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• Geology and hydrology of selected playas in western United States (Geology Dept., University of Massachusetts, 1970), by Ward S. Motts, David Carpenter, Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.), and University of Massachusetts (Amherst campus). Department of Geology (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Playa wetlands and wildlife on the southern Great Plains : a guide to habitat management (The Team :, 1984), by R. Wayne Nelson, Emily C. Weller, William J. Logan, R. Wayne Nelson and Associates, United States Environmental Protection Agency, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Region 8, and Western Energy and Land Use Team (page images at HathiTrust)

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• Geology, mineralogy, and hydrology of U.S. playas (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1965., 1965), by James T. Neal and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Giant desiccation polygons of Great Basin playas (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1965., 1965), by James T. Neal and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• A Remote-sensing investigation of four Mojave playas (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1971., 1971), by C. E. Molineux, J. T. Neal, E. E. Bliamptis, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper Lake Studies: 1. Aircraft and ground measurements : 2. Micromorphology and surface properties (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1972., 1972), by T. P. Rooney, Stanley M. Needleman, James T. Neal, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Playa surface morphology : miscellaneous investigations (Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, U.S. Air Force, Office of Aerospace Research, 1968), by James T. Neal and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Giant desiccation polygons of Great Basin playas (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1965., 1965), by James T. Neal and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Harper Lake Studies: 1. Aircraft and ground measurements : 2. Micromorphology and surface properties (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1972., 1972), by T. P. Rooney, Stanley M. Needleman, James T. Neal, and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Sketch of the geological history of Lake Lahontan, a Quaternary lake of northwestern Nevada (Govt. print. off., 1883), by Israel C. Russell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Quaternary climates: geologic history of Lake Lahontan (The Carnegie institution of Washington, 1925), by Ellsworth Huntington, Ernst Antevs, and J. Claude Jones (page images at HathiTrust)

• Reconnaissance bathymetry of basins occupied by Pleistocene Lake Lahontan, Nevada and California (U.S. Geological Survey ;, 1986), by Larry V. Benson, Martin D. Mifflin, and Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• USDA report on water and related land resources, Central Lahontan Basin, Nevada-California, July 1975 : based on a cooperative survey by the Nevada Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, University of Nevada, the Resources Agency of California, and the United States Department of Agriculture : report (The Study Staff, 1975), by United States. USDA Nevada River Basin Study Staff and USDA Field Advisory Committee (page images at HathiTrust)

• Topography, surface features, and flooding of Rogers Lake playa, California (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, U.S. Geological Survey ;, 1998), by Randal L. Dinehart, Kelly R. McPherson, Geological Survey (U.S.), and United States. Dept. of the Air Force (page images at HathiTrust)

• Hydrologic and ecologic influence of playa basins in the Southern High Plains, Texas and New Mexico (U.S. Geological Survey, 1995), by Geological Survey (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• A geomorphological and paleoclimatological study of the playas of Iran. ([Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, United States Air Force] :, 1970), by Daniel B. Krinsley and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• The Mineralogy and chemistry of High Plains playa lake soils and sediments : project completion report : prepared for Office of Water Resources Research, U.S. Dept. of the Interior (Texas Tech University, Water Resources Center, 1972), by Bonnie L. Allen and United States. Office of Water Resources Research (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Nevada playa sediments as pond and canal sealers (Agricultural Experiment Station, Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture, University of Nevada, 1976), by M. B. Rollins, Brian Lester McNeal, and Max C. Fleischmann College of Agriculture. Agricultural Experiment Station (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Inflow to a crack in playa deposits of Yucca Lake, Nevada Test Site, Nye County, Nevada (U.S. Geological Survey :, 1985), by Gene C. Doty, F. Eugene Rush, Geological Survey (U.S.), and United States. Department of Energy (page images at HathiTrust)

• Waterfowl management handbook. 13.3.7, Ecology of playa lakes (U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Fish and Wildlife Service, 1992), by David A. Haukos, Loren M. Smith, and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (page images at HathiTrust)

• Playa Lakes Symposium proceedings : Arlington, Texas, December 4-5, 1979 (U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Office of Biological Services, Eastern Energy and Land Use Team ;, 1981), by Tex.) Playa Lakes Symposium (1979 : Arlington, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Region 2, and Eastern Energy and Land Use Team (page images at HathiTrust)

