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This transaction reduces the prairie witch into “a room for rent. A vault to store the things people cannot stand to know, or bear. To forget.”

His pro-labor philosophy echoed Nebraska’s legacy of prairie populism, notably the founding of the People’s Party in the 1890s, which criticized Republicans and Democrats for failing to protect workers and farmers.

In 1850, when California became the nation’s 31st state, legislators passed the Act for the Government and Protection of Indians, which prohibited intentional burning in prairie lands.

I wanted Midwestern prairies, but we moved to his hometown on the West Coast.

After a childhood on the suburban edges of a Midwestern prairie, I wanted big sky and mountains almost as much as I wanted Domi.