Great Plains (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Ian Frazier
- First Published: 1989
- Type of Work: Travel and history
- Time of Work: 1981-1984; from prehistory to the twentieth century
- Setting: The Great Plains of the United States
- Genres: Nonfiction, Travel writing
- Subjects: African Americans, Traveling or travelers, Midwest, Native Americans or American Indians, Legends, Small-town life
- Locales: Midwest (U.S.)
Most Americans are not familiar with the Great Plains. They fly over them, perhaps, on their way from Boston or New York or Chicago or Atlanta to the West Coast. They remember them as long, boring drives over arrow-straight interstates. They may recall their grammar school geographies and history books, with the term “The Great American Desert” being applied to part or all of the area between the Rocky Mountains and the Mississippi River, or they may vaguely associate the term with western movies, cattle drives, Wyatt Earp, and the Indian wars of the late nineteenth century. This is...
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