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Great Plains
Great Plains | Ian Frazier
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National Bestseller With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull's cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.
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Great Plains | Ian Frazier
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Mehso-so

This book was interesting & troubling. Published in 1989, it has some cringe-worthy assertions & some racist generalizations. The author alternates stories of his own travels with the sort of old yarns by whites that he disparages in his notes. I suspect he‘s trying to be clever & deadpan, but often I‘m just put off. Still, it has its merits and it prompted me to seek more works on this fascinating part of America & its rather ugly history.

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RanaElizabeth
Great Plains | Ian Frazier
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Reading in the work cafeteria isn't terribly relaxing but at least I'm doing some traveling in my mind with this book. I've done a cross country drive twice and the plains are one of my favorite parts, just so damned big and empty.

LeahBergen This sounds so good. 6y
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