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Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2000. 1st Edition Assumed 1st. Hardcover. New/New. B&W era photo section. CONDITION: NEW 2000 Farrar, Straus & Giroux hardcover (decorated gold boards) & dust jacket, first edition, assumed first printing. B&W ear photo section illustrates. CONTENT: A great writer's journey of exploration in an American place that is both strange and deeply familiar. In Ian Frazier's bestselling Great Plains, he described meeting a man in New York City named Le War Lance, "an Oglala Sioux Indian from Oglala, South Dakota." In On the Rez, Frazier returns to the plains and focuses on a place at their center-the Pine Ridge Reservation in the prairie and badlands of South Dakota, home of the Oglala Sioux. Frazier drives around "the rez" with Le War Lance and other Oglalas as they tell stories, visit relatives, go to powwows and rodeos and package stores, and try to find parts to fix one or another of their on-the-verge-of-working cars. On the… Read More