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The Great Plains are facing increasing fire risks due to climate change, and efforts are underway to get prairie-dwellers to adapt to the new reality. Accessibility links.
Although the works of Willa Cather and Laura Ingalls Wilder may first come to mind, the region also provides a locale for the five 21st-century books featured in this literary geography challenge.
The horse is central to many Indigenous cultures across the American Southwest and the Great Plains. However, when and how horses were first integrated into Indigenous lifeways remain contentious, ...