Download or read book Living Landscapes of Kansas written by O. J. Reichman and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Photographs and text profile the landscape of Kansas and chronicle the state's natural history.
Download or read book Kansas Landscapes written by Frank W. Wilson and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is intended to describe geologically interesting and scenically beautiful areas in Kansas.
Download or read book The Nature of Kansas Lands written by Beverley Worster and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book testifies to Kansas' natural abundance through spectacular color photography and sumptuous prose. Sponsored by the Kansas Land Trust, The Nature of Kansas Lands focuses on the world of nature that awaits us just beyond our fences: waterways, woodlands, grasslands, farmlands, and high plains. It's been crafted to encourage residents and visitors alike to explore backcountry roads, learn more about native flora and wildlife, and generally open their eyes to the state's wild beauty and ecological complexity."--BOOK JACKET.
Download or read book Kansas Geology written by Rex Buchanan and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an interesting, readable introductory survey of Kansas geology. Illustrated with both full-color and black-and-white photographs, line drawings, maps, and figures, it is designed specifically to provide non-technical information for the general reader.
Download or read book Shrubs for Kansas Landscapes written by Gary L. McDaniel and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2023-11-19 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Shrubs for Kansas Landscapes" by Gary L. McDaniel. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.
Download or read book The Kansas Landscape Vol 1 written by Mark Feiden and published by . This book was released on 2005-11-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A carefully crafted, folio-style, gift-book featuring forty-two beautiful Kansas landscapes by native photographers Mark Feiden and Edward C. Robison III.
Download or read book The Last Wild Places of Kansas written by George Frazier and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the last wild bison found refuge on the back of a nickel, the public image of natural Kansas has progressed from Great American Desert to dust bowl to flyover country that has been landscaped, fenced, and farmed. But look a little harder, George Frazier suggests, and you can find the last places where tenacious stretches of prairie, forest, and wetland cheat death and incubate the DNA of lost, wild America. Documenting three years spent roaming the state in search of these hidden treasures, The Last Wild Places of Kansas is Frazier's idiosyncratic and eye-opening travelogue of nature's secret holdouts in the Sunflower State. These are places where extirpated mammalian species are making comebacks; where flying squirrels leap between centuries-old trees lit by the unearthly green glow of foxfire; where cold springs feed ancient watercress pools; where the ice moon paints the Smoky Hills with memories of the buffalo, wolf, and the lonesome rattle of false indigo; where the blue lid of the sky forms a vacuum seal over treeless pastel hills, orange in winter; where bluestem rises. Some are impossible to find on maps. Most are magnificently bereft of anything beneficial to 99.9 percent of modern America. True wildernesses they may not be, but at the correct angle of light, when the wind blows pollen carrying biological memories of the glaciers, these places are a crack between the worlds, portals to the lost buffalo wilderness. En route Frazier takes us from the unexpected wilds of the Kansas City suburbs to the Cimarron National Grassland in the far southwestern corner of the state. He visits ancient springs, shares a beer with prairie dog hunters, and fails in his mission to canoe the upper Marais des Cygnes—a trip that requires permission from every landowner on the route. Along the way we encounter a host of curious characters—ranchers, farmers, Native Americans, explorers, wildlife experts, and outdoor enthusiasts—all fellow travelers in a quest to know, preserve, and share the last wild places of Kansas.
Download or read book Kansas Geology written by Rex Buchanan and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A profusely illustrated nontechnical survey of the state's geological landforms and features.
Download or read book Landscapes in Kansas written by Robert Sudlow and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A native Kansan, Robert Sudlow has an M.F.A. in art from the California College of Arts and Crafts and taught art at the University of Kansas from 1947 until his retirement in June of 1987. He studied painting with Raymond Eastwood, the late Karl Mattern, and the late Albert Bloch at the University of Kansas, André Lhote in Paris, and Richard Diebenkorn in California. At present he is represented by the American Legacy Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, the Kellas Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas, the Beauchamp Gallery, Topeka, Kansas, and Lyman-Heizer Associates, Northbrook, Illinois. Sudlow's work is in many corporate, private, and public collections throughout the country, including the City Art Museum in St. Louis and the Joslyn Art Museum in Omaha. His paintings have been avidly collected for years. -- from dust jacket.
Download or read book Holy Ground Healing Water written by Donald J. Blakeslee and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 537 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most people would not consider north central Kansas' Waconda Lake to be extraordinary. The lake, completed in 1969 by the federal Bureau of Reclamation for flood control, irrigation, and water supply purposes, sits amid a region known--when it is thought of at all--for agriculture and, perhaps to a few, as the home of "The World's Largest Ball of Twine" (in nearby Cawker City). Yet, to the native people living in this region in the centuries before Anglo incursion, this was a place of great spiritual power and mystic significance. Waconda Spring, now beneath the waters of the lake, was held as sacred, a place where connection with the spirit world was possible. Nearby, a giant snake symbol carved into the earth by native peoples--likely the ancestors of today's Wichitas--signified a similar place of reverence and totemic power. All that began to change on July 6, 1870, when Charles DeRudio, an officer in the 7th U.S. Cavalry who had served with George Armstrong Custer, purchased a tract on the north bank of the Solomon River--a tract that included Waconda Spring. DeRudio had little regard for the sacred properties of his acrea≥ instead, he viewed the mineral spring as a way to make money. In Holy Ground, Healing Water: Cultural Landscapes at Waconda Springs, Kansas, anthropologist Donald J. Blakeslee traces the usage and attendant meanings of this area, beginning with prehistoric sites dating between AD 1000 and 1250 and continuing to the present day. Addressing all the sites at Waconda Lake, regardless of age or cultural affiliation, Blakeslee tells a dramatic story that looks back from the humdrum present through the romantic haze of the nineteenth century to an older landscape, one that is more wonderful by far than what the modern imagination can conceive.
