In a time when the center of the country was described as a “sea of grass,” trappers, traders and explorers shaped the understanding of the both perils and possibilities on the Great Plains.

From the Leavenworth Herald. We are amused sometimes in hearing outsiders talk of the American Desert. Gen. McKEE, well known to all our citizens, has furnished us a fact which exemplifies its ...

TO the ordinary air traveler winging across the U.S. Southwest, the great American desert still seems an arid and forbidding waste of sand, dry lake beds and jagged rock mountains. But to the ...

Once again the Wild West is brought to the stage, this time via Joel Oppenheimer's comedy about three cowboys traveling through the desert of the Great Plains. At the outset, the audience has ...

Three centuries later, the area was still marked on maps as the Great American Desert. Yet in the 1860s pioneers decided in earnest to turn this near-desert into productive farmland.

The prairies were once so lonesome and dreary and treeless that men called them the Great American Desert. A hundred and fifty years later, they’re growing lonesome once more, and the unspoken subject ...

Explore the relationship between groundwater and surface water and more. In the middle of the "Great American Desert", more surface water flows out of Nebraska than flows into it. Nebraska ranks ...

This article was originally published with the title “The Migration of the Great American Desert” in Scientific American Magazine Vol. 42 No. 17 (April 1880), p. 256 doi:10.1038 ...

Candace Cameron Bure and Great American Family CEO Bill Abbott provided members of the military with a special screening of their new film, "My Christmas Hero." ...

November’s Great Books discussion will cover Terese Svoboda’s “Ogallala Aquifer” from her 2019 collection “Great American Desert.” ...

The prospect of an early settlement of the Western territories, and especially of the lands which have been granted by Congress to railroad corporations, must depend in a great measure upon the ...