In the rural prairies of the upper mid-west, Goldilocks's economy has long gone cold.
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But he gives much of his fortune back to the prairies, through a variety of philanthropic gifts.
Sauntering across endless prairies, with snow-speckled mountains in the distance, was profoundly peaceful, and the old-fashioned physical work remarkably satisfying.
That is what life is like for the Hutterite community in Maple Grove, Canada, on the remote prairies of Manitoba province.
Mile by verdant mile, the view settles into undulating forest and farmland, sunset adding an autumnal tint to the ever-flattening prairies.
And many immigrants have discovered that they rather like the Conservative appeal to the rugged individualism and family values of the Prairies.
But that is unlikely to assuage westerners' gripes about being ignored by Ottawa, nor break the Conservative ascendancy west of the Prairies.
L. Mencken had a field day portraying the self-righteous sobersides of the prairies (who often drank homemade corn liquor behind the barn at night).
His father, who seems to have been an intellectual but without much formal education, grew the hard red spring wheat of the northern prairies.
Nevertheless you repeated the centuries-old error of seeing savannahs, grasslands and prairies as worthless and empty, fit only for conversion to pastures and soyabean fields.
On the fertile coast, prairies of rice stretch to the horizon.
That has gradually shifted new immigrants away from the overcrowded cities to the sparsely populated Prairies and the Maritime provinces, where immigration provides a bigger economic boost.
Canola is grown commercially mostly on the prairies in Canada, the largest single producer of canola in the world with more than 50, 000 producers and 16 million acres.
We forged through prairies, badlands, bayous, followed coastlines and rivers.
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Don't let the book's length fool you, both plot lines are thrilling and fast-paced, stretching from the snow-swept prairies of Minnesota to the skyscraper heart of New York City.
Fattened, flightless, farm-raised, store-bought turkeys bear little resemblance to their tough, feral cousins that tromp through the forests, prairies, and scrublands of every state in the US except for Alaska.
Their intelligence, in combination with their ability to mate year-round, is what has enabled wild pigs to evade capture and take over prairies, mountain valleys and rugged deserts from Canada to Mexico.
In the days ahead, our train will pass a succession of monstrous eastbound freight services, groaning with raw materials: Albertan oil and yellow sulphur, British Columbian coal and lumber, but mostly grain from the prairies.
Our identity is in softly rolling prairies giving way to forested hills, in long stretches of horizon that make you feel like you could see almost to eternity, and in big skies stretched tight above it all.
Of course, the U.S. has experienced many severe droughts during the past century, including the Dust Bowl that produced major ecological and agricultural damage throughout American and Canadian prairies from 1930-36 (and in some areas, until 1940).
When prairies burn, they do not die.
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They were heading down a swath of highway raised out of the wetlands, past a schizophrenic landscape of saw-grass prairies and strip malls, where the road signs warned of panthers and the billboards advertised alligator zoos and other South Florida attractions.
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