What is Great American Desert?
[[File:Johnson 1920 HighPlains.jpg|300px|thumb|Picture of the High Plains in [[Haskell County, Kansas]]. It shows a grassy land with no trees. It also shows a ''[[buffalo wallow]]''. (Photo by W.D. Johnson, 1897) <ref>[[Nelson Horatio Darton|Darton, N.H.]] 1920. Syracuse-Lakin folio, Kansas. United States Department of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey, Folios of the Geologic Atlas, No. 212, 10 pp. (See Plate 2)</ref>]] 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 west|100th meridian]].<ref>{{cite magazine | url = http://www.southdakotamagazine.com/old-growth-pines | title = The Old Growth Pines | last = Meierhenry | first = Mark | date = March 2008 | magazine = [[South Dakota Magazine]]}}</ref> The area is now usually called the [[High Plains (United States)|High Plains]]. The first term is now sometimes used to call the [[List of North American deserts|arid region]] of [[North America]], which includes parts of northwestern [[Mexico]] and the [[Southwestern United States|American southwest]]. ==Related pages== *[[Dust Bowl]] *[[High Plains (United States)]] ==References== {{reflist}} {{US Stub}} [[Category:Landforms of the United States]] [[Category:Deserts of North America]] [[Category:19th century in the United States]]