Love Song to the Plains

Presents a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains. This title tells: of a story of men and women of many huesocourageous, violent, in-domitable, foolishotheir legends, failures, and achievements; of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; and, of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting.

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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, indomitable, foolish—their legends, failures, and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; 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.