a mono­graph manifesto

Imag­ine a world where the Amer­i­can gov­ern­ment signed a con­ser­va­tion act to “restore all indige­nous flora and fauna to the Great Plains,” which means sud­denly the Great Plains are Indian again. Now fast-forward four­teen years to a bowl­ing alley deep in the Indian Ter­ri­to­ries. Peo­ple that bowl­ing alley with char­ac­ters named LP Deal, Cat Stand, Mary Boy, Court­ney Pelt­downe, Back Iron, Denim Horse, Naitche, and give them a chance to find a treaty signed under duress by Gen­eral Sher­man, which effec­tively gives all of the Amer­i­cas back to the Indi­ans, only hide that treaty in a stolen pipe, put it in a locker, and flush the key down the toi­let. Ask LP Deal and the rest what they will trade to get that key back–maybe, everything.

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those lit­tle thumb­nails: cover options that could have been.