A Traverse across Kit Carson County, Colorado, with Notes on Land Use on the Margin of the Old Dust Bowl, 1939-1940 and 1962

Ta TIE Great Plains of North America, like other semiarid grasslands of middle latitudes, are among the New Lands of the world. Here, as Walter Webb pointed out for the Great Plains,' is an opportunity to see how the newcomers go about occupying the land and living on it. He stressed the importance of innovation and experimentation, matters which will not be dealt with ill this paper. Isaiah Bowman's Pioneer Fringe2 emphasized the importance of experimenltation and called attention to speculation, high risk, and the occurrence of advances and retreats. The risks of agricultural settlement in the Great Plains, apart from those associated with irrigation and stock raising, have been judged too great by Powell, Johnson, and Thornthwaite, in turn.3 Each considered the hazards of below average

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