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...sprinkled with hardy oldtimers who came West in covered wagons, raised log cabins and broke virgin soil, fought with Indians and rode stages into newly opened valleys. Others, still in their 50s, are keenly conscious of their parents' trials, pulling handcarts across the U.S., clearing settlements, huddling in sod forts during the Nez Perce and Bannock uprisings. The big country, immense space and small population have nurtured this pioneer feeling. Deep in the Washington woods, along upper Montana benchlands and in the wilderness of Idaho's canyons, are lone dwellings of families who still fight bears and cougars...
...years Nebraskans virtually ignored personal-property taxes, fibbed unashamedly to the county assessor. A look at tax rolls made it appear that most Nebraskans were living as primitively as their sod-busting pioneer ancestors-without refrigerators, radios, gas stoves or jewelry. Last year Freshman Governor Robert Crosby told citizens that real-estate taxes could be lowered if they would honestly pay their personal-property taxes. Crosby, young (43) and ambitious, started an "Operation Honesty" campaign, crisscrossed the state by plane (TIME, March 15), making speeches every chance...
...deck, or on the sod...
...Cycle. The dust storms of the south plains had their beginnings when the sod was first broken by homesteaders' plows in the late iSoos; the first U.S. dust bowl developed in Thomas County, Kans. in 1912. The development of the tractor, the rainy years between 1914 and 1931 and high prices for farmers' crops caused a tremendous increase in plowing. Millions of acres of sandy or submarginal land were planted to wheat, corn and cotton. Amid the droughts of the 19305, the coverless, powder-dry earth of the plains lay helpless under the scouring winds. During World...
...cranked up and squared off," recalled Brigadier General William L. ("Jerry") Lee. "I poured the coal on and, about halfway up the sod incline, decided to let the flaps down to get more lift. I got off the ground all right . . . but I couldn't get enough altitude to get over the hill at the end of the strip." Lee was a lieutenant at the time, on duty in the Philippines...