Imagine a sea of shaggy, brown giants stretching to every horizon, their thundering hooves shaking the earth beneath your ...

I’m Mark Oppold with an. Early settlers discovered that the Great Plains were not all that great. They found very harsh climate with tornadoes, blizzards, drought, ... Read More ...

The Great Plains were witness to some of the most intense and violent encounters between settlers and Native American tribes.

Ninety years ago, the worst dust storm in American history blasted the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl had arrived.

More Native Americans were also eking out a living from the fiercely variable Great Plains environment, as settlers displaced them from traditional territories, and commercial demand meant a huge ...

This enormous area of the Great Plains, Southwest ... of cultural values and polarized mindsets found the Plains Indians and white settlers at odds. Such differences between Indians and Europeans ...

A great dust cloud passed through Oklahoma on this Sunday in 1935. Woody Guthrie said, "We thought it was our doom." ...

The western Great Plains became open range country hosting cattle ranching. In the spring and fall ranchers held roundups where the cowboys would brand new calves, treat them and sort them for sale.