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Murnane’s mysterious plainsmen pursue the “lifelong task of shaping from uneventful days in a flat landscape the substance of myth.”

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2017

For Murnane, for the plainsmen, this obviously apparent richness of the actual is a kind of poverty.

From The New Yorker • Mar. 29, 2017

The plainsmen who cling stubbornly to their windy reaches are outraged, and the argument is rumbling over the horizons.

From Time Magazine Archive

The idea of a clash between these softhearted, hard-boiled plainsmen and the unscrupulous racketeers of the second city of the land is excellent.

From Time Magazine Archive

The way the old bucks prance and jump stiff-legged and paw the air and neigh horse-fashion is one of the funniest things the plainsmen see.

From The Gold Diggings of Cape Horn A Study of Life in Tierra del Fuego and Patagonia by Spears, John R.