Rural

The 1950s were tough times in Eastern Colorado. Locals called them the Dirty Fifties, thanks to drought-fueled dust storms that stripped life-giving topsoil from fields, shredded winter wheat sprouts and buried barbed-wire, tumbleweed-choked fence rows in fine blow-dirt.  Worried farmers and ranchers, whose memories of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl Thirties were … [Read more...] about SMALL TOWN SANTA