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| Prairie panoramas (c1910). Library of Congress Prints and Photographs. |
High above the prairie, platter-flat, the wind wings on, bereft and wild its lonely song.
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Loren Lown—
We have left less than one-tenth of one percent of our prairie. The rest of it died to make Iowa safe for soybeans.
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Bill Bryson (The Lost Continent)—
I had forgotten how empty and flat it [the American Midwest] is. Stand on two phone books almost anywhere in Iowa and you get a view.
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| FRANK LLOYD WRIGHT and Mason City: Architectural Heart of the Prairie (2016) |
