Now, at age 51, Crump is overhauling the Eden Prairie, Minnesota company he started in 1988.
Grand Prairie police detective Brody Burns thinks Sweesy gambled much of the money away.
Nick DeCarlo owns a 2, 000-acre bird-hunting preserve in Wiggins, on the prairie northeast of Denver.
Some of his favorites include Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) and Prairie Blazing Star (Liatris pycnostachya).
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They are Utah prairie dogs, a species listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act.
My guess is he over-enunciates to cover his prairie accent, but the effect is, well, sssssstrange.
It's not unusual for an outbreak to kill an entire colony of wild prairie dogs.
It's often transmitted by fleas that carry it from prairie dogs or other rodents.
But the ones here along the western edge of the Rocky Mountains aren't ordinary prairie dogs.
Somewhere out there, Alberta gives way to Saskatchewan, and prairie to still more prairie.
On one visit, they might be pioneers, living on the prairie in the early 1800s.
"Never used them, " said Greg Stratton, a tanned and bearded retired mailman from Sauk Prairie, Wis.
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High-backed dining chairs in the Prairie style of Wright sit around a dining-room table.
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The two men head 2ndWave Software, an investment vehicle based in Eden Prairie, Minnesota.
But the experience of the Canadian prairie province could have a defining impact on our society.
Incidentally, the name is a rip-off from Prairie Home Companion, with Ralph's Pretty Good Grocery.
Even the endless prairie, derided today as "flyover country, " astonished those who first rode across it.
But, according to biologists, the chief killer of prairie dogs is the sylvatic plague.
They came from city streets and prairie towns, from public high schools and West Point.
The storms formed out on the prairie west of Oklahoma City, giving residents plenty of advance notice.
The NDP was born in 1961 as an uneasy alliance of prairie populists and urban trade unionists.
The insurer had denied a claim for water damage brought by a couple in Eden Prairie, Minn.
After finding a plot of virgin prairie grass on his father's land, Mr Block began to build.
It fears the prairie dog is disappearing, and it wants it protected under the Endangered Species Act.
Friday night's storm formed out on the prairie west of Oklahoma City, giving residents plenty of advance notice.
"Prairie Lullaby" is the work of Billy Hill, whose career straddled the old West as well as Broadway.
It's a kind of prairie grass, but you don't have to go to a prairie to find it.
But now there's new research showing that this prairie plant might actually be a good source of ethanol.
Is Grassley jealous of private equity riches, in the manner of prairie populists from William Jennings Bryan onward?
The prairie had to be covered in new spring grass to feed and support your team of oxen.
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