[DOC] [TLE] Encyclopedia of the Great Plains | INDUSTRY [PAR] In the popular mind, the Great Plains of North America consists of vast open 
spaces ... the Plains, described by Edwin James, chronicler of Stephen Long's 
1820 .... railroads were critically important in the development of Plains 
agriculture. .... A few so-called full-line farm machinery manufacturers located 
their factories on... [DOC] [TLE] Great American Desert - Wikipedia [PAR] The term Great American Desert was used in the 19th century to describe the 
western part of the Great Plains east of the Rocky Mountains in North America to 
about the 100th meridian. The area is now usually referred to as the High Plains, 
and the original term ... It was long thought that treeless lands were not good for 
agriculture; thus the... [DOC] [TLE] Great American Desert - Digital History [PAR] ... in 1820, Major Stephen H. Long called the region "the Great American Desert. 
... uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture for their subsistence. ... 
later, the "Great American Desert" received a new name, the Great Plains. [DOC] [TLE] Stephen H. Long - NebraskaStudies.Org [PAR] Stephen H. Long dubbed the Great Plains the "Great American Desert". ... Long's 
group built their winter quarters nearby and called it "Engineer Cantonment." ... 
On June 6, 1820, Long and 19 men traveled up the north bank of the Platte and 
met ... and of course uninhabitable by a people depending upon agriculture. [DOC] [TLE] Westward Expansion | Encyclopedia of Oklahoma History and Culture [PAR] Stephen H. Long of the Corps of Topographical Engineers, its mission was to 
search ... Bell and his remaining men were glad to reach Fort Smith on 
September 9, 1820. ... Oklahoma was part of the Great American Desert twelve 
months a year, ... as marginally useful for agriculture, as a suitable Indian 
Colonization Zone,... [DOC] [TLE] Back Lecture 3 Fall 2014 - Forum for pages on Facebook [PAR] But I also like looking out and seeing no one, no sign of human development ... 
The lecture talked about how most of the expeditions to the Great Plains ... It is a 
barren and deserted landscape, and that is why it can be correctly called a desert
. ..... Explorers Zebulon Pilke and Stephen Long did not see the agricultural Value
... [DOC] [TLE] contribution141 From Desert to Breadbasket: Developing Kansas's ... [PAR] soil, and settlers were determined to disprove the concept of the plains as a ... 
developing an agriculture suitable to a subhumid environment, where rainfall is ... 
called Kansas displays some striking contrasts .... and south of Kansas River), 
eastern Great ... --Major Stephen H. Long, of the U.S. Topographical Engineers, 
1819. [DOC] [TLE] Social and cultural themes in late nineteenth century central Great ... [PAR] the descendants of those nineteenth century Great Plains settlers who ... 
Agricultural development as fostered by such entities as ..... Terry L. Alford, "The 
West as a Desert in American Thought Prior to Long's 1819-1820 Expedition," ..... 
Richard H. Dillon asserts in "Stephen Long's Great American Desert" that L. 
Frank. [DOC] [TLE] Crisis on the Plains: CQR [PAR] May 9, 2003 ... An exodus of young people from the rural Great Plains is tolling a death knell for 
.... fund to promote business development in so-called high out-migration 
counties. ..... Stephen Long, concluded the area was almost wholly unfit for 
cultivation, .... that not all parts of the plains were suitable for agriculture. [DOC] [TLE] Bison Ecology and Bison Diplomacy: The Southern Plains from ... [PAR] Oct 8, 2007 ... In bright spring light on the Great Plains of two centuries ago, ... of Plains Indian 
life for 250 years and committed to encouraging agriculture over ..... between-
droughts levels, rendering the census of 1910 particularly suitable as a base ..... 
when Stephen Long's expedition and the trading party including... [DOC] [TLE] Harney Lastoka Management Plan - Boulder County [PAR] The Harney-Lastoka agricultural property between the City of Lafayette and the 
City of ... with Louisville's early development as a coal mining center. ... 
Intergovernmental Agreement called the

Question: In 1820 Stephen Long called the Great Plains the "Great" this, unsuitable for agricultural deveopment
Answer: American Desert