Great Plains
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THE A5 BOOK REVIEWGreat Plains is a best-selling travelogue by Ian Frazier sharing the history and the heart of the American West. Frazier moved from New York to Montana and became enraptured with the Great Plains, logging over 25,000 miles of travels over several summers. Frazier’s wandering journey takes the reader to Sitting Bull’s cabin, the house made infamous by the murders chronicled in Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood, numerous state parks, strip-mined lands, small rural towns, cattle ranches, and even a missile silo. The popularity of the book stems primarily from Frazier’s curiosity, his wry sense of humor, his reflections on the history of Indians and settlers, and his authentic admiration for this region of the United States.
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ABOUT IAN FRAZIERIan Frazier is a funny writer and a well known essayist who frequently contributes to The New Yorker. His writing goes deep, whether reconstructing two hundred years of middle-class life with his book Family (1994) or with On the Rez (2000), his insightful and personal look at the American Indian. We also recommend his travelogue Travels in Siberia (2010). He has also published several humorous collections of his work with magazines.
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A5 RECOMMENDATIONS FOR THOSE WHO LIKED THIS BOOK
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GREAT QUOTES:"Away to the Great Plains of America, to that immense Western short-grass now mostly planned under! Away to the still-empty land beyond newsstands and malls and velvet restaurant ropes! Away to the headquarters of the Missouri, now quelled by many impoundment dams, and to the headwaters of the Platte, and to the almost invisible headwaters of the Arkansas! Away to the land where TV used to set its most popular dramas, but not anymore!"
- Ian Frazier, Great Plains "I believe that when Crazy Horse was killed something more than a man’s life was snuffed out. Once, America’s size in the imagination was limitless. After Europeans settled and changed it, working from the coasts inland, its size in the imagination shrank. Like the center of a dying fire, the Great Plains held that original vision longest. Just as people finally came to the Great Plains and changed them, so they came to where Crazy Horse lived and killed him. Crazy Horse had the misfortune to live in a place that existed both in reality and in the dreams of people far away; he managed to leave both the real and the imaginary place unbetrayed." - Ian Frazier, Great Plains INTERESTING LINKS:
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