The term Great American Desert was used in the 19th century to describe the part of North America east of the Rocky Mountains to approximately the 100th meridian. [2] It can be traced …

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 …

The Great American Desert was the name given, in the first half of the nineteenth century, to the area west of the Mississippi river. At the time, the area was only inhabited by tribes of native …

Early nineteenth century Army explorers Zebulon Pike and Stephen H. Long conceptualized the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains as the “Great American Desert.” Long’s report called …

2025年2月14日 · Also called the Great American Desert, the Great Plains lie between the in the south and the delta of the Interior Lowlands on the west. Some sections are extremely flat, …

What was the Great American Desert? The Great American Desert was the area of land between the Mississippi River and the Rocky Mountains. This was the name given to the area by the …

GREAT AMERICAN DESERT. Edwin James, chronicler of Stephen Long's 1820 expedition, formed the image of the Great American Desert (the Plains as a region unfit for American …

The Great American Desert was a term used in 1800s to describe the western part of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains in North America to about the 100th meridian. [2] The area …

The Great American Desert is the kind of "then and now" history that the regional scholar who is an "insider" can best write, for he can argue, plead and criticize in the "now" part in a way …

2018年7月2日 · For most of the first half of the 19th century, eastern America’s conception of the western portion of North America could be spelled out in three words: Great American Desert.