Or of "hump-backed cows" with goatlike beards that pounded across the Plains?
Farmers' distrust of the markets was exacerbated in 1996 by a new financial instrument that swept across the plains: the hedge-to-arrive contract.
Dust exploding as thousands of wildebeest thunder across the plains.
My guide drove like a man possessed, crashing through ditches and racing across the plains, aware of the distance we had to travel and the speed of the setting sun.
They depend on caribou (a kind of large reindeer) meat for their existence and are worried that the herd they hunt as it migrates 1, 300 km across the plains will be displaced and destroyed.
Counties with the highest life expectancies fell across the northern Plains, the Pacific coast and the Northeast.
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South from Swakopmund across the gravel plains of the Namib Desert lies the dramatic Namib Naukluft Park.
"Comanche stands for many more things than being the lone survivor on the Cavalry side -- he stands for the relentless march of the European settlers across the great plains and the war against the Indians, " said Leonard Krishtalka, director of the Biodiversity Institute at Kansas University.
The great buffalo herds of the Americas once stretched across the Great Plains, but by the time the tragic buffalo slaughters of the West were over, there was only one herd left.
Even those who journey through its Northeastern complex, into the Southern lands, across the central plains and to its Western slopes can only glimpse a measure of the bounty of America.
Sunday, my Hall-of-Famer dad and the rest of us piled into SUVs and drove across the northern plains to Hayward, Wis.
The weather system caused its share of trouble across the southern Plains.
The question is, 'How do we stimulate that at a level that it happens in more than just those anecdotal places across the Great Plains?
It's been 140 years since the Homestead Act sent waves of settlers across the Great Plains, staking claim to parcels of land 160 acres in size.
The taste for ivory and other exotic goods has lured traders, travellers and explorers along this corridor since the 18th Century, when caravans carried cloth and beads, copper and spices, ivory and slaves across the same plains and hills now visited by tourists.
Across the south and central Plains, storm chasers broadcast images of funnel clouds roaring through rural landscapes.
"Though the giant dish antennas, the unique machines that move them across the desert, and the buildings on New Mexico's Plains of San Agustin may appear much the same, the VLA truly has become a new and different facility, " said NRAO director Fred Lo.
Down on the plains, idling in traffic, I saw a skirmish line of four hunters marching across a tilled field directly beside the road, with houses crowded close on the other three sides.
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