Abstract

There were (and are) many ways to see a prairie fire—both literally and figuratively. Nineteenth-century tallgrass prairie dwellers, for instance, saw them in every conceivable manner–the flames crawling across the landscape during light winds and racing across it during gales.

Keywords:

• fire,
• prairie,
• grassland,
• grass,
• native,
• tallgrass,
• Flames,
• landscape,
• burning,
• burn,
• danger,
• land,
• beautiful,
• newcomers,
• reaction,
• lifestyle,
• historic