The Great Plains were witness to some of the most intense and violent encounters between settlers and Native American tribes. Here are three infamous wagon train raids that reveal the brutal clashes d ...

More Native Americans were also eking out a living from the fiercely variable Great Plains environment, as settlers displaced them from traditional territories, and commercial demand meant a huge ...

Before 1860, few people moved west to try to settle on the Great Plains ... After 1865, thousands of settlers moved onto the Plains.

Ninety years ago, the worst dust storm in American history blasted the Great Plains. The Dust Bowl had arrived.

This enormous area of the Great Plains, Southwest ... of cultural values and polarized mindsets found the Plains Indians and white settlers at odds. Such differences between Indians and Europeans ...

But the O'Sullivan's phrase was taken by some to mean that it was America's manifest destiny to expand and encourage the American way of life on the Great Plains ... more settlers to move to ...

Sadly, westward expansion during the 19th century nearly wiped bison from the Great Plains. Settlers slaughtered some 50 million for food and sport. Then they almost disappeared completely ...

This enormous area of the Great Plains, Southwest ... of cultural values and polarized mindsets found the Plains Indians and white settlers at odds. Such differences between Indians and Europeans ...