Great Plains: Media

region, North America

Videos

Discover how vaqueros and the Colt six-shooter contributed to the evolution of the American cowboy
Find out how the myth of the American cowboy began.
Video: Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Learn about the disastrous and deadly power of tornadoes
Tornadoes possess enormous destructive power.
Video: Created and produced by QA International. © QA International, 2010. All rights reserved. www.qa-international.com

Images

Great Plains
Flint Hills region, eastern Great Plains, east-central Kansas.
© Sharon Day/Shutterstock.com
Black Elk Peak
Black Elk Peak (Harney Peak; centre) towering over Sylvan Lake in Custer State Park,...
© Craig Blacklock/Blacklock Nature Photography
Missouri River
Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc.
Missouri River
Missouri River, northeastern Montana.
Travel Montana
Nebraska grasslands
Nebraska grasslands.
Brian Kell
pronghorn
Pronghorn (Antilocapra americana).
Alan And Elaine Wilson
George Catlin: Buffalo Hunt, Chase
Buffalo Hunt, Chase, painting by George Catlin, 1844.
Yale University Art Gallery, Mabel Brady Garvan Collection (1946.9.572)
Calgary
The Bow River at Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
© Solidago/iStock.com
Denver
Skyline of Denver, Colorado.
© RondaKimbrow—iStock/Getty Images
Lubbock
Downtown Lubbock, Texas.
© Chris Boswell/Dreamstime.com
rodeo
Team roping at the National Western Stock Show, Rodeo and Horse Show, Denver.
© Denver Metro Convention & Visitors Bureau
Texas dust clouds
Dust clouds over the Texas Panhandle, photograph by Farm Security Administration...
Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Farm in Saskatchewan
Harvesting wheat on a farm in the grain belt near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada....
George Hunter
oil well in mustard field, Saskatchewan
Pumping oil from a well in a field of mustard on the Great Plains in western Saskatchewan,...
© E. Otto/Comstock
Lewis and Clark Expedition
Map of Lewis and Clark Expedition by William Clark and Meriwether Lewis, 1804–06.
Library of Congress, Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C
Great Plains
Great Plains under cultivation, North Dakota.
© Thinkstock/Stockbyte/Getty Images
USDA poster from the Dust Bowl era
U.S. Department of Agriculture poster from the Dust Bowl era, urging farmers on the...
U.S. Department of Agriculture