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The frontispiece and title page of Commerce of the Prairies A Map of the Indian Territory, published in Commerce of the Prairies. Gregg's book Commerce of the Prairies, published in two volumes in 1844, is an account of his time spent as a trader on the Santa Fe Trail from 1831 to 1840 and includes commentary on the geography, botany, geology, and culture of New Mexico. [6]
The first Canadian Prime Minister, John A. Macdonald, designed the National Policy to integrate the North-West Territories into Canada and to develop it economically. Its key planks were the building of a trans-continental railroad that would connect the east to British Columbia, help to populate the west, and easily ship goods; a steady influx of immigration to populate the Prairies with ...
The Oregon Trail: Sketches of Prairie and Rocky Mountain Life (also published as The California & Oregon Trail) is a book written by Francis Parkman.It was initially serialized in twenty-one installments in Knickerbocker's Magazine (1847–49) and subsequently published as a book in 1849.
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 – June 12, 1878) was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post.Born in Massachusetts, he started his career as a lawyer but showed an interest in poetry early in his life.
The Konza Tallgrass Prairie in Kansas hosts 250 species of native plants and provides habitat for 208 birds, 27 mammals, 25 reptiles, and over 3,000 insects. [17] Some of the dominant grasses of prairies are Indian grass, big bluestem, side-oats grama, Canada wildrye, and switchgrass. [18] Prairies are considered to be fire-dependent ecosystems.
Anaphora is the repetition of a word, phrase, or clause at the beginning of word groups occurring one after the other. Examples: (1) Give me wine, give me women and give me song. (2) For everything there is a season . . . a time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.—Bible, Ecclesiastes.
Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation, and the Loss of Aboriginal Life is a 2013 book by Canadian scholar James Daschuk. [1] The book takes an epidemiological approach and documents the historical roots of modern health disparities between Canadians and Indigenous peoples living in what is now Canada. [2]
The North America Prairies is a large grassland floristic province within the North American Atlantic Region, a floristic region within the Holarctic Kingdom. It lies between the Appalachian Province and the Rocky Mountains and includes the prairies of the Great Plains .