Love Song to the Plains Author:Mari Sandoz, Bryan Forsyth (Illustrator) "Love Song to the Plains" is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian, Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues - courageous, violent, in-domitable, foolish - their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers... more » and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; and, of cattlemen and bad men, boomers and land speculators, and their feuds and rivalries.
Above all, this is a portrait of the true Plainsman, the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day, every year, a gamble. « less