Nebraska, 1974
Photograph by James L. Amos
A narrow trail hugs the sides of a mesa and descends into a valley etched by deep ravines and bordered by other large mesas. This scene in Bayard, Nebraska, would have been a common one for pioneers heading west on the Oregon Trail in the mid-1800s in search of land and fortunes in gold.
One such pioneer wrote of the prairie: "Imagine the ocean, when the waves are rolling mountain high, becoming solid and covered with beautiful green grass, and you have some faint idea of it."
(Text adapted from and photo shot on assignment for, but not published in, "The Itch to Move West: Life and Death on the Oregon Trail," August 1986, magazine)
mesa: [地]台地, 岩石台地, 平顶山
Nebraska: 内布拉斯加州：大草原上美国中央的一个州。于1867年成为美国的第三十七州，该地区通过1803年的路易斯安那的购买成为美国的一部分，根据1854年的堪萨斯-内布拉斯加法案成为独立的领土。它的现在的边界定于1867年，林肯是其首府，奥马哈是最大城市。人口1,584,617
itch: n.发痒, 渴望, [医]疥疮(尤指发痒的) vi.发痒, 渴望
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