1.   A haunting evocation of American prairie life in the era before television.

2.   Housing developers are once again rushing headlong with speculative tracts, relentlessly chewing up huge chunks of the great American prairie stretching eastward from Denver.

3.   The breeze that blew across the great American prairie Monday night was cool but moderate.

4.   The great American prairie has largely disappeared.

5.   There has been little rainfall in the American prairies.