Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States


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West of the Mississippi and east of the Rockies, stretching from the Canadian border to the Gulf of Mexico, lie the nine states of level prairie and rolling high plains that constitute the very heart of the American continent. Here is the story of those states in our times, related by Neal Peirce as part of his sensitive account of people, politics, and power in the U.S.A. today.




The Great Plains


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A study of the changes initiated into the systems and culture of the plain dwellers







The Plain States


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Great Plains


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National Bestseller 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. 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.




The Plains States


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Text and photographic essays present the geography, climate, Indians, history, agriculture, rivers, cities, and art of the seven Plains States.







From Clovis to Comanchero


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Panoramic Plains


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Introduces the geography and history of the six plains states and describes the life of the people today.