Rich and imposing cities as for example Atlanta, Houston, Dallas developed just with the miraculous rapidity. Houston is the outstanding world wide space and oil center, Florida became the paradise of tourists; water skiing, windsurfing and surfing have their right of domicile here. Fertile farmlands of the US Middle West are symbolized by the boots and the wide-brimmed hat. The Central Plains and thr area of the Great Plains, all this is stretching from the Canadian border to northern Texas. There are such states of exciting names as Kansas, Oklahoma, North and South Dakota. In 1880 the first harvester went out to the fields here which meant the true revolution in the country of80 per cent of all agricultural soil. There are the huge farms controlled by the peak technical equipment where the extensively used corns is growing as the force of the US agriculture.
The City of Chicago is the pride of the Central Plains. With its population of about 7 million, it is the third largest city in the US. After the fire in the end of the last century it became the rapidly growing city which fully opened the possibilities to the architects especially since the invention of the elevator enabled them to erect the city into the heights. Chicago School for Architects was based on that fact. The Great Plains are mostly the unknown notion for the foreigner although they are the most extensive region of the US. There are few large cities there. Spare settlement, severe weather which is able do destroy the whole year´s work of the farmer in one day. But there are also regions like the praires of the state Minnesota which belong to the most fertile areas of the US. Minnesota borders on South and North Dakota – where the Central Plains already end and the other world begins there.
The majestic Rocky Mountains reminding the Alps are stretching from the Arctic even to Mexico. For a long time the only inhabitants were the Indians. The struggle against white people ended with the definite defeat in 1891 only and in 1924 only the US Congress established the rights as the US citizens for the Indians. There are also the loveliest national parks. In the state of Montana, bordering with Canada, there is Glacier National Park, the reminder of the ice-age.