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The following is a transcript of the conversation between Dr. Alex Hunt and Philipp Meyer:AH – For Radio Readers Book Club, I’m Alex Hunt, Professor of…
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Hello, Radio Readers! We’re reading and discussing a High Plains sense of place with Sam Gwynne’s Empire of the Summer Moon, a social history, as Gwynne…
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KATHLEEN HOLT : Talk a little bit about Native Americans and film. I think when we talk about the High Plains and a sense of place, we often think of it…
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I’ve been thinking a lot about the Comanche’s sense of place. I once visited the Wichita Mountain Wildlife Refuge near Lawton, Oklahoma – part of the High…
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I’m a former Kansas poet laureate. Comancheria is home to many Plains Indian groups. My grandfather of Delaware Indian heritage was among the dislocated…
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Hello, HPPR Radio Readers! Midway through “Empire of the Summer Moon,” we return to Cynthia Ann Parker’s story. Parker was nine years old when captured…
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HPPR Radio Readers are talking about books that explore life on the High Plains. Kent Haruf’s novel, Plainsong, gave us opportunities to consider the…
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Lex Nichols:I was born and raised in Rocky Ford on the Arkansas River. My dad still has a farm there. Part of the Cherokee Trail ran through there up to…
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For me, history depicted in Empire of the Summer Moon is among the saddest in America. Though I didn’t expect a different outcome, the story isn’t easier…
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From the Panhandle of Texas to the southern regions of South Dakota, the High Plains has a landscape generally characterized as flat and monotonous.…