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	Great American Desert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great American Desert was an inaccurate term that described the area west of the Missouri River and east of the Rocky Mountains in the 19th century.
		When the region was purchased by the United States as part of the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, President Jefferson wrote of the "immense and trackless deserts" of the region.
		The area was also considered as a useful region for the resettlement of American Indians who were being forcibly removed from the eastern United States.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_American_Desert (412 words)

	Great Plains - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Great Plains is the broad expanse of prairie which lies east of the Rocky Mountains in the United States of America and Canada, covering all or parts of the U.S. states of New Mexico, Texas, Oklahoma, Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Wyoming, Montana, South Dakota and North Dakota and the Canadian provinces of Alberta and Saskatchewan.
		Historically the Great Plains were the range of the bison and of the Great Plains culture of the Native American tribes of the Blackfeet, Crow, Sioux, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche and others.
		After the near-extinction of the buffalo and the removal of the Native Americans to Indian reservations, the Great Plains were devoted to ranching and were open range, that is, anyone was theoretically free to run cattle.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Great_Plains (911 words)

	Kansas and Kansans Ch. 7
		Perhaps Lieutenant Pike was to some extent responsible for the legend "The Great American Desert," which adorned the maps of the school Geographies published in the early part of the nineteenth century.
		Smith, A. On the Map of the "United States and Texas," the "Great American Desert" is delineated as embracing the Panhandle portion of Texas and the country west of the 101st meridian to the Rocky Mountains - and from the Arkansas to the Platte, following the North Fork of the Platte.
		And, as in all other things, the myth of the Great American Desert is an asset of no mean proportion to the Kansas man. All of which serves to establish, in a way, the boast that what is a calamity for other countries is often a valuable asset for Kansas.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1918ks/v1/ch7p1.html (3323 words)

	On The Great South American Desert
		I am in the heart of the great South American desert, that wonderful strip of sand which extends from the borders of Ecuador for two thousand miles southward, along the Pacific coasts of Peru and Chile.
		The origin of the Peruvian desert may be •explained by stating that the atmosphere forms the clothing of the earth, and that old Mother Earth works well only when her clothes are periodically wet.
		The mountains are great clothes-wringers, which squeeze the rain out of the air, and by the difference in temperature cause it to fall on the land.
	www.oldandsold.com /articles29/south-america-8.shtml (2586 words)

	American West - The Great American Desert
		The Great American Desert was the name given, in the first half of the nineteenth century, to the area west of the Mississippi river.
		As people moved onto the Great Plains, the area referred to as the Great American Desert became smaller and smaller until only the Utah and Nevada plains bore the name.
		The Great Plains stretch from the Mississippi river in the East to the Rocky mountains in the West.
	www.historyonthenet.com /American_West/great_american_desert.htm (414 words)

	The North American Deserts - DesertUSA
		Three of these deserts -- the Chihuahuan, the Sonoran and the Mojave -- are called "hot deserts," because of their high temperatures during the long summer and because the evolutionary affinities of their plant life are largely with the subtropical plant communities to the south.
		Great American Desert: An ill-defined, semiarid region of the Great Plains, or, all of the North American deserts combined.
		OR The entire region from the northern boundary of the Sonoran Desert of Arizona to southwestern Colorado and southern Utah, encompassing the Colorado River, the Colorado Plateau and its numerous parks and monuments.
	www.desertusa.com /glossary.html (825 words)

	The Past and Present Farming Frontier
		By 1890 however, American farmers had settled this region and the "Great American Desert" myth was dispelled.
		In The Great Valley, and Prairies of the Northeast and Northwest, Wilber described the trans-Mississippi West as a lush paradise.
		Wendell Berry, from the Unsettling of American Agriculture
	www.colorado.edu /AmStudies/lewis/west/farmf.htm (2875 words)

