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Pub. Date
2017.
Description
A blanket of wind-deposited silt, called loess, has supported dense populations of dry farmers in southwestern Colorado for centuries. The loess is thickest and most extensive on the Great Sage Plain between Cortez and Dove Creek, the largest and most productive dry farming area in the Southwest since prehistoric times. Loess deposits on the Mesa Mountains, including Mesa Verde and adjacent uplands in southeastern Utah, have also been cultivated by...
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Pub. Date
2019.
Description
Southwest Colorado at the beginning of the 20th century was frontier territory, the last of the wild west. Native populations were replaced by prospectors, cowboys and lumberjacks. Homesteaders were warned away from the area by the government, the land was a desert, too dry for farming, too wild for families.In 1927, Bessie White’s family lost their Kansas farm to a tax sale and were forced to flee to Canada to find work. Desperate to return to...