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Excerpt from The Plow That Broke the Plains

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Except from Pare Lorentz's documentary The Plow That Broke the Plains (2:10 of the 30-minute film)

The first fence. Progress came to the plains.

High winds and sun. High winds and sun. A country without rivers, and with little rain. Settler, plow at your peril.

Two hundred miles from water! Two hundred miles from town! But the land is new.

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  • Filmmaker: Pare Lorentz
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  • Format: MP4