	"Walter Prescott WebbÃs Great Plains Thesis"
		Thus, for a period of time, the United States was a two-ocean land mass with an enormous corridor known as the "Great American Desert" that lay uninhabited and undeveloped by the citizens of the nation.
		In the Great Plains region, this rainfall pattern stretches from roughly the 98th meridian to the 120th meridian (the Pacific slope).
		The American military found the Indians of the Great Plains to be a formidable enemy in battle and a barrier to westward expansion that took a quarter century to remove.
	www2.austincc.edu /lpatrick/his1302/webb.html (2936 words)

	Building Cathedrals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		On his maps and journals he referred to the area roughly located between the 98th parallel and the Rocky Mountains as the "Great American Desert," - a region "wholly unfit for cultivation and uninhabitable for those dependent on agriculture." These maps and journals were used widely in American schools and universities.
		In The Great Valley, and Prairies of the Northeast and Northwest, Wilber described the Trans-Mississippi West as a Garden, using "scientific" evidence that "rain follows the plow." This countered both Long's "Desert" myth and the central problem of settling the Plains - aridity.
		For Turner, American history is largely about people leaving settled areas for the frontier, and their struggle to find new ways to live in new lands.
	www.angelfire.com /wa2/buildingcathedrals/environmentregions.html (362 words)

	The Great American Desert
		The desert is for movies and God-intoxicated mystics, not for family recreation.
		Geographers generally divide the North American desert-what was once termed "the Great American Desert"-into four distinct regions or subdeserts.
		Do not burn desert wood, wich is rare and beautiful and required ages for its creation (an ironwood tree lives for over 1,000 years and juniper almost as long).
	www.moonstar.com /~acpjr/Blackboard/111BB/abbey.html (2568 words)

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		Great Salt Lake Desert GREAT SALT LAKE DESERT extends west and southwest of the Great Salt Lake.
		This salt desert is enclosed on the west by the Pilot Range north of Wendover* and by the lofty Deep Creek Range to the southwest.
		Today, Utah's share of true desert could be incorporated in the Great Salt Lake Desert, consisting of western Box Elder, Tooele, and Juab counties, with isolated areas in Millard County, depending on what one's definition of a true desert is. Bibliography: Stevens, Dale J., ed.
	www.uen.org /ucme/media/text/ta002786.txt (243 words)

	Chapter One: The Great Plains
		Discarding the name Great American Desert, this immense tract of country, with its eastern boundary moved back by civilization to a distance of nearly three hundred miles west of the Missouri River, is now known as the Plains, and by this more appropriate title it shall be called when reference to it is necessary.
		A journey by rail across the Plains is at best but ill adapted to a thorough or satisfactory examination of the general character of the country, for the reason that in selecting the route for railroads the valley of some stream is, if practicable, usually chosen to contain the road-bed.
		The number of these is so great as to excite surprise; a moderate estimate would give from one to three to each acre of ground throughout this vast tract of country.
	www.kancoll.org /books/custerg/cgchap01.htm (2830 words)

	Nebraska, the Garden Spot of the World (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The gold was farther west beyond the Rockies, and the "Great American Desert" seemed ill suited for farming.
		After a comparatively short life, Great Grandmother Louisa Harris died from what was then called "Galloping Consumption" and prior to her death had looked across to a higher hill and requested that she be buried there.
		John Paddock and Great Grandmother Louisa shared honors of being the first teachers as there were two terms, spring term and fall term.
	www.olden-times.com /OldtimeNebraska/n-pbacon/bacon.html (1310 words)

	Which Old West and Whose?
		he concept of the Great American Desert had long been familiar to Americans and indeed it controlled much of the directions of the growth of the nation for a major part of the nineteenth century.
		As the population increased in the Great Plains trans Mississippi West area, many people came to recognize that the old myth of the Great American Desert was no longer true.
		Now they began to call the Great Plains in the late 1860s and the 1870s "The Garden," the Garden of the West, an agricultural paradise in which there was space enough, and time enough for people to achieve their wildest dreams.
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/weblect/lec03/03_02.HTM (707 words)

