Settlers built homes from local materials, often erecting log cabins in the forested eastern states or sod houses in the treeless prairie.

The town was founded on an elevated area of flat, treeless prairie.

Young Elms, Cottonwoods, shrubs, and flowers began to change the once treeless prairies into shaded garden spots.

The area was originally flat treeless prairie with no distinctive natural features.

Even before American settlement of the region, the existence of these extensive hardwood forests in an otherwise treeless open prairie gave the lake a geographic identity.

The Thrasey army must have packed firewood over the treeless prairie, for a pall of smoke hung above their encampment.

Most of the plain is treeless prairie, but the sandier belts are forested.

Unlike in the East, the settlers couldn't build fences around herds of cattle because there wasn't wood available on the treeless prairies.

To the east the treeless prairie was reddening.

The land was originally flat, treeless prairie but today is designated mostly for agricultural use.