The Great Plains were witness to some of the most intense and violent encounters between settlers and Native American tribes.

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...