The Great Plains (SHP)

• Seen as an uninhabitable desert
  • Major Stephen Long: "I do not hesitate in giving the opnion that it is wholly unfit for cultivation.
• They were the Grasslands of North America.

Characteristics of the Plains:

• Enormous size
• Lack of trees
• Semi- arid (Little water)
• Unpredictable weather
• Ferocious winds (not helped by the fact that there were no trees for shelter)
• Flat and featureless
• Inhabited by locusts and grasshoppers
• Inhabited by wolves