• Playa wetlands and wildlife on the Southern Great Plains : a characterization of habitat (The Team, 1983), by R. Wayne Nelson, Emily C. Weller, William J. Logan, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, United States Environmental Protection Agency, and Western Energy and Land Use Team (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geology, mineralogy, and hydrology of U.S. playas (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1965., 1965), by James T. Neal and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Giant desiccation polygons of Great Basin playas (L.G. Hanscom Field, Bedford, Massachusetts : Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories, Office of Aerospace Research, United States Air Force, 1965., 1965), by James T. Neal and Air Force Cambridge Research Laboratories (U.S.) (page images at HathiTrust)

• Characteristics of lakes in the western United States (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development ;, 1987), by Joseph M. Eilers, D. H. Landers, National Acid Precipitation Assessment Program (U.S.), and Western Lake Survey (U.S.). Phase I. (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient creteria for lakes and reservoirs in nutrient ecoregion III (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2001), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)

• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient criteria (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2000), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Heath and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)

• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient creteria for lakes and reservoirs in nutrient ecoregion 5 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology, Health and Ecological Criteria Division, 2001), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient creteria for lakes and reservoirs in nutrient ecoregion 4 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2001), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corn Belt and Northern Great Plains, including all or parts of the states of South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and authorized Tribes within the ecoregion (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology, Health and Ecological Criteria Division, 2000), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)

• Classification of Natural Ponds and Lakes in the Glaciated Prairie Region (resource publication #92; Washington: Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife, 1961), by Robert E. Stewart and Harold A. Kantrud (PDF with commentary at usgs.gov)
• Classification of natural ponds and lakes in the glaciated prairie region (Washington, D. C. U.S. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife; [for sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off.] 1971., 1971), by Robert E. Stewart, Harold A. Kantrud, and United States. Bureau of Sport Fisheries and Wildlife (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient creteria for lakes and reservoirs in nutrient ecoregion 5 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology, Health and Ecological Criteria Division, 2001), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient criteria for rivers and streams in nutrient ecoregion V (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2001), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient criteria for rivers and streams in nutrient ecoregion IV (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2001), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient creteria for lakes and reservoirs in nutrient ecoregion 4 (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2001), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• Corn Belt and Northern Great Plains, including all or parts of the states of South Dakota, North Dakota, Nebraska, Minnesota, Iowa, Illinois, Wisconsin, Indiana, Michigan, Ohio and authorized Tribes within the ecoregion (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water, Office of Science and Technology, Health and Ecological Criteria Division, 2000), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)

• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient creteria for rivers and streams in nutrient ecoregion III (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2000), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water, and United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient criteria (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2000), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Heath and Ecological Criteria Division, United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water, and United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient creteria for lakes and reservoirs in nutrient ecoregion III (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2001), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Health and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)
• Information supporting the development of state and tribal nutrient criteria (U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Water :, 2000), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Heath and Ecological Criteria Division, United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Science and Technology, and United States Environmental Protection Agency Office of Water (page images at HathiTrust)

• National Surface Water Survey : western wilderness area lakes : environmental assessment (United States Environmental Protection Agency, Office of Research and Development ;, 1985), by United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Region X. and United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Research and Development (page images at HathiTrust)

