Plains Folk

The Human Race in 8,000 Words

12.14.2019 - By Prairie PublicPlay

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In a previous column I made the case for what we might call the revenge of the farm boys--how, as a farm boy gone bad into academic life, I have now signed on to write a state-of-the-field history of agriculture on the Great Plains. My students, of course, think I am old enough to write the whole thing from personal memory.

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