More Names on Inscription Rock: Travel Writers on The Great Plains in the 1980s

Authors

Nancy Cook, University of Montana.

Date of this Version

1991

Comments

Published in Great Plains Quarterly 11:2 (Spring 1991). Copyright © 1991 Center for Great Plains Studies, University of Nebraska–Lincoln.

Abstract

As in decades past, in the 1980s dozens of writers packed up their vehicles and headed west, notebooks handy. Several accounts that cover the Great Plains were published, including Mark Abley's account of the Canadian Plains, Beyond Forget: Rediscovering the Prairies (1986); Out West (1987), by Dayton Duncan; The Solace of Open Spaces (1985), by Gretel Ehrlich; Ian Frazier's Great Plains (1989); The Necessity of Empty Places (1988), by Paul Gruchow; British mountaineer Gwen Moffat's Hard Road West: Alone on the California Trail (1981); and The Hidden West (1983), by Rob Schultheis.