Wheat Farming on the Palouse, 1930
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The rich Palouse soil is ideal for agriculture, but technology has had to overcome the challenge of farming the steeply rolling hills.
Image L87-1.43151-30 courtesy of the Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture
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The Palouse
A homesteader wrote of the Palouse in the 1880s: "Its beauty was wild and untrammeled and the undulating hills were covered with luxuriant grasses." Bunchgrasses and wildflowers created a lush meadow, or Palouse Prairie, in this corner of…