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It is wide open and not much is there even today. If you drive across the great plains you see wide expanse of space with the wind blowing and prairie grasses waving in the wind. Every so often there is a outcropping, but mainly it is just open space. Hot, dry, and windy.

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'The Great Plains' is a term that came with the europeans.

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well its simple they lived in great BIG plains

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