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Author:
Lantz, Gary, 1947- author.
Title:
Heart stays country : meditations from the southern Flint Hills / Gary Lantz.
Publisher:
University of Iowa Press,
Copyright Date:
2017
Description:
193 pages ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Lantz, Gary,--1947---Travel--Flint Hills (Kan. and Okla.)
Lantz, Gary,--1947-
Flint Hills (Kan. and Okla.)--Description and travel.
Oklahoma--Description and travel.
Prairies--Flint Hills (Kan. and Okla.)
Country life--Flint Hills (Kan. and Okla.)
Natural history--Flint Hills (Kan. and Okla.)
Flint Hills (Kan. and Okla.)--History, Local.
Oklahoma--History, Local.
Country life.
Natural history.
Prairies.
Travel.
Oklahoma.
United States--Flint Hills.
Local history.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Contents:
At home on prairie earth -- Clarion call -- A creek called Walks in the Night -- Dancing up a prairie sunrise -- Save the last dance -- Ferns prone to take a stroll -- Renewal at a slow burn -- A song of wind and changing seasons -- A time of frogs, toads, and tiny flowers -- Night of the banshees -- Ghostly bird dreams on melancholy mornings -- Daffodils -- Notes from the Konza country -- The grassland legacy of J.E. Weaver -- Floods mark the beginnings of prairie earth -- Fuel for a fiery green engine -- Spring's first warm rain -- Tugging at the crow's tail -- Blackberry winter -- Cicada spring -- Meandering along with a prairie stream -- Floating into summer -- Judge not the brown-headed cowbird -- A tallgrass summer solstice -- The curious life of the tumblebug -- Searching for a prairie queen -- Of morning haze and lotus flowers -- Dog day homicide -- A few thoughts about Aesop's favorite loafer -- A season spun in gold -- Butterfly summer -- The mostly misunderstood copperhead -- An Osage Thoreau -- Poet of the prairie -- Gone in November -- Prairie giants -- On the wings of eagles -- Pastures of plenty -- The Ghost Springs of Sycamore Creek.
Series:
A bur oak book
ISBN:
1609385292
9781609385293
OCLC:
(OCoLC)975980028
LCCN:
2017005976
Locations:
OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)
CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)
BNPD611 -- Winterset Public Library (Winterset)

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