Tag: the Plains

Life on the Prairie …by Tonya Morton

Land and sky. Photo by Tonya Stiles

“When I was a schoolboy my map of the United States showed between the Missouri River and the Rocky Mountains a long and broad white blotch, upon which was printed in small capitals ‘THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT – UNEXPLORED.’” —…

WHERE THE BUFFALO ROAMED…by Jim Stiles

It was an ungodly silence. Across the wide expanse of prairie for a thousand miles, only the sound of the wind rustling remnants of the tall grass betrayed the overwhelming and absolute stillness. Inconceivable to most, the great rolling thunder…