| 单词 | prairie |
| 例句 | The humped outline of the vast heap of earth emerged from the empty green like a powerful prairie ship. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The wind coming off the prairie had been strong all day, sometimes gusting wildly, and leaves scuttled along the street; the sound of laughter and fiddle music drifted through the night. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He came from the prairies, where he had tamed countless mustangs for the British cavalry’s effort in the Boer War. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z The deep red of plomms and the pale sand color of the beach itself, the black of the night sky and the green of the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Sometimes he makes me sad when he says that he feels himself disappearing like the prairie. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z As Rooster Jim had noted, a Chinook had blown through a few days before, warming the prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z But now as I carry my suitcase onto this ship of the prairie, I am suddenly in the Bresnicks’ living room. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z To the south, a red-tailed hawk circled—suddenly it dove toward a prairie dog settlement, but came up empty-handed. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z I had followed his life so far, from when he was a calf on the prairie to his days in the feedlot, but his death was the one event I was not allowed to witness. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z The prairie falcon and the sharp- shinned hawk were there, too. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z Folks don’t appreciate how open a prairie is, how there is absolutely no place to hide. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z He was shorter than them, and real skinny, like the prairie winds were eroding him away. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Lord knows how I could have thought that old horse would outrun anything, but there’s not a lot of clear thinking when you’re alone on the prairie at sunrise. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The heart rate falls and brain waves begin to look like a drive across the prairies. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z The night had a quilted, weighted-down quality, as if somehow burdened, and all around us the Minnesota prairies reached out in long repetitive waves of corn and soybeans, everything flat, everything the same. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Mars could do nothing to them, for they were bred to plains and prairies as open as the Martian fields. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z From Baltimore came a long dark train that chilled the hearts of the men and women who monitored its passage across the prairie but delighted the innumerable small boys who raced open-jawed to the railbed. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “About the prairie fires? About how sometimes you need to scorch everything to the ground and start over?” Little Fires Everywhere 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z Crackling prairie noises carried softly on the air. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Outside across the prairie the shadows were almost black. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Each night, that boy came into the lean-to just a-talking away like he had himself an invisible friend, chatting on about all he’d seen that day in hawks and prairie dogs and such. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z They also have deep root systems that help them to recover quickly from grazing or prairie fire. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Burnham treasured beauty but saw none for miles and miles and miles, just coal, rust, and smoke in endless repetition until the train entered the prairie and everything seemed to go quiet. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Hale was determined to transform not only himself but the wilderness from which he came—to cross-fence the open prairie and to create a network of trading posts and towns. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Down on the ground the prairies unscroll, vast and mundane and plausible as hallucinations, dusted already with snow and scrawled with sinuous rivers. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z A prairie falcon called out a single note. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z “All the squares formerly built up solidly were now so many black excavations, while the streets had the appearance of raised turnpikes intersecting each other on a level prairie.” The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Several riders, maybe as many as six, pounded across the prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Someone drew a picture of the apartment building with the Hideout underneath it, looking like the tunnels prairie dogs burrow in. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z Robert’s pet name for Elizabeth was “my little Portuguese. ’’ prairie. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Normally, once or twice a week he went for long walks on his own land, the well-loved piece of prairie where he had always hoped to build a house, plant trees, eventually entertain greatgrandchildren. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Chicago seemed an unreal city whose mythical houses were built of slabs of black coal wreathed in palls of gray smoke, houses whose foundations were sinking slowly into the dank prairie. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z For one thing, as you approached, you’d find his prize pigs hobbled out on the prairie like most folks do horses or cows. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Below them, the blur of the meadow and the prairie stretched out like a green-gold sea. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Though I should feel a total failure, my time on the prairie has branded this hope on my heart: next year it will be better. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They paddled in the shallow stream that ran through the prairie, where tiny silver fish nibbled their toes. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We resumed driving and cut along a dirt road through the prairie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After he swung down off Ash, he seemed to spend an inordinate amount of time brushing prairie dust from his pants. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Even this flicker of optimism was about to disappear, however, for a powerful weather front was moving across the prairie, toward Chicago. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z “Doing any more of them burlesque dances out there on the prairie?” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In no time at all, they reached the prairie, where the wild cats and the chickens had free range and chased each other back and forth. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Wide golden light, and an endless prairie or savanna, like nothing she had ever seen in her own world. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Winter on the prairie was no picnic for the Ingalls family. Woe Is I 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z Noah looked to build a boat to float on the rising waters; I was looking for a stone boat to “float” on the rolling prairie land. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Jinny ran, through the prairie and down the path, over the ridge, and home. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Those hunters would regularly set fire to the prairie to keep it free of trees and nourish the soil. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z Just a few hours in that soddie made me see how folks could go crazed and run out into the freezing cold of the Nebraska prairie. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z I felt like a hawk watching a prairie dog skittering through the grass. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z While he had successfully trapped the prairie dog, the rest of his invention wasn’t quite the success Chase imagined. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Plug’s hooves crunched against the stubby prairie grass, speckled with little cactus. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Magpies hunkered atop flattened prairie dog carcasses along the shoulder. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z Jimmy noticed that the grass was sparse here and the land looked like a desert, no longer like the grass prairies to the east. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The way he closed his eyes tight told me he wasn’t talking about anything on the prairie. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z It was the law of the machine, as immutable as the forces that propelled the Chicago Limited across the prairie. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z The skies opened up and rain—glorious rain—quenched the dust-dry prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z As stray drops began to pelt her head, she tore through the prairie, ahead of the rain, not stopping to look out for the kittens. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “It may not be too steep. I read a well-researched book about three pigs who followed cattle drovers across prairies and over mountains on a trek to Montana.” On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “The total number of bison, say, seems to have gone down quite a bit, but they wanted to have them available for hunting in the prairie a couple days' journey away.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Jon named all the birds and flew the prairie falcon from one end of the auditorium to the other. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z For me, it was this stuffed prairie dog that I got one Christmas when I was like three. Will Grayson, Will Grayson 2010-04-06T00:00:00Z Eventually the monkeys came out of the woods, walking on their hind legs, and took over the prairies and almost everything else. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z Both from the great flat open spaces, one a prairie of grass, one of water. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z Guess you could call it the world’s smallest prairie. Crash 1996-03-19T00:00:00Z “It was a strange feeling to be there for an hour...there in the middle of the great prairies. I felt as if the stretches on all sides were limitless.” The Woman All Spies Fear 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z Last week he’d made an elaborate trap to catch a prairie dog. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Nor was I like the careless boys and girls who kept speaking Navajo when our teachers—who watched us the way coyotes watch a prairie dog hole—could hear them. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z Such a herd was very colorful on the green prairie. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z As though the tensions of recent days had followed her up into the prairie and were buzzing along with the bees. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Jimmy smiled ear to ear as he loped across the prairie with Grandpa Nyles. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z But now, in the bright sunlight of midday, the place looks like just another worthless patch of prairie. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z Without thinking, he found his horse, mounted, and galloped away across the prairie. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It is a suburban prairie, an expanse of flat terrain once farmed for potatoes before it was planted with house upon house and little else. Drama High 2013-09-26T00:00:00Z The prairie became as hard as stone, birds disappeared from the sky, and the Grandfather sun looked pale and distant. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Just as the usual ribbons of gold were beginning to braid the sky, Jinny led her groggy Care up the path and into the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Bate is holding, not Frightful, but a prairie falcon. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z After driving for so long through the flat South Dakota prairie, it was a shock to come upon the Badlands. Walk Two Moons 1994-06-30T00:00:00Z The truck’s headlights catch tire tracks and prairie grass and insects weaving back and forth. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z A little ways down the wall behind us, a girl has slipped into the no-man's-land of the prairie. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z While prairie jackrabbits are capable of amazing bursts of speed—up to and over fifty miles an hour—they are relatively short-winded. This Side of Wild 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z She remembered once, years back, she and Deen had snuck away on a Changing night and made a bed in the high grass of the prairie, with their blankets and pillows. