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Ramirez, Karen E. – Great Plains Quarterly, 2010
At the conclusion of Willa Cather's 1913 novel "O Pioneers!", Alexandra Bergson muses about landownership, and more broadly about the human-land relationship, by reflecting on the transience of the county plat map, one of the most popular forms of mapping rural America in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. These maps were…
Descriptors: Novels, Rural Areas, Maps, Geography
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Maher, Susan Naramore – Great Plains Quarterly, 2005
The term "deep map" is the invention of writer William Least Heat-Moon, whose extended essay "PrairyErth (a deep map)" has given definition to this form. Deep-map writing is marked by its intertextual, interdisciplinary, and multivocal nature. It is also self-consciously cartographic, presenting maps, following maps, and redrawing maps. Deep…
Descriptors: Scientists, Maps, Essays, Cartography