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The High Plains

This is the matrix in which I was made, a harsh land of short-grass prairie and endless, sun-bleached sky

When people think of Kansas, they think of the staid Midwest, but western Kansas is on the High Plains stretching toward the Continental Divide at the summit of the Rocky Mountains. It is a harsh land of short-grass prairie and endless, sun-bleached sky that is…