This is a record of land... of soil rather than people -- a story of the Great Plains; the 400,000,000 acres of wind-swept grass lands that spread up from the Texas panhandle to Canada... A high, treeless continent, without rivers, without streams... A country of high winds, and sun... and of little rain... By 1880 we had cleared the Indian, and with him, the buffalo, from the Great Plains, and established the last frontier... A half million square miles of natural range... This is a picturization of what we did with it.