TABLE OF CONTENTS
  • Reading the Earth
  • Introduction: The Driftless Land
  • The Rivers That Bring Us Together
  • Winter Here
  • Ice Age!
  • Sacred Place: The Landscape of Memory
  • Chasing Black Hawk
  • Maquoketa Caves: The Landscape Beneath
  • Spring Here
  • Mississippi Refuge
  • Whitewater-Lost Canyon
  • Kickapoo Valley Reserve
  • Summer Here
  • Savanna Army Depot: What Lies Buried
  • Hiking the Driftless: Lessons in Solitude
    and Companionship
  • The Mountain That Soaks in the Water
  • Autumn Here
  • Manitoumie. Sinsinawa.
  • Where the Earth Breathes: A Vow of Stability
  • Driftless

Southeast Missouri State University Press, 2010
To order The Driftless Land, email kevin.koch@loras.edu.   Cost is $12, including shipping.

A sampler of readings from The Driftless Land, previously published in Big Muddy: A Journal of the Mississippi Valley

The Rivers That Bring Us Together

Savanna Army Depot: What Lies Buried

Manitoumie. Sinsinawa.