Great Plains

The Setting and the People in the Great Plains in North American on a cloudless day, stretch out forever under an infinity of bright blue sky. The Plains can be a source of endless delight, or of misery, as well they might be considering their extent. The Plains are relatively flat, semiarid, and essentially treeless. In the midnineteenth century they were unfenced, covered by endless sea of prairie grass, grass that set its roots down twenty-four inches or more to withstand the droughts and which offered some of the most nutritious plant food in the world (Ambrose Pg. 6).
Men and animals also congregated in the trees groves to escape the weather. The weather on the Plains could not be ignored. It constantly need rain, the average yearly rainfall is less that twenty inches, so every storm was welcome. Or rather nearly every storm, because at times the sky can open, and dump five inches of rain in a matter of hours, fill the stream beds to overflowing, and......

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Title: Indians In The Great Plains
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Approximate Pages: 13 (250 words per double-spaced page)

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