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Great Plains

Ian Frazier

1989290 pagesabout 4–7 hours
1989
first published
  • 1989Farrar Straus Giroux · 290 pages · ENGISBN 9780374217235
  • 1990Penguin Books · 292 pages · ENGISBN 9780140131703
  • 1990Faber · 304 pages · ENGISBN 9780571142606
  • 1990G.K. Hall & Co. · 412 pages · ENGISBN 9780816149735
  • 1991Faber · 290 pages · ENGISBN 9780571142613
  • 2001Picador USA · 290 pages · ENGISBN 9780312278502

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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