Chapter 7 (“‘Surely, Grass Is the Great Mother of All Plains Agriculture’”) focuses on adaptation through agricultural diversification, including power farming, during 1920s and 1930s droughts and the global economic depression of the 1930s. Individuals studied agricultural engineering and crop science to help settler society adapt to the land and climate. Many individuals also worked for aesthetic and recreational reasons to preserve and conserve native grasslands ecology, local wetlands used by migratory-bird populations, and local forest oases. Individuals trained in Nature Study and botany taught in classrooms and wrote publications about native grasslands plants, sometimes also relating Indigenous cultural practices. A fusion of agricultural grain lands, graze lands, and native grasslands formed the base of these generations’ sense of place, but the focus remained on the small family farm, symbolized by grain bundled with twine in stooks, or shocks, dotting the landscape after harvest. Indigenous peoples maintained a sense of place based on different cultural configurations of the same resources.