The ranch gets its name from the Prairie Chapel School which was built nearby on land donated by mid-19th century German immigrant Heinrich Engelbrecht from Oppenwehe, Germany, who owned the land that now comprises the Bush ranch.

Engelbrecht also donated land for the nearby Canaan Baptist Church ( the " Prairie Chapel ").

Activity by British traders and the presence of a colony on the Red prompted the United State War Department in 1819 to send Lieutenant-Colonel Henry Leavenworth from Detroit to put a post 300 miles northwest of Prairie Du Chien, until then the most advanced United States post.

Alberta was once the smallest of the three Prairie Provinces by population in the early 20th century, but by 2009, Alberta's population was 3, 632, 483 or approximately three times as much as either Saskatchewan ( 1, 023, 810 ) or Manitoba ( 1, 213, 815 ).

Like other architects who viewed the Wasmuth Portfolio and its associated exhibit, Mies was enthralled with the free-flowing spaces of inter-connected rooms which encompass their outdoor surroundings as demonstrated by the open floor plans of the American Prairie Style work of Frank Lloyd Wright.

One of these was the Prairie Network, operated by the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory from 1963 to 1975 in the midwestern US.

Inspired by this article, Maurice Oehler, now a retired high school chemistry teacher from Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, founded the National Mole Day Foundation ( NMDF ) on May 15, 1991.

Prairie dog tunnel systems help channel rainwater into the water table to prevent runoff and erosion, and can also serve to change the composition of the soil in a region by reversing soil compaction that can be a result of cattle grazing.

Prairie dogs with kin close by called more often than those that did not have kin nearby.

Prairie dogs are also very susceptible to bubonic plague, and many wild colonies have been wiped out by it.

Wright Flyer III piloted by Orville Wright over Huffman Prairie, 4 October 1905

Prairie Scene: Mirage, by Alfred Jacob Miller

The " Prairie School " of Frank Lloyd Wright, George Washington Maher and other architects in Chicago, the Country Day School movement, the bungalow and ultimate bungalow style of houses popularized by Greene and Greene, Julia Morgan, and Bernard Maybeck are some examples of the American Arts and Crafts and American Craftsman style of architecture.

Louis Henry Sullivan ( September 3, 1856 – April 14, 1924 ) was an American architect, and has been called the " father of skyscrapers " and " father of modernism " He is considered by many as the creator of the modern skyscraper, was an influential architect and critic of the Chicago School, was a mentor to Frank Lloyd Wright, and an inspiration to the Chicago group of architects who have come to be known as the Prairie School.

Influenced by the Chicago-based Prairie School, Griffin went on to develop a unique modern style.

A brief resurgence of production beginning in the early 1970s yielded the Mutual Broadcasting System's The Zero Hour ( hosted by Rod Serling ), National Public Radio's Earplay, and veteran Himan Brown's CBS Radio Mystery Theater and General Mills Radio Adventure Theater, later followed by the Sears / Mutual Radio Theater, The National Radio Theater of Chicago, NPR Playhouse, a newly produced episode of the former 1950s series X Minus One, and works by a new generation of dramatists, notably Yuri Rasovsky, Thomas Lopez of ZBS and the dramatic sketches heard on humorist Garrison Keillor's A Prairie Home Companion.

The 1989 anthology Foundation's Friends included the positronic robot stories " Balance " by Mike Resnick, " Blot " by Hal Clement, " PAPPI " by Sheila Finch, " Plato's Cave " by Poul Anderson, " The Fourth Law of Robotics " by Harry Harrison and " Carhunters of the Concrete Prairie " by Robert Sheckley.

A Prairie Home Companion is a live radio variety show created and hosted by Garrison Keillor.

Prairie dog family

* Laura Ingalls Wilder's Little House on the Prairie series describes her father and family claiming a homestead in Kansas, and later Dakota Territory.

War of 1812 veteran Captain Moses Allen and his family settled here in 1827 in an area that became known as " Allen's Prairie ".

White settlement in the Schoolcraft area dates to 1828 ( nine years before Michigan's admission to the Union ), when Bazel Harrison moved his family from Ohio to present-day Prairie Ronde Township, becoming the first settler in the future Kalamazoo County.

Alphonso Hall and his family are listed on the 1880 Federal Census roster for Grand Prairie township, though not on the 1875 census.

When this couple, who found the boy useful in the farm labor, intended to move out to the Prairie territories, without her knowing, some of Mary's family arranged that the couple should take the child along with money given them by her father.

In the late 1880s, the Daggs family ( by way of Texas ) became the first family to settle what is now known as Ada, which was originally known as Daggs Prairie.

Wishing to recognize the contributions of the Patterson family ( owners of National Cash Register ) the area of Wright Field east of Huffman Dam ( including Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield Air Depot, and the Huffman Prairie ) was renamed Patterson Field on July 6, 1931, in honor of Lt. Frank Stuart Patterson, who was killed in 1918 during a flight test of a new mechanism for synchronizing machine gun and propeller, when a tie rod broke during a dive from, causing the wings to separate from his Airco DH. 4.

Little House on the Prairie, published in 1935, is the third of the series of books known as the Little House series, but only the second book to focus on the life of the Ingalls family ( the second book in the series, Farmer Boy focused on the childhood of Laura's future husband, Almanzo Wilder ).

Independence, Kansas is the location where the Ingalls family settled on the Osage Diminished Reserve from 1869 – 1870, and was at the center of the plot of the book, Little House on the Prairie.

The Heath Hen ( Tympanuchus cupido cupido ) was a distinctive subspecies of the Greater Prairie Chicken, Tympanuchus cupido, a large North American bird in the grouse family, or possibly a distinct species, that became extinct in 1932.

* A spelling bee features as pioneer family entertainment in Little Town on the Prairie by Laura Ingalls Wilder, in which Pa ' spells down ' the whole town.

24fps finds her and achieves their goal of allowing Prairie to meet her, at an enormous reunion of Frenesi's family.

The family reunion allows everyone to tie up all their loose ends together, and the book ends with Prairie looking into the beginning of a life no longer controlled by the fallout of the past.

7th Heaven is the longest-running series that has ever aired on The WB and is the longest-running family drama in television history ( beating out both Little House on the Prairie and The Waltons ).

The Greater Prairie Chicken or Pinnated Grouse, Tympanuchus cupido, is a large bird in the grouse family.

Wishing to recognize the contributions of the Patterson family, the area of Wright Field east of Huffman Dam ( including Wilbur Wright Field, Fairfield Air Depot, and the Huffman Prairie ) was made a separate air station and renamed Patterson Field on 6 July 1931, in honor of Lt. Patterson.

The Prairie Warbler, ( Setophaga discolor ), is a small songbird of the New World warbler family.

Elsewhere, ER ), as have family dramas ( Eight is Enough, The Waltons, Little House on the Prairie ) and crime dramas ( Dragnet, Hawaii Five-O, Hill Street Blues, Law & Order and CSI: Crime Scene Investigation-the last two of which have spawned multiple spin-offs ).

Little House on the Prairie is an American Western drama television series, starring Michael Landon and Melissa Gilbert, about a family living on a farm in Walnut Grove, Minnesota, in the 1870s and 1880s.

In 1859, Gano moved his family to Grapevine Prairie, Texas, in northeast Tarrant County ( roughly on the present site of the Dallas / Fort Worth International Airport ), and began farming and stockraising, as well as continuing to practice medicine.

* A Prairie Grove ( 1938 ), a narrative of the history and family home of naturalist Robert Kennicott

Louis and his family moved from St. Louis to the Prairie du Chien estate in 1885.