he American frontier west of the Mississippi River in the 1800s looked like an ocean of tall grass. The grass grew so high that it was difficult to see over it—even while riding a horse. A is an “extensive area of predominantly treeless, flat, rolling grassland.” The word derives from the Old French which derives from the Latin which means “meadow.”
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Nov 01, 2022
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