Agriculture

Washington Irving describes honeybees in A Tour of the Prairies: "It is surprising in what countless swarms the bees have overspread the Far West within a moderate number of years. The Indians consider them the harbinger of the white man, as the buffalo is of the red man; and say that, in proportion as the bee advances, the Indian and the buffalo retire . . . I am told that the wild bee is seldom to be met with at any great distance from the frontier