the big slime’s Reviews > Nature's Metropolis: Chicago and the Great West > Status Update

Tallgrass prairies, oak openings, white pine forests, herds of bison, and the people who might choose to live amid these things: none would ever be the same again. As village became metropolis, so frontier became hinterland…Viewed from the banks of the Chicago River, the Great West is both an urban empire and a countryside transformed.