Hereabouts short-grass prairie gave way to tall-grass plain. From Wordnik.com. [The Boat of a Million Years]
My Dad grew up on the short-grass prairie, and taught me this. From Wordnik.com. [grouse Diary Entry] Reference
Commonest in open grassland with short-grass species, 1,000-2,400 m. From Wordnik.com. [Chapter 7] Reference
Happy Poetry Month to the long-grass and the short-grass plains …. From Wordnik.com. [Book Review: Wild Bill Hickok & Calamity Jane: Deadwood Legends by James D. McLaird « A Progressive on the Prairie] Reference
It is also one of the best examples of short-grass prairie left in the West. From Wordnik.com. [Department Of Defense Helps Protect Human Health, Environment] Reference
This, the pilot told him, was where the mid-high-grass and short-grass prairies met. From Wordnik.com. [A Maiden's Grave]
Texas ranchers had known for a long time that this short-grass country was ideal for cattle. From Wordnik.com. [THE AMERICAN WEST] Reference
"A short-grass range, but rich," Lone Star had said -- "an honest-to-God country, bigger'n all creation.". From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
But a family that needed the wide expanses of the short-grass prairie to get along even as poorly as we did. From Wordnik.com. [Fault Line]
During the wetter half of the year (December to June) the animals use the short-grass plains of the Serengeti volcanic grasslands ecoregion. From Wordnik.com. [Southern Acacia-Commiphora bushlands and thickets] Reference
He tried another place, and another -- he didn't know -- he was a man of the short-grass country, not a coaster; perhaps a sandy sink might mean fresh water. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Tedge had bought the cargo himself near Beaumont from a beggared ranchman whose stock had to go on the market because, for seven months, there had been no rain in eastern Texas, and the short-grass range was gone. From Wordnik.com. [O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921] Reference
Fountain Creek and productive short-grass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Colorado Springs Independent] Reference
Were these "the chivalrous short-grass knights" she had heard so much about?. From Wordnik.com. [Cavanaugh: Forest Ranger A Romance of the Mountain West] Reference
On the wind-swept divides and coulees of the short-grass region of what once were the. From Wordnik.com. [The Minds and Manners of Wild Animals A Book of Personal Observations] Reference
Not too surprisingly, really, because these aren't strictly short-grass prairie plants. From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
A genuine prairie-dog from the short-grass country couldn't chatter more like a Westerner than that. From Wordnik.com. [Frank Merriwell's Reward] Reference
Was it you, Doc, you benighted stray from the short-grass Kansas plains, where they can't raise Kafir corn?. From Wordnik.com. [Heart's Desire] Reference
He said the land in Southeastern Colorado is among the last short-grass prairie ecosystems in North America. From Wordnik.com. [News/local from www.chieftain.com] Reference
He was from the high plains and the short-grass country, wherever that might be -- to the east and south she gathered. From Wordnik.com. [The Lions of the Lord A Tale of the Old West] Reference
The final phase of many of the cleanup projects includes reseeding to restore the land to a natural short-grass prairie habitat. From Wordnik.com. [The Denver Newspaper Agency YourHub.com Stories] Reference
I have felt in all its potency the spell which the "short-grass country" cast over Theodore Roosevelt; and I cannot hear the word. From Wordnik.com. [Roosevelt in the Bad Lands] Reference
The reasons for Nunn's civil war run deep - and wide, depending on who you ask in this town with dirt streets surrounded by short-grass prairie. From Wordnik.com. [Nevada Appeal - Top Stories] Reference
Hunting and gathering peoples followed pronghorn, bison, deer and elk across the short-grass prairies and down the canyons more than 5,000 years ago. From Wordnik.com. [News/local from www.chieftain.com] Reference
The enclosure was divided into six sectors separated by ca. 30 cm wide short-grass belts (cut 2 cm above ground surface) to enable monitoring of vole mobility. From Wordnik.com. [PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles] Reference
"If you're really going to put the saddle and bridle on the publicity nag, you've got to turn the other one out of the corral and let it go back to the short-grass.". From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush] Reference
They also filed a federal lawsuit accusing the Army of not carefully considering the environmental impact of the expansion on the arid, short-grass prairie landscape. From Wordnik.com. [TheDenverChannel.com - Local News] Reference
"short-grass" region in which he had spent the happy boyhood. From Wordnik.com. [The Honorable Senator Sage-Brush] Reference
"I don't reckon you can put that over on folks of the short-grass country, young fellow, me lad. From Wordnik.com. [Oh, You Tex!] Reference
"He come from the short-grass country of Kansas, and he don't know a submarine from a muley cow. From Wordnik.com. [Heart's Desire] Reference
". .including the preservation of 66,000 of short-grass prairie in Cheyenne, Lincoln and Elbert counties.". From Wordnik.com. [Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local] Reference
At that time the short-grass country of the. From Wordnik.com. [The Covered Wagon] Reference
4000 years ago much of Ohio was short-grass prairie and full of Bison. From Wordnik.com. [Maggie's Farm] Reference
"A short-grass country, but rich feed. From Wordnik.com. [Land of the Burnt Thigh] Reference
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