Great Plains Studies, Center for
Date of this Version
1987
Document Type
Article
Abstract
For more than a century the Flint Hills have been a stronghold of the livestock industry, an area of Kansas devoted almost exclusively to the feeding and breeding of cattle. One of the last large segments of tall grass prairie that once stretched from Canada to Texas and from Kansas to Indiana, the Flint Hills region covers some five thousand square miles of rolling hills and narrow valleys in east central Kansas. The Flint Hills embrace all or parts of thirteen counties: Butler, Chase, Chautauqua, Cowley, Elk, Geary, Greenwood, Lyon, Marion, Morris, Pottawatomie, Riley and Wabaunsee (fig. 1).1
Comments
Published in Great Plains Quarterly CPQ 7 (Fall ]987): 244-255. Copyright 1987 Center for Great Plains Studies, University od Nebraska-Lincoln.