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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. But to the ...

Guides for the Great American Overland Trail acknowledge there's not much to see besides vast desert during the first part of segment four, another 681-mile route. Drivers exit the Jarbidge ...

As Nebraska’s population slowly moved westward, the area, sometimes known as the Great American Desert, never became densely ...

Once again the Wild West is brought to the stage, this time via Joel Oppenheimer's comedy about three cowboys traveling through the desert of the Great Plains. At the outset, the audience has ...

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. The ...

Svoboda’s desert-themed stories wonderfully capture the wonder and nastiness of the American West. [em](Mar.) [/em] ...

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