The Great Plains are the grasslands of the North American continent, and lie between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile ...

The letter he wrote in 1934 came instead from South Dakota, a region hit hard by the dust storms that decimated the Great Plains of the ... across the heartlands of America and created blizzard ...

Somewhere in rural America there are answers and solutions to the challenges and opportunities facing other communities.

This map from the US Geological Survey (USGS) shows the shrinking range of the North American grassland ... through the Great Plains and prairies of the US. Some states, like Iowa, Missouri ...

By 1900, the American buffalo teetered on the brink of disappearing forever, and Native people of the Plains entered one ... tribes at the destruction of the great herds, while crusading ...

This documentary shows the characteristics and location of major plains and plateaus of North America, and discusses some of the ways in which they have affected man's use of the land.

November 23, 2024 • In his nifty new history of the Homestead Act, Richard Edwards says the "three perils" of homesteading on the Great Plains were grasshoppers, prairie fires, and childbirth ...

A picnic for tennant farmers of the Duke Power Co. near Mooresville, North Carolina ... even think about the plight of farmers in the Great Plains. Certain members of Roosevelt’s administration ...

November 9, 2024 • I've been arguing, along with Richard Edwards and his new book, Great Plains Homesteaders, that we should rethink our history with the Homestead Act on the Great Plains.