The Great Plains Region: The Greenwood Encyclopedia of American Regional Cultures

by Amanda Rees

The Great Plains region has cast an indelible image on the panorama of American culture. The vast expanses of land encompassed in Kansas, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Dakota and surrounding areas have been home to an often overlooked cultural diversity. The Sun Dance of the Kiowan tribe, the folk ballads of Woody Guthrie, the fiction of Willa Cather and Louise Erdrich, the Great Plains school of architecture, bierocks (a.k.a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313327335
• ISBN13: 9780313327339
• Release Date: December 2004
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 512 Pages
• Weight: 2.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 7.0" x 10.0"