The Things the Wind Did Not Carry
The land in Cimarron County was not always dust. In 1908, when the first government survey teams came through with their transits and their chain measures, the topsoil was fourteen inches deep and black as coffee grounds. Roots of buffalo grass held it like stitching through cloth. The grass was not planted. It was original. It had been there since the Pleistocene. When the plows came in 1910,...
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