They utterly destroy all the game; they even drive the fish out of the streams and cut the grasses and weeds down to the surface of the earth.

The denuded soil crumbles under their countless hoofs, becomes dust, and blows away.

They leave a waste, a desert, an abomination.
There were yet other phases of change which followed hard upon the heels of our soldiers after they had completed their task of subjugating the tribes of the buffalo Indians.

After the homesteads had been proved up in some of the Northwestern States, such as Montana and the Dakotas, large bodies of land were acquired by certain capitalistic farmers.

All this new land had been proved to be exceedingly prolific of wheat, the great new-land crop.