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z A prairie falcon called softly from another room. Frightful's Mountain 2001-05-21T00:00:00Z A lightship with twin beacons glides past as America recedes; ahead wait the great glittering prairies of the Atlantic. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z A foremost authority on prairie flora and fauna, she could discuss at length the thirty-seven varieties of hydrangea in Crawford County. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z The rain had finally stopped, but the wind carried on, whipping the prairie grass. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Already the prairie had been baked dry, but in August it would get worse. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Below them small towns passed by like lit-up islands in a dark sea of prairie. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z There I’d used some of the brown gingham to capture this broad prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z It was while Papa and I were cutting wild hay in a little patch of prairie back of the house. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z They trampled together up the path above the cabins, heading for the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z His mind had been shaped by the prairies and ranges, and until the day he died, he would make order of the world with lessons learned from cow ponies, jagged land, and wide-open sky. Seabiscuit: An American Legend 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z He liked to sit out front whittling on some rough little santo, watching the prairie dogs establish themselves. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z A savage storm blew across the prairie and turned the streets into rivers of mud, so the private detective didn’t arrive in Ponca City until dark, only to discover that Brown wasn’t there. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z But to tell Elmer Ren, with a sick wife and too many children and his life tied up in 320 acres of Montana prairie, that he must leave all behind...that was a different story. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In some small prairie towns people looked at me like they never seen a colored man before. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Across the flat prairie, the church sailed into view, a small ship of salvation on the buffalo grass sea. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z And finally, herds of creatures, too far off to see distinctly, grazed on the prairie. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Farther up the prairie, a kitten tore past Jinny’s feet, in play. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z We had a field of hay drying in the prairie sun, but just one wagon, two horses, a few pitches, and our own hands. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z In that part of the prairie, you can still make out ruts dug by stagecoaches and cattle drives of the 1800s. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z In the nineteenth century, bison were extinguished from the prairie, but in recent years they have been reintroduced by conservationists. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z Behind the little rise she had found herself on, the land sloped gradually down and then up again; the fullest view lay in front, across that immense prairie. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z And so following her directions, I drove through Pawhuska and headed west across the prairie, through the tall grasses, until I saw what she’d vividly described to me: scores of metallic towers invading the sky. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The mare was huggable when not kicking things or careening across the prairie at a hundred miles an hour. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z It’s amazing what you can hear when you’re stretched out on the prairie grass. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Across the prairies, through the woods, over the brown water of the creek, there was a sound of crying. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z The Osage had seen what had happened to the Cherokee Outlet, a vast prairie that was part of the Cherokees’ territory and was near the western border of the Osage reservation. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z After the priest sprinkled holy water over Anna’s casket, Mollie guided her family and the other mourners to a cemetery in Gray Horse, a quiet, isolated spot overlooking the endless prairie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z As I crested the coulee by Perilee’s, I glanced across the prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “War’s an expensive proposition. Don’t think the Huns much care about the finances of us folks here on the prairie.” Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The money flowing into the community from the oil boom had helped to build their businesses and to realize their once seemingly fantastical dreams of turning the raw prairie into a beacon of commerce. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The wind that came up off the prairie could’ve blown me away like so much ash. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z We cut down forests and plowed up the prairies to make room for the giant seed-bearing grasses. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z My time on the prairie has shown me that age has very little to do with one’s mental acuity or physical ability. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z In my year on the prairie, I have learned to quilt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z She took her time, walked slowly, inhaling deep slow breaths as she made her way through the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z Together we picked flowers, paintbrush and clover and prairie violets. Sarah, Plain and Tall 1985-04-25T00:00:00Z His land was barren; the prairie dogs moved in. The Milagro Beanfield War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z The wide golden prairie that Lee Scoresby’s ghost had seen briefly through the window was lying quiet under the first sun of morning. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z We rode on for several more minutes, pounding against the prairie, until we pounded right into Perilee’s yard. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Hale rode up fiercely on his horse, emerging from the tall prairie grasses. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z The blessing is that these heartbreaks are but a few of the patches in my prairie year quilt. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Out on the prairies, the Cree had put up a fight. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z When I’d pounded in the last nail and gathered up my tools, I fairly floated across the blooming prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Sometimes she even spent nights away from her cabin, roosting with the chickens in the trees, or camping out on the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The breeze, still cool, carried the morning scent of prairie grasses and moist soil. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z Flowers, greens, and buckets forgotten, we ran across the prairie, joined at the hands and wobbling like an unwieldy snake. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Ours was not the only loss on that prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I passed through towns with familiar names, through the pine forests and down to the prairie, and then to Vietnam, where I was a soldier, and then home again. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z “And the prairie falcon is on her way to Idaho. “How’s that for a happy ending?” he asks and takes a sandwich from his packbasket. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Stand in a desert or prairie and you know you are in a big space. A Walk in the Woods 1997-11-01T00:00:00Z Mrs. Kidwell, a fanciful woman, had been standing at a window watching dusk tint the outdoors, the sprawling prairie. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z The great quiet of the prairies surrounded him. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z Sometimes open leads of water in all directions were wreathed with wisps of frost smoke as the water began to freeze, and Shackleton commented that the effect resembled the smoke from a prairie fire. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z And a fatal chase they led him over prairies into the hands of Herakles. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z If I hadn’t given myself the willies over the prairie’s nighttime noises, I might have noticed it sooner. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z The deep ruts in the road were frozen and glazed with ice; the wind had a clean sweep across the prairies, a sweep that sometimes seemed about to carry Jethro before it. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z Minutes turned into hours and the pinks and greens of sunset colored the frozen prairie. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z She’d introduce her to the prairie, with its high grasses, beehives, and the colony of cats nobody could seem to gentle. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z To deflect Uncle Jet’s ridicule, Nathan said, “Could be a prairie dog.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Two weeks after the funeral, a cool rain finally began to fall, washing over the prairie. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “How about that? You might be right. Your dad and I used to hunt them around here when we were young. Mm, you got me thinking of prairie dog stew.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z Roy’s throat was as dry as prairie dust, and his neck felt hot. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z Fed by neither streams nor springs, the lake was often filthy and algaed, relying on fickle prairie rains for replenishment. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z Soon they came into a very hilly area of the prairies, with tall grass and sandy soil. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z The view was of hills and ridges toward the east, and prairies all around. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z It sits on the prairie but on the edge of the mountains. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z Each day, the sun grew hotter and more punishing, too hot for June, and the fence seemed to get longer and longer, like a living thing snaking out across the prairie. Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z She was accustomed to the chorus of meadowlarks and sandpipers and prairie chickens, now overlaid with the pock-pocking of drills pounding the earth. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A hot breeze carried the sweet scent of prairie grass through the open door. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They had broad triangular heads, like the prairie rattlers back in Montana, but their bodies were muck-colored and ominously plump. Hoot 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z In front of her, the prairie stretched to the horizon like an ancient seabed. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z On the plains of the American west, where steer 534 was born, bison and the prairie grasses lived together in partnership for thousands of years. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z A herd that size could eat all the grass on a large prairie very quickly. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z There is nothing like a predawn prairie to get the juices flowing. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Long used to the flat western prairie, I was startled by my first view of New York. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z It’s hard to imagine how far you can see on the prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Faintly, she remembered the time Sam had tried to catch a kitten in the prairie, and how Deen, not Sam, had been the one to come home all scratched up. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z By the time Margie drove on, the prairie was shrouded in the dark of night. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z “All of you. I’ll miss the stories and the fire and the fishing and the prairie and the games we play. I’ll miss everything.” Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z She’s got no goo on her face, her hair’s not sprayed, her nightgown’s like an old prairie dress. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z Together they hunted chicken eggs in the low branches of the trees and the tall grasses of the prairie, but when they came to the beehives, everyone but Jinny and Joon hung back. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z “I don’t know. But were sitting ducks in the middle of the prairie here, waiting for all the shamblers in the Midwest to hear the call.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z “Or a prairie dog. Those things are awesome.” The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z It made me feel like one of the prickly pear cactuses I crunched under my feet: small and unimportant on the prairie near Vida. