[bert]

The prarie is on I 70.

Next time, turn off the interstate and drive a mile or so, part on a dirt road, to the access area. Take a walk out on those prarie hills and marvel at the number of different plants. Take in the flowers growing amidst the grass.

Wonder about what drove the obsessed settlers to cross this vastness. What was worth crossing this immense, seemingly unending sea of grass.

Check out how the farmers have adapted their living quarters to the land and seem to thrive in the midst of mile after mile of land.

[Red Badger]

I often wondered why the pioneers didn’t just stop and start farming right there, instead of crossing the Rockies and the Sierras. Didn’t it dawn on them that the huge buffalo herds fertilized and thrived on that land for thousands of years?.............

[SuziQ]

Wonder about what drove the obsessed settlers to cross this vastness. What was worth crossing this immense, seemingly unending sea of grass.

Probably they wanted to see if the area beyond it was better looking. ;o)
I've only been across Kansas once, and I don't remember it at all. We were coming from CO back to MS, Daddy was driving, and I slept the whole way. ;o)

[Hot Tabasco]

Wonder about what drove the obsessed settlers to cross this vastness.

Knowing they'd have to live there if they didn't keep moving........