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 ...

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 ...

Svoboda (Great American Desert) delivers a lyrical Midwestern gothic. The novel opens when a woman sees her brother’s ghost (both are unnamed) in a dust storm holding a shovel, a totem from ...

The Great American Desert is very much like the proverbial little girl who had a curl right in the middle of her forehead: when it is good, it is very good, and when it's bad, it certainly is ...

Directed by Lawrence Kornfield, The Great American Desert premiered in 1961 as the inaugural production of the Judson Poet's Theatre, which was one of the core groups that made up the alternative ...

‘Great American Desert’ threatens to swallow eight US states as massive aquifer dries up Written by Greg Beach on Nov 27, 2017 ...

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 ...

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 ...