The spread of horses on the Great Plains in 1680 onward gave tribes a new, highly efficient means of pursuing their prey. More Native Americans were also eking out a living from the fiercely ...

Early European explorers found the Plains a very hostile environment, and the area was marked on early maps as the 'great American desert'. One American explorer, Major Stephen Long, declared ...

The world of Plains Indians and of other ... enormous power of Nature! What kept Native Americans so faithful to the land? The natural environment of the Great West provided life to American ...