11.   The western plains and Rocky Mountain states will be windy and cold.

12.   They saw themselves as a vanishing breed, destined to ride off into the sunset as inevitably as the buffaloes of the great Western plains.

13.   Thundershowers will also erupt in parts of the western plains from Wyoming to Kansas, especially where the shifting winds ascend the sloping terrain.

14.   Very cold air will surge into the western high plains of Montana and North Dakota behind an arctic front.

15.   Plants on the western plains remained shorter, and the region became home to shortgrass and mixed-grass prairie.

16.   That set off protests,, including a one-day strike in the western plains state Portuguesa that shut businesses, banks, schools and public services.

17.   Wind was strong over the western high plains of Kansas.