Wheat Farming on the Palouse
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Farmers processed their harvest near Colfax in the 1920s with Steptoe Butte in the background
Image courtesy of the Washington State Library
This file appears in: The Palouse
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…