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z I see Bedouins in the Sahara and the French Foreign Legion, cowboys on the American prairie. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z I wanted so badly to describe the prairie smell to him, the sweet promise of spring after a Chinook, the warm, edgy rub of sage, the rib-eye steak smell of my fields. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z “Your deer are much prettier than our ugly buffaloes,” she said, turning to the prairies for help and feeling glad that she had read one of the boys’ books in which Jo delighted. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z Its wings spread strong and wide, it flew lazy loops above the prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z For a moment I think that maybe I could just keep walking, out toward the mystery of the wall, past that to the open prairie, continue moving until I’ve left this whole mess behind. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z It had gotten tangled, and there were sticky burrs in it from the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z The town and the street were empty, and beyond them the prairie, too. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z A city so young that, in thinking of its short history, one’s mind, as it travels backward in time, is stopped abruptly by the barren stretches of wind-swept prairie! Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z Lee Scoresby’s ghost looked through and saw a wide, quiet prairie under a brilliant moon, so very like his own homeland that he thought he’d been blessed. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z He refused to give back any money, but when she didn’t leave, he offered a compromise: he would take a load of her possessions to the prairie for the rent money. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Deer in the Northeast; alligators in the Everglades; buffalo in the prairies; grasshoppers in the Great Basin; rabbits in California; moose in Alaska: all were pursued by fire. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z Ben, stirring something in the kitchen, and Joon, mending a net with some prairie grass on a rock. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z There were still prairie chickens around in those days, and they were pecking dirt. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z I am a prairie that will stand for much plowing. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z I thought of what the scientist had written about our prairie dog ancestors, and I was worried. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z She’d never noticed it before, but their coloring was the same—like the rich dark soil of the prairie. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z After insisting her parents leave the house, she guided the group out of the city and into the empty prairie where their possessions had been left. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z He saw the great stands of wheel trees and the roads lacing through the prairie, just as Mary had done from the same spot sometime before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z “If you wanna keep working, go for it. Far as I’m concerned, we’re only fixing the posts for your science project. And since it’s a prairie dog, no need to fix the fence.” Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z And they were as surprised to find roads of smooth rock lacing through the prairie as Mary Malone had been sometime before. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z Their descendants today are the rats known as prairie dogs. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z The Great Fire would have burned until it ran out of city, then continued its hungry march across the prairie. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z Before the settlers were the Sioux, and before the Sioux were the vast open prairies, and before the prairies there was only ice. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z I had my eye on a piece of soft blue chambray at Mr. Dye’s store for the sky and I’d been saving scraps of brown gingham for the prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z My own head filled with memories of footpaths, burrows, bushes, and faint rises I’d grown to know on the prairie, faint reminders of our old home. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z “Why, we’re having a discussion on prairie flora and fauna, in honor of the late Widow Cane.” Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z I did find a home in my year on the prairie. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Her brother had gone out to Montana himself and assured her this was the text any homesteader must have for farming in eastern prairie country. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z Earlier, when I drove to Gray Horse, I’d been startled by the sight of bison roaming through the prairie with their bowed heads and massive woolly bodies supported seemingly impossibly on narrow legs. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z I wish you could’ve seen my acres in the spring, all green frizz creeping along the prairie, or in late summer, when the flax turned the fields deep sea blue. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z There, you can run for miles along yellow prairie and never see a car, and at night, it’s pitch-black as a coal mine. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z He could have heard us coming last Tuesday the way the prairie grass sang as we whipped through it. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z Loading her rucksack again, she made her way down onto the coarse, rich grass of the prairie, aiming for the nearest stand of trees, four or five miles away. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z No, these rustles belonged to the prairie night—pack rats and prairie dogs and who knew what else. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z They always called me Wood—in church, after church, any time we crossed paths—on account of the fact that we Peales dragged that wood across the prairie to build our house. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z In the most exposed portions there was only sand tufted with marine and prairie grasses. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z As I listened to the wind bending over the prairie grass, I realized I’d never have my leg as good as new. Worth 1998-06-01T00:00:00Z The prairie was flatter than anything I had ever seen. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z To the west were the Black Hills, and to the east were the endless prairies. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z Captain John Palliser, traveling through the same lands as Fidler six decades later, lamented the Indians’ “disastrous habit of setting the prairie on fire for the most trivial and worse than useless reasons.” 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z The best advertisement for adding prairie might just be seeing the prairie itself. Planting native prairie could be a secret weapon for farmers 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z He is Wesley Case, a 34-year-old Canadian and disgraced military officer who found refuge by joining the North-West Mounted Police and high-tailing it to the prairie. 'A Good Man': the aftermath of Custer's last stand 2012-01-11T22:09:07Z After the war, they drove West in a trailer George had refurbished himself; the family “passed horses on the prairie, and George caught one for Linda.” When the Oppens Gave Up Art to Fight Fascism 2017-03-08T05:00:00Z Black Belt prairie near Tupelo, with its loamy soil and chalky substrate, nourishes more than 400 plant species and abundant birds. The U.S. Issue: Endangered Species: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species 2011-05-13T20:22:51Z “But the beauty of the prairie in July or the sound of the birds in June is the best reward.” Planting native prairie could be a secret weapon for farmers 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z Continuing north, we passed prairie dog towns, open meadows where the comical little rodents live by the hundreds. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The prairie’s demise is linked more to agriculture than urbanization, but still, we are trying in our limited and stumbling way to make up for the loss by planting perennials and grasses of native origin. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z A day’s drive west, across the flat prairie of Manitoba, we arrived in Regina. Driving along the Trans-Canada Highway isn’t a road trip. It’s a family culinary tour. 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z The show’s raunchy-but-wistful prairie populism feels especially relevant in this election year, when the news media and political parties are confronting their blind spots for working-class concerns. Review: In ‘The Ranch,’ Ashton Kutcher and Danny Masterson Reunite as Cowboy Siblings 2016-03-31T04:00:00Z Covering 15 miles of Lake Michigan shoreline, its vast sand dunes, forests, marshes and prairies are home to over 350 species of bird and 1,100 native plants. Crusade ends as Indiana Dunes becomes newest national park in US 2019-02-22T05:00:00Z In the novel he used I.R.S. auditing as a metaphor for the meditativeness of valuable work, the prairie as a metaphor for meditativeness. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z But the parched prairies and old-timey saloons of the first two seasons feel like a distant memory. What Is ‘Westworld’ Without Westworld? 2020-03-11T04:00:00Z Photography by members of the Garden Club of America features plants of the United States from mountains and prairies to farmlands and arid lands. At museums this fall: Art and science, civilization and extinction SAT Wolf sanctuary fundraiser dinner, dinner, prairie tour, s’mores around the campfire, overnight camping, continental breakfast, 5 p.m. Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2014-09-10T04:00:00Z This trail leads through the Badlands Wall to a grand view of the canyon and prairie. Accessible Nature: A Trail Guide for Disabled Hikers 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Fashion has been obsessed with pajama shirts, track pants and, most recently, prairie dresses. Gabriela Hearst is dressing women for a new era of political power 2019-01-16T05:00:00Z Cage wants to be “the poet of the unfinished,” to celebrate the raw beginnings of prairie towns, yet he cannot even finish his own tale. ‘A Friend of Mr. Lincoln’ review: The burning ambition of a future president 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Martel and his family live on the Canadian prairies, in the town of Saskatoon, where he is loosely attached to the University of Saskatchewan. Yann Martel 2010-06-22T19:00:00Z Inhabiting the brains of lions, moles, trouser-thieving "wild dogs who live on the prairie," and horses as they compete in dressage competitions, Izzard danced with an easy grace. Comic Eddie Izzard, at Hollywood Bowl, generates hysterics and more 2015-06-07T04:00:00Z These stories aren't just about woods and prairies and Plum Creeks, after all: they're about the house in the woods, the shanty on the prairie, the dugout by the creek. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z She went to Lubbock last week and started writing a song about prairie dogs. "I'm not quiet, but my voice still warbles": Amanda Shires on her new album and owning her strength 2023-05-21T04:00:00Z But knows critics were over the rainbow with the Mulleavy sisters’ wearable distillation of their former wool cobweb-cheesecloth-macramé creations as tailored prairie dresses. | Rodarte Wins! 2011-02-17T01:31:52Z Call it the real housewives of the prairie. Laura Ingalls Wilder's real-life memoir to be published 2014-08-20T04:00:00Z After adding native prairie to his central Iowa operation, he remembers hearing the hum of pollinators flocking to the property. Planting native prairie could be a secret weapon for farmers 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z When Ernest Hemingway was born, in 1899, it bordered open prairie. Word up: new Chicago museum celebrates American authors 2017-05-24T04:00:00Z This time it was blooming globemallow and smiling prairie sunflowers that lined the roadside like spectators. A Bicycle Tour Through Remote Southwest Canyon Country 2010-07-31T04:30:00Z But we can get the prairie back to a healthy condition by managing the seasonal plants and removing invasive species.” Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z The midwest may have a lot of farms, but instead of dreary prairies there were lush green hills, upland meadows, thick forests, looming limestone cliffs and, further south, cypress swamps. