The Blow That Broke The Plains Analysis
“The Plow That Broke the Plains” is a documentary of the Great Plains region, an area of 625,000 square miles stretching across Texas, Kansas, Nebraska, Montana,Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico Oklahoma and the Dakotas.
Written and directed by Pare Lorentz in 1936, it starts in the 1880s in the last frontier (the Great Plains), when the territory was an "ocean of grass" perfect for cattle. The video ends in the middle 1930s, when farming choices had turned it into a no-man's-land. People start heading to the west to the last frontier, pushing out the Indians by 1880 and with the Indians goes the buffalo. Many people had bought land to farm on or to have people farm on for them for profit.
As people were using the railroads to get to the plains,
Written and directed by Pare Lorentz in 1936, it starts in the 1880s in the last frontier (the Great Plains), when the territory was an "ocean of grass" perfect for cattle. The video ends in the middle 1930s, when farming choices had turned it into a no-man's-land. People start heading to the west to the last frontier, pushing out the Indians by 1880 and with the Indians goes the buffalo. Many people had bought land to farm on or to have people farm on for them for profit.
As people were using the railroads to get to the plains,