Excerpt from Forest Belts of Western Kansas and Nebraska The principal rivers of western Nebraska and western Kansas are the Niobrara, North Loup, Middle Loup, South Loup, Dismal, North Platte, South Platte, Republican, North Solomon, South Solomon. Saline, Smoky Hill, Arkansas, and Cimarron. There are numerous tributary creeks and streams. (see map.) None of the rivers nor mally carries a large volume Of water, and some of them, as well as many of the creeks, go dry during periods Of deficient rainfall. Yet, even when no water is visible in the beds of such streams as the Platte and the Arkansas, one has but to dig down in the sand a foot or two to find water in abundance. There is a constant under ow, and trees growing in the valleys of these streams do not suffer because the surface ow occasionally ceases. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works."