
The Nebraska Sandhills
- 256 pages
- English
- PDF
- Available on iOS & Android
The Nebraska Sandhills
About this book
Winner of the 2025 Nebraska Book Award
"Like a rumpled wool blanket, the Nebraska Sandhills spreads out over twenty thousand square miles of north central Nebraska and is the largest stabilized dune field in the Western Hemisphere. It is also the largest intact mixed-grass prairie left on the continent."
This description by photographer Michael Forsberg alludes to the exceptional physical geography of the Nebraska Sandhills, a place of rolling grasslands, rivers, and wetlands created by the Ogallala Aquifer that underlies the region. Home to abundant wildlife, from pronghorn antelope to sandhill cranes, the Sandhills are an ecological treasure. Dotted with ranches and small towns, the Sandhills are rich with deep cultural history, including those of Indigenous peoples, settlers, Black homesteaders, immigrants, ecotourists, and some adventurous golfers.
The Nebraska Sandhills features nearly forty essays about the history, people, geography, geology, ecology, and conservation of the Nebraska Sandhills. Illustrated with hundreds of remarkable color photographs of the area, this is the most up-to-date and illuminating portrayal of this remarkable yet largely unknown region of the United States.
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Table of contents
- Cover Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Donors
- Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction to the Nebraska Sandhills
- A Kingdom of Grass
- An Abandoned Stone Schoolhouse
- Part 1. A Sense of Place
- Part 2. Land
- Part 3. Water
- Part 4. Climate and Weather
- Part 5. Sea of Grass
- Part 6. Wildlife
- Part 7. Ranching
- Part 8. Future of the Sandhills
- Acknowledgments
- Further Reading
- Contributors