Download or read book Kaw Valley Landscapes written by James R. Shortridge and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This detailed guide to the backroads and small towns of northeastern Kansas charts a 350-mile loop from the Kansas-Missouri border west through the majestic Flint Hills. The mile-by-mile descriptions cover the following counties: Wyandotte, Johnson, Douglas, Osage, Wabaunsee, Pottawatomie, Jackson, Shawnee, Jefferson, and Leavenworth. Along the way, Shortridge's commentary on the history, economy, architecture, and demographics of the region provides a rich appreciation of the landscape and encourages lingering and thoughtful contemplation. "Kansas perhaps needs a tour guide more than do many places," writes cultural geographer James Shortridge, "for the state is more generally viewed as a place to escape from than a place to visit." Illustrated with numerous maps and with charming pen-and-ink drawings by Antoinette Cook Smith, Kaw Valley Landscapes demonstrates that beyond the interstate highways of northeastern Kansas are ethnic enclaves, Indian reservations, sleepy rural towns, a variety of folk architecture, dramatic examples of the geological effects of glaciation--in short, "a fascinating local panorama of land and life." "The starting point is easy to find, at the Kansas-Missouri border on I-70. It is an appropriate place because the Kansas River, whose valley is the subject of this book, here empties into the Missouri. The spot has added significance in that the viaduct over the Kaw is dedicated to Lewis and Clark. What better place," Shortridge asks, "for a modern exploring expedition to begin?" Kaw Valley Landscapes is a revised edition of the guidebook originally published in 1977.
Download or read book Kansas Landscape written by James Enyeart and published by . This book was released on 1971 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Jaana Mattson s Landscapes in Wool written by Jaana Mattson and published by . This book was released on 2021-02-28 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Award-winning fiber artist and teacher Jaana Mattson's needle-felted landscapes explore fresh territory. See how with this beautiful resource for beginners and practicing artists alike. Enjoy inspiration from 50 fascinating photos of the artist's original works, together with five step-by-step tutorials for a satisfying introduction to basic landscapes. Mattson, who creates entirely dry-felted textiles with a simple handheld tool, shares her one-of-a-kind painterly, impressionistic approach of blending and layering techniques guided by color theory and an understanding of the fibers. Learn how wool works as a material, how to make the best use of tools as you work with the dry-felting-only techniques, and the color and composition basics you need for planning successful landscapes in wool. The projects include Vibrant Field, Thunderhead, Moon Shadow, Birch Lake, and Lone Oak.
Download or read book The Kansas Landscape Vol 1 Expanded written by and published by Konza Press. This book was released on 2010-09-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A special anniversary follow-on edition to the popular original volume I. A carefully crafted, folio-style, gift-book featuring sixty, larger, beautiful Kansas landscapes by native photographers Mark Feiden and Edward C. Robison, III.
Download or read book Roadside Kansas written by Rex C. Buchanan and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 2010-03-05 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Two decades after its first publication, Roadside Kansas remains the premier guide to the geology, natural resources, landmarks, and landscapes along nine of the Sunflower State's major highways. During that span, however, many aspects of the Kansas landscape changed: the growth of some towns and near disappearance of others, the expansion of highways, the development of industry. Even the rocks themselves changed in places as erosion took its relentless toll. More broadly, there have been changes in the science of geology. This new edition reflects all of these changes and thoroughly updates the previous edition in ways that reinforce its preeminent status. Covering more than 2,600 miles, Buchanan and McCauley organize their book by highway and milepost markers, so that modern-day explorers can follow the road logs easily, learning about the land as they travel through the state. Featuring more than 100 photographs, drawings, and maps, the book also provides deft descriptions of fascinating contemporary and historical features to be seen all across Kansas. Especially in an economic era that has encouraged all of us to travel closer to home, the new edition is sure to be a hit with families from Kansas and the region who decide to explore and learn more about the state and its distinctive wonders. They'll discover what Buchanan and McCauley have known for a long time: Kansas highways provide much more than passage to Colorado or some other state. They are destinations in their own right. Published for the Kansas Geological Survey
Download or read book Kaw Valley Landscapes written by James R. Shortridge and published by . This book was released on 1977-01-01 with total page 211 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Kansas Landscape written by Kansas. Department of Economic Development. Travel and Tourism Division and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
