Collin (having lived in Wisconsin, Nebraska, & Oklahoma, but now in Ohio!)
At 01:29 AM 8/8/2003 -0400, you wrote:
Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2003 20:35:08 EDT From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] You guys are forgetting about the Great Plains, the breadbasket of the USA.
Stretching west from Chicago to the Rocky Mountains was a sea of grasslands.
Northern Illinois, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska, the Dakotas and parts
of the states of Wisconsin, Missouri, and Colorado were never trees. The grass
plants were so thick that the land defied farming.
A special steel plow had to be invented to till the soil for the first farms.
They called the farmers 'Sod Busters'. All this happened not that long ago,
on a European scale.
Regards, Bob S.
