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Great Plains

Nowadays most travelers only fly over the Great Plains—but Ian Frazier, ever the intrepid and wide-eyed wanderer, is not your average traveler. Taking us on a journey of more than twenty-five thousand miles—up, down, and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains—Frazier shares his many diverse adventures. 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, Frazier's expedition reveals the heart of the American West.

Audience
adult
Length
medium · 304 pages

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