandfather Poem
Letter to Richard Hugo (1)
Birthright
Crosscurrent
Jim Harrison
To a Meadowlark
Lee Friedlander
Portfolio 1
Part 2: Hunting and Gathering
Barry Lopez
The Bear in the Road
Rick Bass
Bird Hunter
David James Duncan
Four Excerpts from the Novella "What the Prairie Has To Say about Fly Fishing"
William Kittredge
Far Point
Gretel Ehrlich
A Summer Journal
Lois Conner
Portfolio 2
Part 3: Travels across the Plains
Jim Harrison
Don't Fence Me In
Annick Smith
Excerpt from "Crossing the Plains with Bruno"
Richard Ford
Empire
Geoffrey James
Portfolio 3
Part 4: Natural History
Dan Flores
An Entire Heaven and an Entire Earth
Peter Matthiessen
Excerpt from "Plains, Prairies, and the Shining Mountains"
Richard Manning
Instructions from a Misanthrope's Paradise
Richard Hugo
Driving Montana
Distances
High Grass Prairie
Bear Paw
Source Acknowledgments
Contributors
