Great Plains
Great Plains

Author: Ian Frazier

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published: 2001-05-04

Total Pages: 320

ISBN-13: 1466828889

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National Bestseller Most travelers only fly over the Great Plains--but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. A hilarious and fascinating look at the great middle of our nation. 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.

Plains of the Great West
Plains of the Great West

Author: Richard Irving Dodge

Publisher: Legare Street Press

Published: 2023-07-18

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781019495193

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Originally published in 1877, this book provides a comprehensive account of the Great Plains region of the United States, including its geology, flora and fauna, and the various tribes of Native Americans who lived there. Dodge's firsthand observations and vivid descriptions make this a must-read for anyone interested in the history and ecology of the American West. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Great Plains Indians
Great Plains Indians

Author: David J. Wishart

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 136

ISBN-13: 0803290934

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2017 Nebraska Book Awards Nonfiction: Reference David J. Wishart's Great Plains Indians covers thirteen thousand years of fascinating, dynamic, and often tragic history. From a hunting and gathering lifestyle to first contact with Europeans to land dispossession to claims cases, and much more, Wishart takes a wide-angle look at one of the most significant groups of people in the country. Myriad internal and external forces have profoundly shaped Indian lives on the Great Plains. Those forces--the environment, religion, tradition, guns, disease, government policy--have written their way into this history. Wishart spans the vastness of Indian time on the Great Plains, bringing the reader up to date on reservation conditions and rebounding populations in a sea of rural population decline. Great Plains Indians is a compelling introduction to Indian life on the Great Plains from thirteen thousand years ago to the present.

The Great Plains
The Great Plains

Author: Walter Prescott Webb

Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

Published: 1959-01-01

Total Pages: 544

ISBN-13: 9780803297029

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A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers