A Minnesota story / Emilio DeGrazia --
This prairie, this terrible space / Paul Gruchow --
From The thresher / Herbert Krause --
From O river, remember / Martha Ostenso --
The betrayal / Peggy Harding Love --
An inner disquiet / John Milton --
From The tree farm / Robert Treuer --
From The mystery of Metropolisville / Edward Eggleston --
From Staggerdord / Jon Hassler --
From Woman of property / Mabel Seeley --
The perfect juror / Margaret Culkin Banning --
From Being respectable / Grace H. Flandrau --
Footnotes to a theory of place / Alvin Greenberg --
From A little sleep, a little slumber / Norman Katkov --
WLT (The Edgar era) / Garrison Keillor --
A hungry intellectual / Meridel Le Sueur --
From Boy almighty / Frederick Manfred --
From The boat of longing / Ole Rölvaag --
The psychotaxidermist / Gerald Vizenor --
Absolution / F. Scott Fitzgerald --
Mrs. White's / Charles Macomb Flandrau --
From Homecoming / Borghild Dahl --
From Indian boyhood / Charles A. Eastman --
From Mountain of winter / Shirley Schoonover --
Places we lost / Mary Hedin --
From A choice of weapons / Gordon Parks --
Manabozho / Henry Rowe Schoolcraft --
From Walk with a separate pride / Sheila Alexander --
Getting and spending / Emilie Buchwald --
Mrs. Ketting and Clark Gable / Ann Chidester --
I'm sorry that you're dead / Lon Otto --
In loveless clarity / Norval Rindfleisch --
Tokens / Monica Krawczyk --
Look at a teacup / Patricia Hampl --
From Cass Timberlane / Sinclair Lewis.