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z Carts bearing interesting snacks and desserts find diners’ heads popping up, like prairie dogs from their burrows, curious to see what they might be missing. Review | Emilie’s, from chef Kevin Tien, brings some good news to the Hill 2020-01-24T05:00:00Z In a bunker-like setting with the odd sprout of greenery on the catwalk, models wearing black shiny leather outerwear opened the show, soon giving way to delicate prairie dresses and ruffled tops. Alexa Chung imagines 'off the grid' escapism for second London show 2019-02-16T05:00:00Z Feud for thought ... a schoolhouse on a midwestern prairie. Overlooked classics of American literature: The Feud by Thomas Berger 2011-08-04T08:00:02Z There is a spare beauty to the Illinois prairie, with winds swooshing between its wide sky and paper-flat fields. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z Traditionally, hunting and gathering on the prairie were the main practices for the historically nomadic Lakota. Envisioning indigenous food sovereignty as "a whole ecosystem" 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z His writing, which includes memoir, history, biography and reportage as well as more than a dozen works of fiction, is like a vast prairie, its fertile valleys and desert patches shadowed by three mighty peaks. Wallace Stegner and the Conflicted Soul of the West 2020-06-01T04:00:00Z To rebuild that soil, the Land Institute uses prairie diversity as its model. Perspective | Perennial grains could be a key weapon against climate change. But not quite yet. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z It gained that status after a land-use fight in the 1970s between those who wanted to build subdivisions in the prairies and others who wanted to keep the farms. Worth the Trip: Soul-nourishing vistas at Ebey’s Landing 2017-02-23T05:00:00Z Additionally, Warren stripped women and girls of their autonomy, ordering them to don a new kind of prairie dress that covered them from head to toe and style their hair in a specific fashion. A primer on the abusive FLDS church, from its self-proclaimed prophet to forced underage polygamy 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z The photographs run into hundreds, taking you soaring high above the Patagonian prairies and plunging deep into smoking volcanoes. Sebastião Salgado: Genesis – review 2013-04-13T23:06:24Z Many grasses have eye-catching seed heads and some are even fragrant, such as the prairie dropseed, which smells like cilantro. We're rethinking our lawn design (and you should, too) 2022-05-28T04:00:00Z It’s the prairie as it was before it was settled. Perspective | Perennial grains could be a key weapon against climate change. But not quite yet. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z The occasional dirt road led to the solitary farmhouse lined with old gnarled trees that looked as if they might have been planted as a shield against the howling prairie wind. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z “Throughout the year, they sway gracefully, reminding me of many happy days I have spent in protected or restored prairies and other natural landscapes in many places.” A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Three times Dixie ditched me and headed back across the prairie. Personal Journeys: Walking Martha?s Vineyard 2011-08-12T18:55:00Z His job is to study what’s happening to all the other prairie animals, such as long-billed curlews, since the return of the bison. Creating a home on the prairie as it once was 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z The muscular prairie rattlesnake coiled partly under a ledge, camouflaged by the surrounding sandstone. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Interactive exhibits and films there cover the intercontinental ballistic missile system once hidden under the prairie and its role in the Cold War. National Parks Gear Up for Summer Rush 2015-05-28T04:00:00Z Working with hushed choirs, tasteful beams of light and an ethereal aesthetic, the director, Randall Wallace, and his cinematographer, Dean Semler, transform their Canadian locations into a verdant prairie poem. Movie Review: ‘Heaven Is for Real’ Stars Greg Kinnear 2014-04-15T22:26:23Z The Sammamish Symphony, conducted by R. Joseph Scott, salutes "The American West" with a free concert Thursday featuring songs of the prairie, the bunkhouse and the silver screen. Free 'American West' concert by Sammamish Symphony 2010-08-18T22:34:00Z “We were crossing the prairie in a Conestoga wagon, and the Indians were attacking, and we had to band together and make this happen. There was a lot of purpose.” Dance Theater of Harlem: Arthur Mitchell’s Dream at 50 2019-04-03T04:00:00Z Silky and saloon ready, Ms. Chung’s ensemble seemed a fitting cap to a summer that has seen a resurgence of prairie chic. Pioneer Women Are Roaming the City 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z They also show off by picking up guitars and microphones and dancing like prairie bacchantes. Review: A Smashing ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reborn in the Land of Id 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z How about for the endless prairie of Montana? In Transit Blog: Headed East, More Hill Than Dale 2011-10-06T16:27:51Z High School Football Spotting Friday night lights in the sea of a dark prairie, I always stop, buy a PTA Fritos pie at the concession stand, and watch life in the first quarter. 40 Things I Love About Texas 2010-06-02T17:24:00Z As embodied by the excellent Damon Daunno, this lad of the prairies is wiry and wired, so full of unchanneled sexual energy you expect him to implode. Review: A Smashing ‘Oklahoma!’ Is Reborn in the Land of Id 2019-04-08T04:00:00Z In rainy years many of the prairie ponds and marshes will lap all the way up to the edge of the highways. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z The stage backdrop was a flat, empty prairie, and the songs were just as desolate: mostly slow, mostly in minor keys and almost entirely bleak. Music Review: Jakob Dylan at Town Hall, Bleak and Somber 2010-04-22T21:42:00Z The grassland prairie is so punishingly flat, with roads going on forever, it makes sense that the people in town would build their own heights, mountains, overlooks. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z The collection balanced loose-fitting, sweet prairie dresses boasting puffed sleeves and high collars with military-style jackets and menswear suits with softer shapes accented with silk blouses or bow collars. Tory Burch reinvents power suit, merges pretty and powerful 2020-02-09T05:00:00Z The blank we’d drawn about North Dakota was replaced with sleek prairie art and design as we checked in to the Hotel Donaldson. Discovering well-designed Fargo, N.D. There was a hint of the 1970s prairie in long, paisley print dresses. Special Report: Fashion: Streamlining -- With a Whiff of Nostalgia 2011-02-14T17:30:48Z Since being named the house’s chief creative officer in 2016, Raf Simons has made something of a signature of exploring the dark side of the American pop landscape: car-crash road trips, post-apocalyptic prairies. Calvin Klein’s Style Sharknado 2018-09-12T04:00:00Z Since descending from the Rockies I’ve been traveling east along the Canadian border in a region called the Hi-Line, a stretch of prairie and wheat fields, cattle ranches, remote small towns and Indian reservations. In Transit Blog: In Montana, the Wind and the Wide Open Spaces 2011-08-18T18:07:48Z Though Turner depicted the frontier as “a place where individualism sprouted from the land like prairie weeds,” in Grandin’s summary, that got the story backward. When America’s Love of the Open Frontier Hit a Wall 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z “Like the prairie, a grassy bald evokes a sense of freedom and vulnerability — exposure to rain, wind and lightning,” he writes. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Out of this imbalance was born a wind-powered water pump – the American windmill – and the American Wind Power Museum has more than 160 examples, rhythmically creaking in the prairie breeze. Top 10 roadside attractions in Texas and New Mexico 2013-06-21T23:10:00Z In 1901, scientists found one such town in Texas that covered twenty-five thousand square miles and contained some four hundred million prairie dogs, making it, population-wise, almost twenty-five per cent larger than the United States. The Rabbit-Hole Rabbit Hole 2015-06-04T04:00:00Z This time of year, heat blurred the prairies and made the tall grass creak underfoot. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z And it's true that few moments of stillness in To the Wonder come in that scene with the herd, on the prairie. Rachel McAdams: 'With a Terrence Malick film there will be no shortage of beauty and surprise' 2013-02-14T19:00:00Z With snow still blocking some of the high country, savvy pedalers are taking their mountain bikes to the prairie. Smell of sage lures hikers, bikers to E. Washington in March 2015-03-17T04:00:00Z Waiting for a train on a vast prairie. Raskolnikov seeks mentor 2013-04-03T00:00:00Z In all, the foundation, with the help of the Nebraska State Historical Society, runs a number of sites in Red Cloud and Webster County, including 612 acres of unbroken prairie grassland. Willa Cather festival returns to tiny Red Cloud, Neb. 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z As I sat eating breakfast, I looked up to see a painting of a large and gloomy scene of the Alberta prairie, field brown and sky gray. Was She Just Another Nicely Packaged Pain Delivery System? 2021-12-03T05:00:00Z From Gonzales to Seadrift: See the World’s Toughest Canoe Race Rolling out across the prairie on its way to the coast, the lower Guadalupe usually gets overshadowed by the scenic upper river. Float Through the Heart of Texas 2010-06-09T18:53:00Z The authors quote Winston Churchill: “We have not journeyed across the centuries, across the oceans, across the mountains, across the prairies, because we are made of sugar candy.” Alan Greenspan’s Ode to Creative Destruction 2018-11-02T04:00:00Z It was this landscape painting of a prairie with, like, weeping willows at the end of this road. Growing Pains: Horror Directors on Their Creepy Childhood Memories 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z Just a dirt road stretching out as far as you could see, with prairie grass on either side. Not Getting with the Program: An Interview with Meghan Daum 2014-09-26T04:00:00Z In this troubling spring, Wisconsin’s prairies and farmland fanned out to undulating hills that cradled the land and its people. Farmers? sand-frac nightmare 2012-05-21T16:31:00Z The prairie dress, equally jarring to the eye, was interpreted in multiple variations by Raf Simons for Calvin Klein 205W39NYC for fall 2018. Perspective | Fanny packs. Prairie dresses. Luxury shower shoes: Is fashion trolling us or what? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z Our drive to Eunice the next morning took us through the heart of the Cajun prairie, along a sinuous, treeless stretch of road hemmed by vast meadows of switchgrass and spring wildflowers. Explorer: In Cajun Country, in Search of the Boucherie 2011-06-03T18:55:00Z Consider “In Stitches,” which exerts an accretive force, moving from barest breeze to prairie twister; consider the shrewdly lurching syncopations on “Wolf Out” and “Seven Minute Mind.” New Music: New Albums From Bad Plus and the Dave King Trio 2012-09-24T21:53:19Z Naturally, everyone heads for the beach, but PINS, which is no more than three miles across at its widest points, also has one of the largest remaining sections of protected coastal prairie. On Padre in Texas, Soft Sand, Shells and Seclusion 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z But for a vast array of political, cultural and ecological reasons, few of Twain’s picks — terrapin, prairie chicken and raccoon among them — would be considered an integral part of our national identity today. The Story of America, Told Through Mark Twain’s Favorite Foods 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Mr. Anderson tried, but was unable to find prairie chicken for Mr. Offerman’s dinner. The Story of America, Told Through Mark Twain’s Favorite Foods 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z When computer-generated animation sticks this closely to photorealistic landscapes and gunplay and menace, even with a cast of animated lizards and prairie dogs and birds does the result feel like something for kids? 'Rango' sells its soul for live-action 2011-03-02T22:58:00Z Backpacking through the vast, empty prairies of Alberta and Saskatchewan, he sees few people, is chased by a bull moose, and deals with his fear of cows. Ken Ilgunas' 'Trespassing across America' on the 1,700-mile route of the Keystone XL pipeline 2016-04-15T04:00:00Z The wide-open prairie made me think of the Great Plains, and the Spanish moss and pickups reminded me of the Deep South. Not those gators: Improbable fauna 10 minutes from downtown Gainesville 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Songs like this are what keep you going through the isolation of a prairie winter. March's best music from across the MAP 2013-04-02T15:55:27Z His two daughters play in long, old-fashioned prairie dresses, nearly tripping over the ruffled hems as they ride bikes. “Under the Banner of Heaven” sags with the heavy weight of history 2022-04-29T04:00:00Z And with the two of them in the place and an entire Montana prairie as their stage, what more do we need? With "1923," the "Yellowstone" universe grimly enlists Harrison Ford and Helen Mirren 2022-12-18T05:00:00Z It was dusk when I left Fermilab, and the last rays of sun turned the prairie red-orange. Colliders, Sundials and Wonder: When Science Is Your Destination 2018-05-28T04:00:00Z Central Texas, especially that sweet spot halfway between Dallas and Austin where small swaths of the legendary old prairies remain, is an earthly paradise. Laura and George W. Bush's Serene Texas Retreat 2014-07-07T04:00:00Z That two-hour drive through numb prairie was the inevitable prelude to commerce, entertainment—all the stuff we couldn’t get much of in the little dwindling oil town that was home. “Boom Town”: Is Oklahoma City the “Great Minor City” of America? 