<p>Book by Herbert Krause, Gary D. Olson</p>

Prelude to Glory

Gary D. Olson

Herbert Krause

Brevet Pr

A historical fiction set in the Midwest plains.

Wind Without Rain

Literature & Fiction

History & Criticism

Brevet Press

The Thresher

Contemporary

Oxcart Trail

Center for Western Studies

When Herbert Krause won the Friends of American Writers' Award in 1939 for the powerful "Wind Without Rain", his career as a major novelist was launched.  Stephen Vincent Bene't pronounced him "one of our essential novelists."  With that best seller and a second in 1946, "The Thresher," Krause established himself as the historian of Pockerbrush, the hilly lake country of west-central Minnesota, and the hard life and harsh religion of the German homesteaders there.  Now his poettry and essays have been brought together for the first time in a collection that reveals at last the full extent of his accomplishment.  Krause's poems range from sparse lyrics reminiscent of Robert Frost (one of his mentors) to rustic dialogues, to sad laments about lost youth and lost opportunity.  The essays, even fuller in variety, present the literary critic, the comic commentator, and above all the sensitive and poetic naturalist and environmentalist, penetrating the Black Hills or dizzied by the tracery of geese in motion.  Illustrated.

Poems and Essays of Herbert Krause

Poetry

This book chronicles the high adventures of one of America's most dedicated bird watchers and environmentalists. What Herbert Krause brings to telling the stories of the birds of the Great Plains is his love of the rich variety of wildlife here-- expecially its sheer profusion-- and his novelist's ability to give every individial bird he visits its own character and personality.  Krause introduces us to a great many of his bird friends in these pages, sometimes passing acquaintances, like the song sparrows he watches at their play or the fall and winter birds whom he admires for their hardiness and their unfathomable patterns of migration, like the congregations of geese who range from as far south as the Gulf Coast in winter to the farthest reaches of Canada.  The greater part of Birding in the Northern Plains is given over to individual birds-- the cardinal, the Canada warbler, the McCown's longspur, the bald eagle, and then a series of forty-four short articles, most of them printed in Bird Notes, the publication of the South Dakota Ornithologists' Union. Krause believed passionately in the Union's mission-- to support the cause of disappearing wildlife, 'wildlife which is threatened not only here but the world over, a global problem of which the Great Plains too is inevitably a part!'

Birding in the Northern Plains: The Ornithological Writings of Herbert Krause (Prairie Plains Series No. 12)

Science & Math

Biological Sciences

The Center for Western Studies

Introduction by Patrick Hicks

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