![]() ![]() In the book, there is extensive discussion of the tension between area ranchers and urban environmentalists over the issue of the park's creation, though many locals also desired the possibility of increased tourism that would come with the park. Īt the time that Least Heat-Moon was writing, there was political debate in Chase County about the possibility of a national park being created to preserve the prairie's ecosystems. It is about halfway between Wichita and Topeka. ![]() The county's geography is dominated by the Flint Hills, and it contains much of the remaining prairie that now exists in the Great Plains. Least Heat-Moon estimates that he interviewed about 10% of the county's population in the course of researching the book. Ĭhase County is a county in the southeastern quarter of Kansas with a population of about 3,000. Blue Highways had been a book about his wanderings along America's little-travelled byways, and while PrairyErth is similarly about the undiscovered heart of the United States, it focuses much more narrowly on a particular place. ![]() William Least Heat-Moon (born William Trogdon) was the acclaimed writer of the bestseller Blue Highways (1982) when he began to write PrairyErth. ![]()
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