Download or read book Sandhill and Whooping Cranes written by Paul A. Johnsgard and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 2011-01-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Driving west from Lincoln to Grand Island, Nebraska, Paul A. Johnsgard remarks, is like driving backward in time. "I suspect," he says, "that the migrating cranes of a preice age period some ten million years ago would fully understand every nuance of the crane conversation going on today along the Platte."