The great plains were also known as the great American desert why was this area given that name

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Melloware · Answer 1 · 2022-03-21T10:21:20+0000

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Long called the region "the Great American Desert." He considered the area "almost wholly unfit for cultivation, and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence." It was flat, treeless, and arid. Americans surged westward after 1860 for many reasons.

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