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Great Plains

  • Dakota Datebook
    As Bison Became Rare
    Prairie Public
    Bison are an ancient species, with fossils tracing their ancestors to over 400,000 years ago in Asia. Scientists believe that at some point, bison began…
  • The High Cost of Land
    Prairie Public
    The Homestead Act of 1862 encouraged people to take a chance on settling the Great Plains. Any citizen or intended citizen could lay claim to 160 acres.…
  • A Plague of Grasshoppers
    Prairie Public
    Grasshoppers turned up in the Dakotas long before the misery of the Great Depression. On this date in 1919, Professor Waldron of the North Dakota…
  • Farm on the Great Plains
    Prairie Public
    The past couple of months I have spent a great deal of time book touring, promoting my new book, Pacing Dakota, with North Dakota State University Press.…
  • Rainfall Follows the Plow
    Prairie Public
    When I was going to college, we had things figured out in Great Plains history. We knew that the climate (as opposed to weather, which was changeable) was…