Great American Desert
19th-century term referring to the Great Plains of the United States
The Great American Desert was a term used in 1800s to describe the western part of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains in North America to about the 100th meridian.[2]
The area is now usually called the High Plains. The first term is now sometimes used to call the arid region of North America, which includes parts of northwestern Mexico and the American southwest.
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change- ↑ Darton, N.H. 1920. Syracuse-Lakin folio, Kansas. United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Folios of the Geologic Atlas, No. 212, 10 pp. (See Plate 2)
- ↑ Meierhenry, Mark (March 2008). "The Old Growth Pines". South Dakota Magazine.
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