Z-BAR RANCH MEMOIR
— William Least Heat Moon
PrairyErth: (a Deep Map)
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Jones missed his Z-Bar
Ranch in the Tall Grass Prairie
What was he thinking?
Was it Strong City
His grand limestone mansion
The lonely prairie?
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The best architects
The best quarry stonemasons
The Renaissance style?
Plains Vernacular
Second Empire style 19th
Grandiose architecture?
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A Chase County gem
Out in the middle of Nowhere
Did the Plains approve?
Why did he come back
To die a rich cattleman
Surveying his realm?
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Sitting on a wall
Watching the cars go by there
On Cottonwood Street?
His rich vast estate
Still financing the Kansas
That he loved so much
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