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Revision as of 18:34, 13 May 2002 by Fredbauder (talk | contribs) (a bit more reading)(diff) ← Previous revision | Latest revision (diff) | Newer revision → (diff)The Great Plains or High Plains are the elevated plains which lie east of the Rocky Mountains in New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota, North Dakota, Saskatchewan, and Alberta.
They are arid and presently rangeland or marginal farmland. Historically they were the range of the buffalo and of the magnificent Great Plains Culture of the Native American tribes of the Blackfoot, Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and Comanche.
Further Reading
- Chokecherry Places, Essays from the High Plains, Merrill Gilfillan, Johnson Press, Boulder, Colorado, trade paperback, ISBN: 1-55566-227-7.
- Wolf Willow, A history, a story, and a memory of the last plains frontier, Wallace Stegner, Viking Compass Book, New York, 1966, trade paperback, ISBN: 0-670-00197-X