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    • Twyla Hansen
      • Scholarly Essays
        • Connecting People and Landscape: The Local Characters of Twyla Hansen and Don Welch
        • Continuing the Legacy: Environmentalism in Twyla Hansen’s Poetry
      • Selected Poems
        • Early Winter
        • Greasy Spoon
        • Just Before Dawn
        • My Husband’s Grandmother Worked for Willa Cather
        • New Year’s on Nine-Mile Prairie
        • Pastoral
        • Prairie-Chicken
        • Prairie: Giants in the Earth
        • Song of Silence
        • The Snowball Sisters
        • Walk on the Prairie
        • You Will Not Find
    • William Kloefkorn
      • Scholarly Essays
        • Following Alvin Turner: William Kloefkorn’s Poetry and the Agrarian Tradition
        • Natural History as Family History: William Kloefkorn’s Bioregionalism
        • William Kloefkorn’s “Folk” Poetry: Writing a Great Plains Idiom
      • Selected Poems
        • A strong wind from the south
        • At the Pantry
        • Braids
        • I am ready now to admit
        • If Only I Can Shake Off This Dream, All of the Others Should Follow
        • Looking for Scrap Iron at the Village Dump
        • Over the Years
    • John G. Neihardt
      • Scholarly Essays
        • John G. Neihardt and Traditional Form: Finding Contemporaries in the Past
        • Neihardt’s Epic Poetry and the Troubled History of the American West
        • Symbol and Nature in Neihardt’s Lyric Poetry
      • Selected Poems
        • In Autumn
        • Lines in Late March
        • The Song of Hugh Glass
        • There Was A Voice
  • Featured Poets
    • Loren Eiseley
      • Scholarly Essays
        • “The city is not real to him”: Civilization, Animals, and Time in the Poetry of Loren Eiseley
        • Loren Eiseley’s Ecopoetics and His Archeo-poetry
      • Selected Poems
        • Against Cities
        • For a Lost Home
        • Incident in the Zoo
        • Never Like Deer
        • Nocturne for Autumn’s Ending
        • Poem to Accompany a Poem
        • Poison Oak
        • Prairie Spring
        • Return to White Mountain
        • Sonnet
        • Spiders
        • The Quainter Dust
        • The Trout
        • These Are the Stars
        • Winter Visitant
        • Words for Forgetting
        • Words on a Spring Road
    • Ted Kooser
      • Scholarly Essays
        • The Use of Metaphor in Ted Kooser’s Poetry
      • Selected Poems
        • A Jar of Buttons
        • A Mouse in a Trap
        • An Early Autumn Morning
        • Box Turtle
        • Croquet Ball
        • Garage Sale
        • Garrison, Nebraska
        • Memory
        • Meteor Shower
        • Mourners
        • Splitting an Order
        • Telescope
        • The Old People
        • The Sick Bat
        • While We Were Passing
    • Lenora Castillo
      • Scholarly Essays
        • Looking Inward and Outward: Lenora Castillo’s poem “La Nebraska” and “The Migrant Workers are Back”
        • Redefining Weather–and Who We are in Relation to Nature
      • Selected Poems
        • La Nebraska
        • Second Guessing the Storm
        • The Migrant Workers Are Back
        • Tornado
    • Allison Hedge Coke
      • Scholarly Essays
        • Language and Preservation: Poetry as a Call to Action in “The Mounds” and “Skeletons”
        • The Musicality of Landscape and National Identity in “Platte Mares” and “America, I Sing You Back”
      • Selected Poems
        • America, I Sing You Back
        • Platte Mares
        • Skeletons
        • The Mounds
    • Yvonne Hollenbeck
      • Scholarly Essays
        • Yvonne Hollenbeck and Cowboy Poetry
      • Selected Poems
        • A Windmill on the Prairie
        • Father’s Boots
        • Hometown Shopping
        • The Auction Sale
    • Matt Mason
      • Scholarly Essays
        • Connection and the Personification of the Landscape in “Smith Falls State Park” and “Words from Neale Woods”
        • The Constellation of Movement: Matt Mason and the Art of Slam Poetry
      • Selected Poems
        • After the 1996 Fiesta Bowl
        • Burton
        • Cherry County, Nebraska
        • Connections
        • Notes For My Daughter Against Chasing Storms
        • Smith Falls State Park
        • The Baby That Ate Cincinnati
        • The Good News
        • The Story of Ferdinand the Bull
        • The Thin Line of What I Know
        • Untitled Poem for Sarah
        • Words from Neale Woods
    • Don Welch
      • Scholarly Essays
        • Don Welch and Rural Outmigration
        • Material Sense: The Simple Diction of Winter in Twyla Hansen & Don Welch
        • The Autumn Prairie: Woman and Nature in Don Welch’s Selected Poems
      • Selected Poems
        • Advice From a Provincial
        • August
        • Fall, Nebraska
        • Indian Summer
        • Nones
        • October
        • Steel-Worker
        • There is No Wind in Heaven
        • To Bear Bryant, Somewhere on that Taller Town
        • White Cranes in Spring
  • Resources
    • Annotated Bibliography
    • Historical Context
      • Francis La Flesche
      • Orsamus Charles Dake
        • Scholarly Essays
          • The Poetry of Orsamus Charles Dake
        • Selected Poems
          • Graping
          • Nebraska–1866
          • The Praise of New Lands
      • Some Preliminary Notes on Nebraska, Poetry, and Nebraska Poetry
    • Lesson Plans
      • Family Museum: Poems That Tell Our Stories
      • Field Journaling: The Plains Through My Eyes
      • Illustrating Poetry: An Imagery Exercise
      • Painting the Seasons with Poems
      • So This is the Plains
      • State Poet Study
      • The Language of Deep Time
    • Notable Nebraska Poets
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Historical Context

Scholarly Essays

Orsamus Charles Dake: “The First Nebraska Poet”

The Poetry of Orsamus Charles Dake

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