• Virgin Land: The American West as Symbol and Myth, by Henry Nash Smith (HTML with commentary at Virginia)
• The States and Territories of the Great West (New York and Auburn: Miller, Orton, and Mulligan; Buffalo: E. F. Beadle, 1856), by Jacob Ferris
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• Pencilings of an early western pioneer (The World press, inc., 1929), by Henry Miller Porter (page images at HathiTrust)
• The resources of the Rocky Mountains, being a brief description of the mineral, grazing, agricultural and timber resources of Colorado, Utah, Arizona, New Mexico, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana and Dakota. (Leader printing company, 1883), by E. J. Farmer (page images at HathiTrust)
• The taming of the frontier : El Paso, Ogden, Denver, St. Paul, San Francisco, Portland, Kansas City, Cheyenne, San Antonio, Los Angeles (Minton, Balch & Company, 1925), by Duncan Aikman (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rocky mountain politics (The University of New Mexico press, 1940), by Thomas C. Donnelly (page images at HathiTrust)
• The changing West; an economic theory about our golden age (The Macmillan Company, 1939), by William Allen White (page images at HathiTrust)
• The ghost towns of Wyoming (Hastings House, 1957), by Mary Lou Pence and Lola Mae Homsher (page images at HathiTrust)
• The United States of yesterday and of to-morrow. (Roberts brothers, 1888), by W. Barrows (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our western empire. (Bradley, Garretson & co.;, 1882), by L. P. Brockett (page images at HathiTrust)
• Memorial volume of the Transcontinental excursion of 1912 of the American geographical society of New York. (The Society, 1915), by American geological society of New York (page images at HathiTrust)
• The public domain and democracy; a study of social, economic and political problems in the United States in relation to western development (Columbia University, 1910), by Robert Tudor Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• The westward march of American settlement (American library association, 1927), by Hamlin Garland and American Library Association (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pathbreakers from river to ocean; the story of the great West from the time of Coronado to the present (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1940), by Grace Raymond Hebard (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great West, or, The garden of the world : its history, its wealth, its natural advantages, and its future : also comprising a complete guide to emigrants, with a full description of the different routes westward (Wentworth, 1858), by C. W. Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• The states and territories of the great West : including Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minesota [sic], Kansas and Nebraska ; their geography, history, resources ... comprising their local history, institutions, and laws ; giving a table of distances, and the most direct routes ... also, pointing out the best districts for agricultural, commercial, lumbering, and mining operations (Miller, Orton, and Mulligan ;, 1856), by Jacob Ferris (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great West: railroad, steamboat, and stage guide and hand-book, for travellers, miners, and emigrants to the western, northwestern, and Pacific states and territories. (D. Appleton and Company, 1866), by Edward H. Hall (page images at HathiTrust)
• Bringing in sheaves. By Rev. A. B. Earle. (J. H. Earle, 1873), by A. B. Earle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Crooked trails (Bonanza Books, 1969), by Frederic Remington (page images at HathiTrust)
• The frontier (Young people's missionary movement of the United States and Canada, 1908), by Ward Platt (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Our great West; a study of the present conditions and future possibilities of the new commonwealths and capitals of the United States (Harper & brothers, 1893), by Julian Ralph (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western United States; a geographical reader (D. C. Heath & co., 1908), by Harold W. Fairbanks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great West (Wentworth and company, 1858), by C. W. Dana and Thomas Hart Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Story of the railroad. (New York, 1906), by Cy Warman (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West: from the census of 1880, a history of the industrial , commercial, social, and political development of the states and territories of the West from 1800 to 1880. (Rand, McNally & Co., 1882), by Robert P. Porter, Henry Gannett, and William Patterson Jones (page images at HathiTrust)
• Intensive powers on the western slopes (The Judson Press, 1922), by Lemuel Call Barnes (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Crayon miscellany. (G. P. Putnam, 1882), by Washington Irving (page images at HathiTrust)
• Back-trailing on the old frontiers (Cheely-Raban Syndicate, 1922), by Charles M. Russell (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Sketches and legends of the West (Capital supply company [c1912], 1912), by Gustav Gottlieb Wenzlaff (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pathbreakers from river to ocean; the story of the great West from the time of Coronado to the present (Lakeside Press, 1911), by Grace Raymond Hebard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Greek letter men of the Pacific coast and Rocky Mountain states (College Book Co., 1903), by W. J. Maxwell (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Midwestern. (Greater Des Moines Pub. Co., 1906) (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trans-continental tourist (Richard V. Howard, 1874) (page images at HathiTrust)
