Reflecting a Prairie Town: A Year in Peterson. University of Iowa Press, 1994. 320 pp., 63 photographs, 4 maps.

A work of literary non-fiction and documentary style photography, this book springs from the tradition of vernacular landscape studies within the field of American Studies and has been named to "Iowa Authors on Iowa: A Sesquicentennial Reading List."

"This is Peterson's story. But, in Hokanson's hands, Peterson is also an Everyplace. By delving so deeply and so poetically--in words and photographs--into the unique story of this Midwestern town, he reminds us that each place has its own story, its own uniqueness."
--Chicago Tribune

"The result is this large-format book, a combination of history, geography, journalism, photography, archeology, geology, agricultural science, botany, and climatology, not to mention literature, for the author is a wonderful writer, capable of straightforward description and analysis as well as of lyrical evocations of the landscape and people's lives. His own term for the book's genre is 'vernacular landscape study: a detailed, prolonged look at a common place in what I think of as an uncommon fashion.'" --The Annals of Iowa

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