Prairie Chickens

Famous quotes containing the words prairie and/or chickens:

    To the cry of “follow Mormons and prairie dogs and find good land,” Civil War veterans flocked into Nebraska, joining a vast stampede of unemployed workers, tenant farmers, and European immigrants.
    —For the State of Nebraska, U.S. public relief program (1935-1943)

    Did you say all? O hell-kite! All?
    What, all my pretty chickens and their dam
    At one fell swoop?
    William Shakespeare (1564–1616)