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		As the American pressure on the eastern tribes grew, those tribes moved into the Comanche territories and were met with war by the Comanches.
		The ensuing battle of Blanco Canyon was not a great success because the Indians retreated to the Llano Estacado and cold weather prevented the army from pursuing.
		Assembling away from the reservation in June of 1874, the southern tribes met in a great and unprecedented effort to oppose the white man. The meeting, led by Quanah Parker of the Comanches consisted of the Kiowas, the Arapahoes, and Cheyennes.
	interoz.com /LUBBOCK/anglo.htm (1441 words)

	The Great Basin Desert - DesertUSA
		The Great Basin Desert, the largest U. desert, covers an arid expanse of about 190,000 square miles and is bordered by the Sierra Nevada Range on the west and the Rocky Mountains on the east, the Columbia Plateau to the north and the Mojave and Sonoran deserts to the south.
		This is a cool or "cold desert" due to its more northern latitude, as well as higher elevations (at least 3,000 feet, but more commonly from 4,000 to 6,500 feet).
		: Bordered on the south by the Mojave and Sonoran deserts at Interstate 40, on the north by Interstate 70, on the west by U.S. Route 395 in Nevada, and on the east by U.S. Route 550 in Colorado and the Continental Divide in New Mexico.
	www.desertusa.com /du_basin.html (276 words)

	Mojave National Preserve (National Park Service)
		Desert tortoises burrow in creosote bush flats, while the fl and yellow Scott’s oriole nests in Joshua trees higher up the slopes.
		Originally part of a network of Indian trails, the route became a wagon road when the Army established a series of outposts across the desert in the 1860s.
		The road was the major route across the Mojave Desert until the arrival of the first railroad route in 1883.
	www.nps.gov /moja (464 words)

	Agripedia, Interactive Multimedia Instructional Agriculture Resources (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		he first waves of westward migration during the early 1800s bypassed the "Great American Desert," as the land west of the Missouri river and east of the Rockies was known.
		he image of the Great American Desert was painted by the first explorers, confirmed by scientific investigators and military reports, and popularized by travelers and newspapers.
		By 1890, the percentage of foreign born in these Great Plains states was as high as one-third to almost one-half of the total population.
	www.ca.uky.edu /Agripedia/classes/GEN100/POPBSET.asp (1434 words)

	Great American Desert - KS-Cyclopedia - 1912
		Bradford's Atlas of 1838 indicates the great desert as extending from the Arkansas through into Colorado and Wyoming, including South Dakota, part of Nebraska and Kansas.
		Others thought the desert included an area 500 miles wide lying directly east of the Rocky mountains and extending from the northern boundary of the United States to the Rio Grande river.
		He considered a great part of the country unfit for cultivation, and uninhabitable by people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence.
	skyways.lib.ks.us /genweb/archives/1912/g/great_american_desert.html (836 words)

	THE ONCE VAST INDIAN TERRITORY
		Indian tribes living in the Ohio Valley stood in the way of the Americans' push to settle the fertile area in the 1820s.
		The Great Plains had been the crossroads of nomadic tribes long before the Spanish explorer Francisco Vasquez de Coronado ventured into the region in 1541.
		Zebulon Pike reported in 1806 that the vast lands west of the great bend in the Missouri River were sandy deserts devoid of vegetation and unsuitable for cultivation.
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/kansas_history/73133 (449 words)

	GREAT AMERICAN MOTORCYCLE EXPERIENCE - race-dezert.com
		The Great American Desert Grand Prix, featuring Pro, Expert, Amateur and Novice classes, will be held on Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 20-21 and held on a special five-mile desert track on the northeast corner of LVMS.
		Presenting the Great American Flat Track Championship is Eddie Mulder, the Great American Speedway Championship is being staged by Brad Oxley's International Speedway, Inc., while producing the Great American Motocross Championship is Ron Henricksen, president of the National Motosport Association.
		Veteran drag racing official Cliff Ricci and noted motorcycle drag racing official Thomas Popowich are presenting the Great American Drag Racing Championship and Joe Montoya and his American Federation of Motorcyclists is presenting the Great American Road Course Championship.
	www.race-dezert.com /forum/showthread.php?t=6428 (895 words)

