Sentences with phrase «prairie town»

The museum features an incredible reconstruction of a prairie town, complete with a life - sized schoolhouse, train station, and dentist's office.

Yet, from the prairie town pioneers who pooled their money to hire a schoolteacher, to the gifts of water fountains and ornamental trees that senior classes buy their schools each year, beneficiaries of public education have felt compelled to give something back.

In the dying prairie town of Howard, South Dakota, young people in a high school business class conducted a cash - flow analysis of the local population's buying habits; it sparked a community - revitalization project, raising local spending by 27 percent and attracting new business initiatives to the area.

It might be the visit to a prairie town, gazing up at four presidents on the side of a mountain, traveling 650 feet below the earth or discovering a giraffe standing at your car's window.

One year ago, the reportedly «fastest - growing church in Africa» dedicated a $ 15.5 million, 10,000 - seat conference center in a sparse prairie town northeast of Dallas whose population is less than 1 percent black.

Surrounded as we are by blustery buzz and clattery chatter, equipped with our always - tuned - in devices, we're tempted to nostalgia for the hush of past ages and isolated prairie towns.

All prairie towns turn away from the prairie, however.

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«If you live in a small town in a prairie province, you can now get funding with the click of a button,» he says.

As a coastal gal, I admit I tend to think of the midwest as a giant flat prairie speckled with Stars Hollow - type towns, expansive ranches, farmland and cowboys.

After entrepreneurial businessmen set up sawmills, a new kind of house began to be seen in the towns and villages of the Prairies.

When prairie dogs relocate, they take over abandoned holes or dig new holes at the edge of the town.

Highly social, prairie dogs live in large colonies or «towns», and collections of prairie dog families that can span hundreds of acres.

You'll pass through wide - open prairies, shady wooded areas, and several small towns with rest areas and amenities — like restaurants, bars, and shops — for tired, hungry riders.

I trust you were able to enjoy Mexico to the fullest before returning to prairie - town!?

Utilizing Rockstar's proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), Red Dead Redemption features an open - world environment for players to explore, including frontier towns, rolling prairies teeming with wildlife, and perilous mountain passes - each packed with an endless flow of varied distractions.

From its gorgeous photography of the wide - open prairie — across which actor - director Costner and Robert Duvall drive cattle as some of the last «freegrazers» of the cowboy era — to their brutal, wide - ranging, Peckinpah - worthy climactic shootout in a dusty town run by an iron - fisted rancher (Michael Gambon), this is some of Costner's best work in front of or behind the camera.

In language that is both unflinching and exquisite, Chaon moves deftly between the past and the present in the small - town prairie Midwest and shows us the extraordinary lives of «ordinary» people.

See Canada's spectacular mountain scenery, stunning lakes, picturesque towns, gentle prairie fields, and exciting cities on this Canadian rail tour — what a fantastic vacation!

Move on to the Rolling Plains city's impressive outdoor education spots such as the River Bend Nature Center and a park with a designated prairie dog town.

The Canadian Rockies tower over ice - blue glacial lakes and thick green pine forests before descending to vast prairies, home to old ranching and cowboy towns.

My name is Brittany and I am a 25 - year - old introvert, part - time independent traveler, healthy eater, and amateur photographer living simply near a small town in the Canadian prairie province of Manitoba.

I'm Brittany, a small town girl living simply in the Canadian prairies.

I'm Brittany, a 20 - something year old living simply near a small town in the Canadian prairies, who loves traveling independently and deeply, exploring off the beaten path both locally in my province of Manitoba and beyond, eating and cooking healthy, plant - based and gluten - free foods and meals, taking photographs, learning about foreign cultures, languages and cuisines, and seeking meaningful experiences and authentic adventures wherever I go.

Utilizing Rockstar's proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), Red Dead Redemption features an open - world environment for players to explore, including frontier towns, rolling prairies teeming with wildlife, and perilous mountain passes - each packed with an endless flow of varied distractions.

The game will run on Rockstar's proprietary Rockstar Advanced Game Engine (RAGE), which also powered Grand Theft Auto IV, and will be based in an open - world environment packed with towns, prairies» and wildlife.

The game takes place in the confines of a remote valley in what looks to be the southwest USA, and the landscape consists mainly of rocky deserts, prairie, farmland and forests — with three towns and a number of isolated buildings and points of interest thrown in.

This exhibition offers eleven views of small towns on the North American prairie.

Over 300 farms and two towns have completely or partially gone under water in a slowly rising sea on the prairie.

Every bit the pioneers that their forbearers were 200 years ago when they first landed on the prairie, I suspect their own transformation will be even more remarkable than the one in store for their town.

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They are subject to prairie tornadoes, especially on the western side of the town where on a clear night you can see lightning hundreds of miles away — a pure magical sight.