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Ep. 432: Hit 'Em Where They Ain't with Ian Frazier

April 17, 2023

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Steve Rinella talks with Ian Frazier, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and Corinne Schneider. Steve Rinella talks with Ian Frazier, Ryan Callaghan, Brody Henderson, Phil Taylor, and...
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Books Referenced

Great Plains

Author: Ian Frazier

Context:

Steve mentions this as arguably at the top of his list of favorite books of all time. It's a book about the American Great Plains by guest Ian Fraser.

Travels in Siberia

Author: Ian Frazier

Context:

Steve describes this as a great book by Ian Fraser that culminates in a spirited argument about Stalin jokes not being okay.

On the Rez

Author: Ian Frazier

Context:

Described as a phenomenal history of the Pine Ridge Reservation, the wars against the Sioux, confinement to reservation, and what happened on the reservation.

Bo

Author: Bo Schembechler

Context:

Ian Fraser mentions this book by Michigan football coach Bo Schembechler bumped his book 'Great Planes' off the New York Times bestseller list.

The Living Great Lakes: Searching for the Heart of the Inland Seas

Author: Jerry Dennis

Context:

Steve mentions a book by Jerry Dennis about the Great Lakes involving someone buying a boat and sailing through the Great Lakes, which took the wind out of Steve's sails for his own Great Lakes project.

Night of the Grizzlies

Author: Jack Olsen

Context:

Referenced in discussion about bear attacks in Glacier National Park, where two bears killed two women on the same night. Steve asks if Fraser read this book.

Coyote v. Acme

Author: Ian Frazier

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A book by Ian Fraser in which he laid out the legal case that Wile E. Coyote would have against Acme for product malfeasance.

Ninety-Two in the Shade

Author: Thomas McGuane

Context:

Ian Fraser asks if Steve ever read this book, describing it as 'a really good book about guiding' that's 'kind of almost a melodrama in a way, but it's a wonderful book.'

Siberia and the Prison Exile System

Author: George Kennan

Context:

Ian Fraser discusses this book from the 1880s by George Kennan from Norwalk, Ohio, who went to Siberia to see how exiled people were doing. This book inspired Anton Chekhov to make his own trip.

Steamboat Disasters on the Western Waters

Author: James Lloyd

Context:

Ian Fraser mentions this 1857 book with woodcuts of steamboat explosions. He describes it as 'unintentionally funny' with illustrations of various steamboat disasters.

The Cursing Mommy's Book of Days

Author: Ian Frazier

Context:

Ian Fraser mentions this as his one novel, about a character called the Cursing Mommy who starts out making chili and everything goes wrong while she's cursing.

The Fish's Eye

Author: Ian Frazier

Context:

Ian Fraser describes this as a book exclusively about fishing, compiled from different pieces he did over many years, mostly about fly fishing.

Give a Boy a Gun

Author: Todd Strasser

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Corrected during the podcast - this is an epistolary tale for young adults by Todd Strasser, first published in the 2000s. Initially confused with a book about Claude Dallas.