Excerpt from Land Planning and Classification Report of the Public Domain Lands in South Platte River Area, Colorado, Wyoming, Nebraska: Region III, Billings, Montana, May, 1949 The South Platte River Drainage Basin extends from the Continental Divide in central Colorado, to near the town of North Platte in Nebraska and covers a total area of square miles in Colorado, Wyoming and Nebraska. Approximately two-thirds of the area is within the high plains and the remainder is composed of foothills, mountains and intermountain valleys. The elevation ranges from about in the Rocky Mountains to about feet at the lower end of the basin in Nebraska. 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.