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Excerpt from Essentials in American History: From the Discovery to the Present Day Beyond the Mississippi River the land rises imperceptibly into a treeless plateau, which, west of the 100th meridian, is called the Great Plains and is SO dry that farming is almost impossible without irrigation. The bunch grass of these plains once supported countless herds Of wild bison, and now is the pasturage for beef cattle. The Great Plains form the eastern part Of the Rocky Moun tain Highland, which extends to within 150 miles of the Pacific coast, with a general elevation of 5000 feet; from it rise the Rocky Mountain chain in the eastern part, and the Sierra Nevada and Cascade chains on its western margin. The high region between these chains, which may be called the Interior Highland, has been Settled chie y since the Civil War. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."