Excerpt from The Mystic Mid-Region: The Deserts of the Southwest Nevada Desert, the Black Rock Desert, the Smoke Creek Desert, the Painted Desert, the Mojave Desert, the Colorado Desert, etc.; the Great American Desert being the name now applied to that alkali waste west of Salt Lake in Utah. AS a mat teriof fact, however, these are but local names for a great section of arid country in the United States from two hundred to five hun dred miles wide, and seven hundred to eight hundred miles long, and extending far down into Mexico, unbroken save for an occasional oasis furnished by nature, or small areas made habitable by irrigation. 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.