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Original Title:	Great Plains
ISBN:	0312278500 (ISBN13: 9780312278502)
Edition Language:	English

Great Plains

Ian Frazier

Paperback | Pages: 320 pages

Rating: 3.96 | 2885 Users | 226 Reviews

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Title	:	Great Plains
Author	:	Ian Frazier
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 320 pages
Published	:	May 4th 2001 by Picador USA (first published June 1st 1989)
Categories	:	Travel. Nonfiction. History. Adventure. Autobiography. Memoir. Environment. Nature

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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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I fear for the Great Plains because many people think they are boring. Money and power in this country concentrates elsewhere. The view of the Great Plains from an airplane window is hardly more detailed than the view from a car on the interstate highways, which seem designed to get across in the least time possible, as if this were an awkward point in a conversation.Convincing someone not to destroy a place that, to him, seems as unvaried as a TV test pattern is a challenge. The beauty of the

I just returned from an 8 week cross-country road trip, part of which took me through Minnesota, Montana, and both Dakotas. This book was the perfect way to end the trip and it answered lots of the questions I had while traveling through what I formerly thought of as "flyover" states. Never again though. Frazier is brimming over with what in my family we call UBIs (useless bits of information) except that in his case though many of them may indeed be useless they are nevertheless fascinating. If

How did I miss this one when I was going through my Ian Frazier stage? This book is previous to his famous novel, On The Rez, but I enjoyed this one even more. The descriptive quality of Frazier's words, his daily desire to approach every stranger on the street and ask them a question, his consistent follow-up, traveling back to a place years later to revisit a particular fact, it's all these things I can only hope make Bill Bryson crawl under a chair and suffocate himself with a sock. This book

This was delightful. I am from the Plains. Forget my irritation over learning so much about them from someone born east of Chicago, living in New Jersey, and working in New York City. He well-earned his spurs by shedding the East Coast bias, criss-crossing the Plains by car many times over the years, and loving them for what they are. Some weaknesses in his knowledge base (presumably from being an outsider) show through. For example, he mistakes the Eastern boundary of the Plains as about the

Away to the air shaft of the continent, where weather fronts from two hemispheres meet, and the wind blows almost all the time! Away to the high plains rolling in waves to the rising final chord of the Rocky Mountains!I live on the Great Plains. I live where they meet the Rocky Mountains, and I agree that it seems as if it slowly rise up to meet the Continental Divide, and I have walked their landscape a thousand miles. It wasnt easy to love them; I had been in Seattle and San Francisco just

I should probably add a 'shelf' to my profile on here called 'Great Plains.' There's been quite a bit of Stegner going on over here, and now this. I think it feeds some sort of nostalgia...for a place I've never actually lived. I'm a city boy and can't claim the tiniest bit of even ironrange cred let alone plains cred (I was disappointed to find out from this book that Minnesota isn't even officially included in the enormous region known as the Great Plains. Too many lakes to qualify). But when

Ian Fraziers Great Plains is almost twenty years old now, but Im just getting around to it. Im sorry it took so long, but glad it waited for me.As a work, its an odd-shaped duck--part history, part anecdote, part philosophy, part naturalism. The Plains, obviously, unify it. That and Fraziers style. Theres a narrative lyricism that is simultaneously scholarly and poetic and which fuses past and present: The town was called Mondak, because it straddled the Montana-North Dakota state line, and the