The Great Plains were witness to some of the most intense and violent encounters between settlers and Native American tribes. Here are three infamous wagon train raids that reveal the brutal clashes d ...

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

The world of Plains Indians and of other American ... The natural environment of the Great West provided life to American Indians. It also took life! People learned that working together, and ...

The Great Plains are the grasslands of the North American continent, and lie between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile ...

descendants of the original herds that once astonished visitors to the Great Plains and made the bison the symbol of American abundance. Until, that is, rampant hunting made it a symbol of ...

Before 1860, few people moved west to try to settle on the Great Plains. The poor soil and harsh climate discouraged them - along with the fact that the Plains were officially Indian territory ...

The past abundance of bison on the Great Plains is well documented ... present and future of bison in his forthcoming book, American Plains Bison: Rewilding an Icon.