First Mariner Books edition 1999
Copyright © 1991 by William Least Heat-Moon
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The Library of Congress has cataloged the print edition as follows:
Heat-Moon, William Least.
PrairyErth : (a deep map) / William Least Heat-Moon, [maps and Kansas petroglyphs drawn by author]
p cm.
“A Peter Davison Book”
ISBN 0-395-48602-5 ISBN 0-395-92569-x (pbk)
1. Chase County (Kan.)—Description and travel. 2. Chase County (Kan.)—History, Local. 3. Heat-Moon, William Least—Journeys—Kansas—Chase County I. Title
F687.C35H44 1991 91-23250
917 81'59—dc20 CIP
Maps and Kansas petroglyphs drawn by the author
PrairyErth speaks in many voices. The author thanks the numerous writers, alive and dead, whose descriptions of Chase County and Kansas and the American prairie, indeed the globe itself, have informed and advised him—and contributed to the scope and substance of the Commonplace Books.
Acknowledgements for the use of lengthy quotations from previously published works are given on [>].
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