First printing. A combination of travelogue, story of discovery and exploration and a commentary on American culture, past and present - but most of all, a very entertaining work. From the dust jacket: "The Great Plains are the short-grass prairies in the middle of the continent where the Crow and Sioux and the Cheyenne and Comanche had a few decades of prosperity between the coming of the horse and the coming of the army, where forty million buffalo were wiped out in about ten years and cowboys drove herds of longhorn cattle north from Texas, where farmers plowed up every foot of sod they owned to plant wheat to feed the World War I Army. Whole counties blew away in the dust bowl. Frazier visits "ghosty" places where the past is more alive than the present- the site of Sitting Bull's cabin on the Grand River in South Dakota, a rock shop made of fossilized dinosaur bones, an abandoned house where Bonnie and Clyde terrorized the inhabitants one night in 1933, the house of the murders in Truman Capote's In Cold Blood, and Nicodemus, Kansas, population 50, founded 110 years ago by black homesteaders." Photographs, notes, index. 290 pp. Map endpapers. Fine in fine dust jacket. .ISBN # 0-374-217238
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