2018-08-29T04:00:00Z It was inspired by the practice, common in Wisconsin and across the American West, of burning stretches of prairie to kill off weeds and clear the terrain for native plants to grow. For Mara Rosenbloom, Piano as a Remedy and a Force in Jazz 2017-01-20T05:00:00Z It is the last day of summer, and I am walking under a blue prairie sky through the grounds of a medium-security prison in Alberta, Canada. 'I'm Carmen. Nice to meet you again': why I faced my rapist in prison 2016-04-09T04:00:00Z Shiitake and oyster mushrooms grow on hardwood logs, and the crops are all surrounded by prairie grass. For a new generation of farmers, accessing land is the first step toward tackling consolidation 2018-11-25T05:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: My parents are divorced, and both live in small towns in prairie states. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: The parents vs. the pontoon boat: A vacation conundrum 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z I continue to be enchanted by the prairie dropseed. During the ‘fifth season,’ plants take on a strange beauty in decline 2017-10-17T04:00:00Z But Canada provides only strangers and a squalid, rat-infested hut on the barren prairie. Richard Ford's 'Canada': mistakes and missed chances 2012-05-30T21:37:09Z Drive into these undulating hills of native prairie grasses waving in the near constant breeze and you will feel your blood pressure drop and the cares of the day melt away. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Leave it to Rodarte to speak to the glamour girl and a prairie girl in the same collection. | Rodarte 2011-02-15T20:08:07Z “Nonetheless,” she wrote, “Mr. Harnack clearly loves the prairie he depicts so unsparingly, and conveys even to the most citified reader a vision of its enduring power to hold men and women to itself.” Curtis Harnack, Writer and President of Yaddo, Dies at 86 2013-07-19T01:52:06Z “Her voice follows the contours of the American landscape, from the highest peaks to the endless prairie.” Emmylou Harris and Evelyn Glennie Share Polar Music Prize 2015-03-10T04:00:00Z Yet it is a prairie of wheat fields. Don’t censor the school-lunch blog 2012-06-15T16:15:00Z More suggestive than depictive, Mr. Gurrin’s images — a distant prairie home subjected to slow, prismatic distortions; an industrial building standing placid amid simulated wind gusts — provided poetic counterpoint without distracting unduly from the music. Music Review: Momenta Quartet at the Stone 2013-01-09T22:51:07Z Up above, I spotted a golden eagle soaring on the drafts, and in the distance, I caught a glimpse of a prairie falcon diving at some doomed ground-dwelling creature. In Gold Butte in Nevada, Ancient Rock Art and Rugged Beauty 2017-07-25T04:00:00Z In Nebraska, I walked over rolling prairie, through fields of flaky corn stalks, and along the Cowboy Trail — an old railway converted into a bike path that parallels the path of the XL. My 1,700-mile hike across the XL Pipeline 2013-01-20T12:45:00Z “Hello Calgary,” a vague but peppy ode to the Canadian prairie city, struck certain denizens as a hometown anthem. The sounds of our lives suck! How to make cities better by ending the blight of noise 2014-11-02T04:00:00Z The Cape Sable seaside sparrow — the “Goldilocks bird” — forages in the slough’s just-right marsh prairie, while the equally rare wood stork nests near the Shark Valley Visitor Center off Highway 41. The U.S. Issue: Endangered Species: A Coast-to-Coast Guide to Endangered Species 2011-05-13T20:22:51Z And as it keeps growing, more and more small farms and native prairie disappear under Big Ag’s plow. Meet Dan Barber: America’s next foodie-in-chief 2014-05-24T04:00:00Z Many prairie towns have faded to an irreducible half-life and are preserves, even in local speech habits, of earlier times. Thomas McGuane on Small-Town America 2019-09-16T04:00:00Z The prairie appears throughout the book as almost the Garden of Eden, a place of vast beauty awaiting only its gardeners. Marilynne Robinson's Gilead 2010-04-12T13:00:00Z Owned by the media mogul and conservationist Ted Turner, this property, a 585,000-acre expanse of terrain ranging from shortgrass prairie to alpine tundra, offers themed photography packages three times a year. 10 Tours to Turn Travelers Into Photographers 2017-08-29T04:00:00Z In southern Illinois, there were vineyards, then glimpses of the great midwest prairies – and of an idiosyncratic world view. Mississippi yearning 2010-12-04T00:05:15Z Twenty-eight campgrounds dot the shores of the river, which carries rafters through a mini-tour of Montana’s geography, from rolling ranchland to deep canyons to alpine meadows to prairie. Can Montana’s Smith River Survive a Nearby Mine? 2015-07-17T04:00:00Z By the second show, in September 2017, Warhol had entered the mix, along with quilts and prairie dresses and, later, hazmat suits. Warhol & I 2018-10-24T04:00:00Z Could you describe what you and your collaborators do on the prairie? From the Prairie to the City, Dancing to Invoke the Dawn 2018-02-20T05:00:00Z The show’s title painting, oddly, verges on the cloying with its prairie dogs popping up in a moonlit nightscape. Landscapes redefined in 2 new Seattle gallery shows 2016-06-06T04:00:00Z In her books, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Willa Cather celebrated the American prairie. Willa Cather festival returns to tiny Red Cloud, Neb. 2015-05-18T04:00:00Z The style reflects modernity, incorporating features such as horizontal, low-sloping roofs that emulated flat Midwestern prairies. Tracing Frank Lloyd Wright in Oak Park, Illinois 2015-11-18T05:00:00Z More often they stare in bemused incomprehension at the workers blowing up land in the gold quarries and the giant ugly factory pumping pollution into the prairies. Hong Kong film festival offers view of a changing China 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z "Plus it was nice to trade my sweatpants for a prairie dress for a change." Virginia woman wows Facebook with 'Target Dress Challenge' likening pandemic to prairie life 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z Its expansive prairie is impressive but the star of the show is the stratified, alien-looking outcrops of rock. Head for the Black Hills: tales of Crazy Horse and Custer in South Dakota 2018-11-18T05:00:00Z When they have to leave their little house on the prairie, Pa claims that they're taking away more than they brought. The Little House books as feminist classics 2012-12-28T22:55:10Z Hendrickson, the author of an acclaimed biographical portrait of Hemingway, also subscribes to the received cant that Wright heroically embodied a Whitmanesque or Emersonian ideal, all big skies, prairie homes and American braggadocio. Architecture’s Most Irredeemable Cad 2019-10-01T04:00:00Z All of these shows juxtapose the violence and ruthlessness that define the genre with mesmerizing cinematography reflecting the untamed allure of the mountains and prairies. The "Yellowstone" effect: Welcome to the new era of TV Westerns 2022-11-20T05:00:00Z This side of the valley was created by tectonic tilting, resulting in slopes rising straight out of the prairie like an upended table. 36 Hours in Jackson Hole, Wyo. 2013-12-18T21:54:55Z It passes prairie landscape, the Chain of Rocks bridge, skirts the Ozark mountains, visits Amarillo, and passes through Native American lands. Make tracks: ride the world's newest cycling routes 2017-09-16T04:00:00Z It’s home to a community of the Benedictine Sisters, and guests can enjoy monastery-made jam and fresh bread, along with impressive views of the open prairie. Perspective | Nontraditional lodging fills a need for pandemic travelers 2021-09-01T04:00:00Z The losses are across habitats and species, though hardest hit are birds that inhabit the grasslands from Texas north into the Canadian prairie. Perspective | Bird populations have crashed. Here’s what you can do to help. 2019-10-15T04:00:00Z If you want to send her into a soliloquy, just ask what she loves about the prairie. In ‘Swing State,’ Rebecca Gilman Sees a Troubled World 2023-09-07T04:00:00Z After 240 days without rain and crops devastated by “grasshoppers as big as prairie dogs,” the farming community of Jackson, Okla., is ready to pin its hopes on a rainmaker. The Scene of the Crime: Four Mysteries in Ominous Locales 2018-10-05T04:00:00Z We never noticed it happening, but soon the color scheme changed from cornfields and grass to almost no grass at all, and was dotted with olive-drab sagebrush guarded by prairie dogs. Riding the Rails to the Summer of Love 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z Centuries ago, the area was a prairie alive with people, flora and fauna, including the now-extinct California grizzly. ‘Earth’ Review: Humanity Is Digging Its Own Grave 2020-01-08T05:00:00Z It all started in those early days in that little schoolhouse on the backland prairie. Tell Us 5 Things About Your Book: Bringing ‘Giant’ to the Big Screen 2018-04-08T04:00:00Z Mr. Kopka introduced Mr. Mackbee and Ms. Lucas to locals who were hungry for an alternative to the chain restaurants that proliferate in this region of farmland, rolling prairie and lakes. Two Chefs Moved to Rural Minnesota to Expand on Their Mission of Racial Justice 2020-07-07T04:00:00Z We saw wolves, bighorn sheep, prairie dogs and even a mountain lion in different enclosures. Tucson Is a City That Encourages You to Explore 2018-03-28T04:00:00Z And we are not just speaking of the prairie. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z While there are plenty of plaids and beards, there are also some prairie skirts and dreads. Boîte: The Exley, a Williamsburg Bar: Review 2012-11-21T20:42:15Z At the outset of his career, Adams investigated the early settlements in the eastern Colorado prairie, where homes and churches made of wood or adobe tread lightly on the terrain. Sunlit Apocalypse: The Imperiled World of Robert Adams 2022-07-13T04:00:00Z The road from Ogallala north and then east to Valentine passes through an astonishing experience of small, isolated towns that suddenly appear and just as quickly disappear, surrounded by more of the great prairie sea. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z An entire town of prairie dogs lives in Mackenzie Park in Lubbock, Texas, and Key deer can be found pretty easily around their namesake refuge in the Florida Keys. Things Every Southerner Must Do! 2010-07-14T22:49:00Z “A prairie dress with a modern bob — Wow!” Bye to ‘Real Housewife’ Hair 2019-01-08T05:00:00Z The finale — a gathering of the insects akin to how Julie Taymor, back when she was happy, gathered the beasts of the prairie — is a delight. Cirque bugs out extravagantly with 'Ovo' 2011-07-01T07:00:00Z Rutherford B Hayes is reincarnated as a horse, and puzzles over his existence in a prairie paddock with other former US presidents. Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell – review 2013-03-24T12:00:01Z He was forced “to go many times deep off-road, across fenced prairie and open desert and into forested mountain passes, all of which the car was equipped to traverse but at minimal speeds.” Jonathan Lethem Imagines a World Where Technology Stops Working 2020-11-09T05:00:00Z I closed a roughly 3½ -mile loop before leaving the reserve, cutting first through a prairie still black with soot from a prescribed burn, and later beneath two covered bridges. In southwestern Wisconsin, the bucolic Driftless Area is an overlooked gem 2021-06-10T04:00:00Z We passed prairies and groves of dried sunflowers, miles of apple orchards and, along the roadsides, makeshift wooden tables with bushels of gladiolas and mountains of red and green grapes for the honest taking. Fauna, Flora and Freighters in the Danube Delta 2014-07-16T04:00:00Z “What would early-19th-century settlers on the open prairie do first?” she asks. