The wide open : prose, poetry, and photographs of the prairie / edited by Annick Smith and Susan O'Connor ; Fredericka Hunter and Ian Glennie, photo editors.
Part one: Home on the range: Becoming / Mary Clearman Blew -- Evolution / Judy Blunt -- Excerpts from Death of Jim Loney / James Welch -- No bastion / James Galvin -- A foal / Thomas McGuane -- Grandfather poem. Letter to Richard Hugo. Birthright. Crosscurrent / M.L. Smoker --- To a meadowlark / Jim Harrison -- Portfolio one / Lee Friedlander -- Part two: Hunting and gathering: Bear in the road / Barry Lopez -- Bird hunter / Rick Bass -- Four excerpts from the novella: What the prairie has to say about fly fishing / David James Duncan -- Excerpt from Willow field. Far point / William Kittredge -- A summer journal / Gretel Ehrlich -- Portfolio two / Lois Conner -- Part three: Travels across the plains: Don't fence me in / Jim Harrison -- Excerpt from Crossing the plains with Bruno / Annick Smith -- Empire / Richard Ford -- Portfolio three / Geoffrey James -- Part four: Natural history: An entire heaven and an entire earth / Dan Flores -- Excerpt from: Plains, prairies, and the shining mountains / Peter Matthiessen -- Instructions from a misanthrope's paradise / Richard Manning -- Driving Montana. Distances. High grass prairie. Bear paw / Richard Hugo -- Source acknowledgments -- Contributors.
