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{"id":4395421728821,"title":"A Great Plains Reader Paperback – July 1, 2003","handle":"a-great-plains-reader-paperback-july-1-2003","description":"\u003cdiv\u003eThe Great Plains are as rich and integral a part of American literature as they are of the North American landscape. In this volume the stories, poems, and essays that have described, celebrated, and defined the region evoke the world of the American prairie from the first recorded days of Native history to the realities of life on a present-day reservation, from the arrival of European explorers to the experience of early settlers, from the splendor of the vast and rolling grasslands to the devastation of the Dust Bowl. 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