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Documentary, Plow that Broke the Plains The U.S. Film
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04:14First came the cattle
04:18An unfenced range a thousand miles long, an uncharted ocean of grass, a southern range for winter grazing, and the
04:27mountain plateaus for summer. It was a cattleman's paradise.
04:50Up from the Rio Grande, in from the rolling prairie, down clear from the eastern highlands, the cattle rolled into
04:58the old buffalo range.
05:07The end of the town of the Pharmacy and the young, and the field, the roads and the cattle, and
05:11the city were run into the plains.
05:12The States and the Some of the counties were the cattle and the area of the plains.
05:14The local farmers brought markets to the edge of the plains.
05:15land syndicate sprang up overnight and the cattle rolled into the west.
05:54The railroad brought the world into the plains. New populations, new needs, crowded the last frontier.
06:01Once again, the plowmen followed the herder and the pioneer came to the plains.
06:11Make way for the plowmen.
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06:52The first fence.
06:57Progress came to the plane.
07:19High winds and sun, high winds and sun, a country without rivers and with little rain.
07:33Settler, plow at your peril.
07:41Two hundred miles from water, two hundred miles from town, but the land is new.
07:48Two hundred miles from water, two hundred miles from water, two hundred miles from water.
08:17One hundred miles from water, two hundred miles from water.
08:30In the distance of water, two hundred miles from water.
08:35With other water being in the north and east, one is the wind.
08:39In the east, the east the city of the North.
08:49Oh, my God.
09:22Many were disappointed.
09:25The rains failed and the sun baked the light soil.
09:30Many left.
09:34They fought the loneliness and the hard years.
09:38The rains failed them.
10:07Many were disappointed.
10:09But the great day was coming.
10:11A day of new causes, new profits, new hope.
10:16The rain.
10:21The wind.
10:29The wind.
10:32The rain.
18:08This time no grass held moisture against the winds and the sun, this time millions of
18:14acres of ploughed land lay open to the sun.
18:43This time no grass has been burned to the sun, this time it is dark.
19:04Oh, my God.
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24:59Oh, my God.
25:27Oh, my God.
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