	Astoria - CHAPTER XXII. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		We are contributing incessantly to swell this singular and heterogeneous cloud of wild population that is to hang about our frontier, by the transfer of whole tribes from the east of the Mississippi to the great wastes of the far West.
		We cannot be surprised, therefore, that some of the resolute of his party should feel dismay at the thoughts of adventuring into this perilous wilderness under the uncertain guidance of three hunters, who had merely passed once through the country and might have forgotten the landmarks.
		Hunt, therefore, considered himself fortunate in having met with a man who might be of great use to him in any intercourse he might have with the tribe.
	www.worldwideschool.org /library/books/hst/northamerican/Astoria/chap23.html (1217 words)

	Glossary, Chapter 13
		Army reports of western exploration by Zebulon Pike and Stephen H. Long helped to implant the image of the Great Plains as a "Great American Desert," a waterless and treeless region unsuited for agriculture.
		This influential myth delayed American settlement of the Plains for a generation.
		Many Americans in the nineteenth century shared the mistaken belief that a Northwest Passage connected the Missouri River with the Columbia River and the Pacific Ocean.
	occawlonline.pearsoned.com /bookbind/pubbooks/martin_awl/medialib/glossary/gloss_13.html (401 words)

	Desert Survivor (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Great American Desert stretches from Oregon to central Mexico, encompassing some of the loneliest, loveliest spots on the planet.
		Desert Survivor tells readers how to get there, what to take, and the dangers and pleasures they can expect to encounter along the way.
		Desert Survivor is written for the daypacker as well as the more intense traveler who wants to spend a few nights or more under desert skies.
	www.maps4u.com /products/Book/Desert_Survivor.html (200 words)

	Untitled Document (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		However, California was quickly settled and became a State in 1850 because of the great Gold Rush of 1849.
		The overland route used by the Mormons on their westward journey is now preserved and cooperatively maintained as the Mormon Pioneer National Historic Trail from Nauvoo to Salt Lake City.
		During the early Nineteenth Century, the Great Plains region of the United States was identified on maps as "the Great American Desert." The explorers Zebulon Pike and Stephen Long originated this idea with their descriptions of the region following their expeditions through it.
	www.nps.gov /jeff/wagon.htm (361 words)

	H102 Lecture 03: Which "Old West" and Whose?
		Massive reduction in native population was a central factor in the history of Native American Indians: Indian population in the 1600s has been estimated at 10 million; by 1865, 300,000 remained.
		While Americans had once headed west looking for gold in streams and mines, politicians and leaders of industry began to look for gold in factories and corrupt business and political practices.
		The story of these new "gold mines" is an incredibly fascinating aspect of American history; so important, in fact, that we'll take it up in the next lecture: The Gilded Age and the Politics of Corruption.
	us.history.wisc.edu /hist102/lectures/textonly/lecture03.html (1684 words)

	Brown Paper Tickets - The Great American Desert
		First performed in 1961 as the official opener of The Judson's Poets' Theatre, "The Great America Desert" is getting its first New York performance in over 43 years.
		Written by Black Mountain poet Joel Oppenheimer and directed by Garrett Ayers, "The Great American Desert" is a multi dimensional play that follows three cowboys on the run from the law after a bank robbery.
		Oppenheimer's first dramatic work interrogates the truth behind the romantic mythology of the American West through frequent interruptions of dance, music and commercials read by a chorus of Old West Heroes including Wild Bill Hickock, Wyatt Earp, Billy The Kid and Doc Holliday who comment on the unfolding action.
	www.brownpapertickets.com /event/736 (196 words)

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