11.   What the immigrant settlers found was a harsh Texas frontier of rolling prairie and red clay, scorching in the summer, cold and windy in winter.

12.   But smaller towns ebb away, the tiniest of them often memorialized by boarded-up convenience stores on the rolling prairie.

13.   Clifford Long Sioux comes to this spot on the rolling prairie of eastern Montana each year.

14.   Company employees live in spacious mansions just south of downtown or in big brick homes on the rolling prairies outside the city.