The “Great American Desert” was the term used by the people east of the Mississippi River to express their idea of the country westward when it was an unknown land. Carey and Lee’s Atlas of 1827 located the Great American Desert as an indefinite territory in what is now Colorado, Kansas, Nebraska, Oklahoma, and Texas.
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- "Great American Desert," mapped by Stephen H. Long in 1820. Historic photo of the High Plains in Haskell County, Kansas...
- “This region which resembles one of the ancient steppes of Asia, has not inaptly been termed ‘The Great American Desert.’
- The term Great American Desert was used in the 19th century to describe the part of North America east of the Rocky Mountains to approxomiately the 100th...
- The Great American Desert was the name given, in the first half of the nineteenth century, to the area west of the Mississippi river.
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- And on the early maps, Western Kansas was included in that great area marked "The Great American Desert".
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