"This book testifies to Kansas' natural abundance through spectacular color photography and sumptuous prose. Sponsored by the Kansas Land Trust, The Nature of K

The disposal of public lands in Kansas was a defining event in American history. The dispossession of Indian tribes settled on reservations along the eastern bo

Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to fly

In the dramatic narratives that comprise The Republic of Nature, Mark Fiege reframes the canonical account of American history based on the simple but radical p

Draws from the study of geography, geology, history, and folklore to tell how a natural mineral resource--a ledge of limestone--became one of the keys to the de