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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.

‘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 ...

THERMOPOLIS, Wyo. – The Great American Desert becomes a more pleasant place during a Great American Solar Eclipse. On sunbaked, scrubby public land, instant twilight brings cool relief, and a ...

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 ...