There's no denying Hartman's] abilities as a photographer. Shape, color, and light, he has an impeccable eye for composition, for juxtaposing line against line, drawing the viewer's eye into his subject. . . . In North Dakota, he likes a flood-drenched plain in orange twilight, one stretch of barbed wire fence in a strong horizontal, another triangulating stretch (just the fence posts visible above the water) disappearing into the distance. In South Dakota, he gives us a flat plain with alternating gold, green, and brown strips of field, a dark storm building overhead. . . . Accompanying the ... View More...
2-volume set in as-new condition, firm and unmarked. Slipcase good, with faint general shelfwear and instances of scuffing to top edges. Overall solid, clean. View More...
HARDCOVER. Excepting gift inscription and embossing to title page, this copy in near-new condtion: firm and unworn with light scuffing to lower jacket edge. View More...
1910 Year Book of the Kansas State Normal School (later Emporia State University). Heavy-grained texture black hardcovers show scuffing and rusting, but binding is library-bound solid. 208-page text clean and unmarked. View More...
Rare 1944 treatise by the 'horse and buggy doctor,' self-published in Halstead Kansas, 24 pp, staple bound in gray vellum covers. Creases, edge rubbing, fore edge tear on front cover, plus round glass-rim stains; age discoloration at edges of title page and cover; text clean & unmarked with black and white photos; side-by-side postcard portraits of Hertzler (1894, 1944) attached to inside cover. View More...
Rapidly disappearing bison in the late 1800s prompted progressive thinkers to call for the preservation of wild lands and wildlife in North America. Following a legendary hunt for the last wild bison in central Montana, Dr. William Hornady sought to immor View More...
To understand why people say 'Dear old Kansas is to understand that Kansas is no mere geographical expression, but a 'state of mind, ' a religion, and a philosophy in one, writes historian Carl Becker in the classic 1910 essay that leads off this volume. Like Becker, the twelve other essayists and four poets try to map the spiritual topography of Kansas and explain why this particular patch of prairie is so dear. They share the conviction that Kansas represents something powerful, something significant, something noteworthy. The seventeen selections are put into perspective by Thomas Fox Aver... View More...
Ignobility stalks Kansas in an urban-centered and media-shaped American culture that tilts toward the coasts. The snubs proliferate. In the movie Vacation Chevy Chase contemplates a stop in Kansas at the House of Mud, the largest free-standing mud dwelling ever built. A novelist skewers the oft-maligned Kansas landscape, Love a place like Kansas and you can be content in a garden of raked sand, A poster urges the daring to ski Kansas, and a New Yorker cartoon depicts a highway sign that announces, You are entering Kansas, or some state very much like it. In the James Bond film Diamonds Are For... View More...
Despite its sparse population, Kansas is well represented in the annals of music history. The state claims some of the most popular acts from the past century, including Kansas, Count Basie, Big Joe Turner, Martina McBride, Melissa Etheridge and Charlie Parker. A wide variety of genres plays and prospers here, from blues to bluegrass. Beloved venues from mega-festivals like Walnut Valley to jam sessions just off the front porch preserve the state's tuneful heritage. Join Deb Bisel in celebrating this lyrical legacy, from Home on the Range" to "Dust in the Wind" and beyond." View More...
Since the days of "Bleeding Kansas," people from someplace else have been telling midwesterners how to live, how to vote, and what to believe. In "Superior Nebraska, " Denis Boyles explodes the myth that hapless Midwesterners have been duped into voting against their own economic interests in order to support right-wing crusades mounted by wily conservatives. Every election cycle, the angry people who live on America' s blue coasts smugly ridicule those who live in the mystifying heartland of their own country, an exotic, faraway place many of them have seen only from the window of an aircraf... View More...
Gift inscription from the sisters & label residue on end page, a sharp, clean copy, crisp binding. Jacket bright and solid, small tear at flap fold. View More...
Kansas played an outsized role in the Cold War, when civilization's survival hung in the balance. Forbes Air Force Base operated nine Atlas E intercontinental ballistic missile launch sites. Schilling Air Force Base was the hub for twelve Atlas F ICBMs. McConnell Air Force Base operated eighteen Titan II ICBMs. A Kansas State University engineering professor converted a discarded Union Pacific Railroad water tank into his family's backyard fallout shelter. A United States president from Kansas faced several nuclear war scares as the Cold War moved into the thermonuclear age. Landry Brewer tell... View More...
