Reflecting a Prairie Town

Drake Hokanson

• Hardcover | Engels | American Land & Life
• In Reflecting a Prairie Town Drake Hokanson takes a prolonged look at a common place in an uncommon fashion. He presents Peterson, Iowa, through a sin... Lees meer

Bachelor Bess

• Paperback | Engels | American Land & Life
• In July 1909 twenty-one-year-old Elizabeth Corey left her Iowa farm to stake her claim to a South Dakota homestead. Over the next ten years, as she co... Lees meer

Main Street Revisited Time, Space, and Image Building in Small-Town America

Richard V Francaviglia

• Paperback | Engels | American Land & Life
• As an archetype for an entire class of places, Main Street has become one of America's most popular and idealized images. In Main Street Revisited, th... Lees meer

The People's Forests

Robert Marshall

• Paperback | Engels | American Land & Life
• Devoted conservationist, environmentalist, and explorer Robert Marshall (1901-1939) was chief of the Division of Recreation and Lands, U.S. Forest Ser... Lees meer

The Meaning of Rivers

T S McMillin

• Paperback | Engels | American Land & Life
• In the continental United States, rivers serve to connect state to state, interior with exterior, the past to the present, but they also divide places... Lees meer

Hard Places

Richard V Francaviglia

• Paperback | Engels | American Land & Life
• Working with the premise that there are much meaning and value in the "repelling beauty" of mining landscapes, Richard Francaviglia identifies the vis... Lees meer

Landscape with Figures

Kent C Ryden

• Paperback | Engels | American Land & Life
• Kent Ryden does not deny that the natural landscape of New England is shaped by many centuries of human manipulation, but he also takes the view that ... Lees meer

Mountains of Memory

Don Scheese

• Paperback | Engels | American Land & Life
• In this work, seasoned wilderness dweller Don Scheese charts a long season of watching for and fighting fires in Idaho's River of No Return Wilderness... Lees meer