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Railroad crossing with cattle guards in rural South Dakota. Great Plains of Nebraska. Prairie madness or prairie fever was an affliction that affected European settlers in the Great Plains during their migration to, and settlement of, the Canadian Prairies and the Western United States in the 19th century.
He was also one of the most prolific explorers of the early 1800s, although his career as an explorer was relatively short-lived. [1] [2] He covered over 26,000 miles in five expeditions, including a scientific expedition in the Great Plains area, which he famously confirmed as a "Great Desert" (leading to the term "the Great American Desert").
Great American Desert, mapped by Stephen Harriman Long in 1820. Long reported that the plains were a Great American Desert that was not suited for agriculture. By the time that White Americans settled in the Plains, the technology existed for successful deep-well drilling and use of barbed wire. [1]
The Great Plains States of America: People, Politics, and Power in the Nine Great Plains States (1973); Comprehensive coverage of the 1950s and 1960s in each state. Raban, Jonathan. Bad Land: An American Romance (Vintage 1996); winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction. Rees, Amanda.
The painting reflects a playful quiet domesticity that contrasts sharply from the American bison that thundered across the Great Plains of the American West in the millions. The majestic long-haired cat itself bears some resemblance to a bison and exhibits a human-like face that may be a self-portrait given the play on words inherent in the ...
The authorities aimed, with ultimate success, to force Paine out of Great Britain. He was then tried in absentia and found guilty, but he was beyond the reach of British law. The French translation of Rights of Man, Part II was published in April 1792. The translator, François Lanthenas, eliminated the dedication to Lafayette, as he believed ...
Ralph Waldo Emerson was born in Boston and spent most of his literary career in Concord, Massachusetts.. The literature of New England has had an enduring influence on American literature in general, with themes such as religion, race, the individual versus society, social repression, and nature, emblematic of the larger concerns of American letters.
The winter of 1880-81 in the United States, referred to as the Hard Winter, the Long Winter or the Snow Winter, was a period of extreme cold and large snowfalls across the central Great Plains region. The winter is depicted in the 1940 novel The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder and other fictional works.