American Plains

Great Plains

A vast grassland region of central North America extending from the Canadian provinces of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba southward to Texas. Much of the area is used for cattle and wheat ranching.

Great Plains

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(Placename) a vast region of North America east of the Rocky Mountains, extending from the lowlands of the Mackenzie River (Canada), south to the Big Bend of the Rio Grande

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Great Plains - a vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans

Great Plains of North America

dust bowl - a region subject to dust storms; especially the central region of United States subject to dust storms in the 1930s

Llano Estacado - a large semiarid plateau forming the southern part of the Great Plains

North America - a continent (the third largest) in the western hemisphere connected to South America by the Isthmus of Panama

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Agropyron cristatum
Arapaho
Arapahoe
Black Hills
Blackfoot
Buffalo Indian
Castilleja sessiliflora
Cheyenne
Cornhusker State
crested wheat grass
crested wheatgrass
dust bowl
fairway crested wheat grass
Far West
genus Pediocactus
Great Plains of North America
great plains paintbrush
Hunkpapa
Indian paintbrush

Without Steinbeck's towering prose and description and reduced to a car going backwards and forwards across the stage, the journey of a family fleeing poverty on the American plains in the hope of a promised land out West becomes simply a trudge through catastrophes.

Steinbeck classic is Depressing; The Grapes of Wrath BIRMINGHAM REP ... by Birmingham Mail (England)

A Harris Hawk, which normally lives in cacti on American plains, was tangled in the aerial and clearly in distress.

Rare bird rescued by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)

It is based on themes from Native tribes of the American plains and Rocky Mountains.

BALANCED ON THE HIGH BAR by The Santa Fe New Mexican (Santa Fe, NM)

American lotus

American magpie

American maidenhair fern