Vast forests and boundless prairies lay on every hand, with but here and there a clearing with a solitary log cabin in it, or but two or three at the most.
For our part, we prefer his prairies to his savages, his forests to his aborigines, his inanimate to his living sketches of Indian story.
Nor was he less at home in the backwoods and prairies of his fatherland, than upon the broad seas which divide it from the Old World.
They were passing from the Prairies to the Plains.
The entire caravan now had passed in turn thePrairies and the Plains.
By the time the prairies proper were reached more than a score of oxen had died.
Such a landscape would convince them that the prairies of Illinois and Iowa may be recovered from their almost depressing monotony by the same means.
You will meet scores of persons in England who speak admiringly of the great prairies of our Western States--but I never saw one in Illinois as extensive as the vast level expanse you may see in Cambridgeshire and Lincolnshire.
The wet prairies were overgrown with rank grass, from one to two feet in height.
These prairies represent the plains of gravel derived from the melting glaciers, when these stood in their vicinity.
From the top of the mountain one may see off to the westward for many miles south of Puget Sound prairies of large size, covering a great many square miles.
From these alpine pastures the future will draw butter and cheese, pasturing migratory cattle there, when summer dries the scanty grass upon the macadamized prairies of Whulge.
Travelling downward, he advanced rapidly, and just before sunset came to the prairies where his lodge should be.
Out on the prairies I called the South 'back home.
The breath of the horses was white steam, and ice hung on the faces of the men before they had cleared the town and swung out into the reaches of the open prairies which lay cold and empty all about them.
These marauding wolves had at first terrified her, but in her life on the prairies she had learned to know them better.
The grassy steppes orprairies where the rainfall is diminished and temperatures are extreme, and grass is the prevailing form of vegetation.
The prairies to the north furnish extensive grazing areas for cattle.
When Chicago was only a small village, herds of cattle were driven across the prairies to be slaughtered in the little packing houses which grew up along the Chicago River.
The answer to this is, that you cannot give your man as much soil as he has on the prairies or in the Canadian lumber lands.
At present it pays speculators to go to the prairiesof America and gather up the bleached bones of the dead buffaloes, in order to make manure.
Go visit thePrairies in June, when for scores on scores of miles you wade knee-deep among Tiger-lilies--what is the one charm wanting?
With Nord, Melville “scoured all the prairies of reading; dived into the bosoms of authors, and tore out their hearts.
There was no habitation in sight, yet those prairiesgave one an idea of infinite life.
The banks of the Guadalquiver are Arcadian, after the prairies are passed.
It is strange that I, an American, born in a land which spreads the broadest prairies on earth to the breeze and the sunshine, should have caught my first glimpse of one in the heart of Spain.
The boundless prairies learned his name, His words the mountain echoes knew, The Northern breezes swept his fame From icy lake to warm bayou.
Grass and flowers cover the prairies as far as the eye can reach.
I find the beautiful prairies of the interior rapidly settling with a very good population from the Eastern States, and the healthiness of the country gives it some advantages over Illinois.
But even theprairies of the West are destined to waft their superabundance here.
To go westward, where the great steamers plied toward the Orient, this would seem the natural course; and yet that way lay interminable prairies and empty stretches, and again deserts and piled mountains, without shelter and without food.
The son of the prairies should know more of God than the bookworms.
But I told myself modestly a stalwart son of the prairies had an unfair advantage in such a world of stooping sallow students.
It was not black, like the prairies and bottoms of Illinois and Kansas, but of a light yellow snuff-color, and deemed sterile by many.
Prairies and river-bottoms may yield ever so bounteously; but that very luxuriance of growth insures their gradual exhaustion of certain elements of crops, which must needs be replaced or their product will dwindle.
I believe that there are grasses not yet adopted and hardly recognized by the great body of our farmers--the buffalo-grass of the prairies for one--that will yet be grown and prized over a great part of our country.
I apprehend that, for this reason, the growth of bread-corn eastward of the Hudson can never more be considerably extended, so long as the boundless, fertileprairies can so easily pour their exhaustless supplies upon us.
It is the breeding of cattle on a gigantic scale, the magnificent prairies near Barretos, in the northern part of the State, being employed for the purpose.
Far from being monotonous, one had--or at least I had--a delightful sensation in riding across those interminable prairies of beautiful green.
The township is largely settled by Americans whose ancestors located on these verdant prairies in the forties and fifties.
The prairies at that time were not desirable for location.
Vast prairies which extended for miles presented no evidences of civilization, no familiar sound like that of the woodman's axe appeared to interrupt the solemn stillness of an uninhabited wilderness.
Driven from their old homes by persecutions or the desire to better their condition, they have come to America and have helped populate our prairies and develope our cities.
He was a native of Ohio, and returned to Illinois or Ohio in 1840 to get married, as he was very lonesome out here on the prairies of Iowa.
In the fifties the railway lines to the west left the bank of the Mississippi and pushed their way out into the fertile prairies of Iowa.
Hoyt came all the way from New York to blaze the way of modern journalism on the prairies of Iowa.
I also remember Robert Ellis, the Ashertons, Willitts, Clarks, and many others who came to our house and talked way into the night about trips they had taken over the wide prairies of Iowa.
Some of these stations were in settlements, some were in towns, but most of them were on the bleak prairies or in the hills of the Rocky Mountains.
The nine years that followed saw the conquest of the vast prairies of the American West which were crossed by the hissing, iron monsters that stampeded the frightened bison, out-ran the wild horses and out-stayed the lurking Indian.
Learning was a truant for the younger generation on the prairies at that time, there being only a few private schools scattered here and there.
America, belief in the resurrection of the buffalo in the western prairies of, ii.
Hence on the western prairies of America, the skulls of buffalos may be seen arranged in circles and symmetrical piles, awaiting the resurrection.
