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Great Plains & Prairies

The Great Plains and Prairies includes the southern portion of Alberta, Saskatchewan, and Manitoba in Canada, and North Dakota, South Dakota, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, central Texas, as well as the eastern portions of New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming, and Montana.

=__**Big Cities**__= =**Fargo, North Dakota (pop. 113,000)**=



If you take the largest city in North Dakota multiply the population by 30x and it still has less people then we have in our biggest city here in California. North Dakota's Largest city is known as Fargo, North Dakota. It has a population of 113,000 people in 2013. Compare that to the population of the largest city here in California which is Los Angeles that has a massive population of 3.88 million people. To compare the land to the people Fargo has approximately 48.82 million square miles of land, while Los Angeles is at 503 million square miles. So Los Angeles is around 10x the size but yet it has 30x the population.

=__**Historical Landmark**__= =**- Mount Rushmore**=



In South Dakota, one landmark brings in almost three million visitors a year. People come from all over the world to see one of the most famous sculptures ever created. Mount Rushmore was sculpted by Danish-American Gutzon Borglum and his son, Lincoln Borglum, on October 4, 1927, but was not completed until 1941. This masterpiece was to promote tourism in South Dakota, and with the help of 400 workers in harsh conditions, and one million dollars, it was finally built. It is made up of mostly granite, and each face is roughly 60 ft high. The faces of granite depict four U.S presidents, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln. The sculpture was not only to promote tourism, but to honor these four presidents. At this landmark there also is a museum that represents this historical venue, showcasing it's timeline from being constructed, all the way to when it was finally built. Mount Rushmore has been a hot tourist spot for years, and it will continue to bring in enormous crowds in the future.