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Magpie Rising: Sketches from the Great Plains
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Hardcover
from Pruett Pub Co (April 1, 1988)
9780871087461 | details & prices | 6.50 × 9.50 × 1.00 in. | 1.10 lbs | List price $16.95
About: The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska’s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid—stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled—in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a café in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota.
About: The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska’s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid—stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled—in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a café in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota.
Paperback
from Bison Books (March 1, 2003)
9780803271074 | details & prices | 194 pages | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.50 lbs | List price $14.95
About: The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska’s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid—stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled—in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a café in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota.
About: The rolling, billowing, delicate landscape of Nebraska’s Sandhills; the tombstone of Billy the Kid—stolen so often that it must be caged and shackled—in Fort Sumner, New Mexico; an intercontinental ballistic missile trundling down a highway under heavy guard in Weld County, Colorado; cottonwoods and cranes, faded hotels and abandoned trailers painted aqua and purple; the ghosts of Pawnees, Cheyennes, and Kiowas and generations of settlers whose descendants now grouse in a café in Heimdahl, North Dakota, or roar off to a bikers convention in Sturgis, South Dakota.
Reprint edition from Hard Pr Inc (February 1, 2002)
9781889097268 | details & prices | 196 pages | List price $13.95
Reprint edition from Vintage Books (April 1, 1991)
9780679730385 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.00 × 0.50 in. | 0.40 lbs | List price $9.00
About: Essays deal with a Kansas farm town, Billy the Kid's stolen tombstone, the cosmology of the Pawnee Indians, the behavior of prairie chickens, and modern life on the Great Plains
About: Essays deal with a Kansas farm town, Billy the Kid's stolen tombstone, the cosmology of the Pawnee Indians, the behavior of prairie chickens, and modern life on the Great Plains