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z Out there on the prairie, alone most of the time, breaking free, as you suggest, would have taken a degree of courage most of them just did not yet have. Review: In ‘Abundance,’ by Beth Henley, Mail-Order Brides Find Husbands and Lice 2015-03-03T05:00:00Z Its first two sentences feel like the last dispatch written from a dead world: “The madness of an autumn prairie cold front coming through. You could feel it: Something terrible was going to happen.” Dread, War and Ambivalence: Literature Since the Towers Fell 2021-09-03T04:00:00Z The Grand Tetons, which jut from the high prairie of western Wyoming like a serrated knife, were not even visible as the plane came to a stop. Explorer: Skiing Igloo-to-Igloo Across the Grand Tetons 2011-03-04T19:55:00Z Our dogs chased prairie dogs, pheasants, grouse and antelope, and alerted us to rattlesnakes and jack rabbits. Sean Sherman’s 10 Essential Native American Recipes 2019-11-04T05:00:00Z The challenge is remembering that funny in a gay bar can be very unfunny on the prairie. Scene Stealers: From ‘I Hate Her’ to Icon 2013-06-14T21:32:52Z The feeling seems to be mutual, and for a while "Blackthorn" threatens to turn into another buddy movie on the prairie. 'Blackthorn': Sequel brings back Butch Cassidy 2011-10-13T20:12:08Z We learn from the book’s notes that she suddenly panicked about their collaboration and ran away, leaving the prairie dresses in the trunk of Berkeley’s car, like a snake shedding her skin. A Tale of Two Female Outcasts in the American Southwest 2018-07-21T04:00:00Z Once this was farmland, but the monastery, which is home to the Benedictine Sisters of Madison, helped coordinate efforts to restore the wild prairie and oak forests that now encircle the 130-plus acre property. For travelers, monastery stays offer peace and quiet, regardless of faith 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Funland, an amusement park on the boardwalk, dates to the early 1960s, while new restaurants continue to pop up like prairie dogs. A visitor’s guide to Washington area beaches 2018-06-21T04:00:00Z The Mezzanine space of the A.R.T./New York Theaters has been converted into a monochromatic stretch of prairie and forest by the set designer Louisa Thompson. Review: Lost and Found in a Steve Earle Soundscape in ‘Samara’ 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z The prairies are home to bison, prairie dogs and other wildlife. Accessible Nature: A Trail Guide for Disabled Hikers 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Today about 50 bison roam the prairie, but they remained elusive on our walk. Not those gators: Improbable fauna 10 minutes from downtown Gainesville 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Soil mounded atop the tunnels now hosts a 100-acre prairie landscape. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z Twain’s appreciation of prairie chicken serves as a small piece of culinary history, a taste of the wilderness before industrial corn and soy farming transformed the landscape. The Story of America, Told Through Mark Twain’s Favorite Foods 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z The bare expanses of prairies, fenlands, wheatfields and marshes can seem boring, bleak, even frightening. In praise of flat places: On queerness, landscapes and understanding our desires 2023-06-24T04:00:00Z The landscape is a stretch of prairie on the Standing Rock Sioux reservation spanning the border between North and South Dakota. At the Met, Protest and Poetry About Water 2022-07-03T04:00:00Z The server, a young woman with dreadlocks, packed up my dinner, and I took it to the bustling rooftop, where I looked out to the city and watched the prairie grass sway in the breeze. At Fargo’s Hotel Donaldson, an introduction to the city’s artistic side 2016-01-14T05:00:00Z A ring of barbed wire hangs on a prairie fence. Minor White snaps into focus again in Getty Museum show 2014-08-01T04:00:00Z Vintage prints from the Congo were mixed with faded prairie patterns, while solid jacquard weaves played off against filmy fabrics. Next Summer? Tough vs. Tender 2012-09-09T17:05:31Z An open wetland with green and purple prairie plants sets off the boxy concrete building, striped with rainbow banners and topped with a 75,000-square-foot greenhouse operated by Gotham Greens. Looking at Where Chicago Works 2019-11-20T05:00:00Z The soundtrack hums with deep, tooth-rattling vibrations and the prairie sky is full of portents. ‘Brightburn’ Review: What if He Doesn’t Use His Powers for Good? 2019-05-23T04:00:00Z It took decades for young spruce and prairie grasslands to crop up. On the Water, and Into the Wild 2016-10-21T04:00:00Z They will also visit historic sites, like a teepee ring, a buffalo jump, a one-room schoolhouse and old prairie homesteads. In Transit Blog: Touring the American Prairie Reserve 2011-08-24T21:01:23Z Cathey, a consummate showman, dubbed the initial garden “the New American Garden,” and the name stuck as shorthand for gardens that were inherently more herbaceous, dynamic, multi-seasonal and naturalistic, with romanticized echoes of the prairie. Perspective | National Arboretum revives an innovative garden that ran out of steam 2017-06-20T04:00:00Z He was her boyfriend during much of high school, when she studied metal fabrication and welding in their small prairie town. Love’s Road Home 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z This life began and could well have ended in the North Dakota prairies. James Gavin’s ‘Is That All There Is?’ reveals a talented but tormented Peggy Lee A beaded lace-and-tulle dress with cream-colored sequins and a pale floral applique was topped by a prairie coat - fitted on top, swingy on the bottom - that was decorated with floral embroidery. Designers feeling texture at NY Fashion Week 2011-02-16T21:51:22Z They left the prairie littered with the wreckage of their dreams. Jonathan Raban, Adventurous Literary Traveler, Dies at 80 2023-01-18T05:00:00Z In a sense, all of our yards and gardens, no matter how old, represent an obliteration of the wild plant communities that once marked the land, none more poignantly lost than the American prairie. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z One episode zooms in on prairie chicken — a small, curvy grouse with brown stripes that was displaced by the corn industry. The Story of America, Told Through Mark Twain’s Favorite Foods 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z He felt at peace among the prairie lights of its university towns, which nourished his literary genius before his death in 2008, at age 46. David Foster Wallace’s Peaceful Prairie 2016-11-29T05:00:00Z And, of course, the spotlight also returns to the city itself, with its distinctive skyline rising from the prairie. 'Dallas' returns to city it made famous 2011-12-10T22:16:04Z I am a huge fan of sideoats grama and prairie dropseed. Lingering leaves of a chilly spring 2015-06-02T04:00:00Z It is both the elephant in the room and the prairie dog; the outfitter not just of entire teams but almost entire leagues — and the lone runner in the wilderness. How Nike Won the Cultural Marathon 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z My parents will do this two to three times in the spring, finally mulching them with prairie hay they get from a neighbor. The Thanksgiving dish my parents spend months preparing 2018-11-21T05:00:00Z Glo Spa supplies au courant pampering — think fireplace adorned treatment rooms and pelt-studded relaxation area with views of deer leaping through the surrounding prairies grass. Life’s more than a beach. Four mountain towns to visit this summer. 2019-07-18T04:00:00Z Luminous and bold, elegant and elliptical, epic and novelettish, Cather's story reflects the paradoxes of the small town on the wild prairie of its setting, and of its pioneering author. Kate Clanchy's top 10 coming-of-age novels 2013-05-22T09:52:36Z Between the Gulf of Mexico and Laguna Madre in South Texas, Padre Island National Seashore protects 70 miles of coastline, dunes, prairies and wind tidal flats. The Long and Shore of It: The Country’s Most Intriguing Islands 2016-05-18T04:00:00Z The heights of the Rocky mountains meet the flat prairies in this park. 10 of Canada's best lesser-known national parks 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z Long known as the King Eddy, it opened in the early 1900s as a working-class hotel for travelers arriving in what was then a booming prairie town. At the Calgary Stampede, music takes a qualified ride 2016-07-06T04:00:00Z The following morning, their modest caravan of two SUVs travels north over the prairie, into the heart of America. Mr. CrossFit vs. Big Soda: A profane fitness guru’s wonky war with the soda industry 2018-06-03T04:00:00Z Tourism and high society coexist with the city’s underbelly, and a shimmering white city takes shape on the prairie, amid what was once a ragged Western outpost. ‘The Swan Gondola’: mysteries of Omaha in a cinematic novel 2014-03-10T06:58:08Z The countdown plot is set in motion when Reacher's coach crashes in the middle of the snowswept Dakota prairie and finds himself co-opted by the local police. Lee Child wins crime novel of the year award 2011-07-22T10:24:29Z Detailed drives with ratings, distance and maps to the prettiest places in the state, from the best views of mountains and lakes to flower-filled meadows and sagebrush prairies. Local Books: Bike rides and car trips — just in time for summer 2012-07-10T19:46:03Z Oh, and the characters are all animals -- a chameleon, yes, but also mice, tortoises, prairie dogs, Gila monsters and pillbugs. "Rango" and the rise of kidult-oriented animation 2011-03-03T02:02:00Z Farther north, I drive through hills dotted with live oaks where the rugged landscape of the Edwards Plateau juts up abruptly from the prairie and U.S. Driving Through the Heart of Texas 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z The industrial sounds faded as we hiked farther across the hot, sunny prairie. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The rooms were dense with industry insiders jostling for a closer look at the Beards’ shearling coats, prairie skirts, chunky raccoon furs and, of course, their signature blazer, offered, as always, with interchangeable dickeys. Countdown to Fashion Week: At Veronica Beard, Meeting in the Middle 2013-08-07T20:40:05Z They pass around the only one they have; its communal panes "hoard all the prairie's violet light". Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell – review 2013-03-14T08:00:01Z This prairie town of fewer than 2,000 people, 150 miles northwest of Dallas, bakes like a piece of flatbread at this time of year. Larry McMurtry’s Book Auction in Texas 2012-08-12T22:14:33Z A Texas native who resides in Wyoming after a 15-year stay in Los Angeles, Sheridan is uniquely attuned to how western values seep into present, especially in the prairies he’s called home. Analysis | How TV has brought the western into the 21st century 2018-06-27T04:00:00Z He recommends Indiana Dunes National Park and the adjacent state park — a habitat complex of oak savanna, wetlands, prairie and forest along Lake Michigan. Birds by the Billions: A Guide to Spring’s Avian Parade 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z In the morning, we resembled prairie dogs, popping out of our holes for coffee and homemade toaster tarts or steel-cut oats with Maine blueberries. On a Windjammer cruise in Maine, passengers knit a seaworthy yarn 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z They show trains moving across a bleak prairie landscape, sending up ribbons of steam that seem to prefigure Still’s “life lines.” Clyfford Still Museum in Denver 2011-11-20T05:00:34Z But other wily characters remain: He put up an amazing picture of a coyote and badger hunting together in a prairie dog town, which he referred to as “the refrigerator of the Badlands.” Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The teeming plot is centered on a prairie village rotting from lawlessness: “a one-horse town where the horse broke down,” to quote the opening song. Review: ‘Tumacho,’ a Rootin’-Tootin’ Musical, Keeps Its Poker Face 2016-07-03T04:00:00Z The trio faces long drives to gigs and airports, snaking between peaks and across prairies that are home to elk, mountain lion and coyote. Delbert Anderson’s Mission: Putting ‘Native Sound Back Into Jazz’ 2023-02-24T05:00:00Z Bison roam, white-rumped pronghorn antelope dash past in swift-footed herds, and black-tailed prairie dogs poke curious heads out of the ground. 10 of Canada's best lesser-known national parks 2017-04-22T04:00:00Z He went to war and she left Kansas at 13 to fade behind her in the prairie sun: Colorado, Boston, then New York. Married at 15, or How he met my mother 2018-06-16T04:00:00Z What remains are empty prairies, old barns no longer in use, homes that have moved, or foundations from which they’ve been torn down. Reimagining Iowa's Underground Railroad 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z But while the impact of the prairies is more subtle than mega-spectacles like the Grand Canyon or Yosemite, as Walt Whitman himself wrote, they “fill the esthetic sense fuller” and haunt the memory longer. Buffalo, the Pawnee and an Old Story on a Trip Across the Plains 2012-06-22T16:48:50Z She was accustomed to the chorus of meadowlarks and sandpipers and prairie chickens, now overlaid with the pock-pocking of drills pounding the earth. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z And not just literally — though Scott Zielinski’s lighting design goes from blindingly bright, as one imagines the prairie sun to be, to dead dark, the kind that exists in the unhappiest human hearts. Review: There’s a Dark, Golden Haze in This Reclaimed ‘Oklahoma!’ 