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 ...
Before 1860, few people moved west to try to settle on the Great Plains. The poor soil and harsh climate discouraged them - along with the fact that the Plains were officially Indian territory ...
Sunday marked 134 years since a "brutal, cold-blooded massacre" of the Indigenous Lakota Sioux people of the Great Plains ... As noted by History.com, the year 1890 would only compound their ...
Plains, Ga., joins a collection of other small towns known for their part in presidential history. That can provide a steady ...
open to tours to the public and dedicated to the history of the Cold War and the role South Dakota and the Great Plains states played in the conflict. It is a chance to see the last remnants of ...
Today’s article about the Great Plains Life Building is the second in a two-part series by frequent contributor Chuck ...
The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history, covering more than 75 percent ... The project calls for large-scale planting of trees across the Great Plains, stretching in a 100-mile wide zone ...
In 1930, with the Great Depression underway ... why during the 1930s on the southern Plains. Accompanying the series is The Dust Bowl: An Illustrated History, written by Dayton Duncan with ...
At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground ... At the 2020 census, Plains, which to many is only known for being the birthplace of the Carters, had a population ...