Grand Prairie

erupt though was old faithful. Very cool sight to see. On the way up to Yellowstone we stopped at the Badlands which I thought was very cool. It looks similar to the Grand Canyon except that the land color and mound shapes were different. You could actually hike all across the badlands if you wanted to. We also saw a lot of prairie dogs and bighorn there. Also a very cool place that is right on the way to…

migration in American history. A total of 2.5 million people left the Plains states in the 1930s. Most moved to neighboring states, but some 460,000 people moved to the Pacific Northwest, where they found jobs in lumbering or building the Bonneville and Grand Coulee Dams More than 300,000 others moved to California (Gale - Enter Product Login ).The large movement was an effect of a natural climate change called The Dust Bowl. The Dust Bowl is a situation where people take control of the…

when he was explaining how architecture, “can be as tiny a gesture as painting the front door of a house red or grand as undertaking as creating the rose window of a cathedral”. He was explaining how architecture has no standard minimum or limitation within the design. Goldberger is supporting his evidence alongside how Frank Lloyd Wright explained how he modernized the American prairie. Goldberger explains how versatile architecture can be by comparing an architect’s style of design being…

The Grand Slam of Soil Conservation Just imagine, you’re in a softball game, you have just rounded third base and are trying to beat the ball home. In a desperate effort to score; you slide, and dust flies- making it momentarily impossible to see. Your eyes, nose, and mouth are covered in the freshly raked earth of the ball field. This scenario is something that most of us today can relate to. But in the early 1900s, in several counties across Oklahoma and throughout the Great Plains, many days…

camp site and slept in a tipi. The next morning we woke up early and went to see The Crazy Horse Monument. After seeing Crazy Horse we travelled through Custer State Park. Well we were travelling through Custer State Park we had seen WIld Buffalo, Prairie…

hris Mitchell Professor Christopher Myers Environmental Ethics PHIL320 April 26, 2015 Social Contract Connection to Land Ethics In society people follow an unspoken law that governs the basis of living within that society a social contract. This unspoken contract gives people the freedom to choose if they wish to remain living there or to move on to another city or country. Since the time of Socrates the acknowledgement of a social contract has been established within civilization. Humans need…

More specifically, the Santa Fe traders, including Gregg himself, used horse, mules and oxen to draw wagons, with a change from horses to oxen coming in 1829 when Major Bennet Riley introduced the armed guard alongside the traders in order to protect the supply wagons. The military escorts slowed the progress of the wagon train as they had to wait for the escorts at the Council Grove (Figure 2). Although it seemed to help to psychologically to give a sense of security, it was the offices in…

continued for the next 12 years. In 1836, John moved to Grand Detour, Illinois because business was so slow. Here, his blacksmithing skills were very high in demand. (Company) All new farmers were struggling to turn the sticky…

Elizabeth and occasionally other members of the family would stay with them like their cousins. Then after the industrial revolution nuclear families started taking over for extend families. An example of a nuclear family would be Little House on the Prairie T.V. series where Charles and Caroline Ingalls live with their three little girls Marry, Laura, and Carrie. Finally, in today’s society individuals have went from three or more Kin living together to fewer individuals living in family…

The Badlands is in the Southeastern corner of South Dakota, located to the East of the Black Hills. It was declared a national monument in 1929, and then was declared a national park though an act of congress in 1978. (Stoffer 2) The park is most known for its rugged, desolate appearance, with jagged rocks and interesting formations. The core of the “badlands” (meaning the “badlands” associated with Badlands National Park) is part of a dissected plateau region bounded by the Cheyenne River (to…