- "Great American Desert," mapped by Stephen H. Long in 1820. Historic photo of the High Plains in Haskell County, Kansas...
- Let’s find out more about The Great American Desert! From the 1820s to 1860s, all the area west of the Mississippi River was called the Great American Desert.
- The Great American Desert was the name given, in the first half of the nineteenth century, to the area west of the Mississippi river.
- Great American Desert: An ill-defined, semiarid region of the Great Plains, or, all of the North American deserts combined.
- “This region which resembles one of the ancient steppes of Asia, has not inaptly been termed ‘The Great American Desert.’
- Army explorers Zebulon Pike and Stephen H. Long thought of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains as the “Great American Desert.”
- There are reminders of gunfighters and Indian tribes that are all part of the rich history of the “Great American Desert”.
- Early nineteenth-century Army explorers Zebulon Pike and Stephen H. Long thought of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains as the “Great American Desert.”
- Scientists, in naming this whole ecological complex, or biome, the North American Desert, are merely echoing the legend of a “Great American Desert” established...
- There are four major deserts in the United States, collectively forming the North American Desert. Each of the Great Basin, Mojave, Sonoran, and Chihuahuan...
