TY - BOOK ID - 77872676 TI - The wide open : prose, poetry, and photographs of the prairie AU - Smith, Annick AU - O'Connor, Susan. AU - Hunter, Fredericka. AU - Glennie, Ian. PY - 2008 SN - 1281958301 9786611958305 0803218710 9780803218710 9781281958303 080321751X 9780803217515 PB - Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press, DB - UniCat KW - American literature KW - Prairies KW - Landscapes KW - Countryside KW - Landscape KW - Natural scenery KW - Scenery KW - Scenic landscapes KW - Nature KW - Grasslands KW - English literature KW - Agrarians (Group of writers) KW - Montana KW - Država Montana KW - Monekana KW - Mont. KW - Montana Eyaleti KW - Montana-shū KW - Montanashū KW - Montano KW - MT KW - Politeia tēs Montana KW - Shtat Montana KW - State of Montana KW - Statul Montana KW - Πολιτεία της Μοντάνα KW - Μοντάνα KW - Щат Монтана KW - Монтана KW - Држава Монтана KW - モンタナ KW - モンタナ州 KW - Montana Territory UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77872676 AB - 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 ER -