"War Practice" with Outlands

[Will Ritchie]

On Wed, 2 Apr 1997 Tyrca at aol.com wrote:
> I think you mean "Wars of the Staked Plains", don't you?
> Lady Tyrca Ivarsdottir

I don't know if this is already common knowledge, but the term "staked
plains" is period, as is New Mexico's "Land of Enchantment" (Los Planos
Estacadas and Tierra Encantada).  Bear in mind that these weren't flowery
tourist phrases; the Spaniards thought the place was haunted, or at least
Damn Spooky.  When one expedition first saw the yucca-covered plains
there, legend has it that they thought for a moment that Someone or
Something had driven hundreds of thousands of stakes into the ground
before them (the stems of the yucca blooms).  A cute story, if nothing
else.

Morric
(who used to live there; it _can_ be Damn Spooky)