Usually, when a creature is considered extinct, it's thought to be gone forever. But that's not true of this species, which ...

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 ...

According to the Smithsonian’s National Zoo & Conservation Biology Institute, bison once roamed the Great Plains in the ...

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 ...

"The Andes aren't as wide as the Rockies, and the Himalayas don't extend very far from north to south." While the Great Plains gets the bulk of American tornadoes, other parts of the country ...

In this exhibit, you can explore the history of horses in the American West. Horses first evolved in North ... profiling CU Museum’s NSF research on the introduction of horses into the Great Plains, ...

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.