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Definition of Great Plains of North America
1. Noun. A vast prairie region extending from Alberta and Saskatchewan and Manitoba in Canada south through the west central United States into Texas; formerly inhabited by Native Americans.
Terms within: Dust Bowl, Llano Estacado
Generic synonyms: Prairie
Group relationships: North America
Lexicographical Neighbors of Great Plains Of North America
Literary usage of Great Plains of North America
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Chamber's Encyclopaedia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge (1888)
"... of cattle and sheep replaces, to a great extent, the operations of agriculture.
The most general name for the great plains of North America is ..."
2. The Mythology of All Races by John Arnott MacCulloch, Louis Herbert Gray, George Foot Moore, Alice Werner (1916)
"... from far beyond the tree line in the north to the deserts of northern Mexico,
comprises the Great Plains of North America, the prairies, or grass lands, ..."
3. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"Fossil remains abundantly prove that the horse developed on the great plains of
North America where it existed in extraordinary variety of size and form. ..."
4. The International Geography by Hugh Robert Mill (1915)
"Like the vast plains of eastern Europe and western Asia, the Great Plains of
North America stretch over so great a distance on theEarth 's convex surface ..."
5. The World's Food Resources by Joseph Russell Smith (1919)
"CATTLE ON THE Great Plains of North America The large open plain west of the one
hundredth meridian in central North America, has remained a great cattle ..."
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