2018-10-07T04:00:00Z Vogt now runs a business installing prairie ecosystems in place of lawns. Born to rewild: why now is the perfect time to make your lawn an eco-paradise 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Stephen Holden of The New York Times wrote that she was known as “the prairie songstress.” Mary McCaslin, Folk Singer Who Lamented the Lost Old West, Dies at 75 2022-10-20T04:00:00Z And virtually every year the payments increased, like the prairie creeks that joined to form the wide, muddy Cimarron, until the tribe members had collectively accumulated millions and millions of dollars. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z You can practically feel the prairie wind blowing tumbleweeds past the rustic saloon in the right-smart U.S. premiere of “The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance” at Ventura’s Rubicon Theatre. Gregory Harrison takes the reins of 'The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance' 2016-03-12T05:00:00Z But he truly shocked the group with his slide of a prairie dog and the words: “Cute, cuddly, cannibal killers.” Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z From the arched entryway, I spot its granite obelisk towering 117 feet above the sprawling green prairie land. Commemorating Lincoln’s death in the city where he spent most of his life 2015-04-30T04:00:00Z Another important stimulus was the Curtis Prairie at the university’s arboretum, where, in the 1930s, the environmentalist Aldo Leopold and others had reconstructed the complex plant community of the tallgrass prairie. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z She is someone who, now 36, appears as equally confident wearing a pinafore as a prairie dress as a Saint Laurent pantsuit. The ?It? Girl, Now a Woman 2011-07-01T20:49:29Z Perhaps it was even genetic, the way monogamous prairie voles and their promiscuous cousins, the meadow voles, had differing amounts of oxytocin emitters or vasopressin receptors in their brains. My Boyfriend Has Two Girlfriends. Should I Be His Third? 2021-04-23T04:00:00Z “All of our good fortune – and our ecological future – depends on diversity,” Benjamin Vogt, an urban prairie designer and author of A New Garden Ethic, tells me. Born to rewild: why now is the perfect time to make your lawn an eco-paradise 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z In person, it is quite easy to imagine Elson with her rust-coloured hair and translucent skin as a languidly beautiful prairie girl in some wild west saloon. Karen Elson 2010-05-15T23:05:00Z Or, as I first heard it, seeking a more literal interpretation, "livin' on a prairie". Family life 2012-10-12T23:05:19Z One observer at Fort Union, in what is now North Dakota, wrote: “The prairie has become a graveyard. Its wildflowers bloom over the sepulchers of Indians.” A Black Legacy, Wrapped Up in Fur 2019-01-31T05:00:00Z Looking at the long, golden prairie grass spreading into the distance and the rose-peach dawn sky, one might wonder how something so ugly could happen here. A Museum Takes a New, Unvarnished Look at a Massacre 2023-10-18T04:00:00Z Redwood National and State Parks, which are in Yurok and Tolowa ancestral territory, include forests, prairie ecosystems and coastline, much of it accessible. Accessible Nature: A Trail Guide for Disabled Hikers 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z The premise came from a small prairie town he’d heard about, a “cool-off” spot where soldiers for crime organizations went to lay low. For Crime Novelist Lou Berney, a Winding Path Led to ‘November Road’ 2018-10-08T04:00:00Z The tracks pass through the prairies and the Canadian Rockies, French Canadian cities and Atlantic coastal towns. Three train trips to celebrate Canada’s Confederation 2017-04-13T04:00:00Z It's a lovely, long building, each floor a prairie of open space. The Thick of It: the agony of tight spaces 2012-08-26T19:00:00Z A prairie landscape in Houston tries to restore damaged ecosystems — and visitors’ stressed psyches. Can Architecture Build Values, Too? 2022-09-08T04:00:00Z This is a place founded on the old grass prairies, whose Native American inhabitants were butchered and displaced, and whose soil was ripped up. Gillian Flynn: chronicler of the midwest's dark side 2013-03-24T00:06:17Z For her part in advancing the 7Gen Plan, she hosts FSI apprentices and other community members at the homestead for canning workshops and interpretive walks on the farm and surrounding prairie. Envisioning indigenous food sovereignty as "a whole ecosystem" 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z One sun-loving prairie plant you might think needs little of all that breeder’s attention would be the purple coneflower Echinacea purpurea. Coneflower options abound. A recent trial sought to find the best ones. 2021-02-16T05:00:00Z But it’s not the only book to explore half-hidden communities, whether Jews on the prairie or Mennonites in Mexico. New Books: ?Irma Voth,? ?Boxer, Beetle,? ?Cabin,? ?Headhunters? 2011-09-14T22:31:31Z Warren stripped women and girls of their autonomy, ordering them to don a new kind of prairie dress that covered them from head to toe and style their hair in a specific fashion. A primer on the abusive FLDS church, from its self-proclaimed prophet to forced underage polygamy 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z At 26 years old, he unearthed for the first time one of the prairie's most prolific provisions: a wild turnip known as timpsila in the Lakota language. Envisioning indigenous food sovereignty as "a whole ecosystem" 2023-08-30T04:00:00Z The moors are our prairies, our own wild west. Author, author: Joanna Briscoe 2011-07-08T21:55:25Z Quiet moments are great, but it’s also pretty exciting to see unusual creatures such as pronghorns, scorpions and prairie dogs in their natural habitat. Take a road trip to Utah’s Red Rock Country 2018-03-15T04:00:00Z The name is a Melville reference, of sorts — as whale oil declined as a lighting source in the 1840s, one substitute was lard oil from hogs, or “prairie whales.” 36 Hours in the Berkshires 2014-07-03T04:00:00Z Here, amid miles of lovely, rolling grassland, you can escape the endless tarmac and chain restaurants of modern America and get a feel for what the prairie once was. On a Native American tour through the badlands 2015-10-18T04:00:00Z In addition to serving as a home for many plants and animals, healthy prairies help sustain the planet. Creating a home on the prairie as it once was 2019-05-20T04:00:00Z He’s 37, has hair that’s been tousled by the elements, is “solid as a Sequoia, high as a Redwood and as broad as the prairie.” Review | In Dolly Alderton’s witty new novel, a woman gets ghosted, but she’s haunted by much more 2021-08-05T04:00:00Z Australia is passing me her endlessBiscuit prairie, patch scrub trimming off To curly beach. Poem of the week: Descent by Frances Williams 2010-06-14T11:26:00Z Its blandness belies mysterious origins: Scientists have yet to conclude why prairie voles, much less people, prefer to bond in long-term pairs. Polyamory Works for Them 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z The lessons of the prairie and other biomes, thus, are transferrable to the home garden, even if most residential landscapes will lack that key feature of the grassland — the horizon — and its sense of expansiveness. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z It's like spying a lonely campfire burning far out on the darkened prairie. True Grit 2011-01-04T20:38:08Z There are also some amusing scenes of a seal "prairie dogging" in the water, or overhead shots of polar bears on ice floes or swimming. In the stunning yet grim "The Last Ice," melting glaciers and development threaten Inuit way of life 2020-10-12T04:00:00Z The male prairie vole’s vasopressin circuitry modulates his attachment to territory and space and helps forge his monogamous bond. Chemistry makes us cheat 2012-09-11T13:00:00Z “The vision is for connectivity,” but there are no current plans for creating corridors to eastern prairie, said Leith Edgar, a U.S. Arsenal bison return _ but limited space to roam 2014-06-14T04:00:00Z A Thousand Acres by Jane Smiley Set on a prairie farm in Iowa, Smiley's novel tells how the three daughters of Larry Cook struggle over the control of the land and of their family memories. Ten of the best 2011-02-05T00:14:00Z Instead of booths the size of stockyard stalls, there were wide-open prairies of exhibition space on all three floors. Review: Independent Art Fair Combines Less Is More and Growth 2015-03-05T05:00:00Z Once, on the Big Horn, I was wading up to my chest when a prairie rattler swam past. Montana on my mind: It’s not just about the fish, really 2016-12-08T05:00:00Z My grandmother lived in a house built by my great-great-great grandparents: a real little house on the prairie in the middle of nowhere, Kansas. How to make donuts from scratch (like you know what you're doing) 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z Mildred drives Dell hundreds of miles north to Saskatchewan, where he is to be put in the care of her eccentric brother, Arthur, who runs a small hotel in a small town on the prairie. Books of The Times: ‘Canada,’ a Novel by Richard Ford 2012-05-21T21:59:38Z Two workers fall in love at a Prozac manufacturing plant on the prairie. Style Invitational: Make some bad choices — ‘questions for terrible people’ 2016-10-26T04:00:00Z In mood, these unpopulated cityscapes are akin to the depictions of lonely prairie vignettes. In the galleries: Experimenting with a classical sensibility 2016-01-21T05:00:00Z They abhorred forced marriages and child brides and prairie dresses. Perspective | I watched ‘Sister Wives’ for years. Now it’s finally paid off. 2023-01-06T05:00:00Z I have watched a misty pink sunrise across gentle Indiana, seen the farms and autumnal dells of Wisconsin, the wheeling perspectives of corn fields, pumpkin fields, harrowed earth and prairie roads. A happy ending to my American tour 2010-10-19T09:57:00Z The series captures everything from the downtown skyline rising from the prairie to the colorful bright lights of a street once filled with theaters to a man with a cowboy hat striding down the street. Exhibit shows Grosz's take on Dallas in '52 2012-05-18T20:25:15Z In early 2016, he returned to television, albeit in an unlikely place and role for a guy who once styled himself as a “prairie populist.” How Ed Schultz transformed from MSNBC lefty to the American face of Moscow media 2016-12-20T05:00:00Z Out on Route 21 in Washington state, the long golden prairies of wheat stretch out on either side of the road, lapping against distant purplish mountain ranges. In search of the funkiest little town in America 2016-11-05T04:00:00Z One biologist marvels at how prairie lupin recolonized the barren flanks of the mountain the following year, thanks to a root structure that acted as its own fertilizer. 'Nova' chronicles rebirth of Mount St. Helens 2010-05-03T20:31:00Z Where “Age” highlights the experience of being in a cathedral created by tree branches, the untitled work is like a monument rising on the prairie. Review: A Garden Idyll for Noguchi’s Stones and Steel 2015-09-10T04:00:00Z He refers to Mr. Grant’s nearby “pocket prairie” as a “weed patch” and offers the services of his tractor. Every Plant Has a Story. You Just Need to Dig. 2018-03-04T05:00:00Z This was the first restored prairie in the world, Morrison writes. A native plant designer’s memoir reflects on a life in the field 2021-08-24T04:00:00Z Traveling over mountain and prairie, he confronts enemy wolves, gun-toting humans, wildfire, hunger, thirst and intense loneliness. The best audiobooks for your summer drive, sorted by length — and who’s in the car 2021-05-26T04:00:00Z And, heavens to Betsy, there is even a British western coming to our television screens next month, set on the Yorkshire moors rather than the prairie wastes. Saddle up and head for the cinema: the western is back in town 2015-12-19T05:00:00Z I've been collecting photos and maps of what I guess you might call the new Canada – scans of Edward Burtynsky's photos of the tar sands, spiderweb maps of pipelines across the prairies. Craig Taylor: my desktop 2013-06-12T07:00:00Z The game-changing insight, however, came from animal studies at the University of Maryland showing that oxytocin played an important role in fostering bonding and monogamous behaviour in prairie voles. Oxytocin: could the 'trust hormone' rebond our troubled world? 2011-08-20T23:08:00Z Shrubs, perennials and more than 1,400 trees outline play areas with primary-colored equipment in a landscape design that ranges from wild native prairie plantings to elegant rows of evergreens. Chicago has 3 new spaces for adults to release their inner children 2015-10-29T04:00:00Z In that last location, he meets a kid who's driven for hours across the prairie with a fake ID, who tells him, "I hope they don't Jew me out of getting into the show!" "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop": Backstage with Coco 2011-06-23T00:30:00Z Last week, Lesley Butterfield shared her own spin on the #TargetDressChallenge, posting stoic photos of herself playing the part in a rust-colored "prairie" dress. Virginia woman wows Facebook with 'Target Dress Challenge' likening pandemic to prairie life 2021-02-05T05:00:00Z With local culture and tasty grub under my belt, I set out toward my remaining goal: the Flint Hills, where some of the last tallgrass prairie is preserved and bison have recently been reintroduced. Frugal Traveler: In Kansas, Museums, Fried Chicken and, Yes, ‘Oz’ 2013-08-07T18:58:00Z Co-founder Wes Jackson first became an advocate of perennial crops in the 1970s after noting a difference between the soils on agricultural lands and those in the native tallgrass prairies. Perennial wheat is an ecologist’s dream. Soon it may be what’s for dinner. 