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Preface / David Pichaske -- Foreword / Joseph Amato -- "The Ancient people and the newly come" Meridel Le Sueur -- "The counry side as quilt" Joseph Amato -- "Great snows" Carol Bly -- "What the countryman knows by heart" Barton Sutter -- "Going out to get the mail" Nancy Paddock -- "The grass roots of Great Plains history" Jim Muchlinski -- "On the Coteau des Praires, 1838" Joseph Nicollet -- "Horizontal grandeur" Bill Holm -- "Picking rock" Phil Dacey -- "Bones" Paul Gruchow -- "The first peoples of Southwestern Minnesota" Scott Anfinson -- "Redwood Falls, 1861" Henry Thoreau -- "Toward the sunset" Ole Rolvaag -- "Pullman cars and their occupants" Baron E. De Mandat-Gracey -- "Cottonwoods" Pheve Hanson -- "In an Icelandic graveyard" Bill Holm -- "The grandfathers" David Pichaske -- "Ethnicity and settlement of Southwestern Minnesota" John Radzilowski -- "The land of the straddle-bug" Hamlin Garland -- "Reflections in Sleep Eye" Allen Ginsberg -- "Home" Garrison Keillor -- "How to take a walk" Leo Dangel -- "My father" Frederick Manfred -- "Autumn waiting" Tom Hennen -- "Learning to swim" Faith Sullivan -- "What happened during the ice storm" Jim Heynen -- "Ten ways of looking at pheasant hunting in Southwestern Minnesota" Joe Paddock -- "Rivers of the Coteau des Prairies" Thomas Waters -- "A story about my father" Robert Bly -- "Pro patria" Tim O'Brien -- Permissions.