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  • Toward the draw there was a considerable growth of mountain blue-stem, none of it very high and gradually shortening nearer the house.

    Laramie Holds the Range 1898

  • The number of these solitary, and almost obliterated mounds is small when compared with the vast multitude in the cemeteries of our towns, though if the host of those whose bones are mouldering under the short buffalo-grass and tall blue-stem of the prairies between the

    The old Santa Fe trail The Story of a Great Highway Henry Inman 1868

  • Simultaneously explored are the events of a fledgling settlement on the blue-stem prairie of northern Illinois.

    News 2009

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