Portraits of the Prairie: The Land That Inspired Willa Cather

by Ted Kooser and Richard Schilling

"As I looked about me I felt that the grass was the country, as the water is the sea. The red of the grass made all the great prairie the colour of wine-stains, or of certain seaweeds when they are first washed up. And there was so much motion in it; the whole country seemed, somehow, to be running."--My ntonia, Willa Cather
It is often called "Catherland"--Webster County, Nebraska, where the quintessential American novelist Willa Cather...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803222602
• ISBN13: 9780803222601
• Release Date: May 2011
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 2.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 8.5" x 11.3"