Where Are the Great Plains? A Cartographic Analysis

Professional Geographer

Volumn 52, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 543-552

  Rossum, Sonja ^a   Lavin, Stephen ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA LINCOLN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

Author keywords

Boundary; Cartography; Great Plains; Region

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY; CARTOGRAPHY; MAPPING;

NORTH AMERICA;

EID: 0033820262     PISSN: 00330124     EISSN: 14679272     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/0033-0124.00245     Document Type: Article

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