![]() ![]() ![]() Marcy in 1849, was "…a region almost as vast and trackless as the ocean-a land where no man, either savage or civilized, permanently abides it spreads forth into a treeless, desolate waste of uninhabited solitude, which always has been, and must continue, uninhabited forever…". Mapmakers later bequeathed the plains as The Great American Desert that, in the words of Captain Randolph B. Featureless and seemingly endless with no evidence of water, humans avoided the plains for fear of getting lost and dying of thirst. When early European explorers first saw the High Plains, they were not impressed. Review of "Ogallala - Water for a dry land", University of Nebraska Press, 2018, by Opie, J. The Meadows Center for Water and the Environment and the Geography Department, Texas State University, San Marcos, Texas cite this Review: Mace, R. ![]()
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