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1) Prairie days
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Describes summer days growing up on the prairie.
3) Skylark
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
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This book explains how you can profitably raise grain and livestock while regenerating your Prairie Soil back to Natural Health and Productivity.
Chapter 1: Prairie History
Locations, Origins, Settlement.
Chapter 2: Prairie Ecology
Rules of Nature, Developing a Farm Plan.
Chapter 3: Plants for a Prairie Farm
Rotate Mixtures of Companion Grains and Forages.
Chapter 4: Animals for a Prairie Farm
Grassland Use for Soil Renewal and Climate Control.
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8) Elsie's bird
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Philomel Books
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[2010]
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Young Elsie must find a way to adapt to her new home on the Nebraska prairie after she and her father leave their comfortable city life in Boston.
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Tundra Books
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[2023]
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"A little girl dreams of adventures in the water and feels the spirit of the ocean all around her . . . even though she lives on the prairie, with flat land as far as the eye can see. But she won't let a little detail like that stand in the way of being a meadow mermaid! Frolicking in the "waves" of wheat and "oceans" of grass, spying sea horses and . . . a shipwrecked sailor? Even if that shipwreck is actually an overturned bike and the sailor a...
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Originally published in 1902, this early work on Hunting trips on the Prairie and mountains is both expensive and hard to find in its first edition. This is a fascinating novel of the period and still an interesting read today. Its chapters include; A trip after mountain sheep and Still hunting Elk on the mountains.
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The first book written on the natural history of life on the Nullabor Plain, was written by station-master A.G. Bolam and first published in 1923. The author recollects his times with Aboriginal trackers and workers in and around Ooldeah, as the great railway progressed from South Australia across to Western Australia, and in doing so looks at animal and bird life and the unique geographical feature of the Plain. Bolam studied the Ooldeah tribe and...
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Thought That Nature identifies and captures moments when the border between personal consciousness and the otherness of the physical become porous. Ironically, it also allows Moody to measure the distance between consciousness and direct experience, even as he casts this gap in memorable speech. This debut collection offers the reader sensual delight and intellectual pursuit - a rare and bracing combination.
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An "engrossing" memoir of traveling Canada's Qu'Appelle River Valley via horse, canoe, and Native American dogsled (Calgary Herald).
The North American Plains are one of the world's great landscapes-but today, the most intimate experience most of us are likely to have of the great grasslands is from behind the window of a car or train. It was not always so. In the earliest days, Plains Indians traveled on foot across the vastness, with only the fierce,...
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The prairie grassland biome covers the heartland of North America with an eastward extension called the Prairie Peninsula. Primarily composed of tallgrass prairie, this biome lies between the shortgrass prairies of the west and the eastern deciduous forest region and includes the states of Illinois, Indiana, southeastern Wisconsin, and Ohio. With text by co-authors Gary Meszaros and Guy L. Denny and striking photographs by Meszaros, The Prairie Peninsula...
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Through soaring images and essays from leading bird conservationists, Wings Over Water provides a stirring glimpse into one of the most vital and threatened of the world's ecosystems, the Prairie Pothole Region and the birds that nest and breed there.
This beautiful coffee table book is the companion to the nationally distributed IMAX film of the same name. Wings Over Watercelebrates and promotes the preservation of the prairie wetlands and the birds...
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In this revealing exploration of Laura Ingalls Wilder's deep connection with the natural world, Marta McDowell follows the wagon trail of the beloved Little House series. You'll learn details about Wilder's life and inspirations, pinpoint the Ingalls and Wilder homestead claims on authentic archival maps, and learn how to grow the plants and vegetables featured in the series. Excerpts from Wilder's books, letters, and diaries bring to light her profound...
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North Dakota is regarded as flyover country, but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the home of one of the world's largest nuclear missile fields, one of the first mosques in America, a zany collection of roadside attractions, resurgent Native American communities, one of the nation's most productive oil fields, and the magnificent Little Missouri River badlands.
Join Clay Jenkinson as he searches...
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Dive into the adventurous world of the American West with Theodore Roosevelt's "Hunting in the Cattle Country." This short captivating book of 22 pages, republished from the collection "Hunting in Many Lands: The Book of the Boone & Crockett Club," originally published in 1895, offers a vivid account of Roosevelt's hunting expeditions in the vast cattle country.
Experience the thrill of the hunt as Roosevelt recounts his encounters with pronghorn...
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