# Ghost Dances

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- Authors: [Josh Garrett-Davis](https://www.bookquiver.com/josh-garrett-davis)
- Language: en_GB
- Published: 2012-09-06

## Description

Growing up in South Dakota, Josh Garrett-Davis always knew he would leave. But as a young adult, he kept going back-in dreams and reality and by way of books. With this beautifully written narrative about a seemingly empty but actually rich and complex place, he has reclaimed his childhood, his unusual family-and the Great Plains. Among the subjects and people who bring his Plains to life are the destruction and resurgence of the American bison; his great-great-grandparents' twenty-year sojourn in Nebraska as homesteaders; Native American " Ghost Dancers," who attempted to ward off destruction by supernatural means before the 1890 massacre at Wounded Knee; the political allegory to be found in The Wizard of Oz; and current attempts by ecologists to " rewild" the Plains. GHOST DANCES is a fluid combination of memoir and history and reportage that reminds us that our roots matter-and might even be inspiring and fascinating.

## Editions

### Ghost Dances

- Publisher: little_brown_us
- ISBN: 978-03-1619-984-1
- Pages: 1
- Published: 2012-09-06
- Language: en_GB