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The Great American Desert. Share full article. Sept. 30, 1866. Credit... The New York Times Archives. See the article in its original context from September 30, 1866, Page 6 Buy Reprints.

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.

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 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 horrid.

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

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 ...