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Article: Great Divide Basin. (Great Divide Basin, Wyoming)(Writers on the Range)
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- May 1, 1998
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I speak for a neighborhood not my own, for it is no one's, being unpeopled, and rarely, if ever, spoken for. Indeed it is maligned for the emptiness that fills it.
There is a hole in the middle of the Continental Divide, where the rain that falls finds no river, where the rain that falls has nowhere to go but back. It's the Great Divide Basin, that welcome passage through the backbone of the earth.
Favored by travelers since the beginning of human time in America, it's where people in cars get their impression (lucky for inhabitants of all species) that Wyoming is all horizon and wind, and in winter it's a world of blowing snow. A lot of jackrabbits, ...