The Great Plains . . .

So vast and featureless, it was the last land to be settled by the European immigrants. Yes, the Sante Fe and Oregan trails blazed across this ocean of grass, but only to deliver the settlers to the West Coast of the USA to familiar lands of timber and water.

Native American indians sought final refuge here, with the Comanches led by Chief Quanah Parker being the last to capitulate and accept life on reservations in what is now Oklahoma in 1875.

An interesting note of history is that Quanah Parker's mother, Cynthia Ann Parker, was a European American kidnapped at the age of nine and assimulated into the Comanche tribe.