You may be right. The prairies though would have been more broken up by the heavy timber, underbush and canebreaks along the increasingly frequent creeks and streams as one would travel eastward. Plus there would be occasionally fairly big brush timber motes established in some of the prairies that had somehow gotten big enough to resist the frequent prairie fires.
Even today every and I do mean every little stream or watercourse has its belt of timber. Some not very wide but a belt anyway. There just are not any naturally open banked streams unless they have been dozed off.
Oh well Back to the fight at Plumb Creek.
