Great Plains
by Ian Frazier · first published 1989
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With his unique blend of intrepidity, tongue-in-cheek humor, and wide-eyed wonder, Ian Frazier takes us on a journey of more than 25,000 miles up and down and across the vast and myth-inspiring Great Plains. A travelogue, a work of scholarship, and a western adventure, Great Plains takes us from the site of Sitting Bull?s cabin, to an abandoned house once terrorized by Bonnie and Clyde, to the scene of the murders chronicled in Truman Capote?s In Cold Blood. It is an expedition that reveals the heart of the American West.
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Another good one (though a bit dated now) is Great Plains by Ian Frazier. https://www.amazon.com/Great-Plains-Ian-Frazier/dp/031227850...
on “The 100th Meridian, Where the Great Plains Begin, May Be Shifting” ↗…the morning—for example, when a war party discovered an enemy camp and wanted to make sure to wake up and attack it at first light—Indians would drink a lot of water before going to bed.” — Ian Frazier, Great Plains (1989), p. 48.
on “How people woke up before alarm clocks” ↗