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Geographical distribution of the currents of air, showing the regions of the trade winds, variable winds and hurricanes, with their effects in determining the different tracks of navigation by A.K. Johnston, F.R.S.E. Engraved & printed in colours by W. & A.K. Johnston, Edinburgh. William Blackwood & Sons, Edinburgh & London. 1st. March 1854. (1856) davidrumsey.com/luna/servlet/d

The plains of eastern Colorado probably had their zenith in the early 20th century, prior to the great sand storms of the Dust Bowl. And it's been declining ever since. But for one moment in the 1990's a few counties sought to rebrand themselves as the "Colorado's Outback", somehow piggybacking off the success of the Crocodile Dundee films(?).
The rebrand didn't take.