https://digitalcommons.unl.edu/greatplainsquarterly/2068/
The Prairie Winnows Out Its Own: The West River Country " by Jean Choate
This is a story of a dream that died. Between 1900 and 1915 over one-hundred thousand people moved into western South Dakota, the area west of the Missouri...
the prairieits own
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WINNOWS Synonyms: 123 Similar and Opposite Words | Merriam-Webster Thesaurus
Synonyms for WINNOWS: culls, trims, reduces, pares, cuts, sifts, discards, jettisons; Antonyms of WINNOWS: selects, takes, chooses, elects, picks, prefers,...
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