Abstract

We’ll never know who created the first art of the Flint Hills. It was made, no doubt, hundreds of years ago when a roaming Native American grabbed a piece of flint to etch onto a rock the vastness of the tallgrass prairie as far as he could see and ride.

Keywords:

• art,
• Flint Hills,
• Kansas,
• Native American,
• Indians,
• expedition,
• sketches,
• William Fairholme,
• photographers,
• Fort Riley,
• photograph,
• John Noble,
• Alexander Gardner,
• Wabunsee County,
• Wichita Art Museum,
• Robert Sudlow,
• Lawrence,
• Cottonwood Falls,
• Judith Mackey,
• Mark Feiden,
• Konza Press,
• prairie