Great Plains Quotes

Canada is divided by great mountains, great prairies, Great Lakes, and eleven governments that really grate.

Nebraska was home to indigenous peoples for centuries. It became a state in 1867, and has produced an important literary figure, Willa Cather, as well as an investor said to be the world's second richest man, Warren Buffett.

The plains are almost wholly uninhabitable by people depending upon agriculture.

The greatest of all the Sioux in my time, or in any time for that matter, was that wonderful old fighting man, Sitting Bull, whose life will some day be written by a historian who can really give him his due.

Soil erosion is a national menace.

There is extraordinary similarities between the Midwest in America and Europe in that there is this sense of vast, open sky and loneliness and cold.

I left Montana in Spring of 1866, for Utah, arriving at Salt Lake city during the summer.

I don't think the real America is in New York or on the Pacific Coast; personally, I like the Middle West much better, places like North and South Dakota, Minneapolis and Saint Paul. There, I think, are the true Americans

We will never recreate 'Iowa.'

Early on the next morning we reached Kansas, about five hundred miles from the mouth of the Missouri.

I'm from the Midwest.

The States which form the northern border of the United States westward from the Great Lakes to the Pacific coast include an area several times larger than France and could contain ten Englands and still have room to spare.

Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.

I tell people, 'Have you ever been to Oklahoma? There are a lot of nice people there that do wonderful things.'

In the long winter evenings he talked to Ma about the Western country. In the West the land was level, and there were no trees. The grass grew thick and high.

The history of my state of Oklahoma offers a great example of pursuing the American Dream. It was built and settled by pioneers moving West to seek better lives.

Three little words achingly familiar on a Western farmer's tongue, rule life in the dust bowl of the continent - if it rains.

I got all sorts of great Nebraska jokes.

My wife and I drove across America following the Oregon Trail, which the pioneers once passed along.

While Pickstown may not be what it once was, it still is framed by the natural beauty of the ancient river, the sweep of the Great Plains, and the long, unbroken shoreline of the lake behind the dam. It gave me a 19th-century childhood in a modern mid-20th-century town, and for that I will always be grateful.

My great-grandmother grew up in a sod house in Nebraska. When she was a tiny girl - in other words, only four human generations ago - there were still enough wild bison on the Plains that she was afraid lightning storms would spook them and they would trample her home.

Americans are good at herding Bison. The end.

I grew up in Oklahoma.

I always thought of myself as a good old South Dakota boy who grew up here on the prairie.

… the same dreary barrenness day after day. The same naked waste. I have never seen anything which impressed so strongly on my mind a feeling of desolation.