What is "prairies"

Usage examples of "prairies".

The Pasquinel brothers and their renegades knew how to slip through the flames, so even while Skimmerhorn was setting fire to the prairies, they rampaged up and down the Platte, burning farms and scalping the inhabitants.

To the west rose the noble Rockies, to the east stretched the prairies, mile upon mile of treeless land.

At sixty- or seventy-year intervals unpredictable winds whip over the prairies, exhausting the land and everything that grows upon it.

When snow covered the prairies and freezing winds with temperatures far below zero swept in from the west where the mountains stood, Rufous stayed alone, turning his matted head into the storm and doggedly waiting until the blizzard subsided.

Here he turned the boy toward Rattlesnake Buttes and the prairies beyond.

These few men, tall and bronzed, welded to their horses, daring in battle and just in peace, rode across the prairies and into the permanent record of this land.

The Frederic Remington paintings are authentic as depictions of the white man at work on the prairies, but I do not find them sensitive to the Indian.

He was a romantic who relished the idea of probing unsettled prairies and saw that McKeag and Pasquinel fitted the pattern of his new country.

But it was not the bigamy that distressed him, for many traders had an Indian wife on the prairies to complement the white one back in Saint Louis, but rather the harsh misuse of a young girl.

Pasquinel kept increasingly to the prairies, sometimes not appearing in Saint Louis for three years at a stretch.

It was beautiful land, open and windswept, with prairies even more bleak than those McKeag knew on the eastern slope.

Young McIntosh was a man to take seriously, and Lucinda knew that she could be happy with him, but there remained the memory of Levi Zendt and the prairies and prancing pintos, and rides through flowers, and she grew more and more perplexed.

Louis, and she hoped that perhaps Indians like them and white men like Mercy and McIntosh would be able to find a durable peace on the prairies, for they were equals.

For years the Indians had sought a meeting with the Great White Father, one where they could smoke the calumet and talk about the prairies and the buffalo and the roads that crossed their lands.

Let us show Lo, the poor Indian once and for all who these prairies belong to.