Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills

Long before the coming of Euro-Americans, native inhabitants of what is now Kansas left their mark on...
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Author: Rex Buchanan
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Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills by Buchanan, Rex

Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills

$113.13

Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills

$113.13
Author: Rex Buchanan
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Long before the coming of Euro-Americans, native inhabitants of what is now Kansas left their mark on the land: carvings in the soft orange and red sandstone of the state&fsquo;s Smoky Hills. Though noted by early settlers, these carvings are little known--and, largely found on private property today, they are now rarely seen. In a series of photographs, Petroglyphs of the Kansas Smoky Hills offers viewers a chance to read the story that these carvings tell of the region's first people--and to appreciate an important feature of Kansas history and its landscape that is increasingly threatened by erosion and vandalism.

To establish the context critical to understanding these petroglyphs, the book includes a number of photographs for each of fourteen sites in central Kansas, highlighting individual carvings but also the groups and settings in which they occur. An introduction and captions, while respecting the privacy of landowners and the fragility of the carvings, document what is known of the petroglyphs, how and when they were made, and what they can tell us of the early people of Kansas.

Author: Rex Buchanan, Burke Griggs, A01
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Published: 09/17/2019
Pages: 232
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 3.20lbs
Size: 11.20h x 11.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780700628421


Review Citation(s):
Choice 05/01/2020

About the Author
Griggs, Burke: - Svaty, JoshuaBuchanan, Rex: - Rex C. Buchanan, a native of central Kansas, is the director emeritus of the Kansas Geological Survey at the University of Kansas and editor of Kansas Geology and coauthor of Roadside Kansas, both from the University Press of Kansas.

Burke W. Griggs, associate professor of law at Washburn University School of Law, is a fellow at the Woods Institute for the Environment and an affiliated scholar at the Bill Lane Center for the American West, both at Stanford University. He has published photography in guidebooks for the western United States, including David T. Page's Yosemite and the Southern Sierra Nevada

Joshua L. Svaty is the fifth generation of his family to farm in Ellsworth County and has worked on natural resource issues with nonprofits and state and federal government. He was the fourteenth Kansas secretary of agriculture.

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