Seldom seen : a journey into the Great Plains /
In May 1995, with nothing but a backpack and a vague sense of disquiet, Patrick Dobson left his home and a steady if deadening job in Kansas City, Missouri. Over the next two and a half months he made his way to Helena, Montana, letting chance encounters guide him to a deeper sense of who he was and...
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Table of Contents:
- A leap into the prairie sea
- I'm going to Helena, Montana : the Kansas cities
- Don't worry, kid, you'll be all right : Lawrence, Topeka, Saint Marys, Wamego
- It's the best you're gonna find here : Manhattan, Randolph, Marysville
- You'll find everything you need there : Beatrice, Nebraska; Wilber
- The Jims : Friend, Hastings, Hansen, Minden
- It's better to try something and apologize later : Kearney, Lexington, Cozad, North Platte
- Mostly, you go to the river and get drunk : North Platte
- You're a damn fool if you spend all your time worrying about what you ain't got : Grand Island and Kimball
- I want to meet people, not shoot them : Gering, Scottsbluff; Torrington, Wyoming
- Life ain't easy, but it ain't always tough : Fort Laramie National Historic Site and Guernsey State Park
- Probably wouldn'ta killed you, but it woulda hurt : Casper
- People seldom seen by the rest of the world : Emigrant Gap, Independence Rock, Lander
- If we wait long enough, white men'll go away : Riverton, Wind River Indian Reservation, Dubois
- Now you know, and that's somethin' : Jackson
- It's not all about you : Teton Village, Teton National Park, Yellowstone National Park
- Walk quietly in any direction : Yellowstone National Park
- That'll get you anywhere you want to go : Livingston, Montana; Three Forks, Helena
- You'll get to the other side : the Missouri River.