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Preface<br >Deserts have made fools of the wisest people.<br > Alexis de Tocqueville, fol~ instance, was not easy to trick. In<br >Democracy in America, Tocqu~ville provided the most penetrating<br >analysis of United States culture and politics. Penetration aside,<br >Tocqueville fell for the Great American Desert.<br > Tocqueville did not visit the region, but he described it with<br >certainty. To the west of the Mississippi River, Tocqueville said, "the<br >land becomes more and more uneven and sterile." The further one<br >traveled from the river, "the sparser the vegetation and the poorer<br >becomes the soil, and everything wilts or dies." If there was ever an<br >uninviting landscape, this was it: "the soil is punctured in a thousand<br >places by primitive rocks sticking out here and there like the bones<br >of a skeleton when sinews and flesh have perished. l<br > In America-according-to-Tocqueville, the earth west of the Mis-<br >sissippi was a dry, exposed corpse. The image was, we all know now,<br >a disservice to the Great Plains. Tocqueville had fallen for the reports<br >of explorers like Stephen Long, and for the perspective by which<br >the moderately arid and treeless Plains registered as full-scale deserts.<br >Take the habits of life in a humid climate and a preoccupation with<br >agrarian values; apply those habits and values to the dry grasslands<br > in the middle of the continent; and the myth of the Great American<br > Desert was a predictable product.2<br > This was, in its time, a powerful myth, powerful enough to trick<br >/<br ><br >

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