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1) Skylark
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When a drought tests the commitment of a mail-order bride from Maine to her new home on the prairie, her stepchildren hope they will be able to remain a family.
9) Prairie town
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Describes a year in the life of a prairie town including the effect of seasons and of economics on the ebb and flow of this agricultural community.
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Without rain or topsoil, Anna Mae Phipps and her husband Harley struggle to provide for their two young children on their family farm. With another baby on the way, Harley sells his mules and travels a hundred miles to earn money building an elaborate WPA monument. But after only receiving Harley's first paycheck, Anna Mae grows increasingly desperate as months drag on without even a word from her husband.
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The gripping story of an epic prairie snowstorm that killed hundreds of newly arrived settlers and cast a shadow on the promise of the American frontier. January 12, 1888, began as an unseasonably warm morning across Nebraska, the Dakotas, and Minnesota, the weather so mild that children walked to school without coats and gloves. But that afternoon, without warning, the atmosphere suddenly, violently changed. One moment the air was calm; the next...
15) Kindred souls
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Ten year-old Jake shares a special bond with his grandfather, Billy, but when Billy asks Jake to build him a sod house, Jake is not sure he wants to do it.
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A group of almost two dozen land managers, landowners, state and federal agency representatives, and scientists came together to develop a scientific/technical assessment of the conservation needs for the Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregion. The Central Shortgrass Prairie ecoregion encompasses approximately 56 million acres and stretches across all of eastern Colorado, portions of southeastern Wyoming, western Kansas and Nebraska, the Panhandles...
19) Prairies
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Simple text and photographs introduce beginning readers to the physical characteristics of prairies.