As well as those named in the chapters, I thank these people:
Jack LaZebnik (writer and maker of writers), Larry Cooper (may the future one day sprinkle his grave with Bembo, “the noblest roman of them all”); Robert Overholtzer, Marya Labarthe, Guest Perry, Erica Landry, Peter Davison, Lois Wallace; and: Bertha Baker, Glenn Baumgardner, Cathy Beaham, Hank Beetz, Patt Behler, Mary Helen and Tom Bell, Helen-Ann Brown, Pat Broyles, Rex Buchanan, Marguerite Buffon, Orville Burtis, Jr., Jean Shaft Butler, Howard Cahoone, Sharon Cahoone, Jim Cauthom, Wayne and Ruth Childs, Alice Clareson, Frances Clark, Joseph T. Collins, Mike Cox, Barbara Davis, Beulah Day, Tom Dennison, L. D. Dobbs, Richard Douthit, Gretel Ehrlich, Helen Norton Evans, Wayne Fields, Robert L. Foster, Lee Fowler, Joyce Garr, Don Giddings, Gayle Graham, Zula Bennington Greene, Martha Hagedorn-Krass, Mary Lu and Eldon Hainey, Karl Harder, Ken Harder, Dale Hartley, Shirley Hazzard, Mary Hickey, Mike Holder, Susan Holm, Marilyn Holt, Cathy Hoy, Marteil Hoy, Andrea Hunter, Tom Isern, Alvin M. Josephy, Jr., the Kansas State Historical Society (for permission to reprint material from its archives), June Kelly, Kelly Kindscher, Judy and Roy Knapp, Joyce Knighten, Clair Kucera, Robert Lindholm, Barbara Livingston, Christopher Maples, Wilma and Dale Martin, Scott May, James R. McCauley, Howard McClellan, Sister Jeanne McKenna, Bruce McMillen, Kathy and Ken Mildward, Jesse Miser, John Moore, Sue Ann Moore, June Morgan, Bob Mushrush, Nancy and Stu Nowlin, Jack Odle, Ramon Powers, Charles Rayl, E. C. Roberts, Gerald Roberts, Donita Rogers, Elizabeth Roniger Rogler, Carl and Ruth Romeiser, Johnny Rufener, Bonnie Short, James Shortridge, Hugh Sidey, Joanna Stratton, Edith Talkington, Sandra Taylor, Gloria Throne, Wallace Thurston, Francis Towle, Jon Weiss, Candia Welch, Jean White, Ruth Wilson, Tom Witty, Jr.; and R. Carlos Nakai and Coyote Oldman, whose Native American flutes transported me far and long.
The author is grateful for permission to quote from the following sources
“Tracks of the Wind” by Peter Steinhart Reprinted from Audubon, the magazine of the National Audubon Society
Discovering the Vernacular Landscape by J B Jackson Copyright © 1984 by Yale University Press
The Necessity of Ruins and Other Topics by J B Jackson Copyright © 1980 by J B Jackson. Reprinted by permission of the University of Massachusetts Press
“Kansas A Hard Land in the Heartland” by Leo E Oliva, from Heartland, edited by James H Madison Copyright © 1988 by Indiana University Press.
“An Interview with Barry Lopez,” reprinted from Western American Literature, Spring 1986. Copyright © 1986 by Western Literature Association
Black Elk Speaks by John G Neihardt Copyright 1932, 1959, 1972 by John G Neihardt. Copyright © 1961 by the John G Neihardt Trust Reprinted by permission of University of Nebraska Press
The Sacred Pipe Black Elk’s Account of the Seven Rites of the Oglala Sioux, recorded and edited by Joseph Epes Brown Copyright 1953 by the University of Oklahoma Press
“What’s the Matter with Kansas?” by Kenneth Davis, June 27, 1954 Copyright 1954 by the New York Times Company Reprinted by permission.
“About Books Rereading and Other Excesses” by Anatole Broyard, March 3, 1985 Copyright © 1985 by the New York Times Company Reprinted by permission