During a recent visit to omaha nebraska we visited john price argues that the tall Grass Prairie deserves to be protected much like the forests and mountain ranges in the tall Grass Prairie reader. The prairie hasnt had as many literary account in literature because the tall Grass Prairie was destroyed in 90 of that was destroyed so it was destroyed so quickly between about 1830 to 1900. So they didnt gave the authors a chance to appreciate and write about it in the sense john having chance to appreciate and write about. It was pretty much gone by the turnofthecentury. It does still exist in the imagination and i should say in the early treatments in the region and exploration literature it was a presence like in the journals of lewis and clark he describes describes this area begindoublequotes wildlife and diversity and also George Kaplan who was an artist and explorer that came through the region. These descriptions were immensely popular in the early and mid19 century soon as a plac
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