Wheat Farming on the Palouse

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This file appears in: The Palouse: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition

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: MAC 100 Stories: A Centennial Exhibition

By The Spokane Historical team
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,…