2016-10-02T04:00:00Z The Fort Berthold Reservation covers nearly a million acres of rolling hills and prairie in North Dakota and is home to the “Three Affiliated Tribes” of the Mandan, Hidatsa and Arikara. An Oil Boom, a Missing Body and a Native Woman’s Quest to Find It 2020-02-25T05:00:00Z The Sand Hills area is our last great prairie. A Prairie Prologue in Nebraska 2015-01-02T05:00:00Z Within days, the prairie went dry — and could do so again anytime. Not those gators: Improbable fauna 10 minutes from downtown Gainesville 2015-02-19T05:00:00Z Bison are an important part of prairie ecosystems, and they will help restore the site’s native grass species, the Forest Service says. Bison might soon call the Windy City area home 2015-04-01T04:00:00Z "You've got rare sand prairie, the shore of Lake Michigan, marshes and open space — all great habitat for snakes," said Carmichael. Snakes saved by wine chiller released 2012-04-02T23:30:00Z She was at the forefront of the recent trend toward post-male-gaze prairie dress, an aesthetic that could perhaps be best described as ironic Amish. Will We Lose a Generation of Designers? 2020-04-02T04:00:00Z SAT Film “Chief Seattle Speaks to Our Times,” 11 a.m. and noon; program on native Seattle prairies, 1 p.m.; Community calendar: festivals, fairs and more 2013-04-18T21:20:55Z “I was delighted in seeing the citizenry participating in this neighborly ... community effort ... in a town that, like so many on the prairie and in rural areas, is fast disappearing.” To photograph America’s diversity, he visited 64 locales all named Columbia 2019-08-02T04:00:00Z Young, urban, erudite and carrying the shadow of a mysterious past, Morris electrified the students of his one-room schoolhouse and reinvigorated a prairie community. Ivan Doig's 'Work Song' is epic novel of miners, strikes and hardship 2010-06-23T23:37:00Z That good soil, though, does not regenerate itself when the prairie leaves. Planting native prairie could be a secret weapon for farmers 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z After days of monochrome interstates, the colorful rock formations and prairies felt like a dream. Accessible Nature: A Trail Guide for Disabled Hikers 2023-06-19T04:00:00Z Roslyn is a town of fewer than 200 people that sits in northeastern South Dakota, among fields of corn and soybeans and rolling prairie hills, a landscape dotted with small glacial lakes. Why this small South Dakota town started the International Vinegar Museum 2021-09-02T04:00:00Z When she launches into a folk tale, the drab lodging suddenly fills with colorful deities, a vast prairie, and a bouncing sun. Review | Everything but the continental breakfast at ‘Crystal Creek Motel’ 2019-10-16T04:00:00Z The food is distinct from the spicier, sausage-forward, often hybridized Cajun cooking common in New Orleans, whose roots mainly run to the inland prairies around Lafayette. On the Cajun Coast, a Chef Grapples With Threats to a Seafood Tradition 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Benito is in northern Manitoba in the Canadian prairies, close to the Saskatchewan border and a few miles south-west of Swan River, a small town serving a valley filled with farms. US road trip: slow drive to Sitting Bull country in North and South Dakota 2015-05-31T04:00:00Z “We lost about half the carbon in the first few decades after putting crops on prairie,” said Land Institute President Fred Iutzi, who was showing me around. Perspective | Perennial grains could be a key weapon against climate change. But not quite yet. 2019-01-24T05:00:00Z Automobiles sped along paved horse trails, the smell of fuel overwhelming the scent of the prairies. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Cranberry-pickers were like butchers who “rake the tongues of bison out of the prairie grass”. Bacon and eggs for every meal: absurd diets of the rich and famous 2017-10-15T04:00:00Z And while the courtroom scenes are dusty and dull, Luc Montpellier’s generally unremarkable cinematography surprises us with some lovely prairie vistas. ‘Percy vs Goliath’ Review: Growing Pains 2021-04-29T04:00:00Z Our ultimate destination was Glacier National Park, but we took a detour through Great Falls to my birthplace: Conrad, a one-stoplight prairie town near the Canadian border. Personal Journeys: Would a Gay Man Be Welcomed Home in Montana? 2013-08-21T16:14:33Z He saddles his beautiful palomino, and we expect an open prairie, but he winds up in a bright new kitchen, agleam with mod cons, where Gena Rowlands makes him ham and eggs. Kirk Douglas, a Hundred Years Old 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Bubblegum-pink prairie roses and yellow prairie coneflower, whose blossoms look like miniature sombreros, framed the path. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Linking prairie vistas to ocean fronts and cityscapes, and even to the interiors of community spaces, asks us to appreciate the manifold differences in where we live and who we are. Night two of the virtual DNC held aloft the party's true stars: America and her people 2020-08-19T04:00:00Z There were brewery assembly line workers, pioneers on the prairie and plenty of detectives in the spring of 1978, but it was hard to find a rich person in prime time. Television Review: ‘Dallas’ Is Updated in New TNT Series 2012-06-12T22:27:52Z Friends, too, were tapped to pose in things like gas masks and prairie dresses and sometimes elaborate, contraption-like clothing Hembrey built but refused to explain. One Hundred Artists Rolled Into One Man 2011-12-16T16:41:49Z Ms. Maslany grew up in the flat Canadian prairies of Regina, Saskatchewan, where she and her friends entertained themselves by driving up and down the town’s main street and by participating in local theater. Tatiana Maslany Plays Many Characters in ‘Orphan Black’ 2014-04-17T12:00:01Z Female prairie dogs, scientists have discovered, will sometimes kill their close relatives’ babies, and can be seen fleeing the crime scene with blood-covered faces. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z Yet this vast region stretching from the plains of North Dakota to the mountains of Ohio, the lakes of Michigan to the Kansas prairie, is the very heartland of American cooking. Haute dogs, fried pickles and savoury doughnuts: how Britain fell in love with midwestern food 2014-08-05T04:00:00Z Native prairie once stretched across the greater Midwest. Planting native prairie could be a secret weapon for farmers 2019-10-19T04:00:00Z The idea of a ballet company in Winnipeg’s cold prairie climate struck even Canadians as unlikely when it made its debut in 1939. Arnold Spohr, Former Artistic Director of Winnipeg Ballet, Dies at 86 2010-04-21T01:50:00Z And that’s not even touching on the popularity of prairie dresses. Forget hot girl summer – it's time for the unsexiest Halloween ever 2019-10-09T04:00:00Z Though the original British cast was excellent, the musical becomes a more credible and moving experience with a team of Americans playing these prairie dwellers made nomadic by want. Review | With Dylan songbook, ‘Girl From North Country’ is a triumph 2018-10-01T04:00:00Z Fun fact: This farm is the birthplace of Arbor Day—celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2022—inspired by Nebraska’s once tree-less prairie landscape. Head to these orchards to go apple picking this fall 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z Sally, the Watsons’ neighbor, is a prairie proto-feminist, weary of farm chores, with her own ideas about how the world should work. Review | Amor Towles’s ‘The Lincoln Highway’ is a long and winding road through the hopes and failures of mid-century America 2021-10-04T04:00:00Z To catch a glimpse of them on the prairie was to bear witness to their survival. Badlands National Park: Bison Bison Bison 2016-06-30T04:00:00Z The men and the boy hurried out of the ravine and raced on their horse-drawn wagon through the prairie, dust swirling around them. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z Feud for thought ... a schoolhouse on a midwestern prairie. Overlooked classics of American literature: The Feud by Thomas Berger 2011-08-04T08:00:02Z It was such a short time ago that the old cow towns of the prairie east of here turned into transient man camps. This Week in Fiction: Thomas McGuane 2014-09-01T04:00:00Z We have stony prairie; they have westerly breezes and towering dunes, huge undulations that begin in Indiana and continue all the way north. From Chicago to Mackinac Island, a Tour of Lake Michigan 2015-08-27T04:00:00Z And even without displacing that other national anthem, “God Bless America” continually rings from each mountain and prairie and ocean white with foam. The Man Who Was American Music 2019-11-19T05:00:00Z Miles of prairie are lighting up from the east, studded by cattle and deer: interior America at its biggest. Views you don’t get on the freeway … across America by train 2020-01-29T05:00:00Z Watch iconic Western wildlife, hike through prairie wildflowers, camp among the cottonwoods, and more. Lots of wildlife and no crowds at North Dakota’s Roosevelt National Park 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z So are the moments lived quietly beside a mountain lake in Idaho, or in a prairie town in Iowa. Democracy’s Fierce Defender 2018-03-09T05:00:00Z In one memorable episode, “Plague,” a typhus outbreak forced the flinty prairie dwellers to stay at home in panicked isolation. Comfort Viewing: 3 Reasons I Love ‘Little House on the Prairie’ 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z There is flag making with Serigrafistas Queer, from Argentina, and that group is also turning a weed-strewn lot into a happy prairie. Documenta Was a Whole Vibe. Then a Scandal Killed the Buzz. 2022-06-24T04:00:00Z There is a foreign corporation jamming a giant, 36-inch diameter pipe through the land their great-grandfathers homesteaded, yet where is the Wild West unrest, the cowboy chivalry, the prairie wisdom, the call for rebellion? My 1,700-mile hike across the XL Pipeline 2013-01-20T12:45:00Z The prairie dress “is a style that crosses all these cultures. People wear them in Eastern Europe and down South. I loved the colors and the patterns,” says Hay, 37. Perspective | Fanny packs. Prairie dresses. Luxury shower shoes: Is fashion trolling us or what? 2018-07-19T04:00:00Z It’s an innovative museum that uses state-of-the-art technology to re-create a whole range of experiences from buffalo stampedes to prairie thunderstorms. Driving Through the Heart of Texas 2010-03-24T20:56:00Z Seeds make a smart choice for expansive properties, says Diboll, whose company pioneered the scientific design of diverse prairie seed mixes in the 1980s. Want to create a butterfly garden? Here’s what to plant, based on your space. 2021-08-31T04:00:00Z It’s only right that MacKenzie’s images of prairie homes be grounded and guileless. In the galleries: Where the wild things are 2016-03-24T04:00:00Z We strolled the walkways, saying hello to pensive prairie dogs, and pored over exhibits of gems and reptiles. Linda Ronstadt’s Borderland 2013-12-27T17:32:15Z Territorial prairies are patrolled by sword-wielding enforcers — known as Clippers — who loyally protect the interests of their respective barons. ‘Into the Badlands’ has a kick but lacks bite 2015-11-13T05:00:00Z If you’ve ever passed through Iowa, you’ve experienced the flat stretches of highway that run through the vast prairies and farms blanketing the Midwest. Reimagining Iowa's Underground Railroad 2014-06-06T04:00:00Z With the design duo’s cinematic eyes, the show was more the hand-woven fantasy of home on the prairie than the gritty reality. Special Report: Fashion: Color Returns to the City 2011-02-16T17:42:22Z Wearing a red hooded parka, Ms. Atkins stars in a kind of prairie fairy tale involving musical wolves and bears with golden teeth. Art Review: ‘Oh, Canada’ Exhibition at Mass MoCA 2012-08-30T21:44:01Z Yet her tailoring of narrative voices to personalities sometimes gums up the works: Louisa’s prairie flatness rings true to an enervating fault. First Novels Tackle Sexism and Prejudice, Past and Present 2017-11-22T05:00:00Z Back in Washington, he mounted these sacrificial victims in a diorama that evoked the bison’s life on the prairies. The Long History of Those Who Fought to Save the Animals 2021-04-14T04:00:00Z In April, millions of tiny flowers spread over the blackjack hills and vast prairies in the Osage territory of Oklahoma. The Marked Woman 2017-03-01T05:00:00Z |
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