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Tallgrass Prairie National PreserveCowboys practicing roping skills at the ranch
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Limestone and flint on the surface of the soil kept it from being tilled  

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Zebulon Pike unknowingly named the Flint Hills based on his journal entry in 1806 as he camped and passed through the hills of flint. This flint kept the prairie from being tilled. Tallgrass Prairie National Preserve

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