Posted by Goose on September 03, 2009 at 07:31:48 from (67.63.68.13):
In Reply to: Dust Bowl Tractors posted by jahaze on September 03, 2009 at 05:24:33:
Can't tell any stories about finding tractors, but our daughter loaned me a great book about the Dust Bowl and its causes. I can't find the book, so she must have reclaimed it. With a BS in History, she funnels me all these great books about everything from the Civil War, to the Dust Bowl, to Cold War submarine espionage, to a biography of Doc Holliday, to biographies of the Earp brothers, etc. (You have to know her to understand why a 20-something gal would be interested in Old West gunfighters).
Plowing up all of that native prairie was one of the greatest acts of sheer stupidity of the 20th Century, all because of greed over good wheat prices. Twelve year old boys were making big money by borrowing a tractor and putting in 12 hour days plowing up section after section. By the time the mistake was realized, it was too late.
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