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In Reflecting a Prairie Town Drake Hokanson takes a prolonged look at a common place in an uncommon fashion. He presents Peterson, Iowa, through a singular combination of words and images, a remarkable synthesis of history, geography, direct observation, climatology, botany, oral history, archaeology, agricultural science, literature, geology, photography, and even a bit of astronomy. This vernacular landscape study is lavishly illustrated with photographs taken by the author, including stunning panoramic views. The fundamental truth of experience on this continent has always lain in the challenges and opportunities of space. Place mattered because we were so few before the immensity of the land. But place at the same time rooted us in that immensity. Even now our appreciation for place is not quite dead; locked in our urban environments we continue to crave a view, be it of mountains, forests, or prairies. These views crop up unexpectedly as photographic murals in office buildings or posters in dentists offices. It is to this stifled sense of the importance of place that Hokanson speaks; he invites us to remember and to be revitalized. The magic of Reflecting a Prairie Town is the revelation that Peterson, Iowa, is a small town that is also uncannily large. In capturing the essence of this one place Hokanson helps us to understand our own worlds betterhe asks the simple questions many of us would like to ask were we given the opportunity. To enter this book is to come back to a place we have never really seen before.

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title Reflecting a Prairie Town A Year in Peterson American Land and - photo 1

title:Reflecting a Prairie Town : A Year in Peterson American Land and Life Series
author:Hokanson, Drake.
publisher:University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin:0877454663
print isbn13:9780877454663
ebook isbn13:9781587291128
language:English
subjectPeterson (Iowa)--Description and travel, Farm life--Iowa--Peterson, Landscape--Iowa--Peterson.
publication date:1994
lcc:F629.P47H65 1994eb
ddc:977.7/153
subject:Peterson (Iowa)--Description and travel, Farm life--Iowa--Peterson, Landscape--Iowa--Peterson.
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Reflecting a Prairie Town THE AMERICAN LAND LIFE SERIES Edited by Wayne - photo 2
Reflecting a Prairie Town
THE AMERICAN LAND & LIFE SERIES Edited by Wayne Franklin
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Reflecting a Prairie Town
A Year in Peterson
Text & photographs by Drake Hokanson
Foreword by Wayne Franklin
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS Picture 3 Iowa City
Page iv
University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright 1994 by Drake Hokanson
All rights reserved
Printed in Canada
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or used in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
98 97 96 95 94 c 5 4 3 2 1
Page vi: Little Sioux River, circa 1900. Page viii: Threshing on the E.C. Bertram farm near Peterson, circa 1920. Photograph courtesy of Ione Johnson. Page xvi: Ora and Ernest C. Bertram are obviously proud of their rural Peterson farm in this photograph dated 1912. Photograph courtesy of Ione Johnson. Page xviii: Art Johnson Implement Company, circa 1950. The author's grandfather, Henry Hokanson, is at center, with Evelyn Busby and Frank Mohror. In a fashion similar to general stores of earlier eras, implement dealers sought to carry everything a farmer might need from parts and tools to Coca-Cola and oil stoves.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Hokanson, Drake, 1951
Reflecting a prairie town: a year in Peterson / text and
photographs by Drake Hokanson; foreword by Wayne Franklin.
p. cm. (American land and life series)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 0-87745-466-3
I. Peterson (Iowa) Description and travel. 2. Farm life
Iowa Peterson. 3. Landscape Iowa Peterson. I. Title.
II. Series.
F629.P47H65 1994
977.7'153 dc20 94-6369
CIP
Page v
For my mother, Mona Beck, and my grandmother, Ione Johnson.
This book springs from love: their love of home, my mother's love of the written word, my grandmother's love of history, and my love for them, because they gave me the first three.
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Page vii Contents Foreword by Wayne Franklin ix - photo 4
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Contents
Foreword
by Wayne Franklin
ix
Acknowledgments
xiii
Introduction
1
1
Fly-over Country
5
2
The Meridians of Home
18
3
An Invigorating Atmosphere
30
4
Alioth and Polaris
46
5
Plain Geometry
58
6
Caf Society
68
7
Horizon Line
77
8
Harvest
91
9
Diary of a River
101
10
1856-1857
111
11
Gods in the Soil
128
12
Townbuilding
140
13
Main Street and the Railroad
155
14
Earth Upside Down
174
15
Prairie Corn
187
16
Lost World
198
17
Habits of the Grass
213
18
Palimpsest
223
19
Heritage
232
20
Coda
245
Epilogue
251
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