prairie

One year later and 10 blocks away, my mother came into the world, the granddaughter of those pioneers who had roamed the prairie.

There, abandoned “ghost towns” populate the prairie fields and deserts, serving as a reminder of a not-so-distant past.

Because there is always this about the land, about prairie and pond and mountain: they never go away.

But this hardscrabble, prairie town, with its population of 5,000 people, cast its charm on Ballantine.

By this time the sun was low in the west, and a short time afterward it dipped under the rim of the prairie.

In our village, we were as happy as a buffalo on the plains; but now we are more like the hungry and howling wolf in the prairie.

For several days his voracious plowshare had been turning over the prairie in long ribbons of swath like the pages of a book.

They looked out a place, but it was near the bushes, and Brother Joseph gave an order to go forward on to the prairie.

He had watched them out of sight over the prairie, and had felt quite proud of himself.