Did early European settlers fear the tall prairie grass?

The settlers weren’t actually afraid of the tall prairie grass. It did, sooner or later get to them emotionally in that it went on for miles, and indeed seemed to never end. The settlers felt they were actually in the middle of nowhere with no one or no thing around them. read more

The English were apparently more awed; they adopted the romance of the French language, if not its literal meaning, and called it a"prairie." Later, one of the early settlers wrote, in 1841, that"for miles the prairie gently sloped, hardly presenting a bush to relieve the eye. read more