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Rees, Amanda. "Envisioning the Great Plains: Contemporary Narratives of the Landscape," American Studies Program, University of Kansas, December 1998.
As the Great Plains suffered another serious economic downturn in the 1980s, the region again appeared to many as a tabula rasa upon which three large-scale visions were projected: the Poppers’ buffalo commons proposal, a cyber-landscape of white telecommuters offered by the Center for the New West, and the post-capitalist agricultural landscape imagined by The Land Institute. Placing these visionary narratives in a historical context of five regional authors (Webb, Kraenzel, Sandoz, Worster and a small town newspaper), I talked with people in the town I call Muenster to consider if and how these visions address their own imagined futures.
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