Abstract

In September 1806, explorer Zebulon Montgomery Pike ventured into what is now Chase County and observed a rugged, rocky landscape he named the Flint Hills. This article explores the transformation of the area through thousands of years.

Keywords:

• ancient,
• Zebulon Montgomery Pike,
• Chase County,
• rocky,
• landscape,
• transformation,
• flora,
• fauna,
• plants,
• animals,
• Ice Age,
• Euro-Americans,
• nature,
• Pleistocene epoch,
• Last Glacial Maximum,
• LGM,
• tallgrass,
• prairie,
• megafauna,
• forests,
• soil,
• Holocene,
• hunting,
• modern,
• climate,
• Native Americans,
• village,
• people,
• humans,
• altithermal