The Language of Cottonwoods: Essays on the Future of North Dakota

North Dakota is regarded as flyover country but extraordinary narratives play out on this improbable Great Plains landscape. North Dakota is the home of one of the worlds largest nuclear missile fields one of the first mosques in America a zany collection of roadside attractions resurgent Native American communities one of the nations most productive oil fields and the magnificent Little Missouri River badlands. Join Clay Jenkinson as he searches for spirit of place cultural identity sacred landscapes and a future for rural America at the center of the continent where Lewis and Clark wintered Sitting Bull resisted the conquest and Theodore Roosevelt became Americas leading conservationist and the exemplar of the strenuous life. Part travelogue part love song to the prairie and above all a vision for a cultural renaissance at the heart of the continent The Language of Cottonwoods will make you laugh cry and think and inspire you to visit North Dakota.