ISBN: 0312278500 9780312278502

Category: History / United States / State & Local / Midwest (IA, IL, IN, KS, MI, MN, MO, ND, NE, OH, SD, WI)

Page count: 320

<p><b>National Bestseller</b><br><br><b> 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. </b><br><br>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<i> Great Plains</i>. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, <i>Great Plains</i> 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<i> In Cold Blood</i>. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.</p>