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| 2009 episodes: Jan Feb Mar Apr |
 Grass - Buck Ramsey - Celebrate Cowboy Poetry Week with one of the greatest cowboy poems ever written in a recording of the author from 1990.
(aired 4/24/2009) |
 The Other Side of Oz - Antonya Nelson - A Kansas native reflects on the paradoxes of Kansas' place in the US.
(aired 4/17/2009) |
 We Fed Them Cactus - Fabiola Cabeza de Baca - A slice of life on the Llano Estacado.
(aired 4/10/2009) |
 Land of Grass and Sky - Mary Taylor Young - This journal of High Plains' landscapes and wildlife has been called a "love letter to the prairies"
(aired 4/3/2009) |
 The Persian Pickle Club - Sandra Dallas - A group of Kansas women are held together by quilting and murder.
(aired 3/27/2009) |
 If You're Not From The Prairie - David Bouchard - A view of the harsh extremes of the prairie through the eyes of a small boy.
(aired 3/20/2009) |
 Death on the Western Frontier - Eugene D Fleharty and Gary K Hulett - Newspaper accounts of the many ways to die in 19th Century Kansas
(aired 3/13/2009) |
 The Xit Ranch & Early Days of the Llano Estacado - J.Evetts Haley - Join us for tales of cowboying in the Texas Panhandle
(aired 3/6/2009) |
 The Great Whale of Kansas - Richard W Jennings - A young boy digging in his Kansas backyard discovers a fantastic fossil
(aired 2/27/2009) |
 Letter to a Newborn Niece, Woody Guthrie - from the book Reflections - A letter that is every bit as poetic and witty as author Woody Guthrie's songs
(aired 2/20/2009) |
 Pretty Boy Floyd - by Diana Ossana and Larry McMurtry - A reaction of the life of a charming St. Louis country boy who becomes a notorious bank robber during the Depression
(aired 2/13/2009) |
 Ted Kooser Poetry - by Ted Kooser - Poems by America's Poet Laureate
(aired 2/6/2009) |
 Survival in the Storm - by Katelan Janke - 12 year old Grace Edwards uses her journal to tell the story of a year (1935) in the Texas Panhandle town of Dalhart during the days of the Dust Bowl.
(aired 1/30/2009) |
 Plainsong - by Kent Haruf - A touching and funny story of an unlikely family.
(aired 1/23/2009) |
 Garden City, Dreams in a Kansas Town - by Holly Hope - Meet folks with Dorothy Gales syndrome, people who moved away only to decide there's no place like home.
(aired 1/16/2009) |
 That Old Ace in the Hole - by Annie Prouix - A warm-hearted novel about an awkward misfit making his way among the old kooks and rawhide toughmen of the Texas Panhandle.
(aired 1/9/2009) |
 More than Petticoats: Remarkable Texas Women - by Greta Anderson - Biographies of ten extraordinary women whose contributions made a profound impact on Texas.
(aired 1/2/2009) |
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