Zen of the Plains [electronic resource] : Experiencing Wild Western Places / by Tyra A. Olstad.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Olstad, Tyra.

Series:

Southwestern nature writing series ; no. 2.

Number 2 in the Southwestern nature writing series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Zen Buddhism.

Natural history--West (U.S.).

Natural history.

Grasslands--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works.

Grasslands.

Grasslands--West (U.S.)--Philosophy.

Plains--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works.

Plains.

Plains--West (U.S.)--Philosophy.

Wilderness areas--West (U.S.)--Pictorial works.

Wilderness areas.

Wilderness areas--West (U.S.)--Philosophy.

West (U.S.)--Pictorial works.

West (U.S.).

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (286 p.)

Place of Publication:

Denton, Texas : University of North Texas Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Book explores the spiritual and aesthetic values of places such as Painted Desert, the Red Desert of Wyoming, and Kansas grasslands. Author also discusses Alaska, the Badlands, Petrified Forest, Arizona, etc.

Contents:

Prologue: Flyover country; Scottsbluff, NE

Shortgrass - semi-desert shrub-steppe. Terra incognita: Petrified Forest National Park, AZ

Can't get lost: Painted Desert Wilderness Area, AZ

Blank: Painted Desert

Wilderness Area, AZ

Interim: Highway 36; Northwestern KS

Slow down!; Petrified Forest National Park, AZ

Rhythms, cycles, spirals; Petrified Forest National Park, AZ. Part I: Sun-Sitting ; Part II: A Day

Interim: Sense of place; The Red Desert, WY

The quest; Pilot Rock, Painted Desert Wilderness Area, AZ

Interim: Dream of place; Laramie, Wyoming and the Painted Desert, AZ

Beauty and desire, beauty and despair; Petrified Forest National Park, AZ

Mixedgrass. Wonderlands; Badlands National Park, SD

National Grasslands; Buffalo Gap and Comanche Nat'l Grasslands, SD and CO

Animal encounters; Badlands National Park, SD. Part I: The theory of birds ; Part II: Rewilding

Interim: Medora to Marmarth (with some dinosaur statues in between); SD, ND, MT, and WY

Interpretation and inspiration; Badlands National Park, SD

Tallgrass. Experiment and experience, Or, How I tried to like a prairie; Konza Prairie Preserve, KS

Interim: In which I discover an island and fall in love with a forest; Tongass Nat'l Forest, AK

Conversations with Konza; Konza Prairie Preserve, KS

Shortgrass / Semi-desert shrub-steppe. The return to the plains; Fossil Butte National Monument, WY

Interim: The mapmaker's discipline; Fossil Butte, WY and Petrified Forest, AZ

Winter; Fossil Butte National Monument, WY

Conclusion: A brief meditation on expectations and emptiness.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-57441-562-X

OCLC:

881611571