The Great American Desert is the area of land west of the Mississippi River and east of Rockies. The Dakotas, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma, a good part of Texas, New Mexico, Colorado, Wyoming and Montana. During this time only Indians were in this land. White people were considered unfit for habitation. This area of land got its name because it is in America and this area of land flat, treeless, and like a desert. There is no food and very hard to grow food. This area was quickly transformed into America’s breadbasket. It also was the site of many of our country’s richest mines. As people moved westward the Great American Desert became smaller and smaller until nothing was hardly left. This impact was hard for some people but good for others.
