Just being polite. My initial reference was to "The Americas' and you tried to limit that to the Western Plains. Did you realize that part of the world was nearly devoid of human beings until the arrival of the Spanish with their iron tools and horses.
The Comanche Indians put them into play ~ and quickly rose from abject miserable poverty of the worst sort to being holy terrors!
81 posted on 04/29/2012 6:31:52 AM PDT by muawiyah