Love Song to the Plains

Love Song to the Plains is a lyric salute to the earth and sky and people who made the history of the Great Plains by the region's incomparable historian Mari Sandoz. It is a story of men and women of many hues-courageous violent indomitable foolish-their legends failures and achievements: of explorers and fur trappers and missionaries; of soldiers and army posts and Indian fighting; of California-bound emigrants who stopped off to become settlers; of cattlemen and bad men boomers and land speculators and their feuds and rivalries. Above all this is a portrait of the true Plainsman the man or woman who can stand to have the horizon far off and every day every year a gamble.