• How the West has moved on: an address, delivered at Lincoln, September 27, 1877, during the Nebraska state fair, and upon the invitation of the State Board of Agriculture (Nebraska State Board of Agriculture, 1877), by Rodney Welch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our western empire: (Bradley, Garretson & co.;, 1882), by Linus Pierpont Brockett (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new West as related to the Christian college. (Printed at the Riverside press, 1878), by Edward Payson Tenney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new West as related to the Christian college and the home missionary. (Printed at the Riverside press, 1878), by E. P. Tenney (page images at HathiTrust)
• The attempts made to separate the West from the American union. (Press of W.W. Williams, Cleveland], 1885), by Charles Franklin Robertson (page images at HathiTrust)
• The pathbreakers from river to ocean; the story of the great West from the time of Coronado to the present (The Arthur H. Clark company, 1932), by Grace Raymond Hebard (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our western empire: (Bradley, Garretson & co.;, 1881), by Linus Pierpont Brockett (page images at HathiTrust)
• See America first magazine. (Seattle., 1907) (page images at HathiTrust)
• The public domain and democracy; a study of social, economic and political problems in the United States in relation to western development. (New York, 1910), by Robert Tudor Hill (page images at HathiTrust)
• Garden of the world (Wentworth, Hewes & Co., 1859), by C. W. Dana, John C. Fremont, Sam Houston, and Thomas H. Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• Great West (Wentworth and Co., 1857), by C. W. Dana (page images at HathiTrust)
• What happened during one man's lifetime, 1840-1920. A review of some great, near great and little events (W.L. Burnap, 1923), by Willard A. Burnap (page images at HathiTrust)
• Our great West : a study of the present conditions ... (Harper, 1893), by Julian Ralph (page images at HathiTrust)
• The making of the great West, 1512-1883 (C. Schribner, 1894), by Samuel Adams Drake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Free air (Grosset & Dunlop, 1919), by Sinclair Lewis (page images at HathiTrust)
• Epoch making events of American history : a series of historical pictures (Anheuser-Busch, 1914), by Oscar E. Berninghaus and Inc Anheuser-Busch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Colorado, and homes in the new West (Riverside Press, 1878), by E. P. Tenney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Landscape wonders of the western world. ([Rand, McNally & co.], 1883), by Burlington & Quincy Railroad Company. Passenger Department Chicago (page images at HathiTrust)
• The western United States : a geographical reader (D.C. Heath & Co., 1904), by Harold W. Fairbanks (page images at HathiTrust)
• The barrier (A.L. Burt Company, 1918), by Rex Beach (page images at HathiTrust)
• The new West as related to the Christian college (Printed for the College, 1879), by E. P. Tenney (page images at HathiTrust)
• Rambling rhymes on western travel. (printed by Taylor and Francis], 1874), by Joseph Beck (page images at HathiTrust)
• The frontier (New York : Literature Dept., Presbyterian Home Missions, 1908., 1908), by Ward Platt (page images at HathiTrust)
• The frontier (Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada, 1911), by Ward Platt and Young People's Missionary Movement of the United States and Canada (page images at HathiTrust)
• The lost trappers; a collection of interesting scenes and events in the Rocky Mountains; together with a short description of California: also, some account of the fur trade, especially as carried on about the sources of Missouri, Yellowstone, and on the waters of the Columbia, in the Rocky Mountains. (Anderson, Gates & Wright, 1859), by David H. Coyner (page images at HathiTrust)
• The great West, or The garden of the world; its history, its wealth, its natural advantages, and its future. (Thayer & Eldridge, 1861), by C. W. Dana and Thomas Hart Benton (page images at HathiTrust)
• West of the Missouri (Rand, McNally & co., 1885), by James William Steele (page images at HathiTrust)
• I. The West as a field for historical study (State Historical Society of Wisconsin, 1897), by Frederick Jackson Turner and Isaac Samuel Bradley (page images at HathiTrust)
• Westward ho : a handbook for the exhibition of the same name on the romantic history of westward expansion in the United States (Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences, 1949), by Herbert Joseph Spinden and Brooklyn Museum (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Prairie song and western story (Allyn and Bacon, 1928), by Hamlin Garland and Stella Stewart Center (page images at HathiTrust)
• The West of yesterday (The Times-Mirror Press, 1923), by Tom Mix and J. B. M. Clark (page images at HathiTrust)
• Address of the Hon. William Bross ... on the resources of the far West, and the Pacific railway, before the Chamber of Commerce of the state of New York, at a special meeting, Thursday, January 25, 1866. (J. W. Amerman, printer, 1866), by William Bross (page images at HathiTrust)
• Baree, son of Kazan (Doubleday, Page for Nelson Doubleday, 1923), by James Oliver Curwood (page images at HathiTrust)
• Trails west and men who made them (McGraw-Hill, 1955), by Edith Dorian and W. N. Wilson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

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