Description:
Through interwoven images and words, Visions of the Tallgrass shows that our nation's grasslands are sacred ground, a priceless piece of our American past--and future.
Brief description:
James P. Ronda, is retired as Professor at the University of Tulsa, where he held the H. G. Barnard Chair of Western American History. He is widely recognized for his extensive scholarship on the Lewis and Clark expedition, including the pathbreaking Lewis and Clark Among the Indians. He is also a distinguished historian of the early American fur trade, Astoria and Empire. Professor Ronda's recent publications include The West the Railroads Made.
Review Quotes: "In many ways, this richly illustrated collection of sentiments announces in spirit and in fact where the pavements ends and the prairie begins. In the authors' storytelling, the reader is provided a prairie tour, a love letter to the nature of nature."---Western Historical Quarterly