1.   Chase is among the poorest counties in Kansas, but Pritchard and Heat-Moon predicted the prairie park will bring a new economic boom.

2.   For a time in Kansas, it appeared that local sentiment might scuttle any prairie park in the Flint Hills.

3.   The new prairie park is an unusual public-private arrangement in which the National Park Trust will own almost all of the land.

4.   The native Kansas City author has promoted turning the Z-Bar ranch into a national prairie park.