pampas

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On the pampas they may have been equally valued for their relatively fatty meat.

From Science Magazine • Dec. 7, 2023

“Fall is the perfect time to scavenge for materials to use in your décor — pampas grass, pine cones, acorns, bittersweet, pussy willows, branches of leaves, dried hydrangeas, and whatever else you can find.”

From Seattle Times • Nov. 15, 2023

Years ago, when he read Bruce Chatwin’s “In Patagonia,” he retraced the writer’s 168-mile trek across the pampas of South America to the Cave of the Giant Sloth.

From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 3, 2023

It was brought to Argentina's sprawling plains, or pampas, by British immigrants in the late 1800s, where it found a home alongside the South American country's iconic gaucho cowboys.

From Reuters • Apr. 12, 2022

For instance, Native American societies became renowned for their mastery of horses, and in some cases of cattle and sheepherding, in parts of the Great Plains, the western United States, and the Argentine pampas.

From "Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies" by Jared M. Diamond