plains

/ (pleɪnz) /

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mainly US extensive tracts of level or almost level treeless countryside; prairies

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Based on the hat he had created for himself, Stetson made a version called “The Boss of the Plains.”
My Love Letter to the Stetson|Mark McKinnon|December 24, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic, Plains, and Far West, secession sympathizers top out at 22 percent of the population.
America’s Slumbering Secession Obsession|James Poulos|September 23, 2014|DAILY BEAST
This is a big problem in states like Alaska, Montana, the Dakotas, and the plains states.
Will US Health Care Follow in China’s Bloody Footsteps?|Daniela Drake|September 21, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Take the case of the American bison: The ice-age bison evolved into the Plains buffalo, Bison bison, perhaps 10,000 years ago.
American Wilderness Faces the Firing Squad|Doug Peacock|July 6, 2014|DAILY BEAST

Michael Waters explains, without serious evidence, that elk was “a rare animal in the plains at that time.”
Incontrovertible Evidence Proves the First Americans Came From Asia|Doug Peacock|March 27, 2014|DAILY BEAST
The patriarchal decree of the government was a good deal of a joke on the plains, anyway—except when you were caught defying it!
Raw Gold|Bertrand W. Sinclair
They started in the early morning and rode out over the plains till they came to the edge of a large forest.
Alila, Our Little Philippine Cousin|Mary Hazelton Wade
The perfect level of the plains, particularly in Champagne, makes the ground as open as a race-course.
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, No. CCCXXXIX. January, 1844. Vol. LV.|Various
We had now at one moment to wade through plains of sand, and the next to clamber over the rocks by wretched paths.
A Woman's Journey Round the World|Ida Pfeiffer
He kept to the high ground, not venturing to the plains, for the population had outwardly passed to the English peace again.
King Robert the Bruce|A. F. Murison

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