# The Geologic Story of the Great Plains A nontechnical description of the origin and evolution of the landscape of the Great Plains

Author: Trimble, Donald E., 1916-

Genre: Category: Science - Earth/Agricultural/Farming

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/63396

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=The+Geologic+Story+of+the+Great+Plains+A+nontechnical+description+of+the+origin+and+Trimble&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

_But from these immense prairies may arise one great advantage to the United States, viz., the restriction of our population to some certain limits, and thereby a continuation of the union. Our citizens being so prone to rambling, and extending themselves on the frontiers, will, through necessity, be constrained to limit their extent on the west to the borders of the Missouri and the Mississippi, while they leave the prairies, incapable of cultivation, to the wandering and uncivilized Aborigines of the country. Zebulon Pike_

## Chapters

- [Part 3](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-geologic-story-of-the-great-plains-a-nontechnical-descripti-20dbc04a/chapters/3/index.md)
- [Part 1](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-geologic-story-of-the-great-plains-a-nontechnical-descripti-20dbc04a/chapters/1/index.md)
- [Part 2](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-geologic-story-of-the-great-plains-a-nontechnical-descripti-20dbc04a/chapters/2/index.md)
- [Part 4](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-geologic-story-of-the-great-plains-a-nontechnical-descripti-20dbc04a/chapters/4/index.md)
- [Part 5](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/the-geologic-story-of-the-great-plains-a-nontechnical-descripti-20dbc04a/chapters/5/index.md)