Midwest

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> An artist recalls his Midwestern home town and the poet who made it famous</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> The Story of Some Forgotten Four-Footed Pioneers</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">The Great Lakes hurricane of 1913 was a destructive freak. As far as lakers were concerned, it was …</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck">For many children who accompanied their parents west across the continent in the 1840s and '50s, the journey was a supreme adventure.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">Living in, and with, the universal Midwestern latticework</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">150 years ago, a sea of grass spread from the Ohio to the Rockies. Now, only bits and pieces of that awesome wilderness remain for the traveler to discover.</span></p>

<p><span class="deck">You’ve just written a history of America from Columbus to Clinton. What do you put on the cover?</span></p>

<p>People who know nothing else about Chicago’s Great Conflagration have heard of Mrs. O’Leary and her famous cow. But the disaster's real origins are more complicated. </p>