1956 Press Photo Two farmers inspect land near Kit Carson in eastern Colorado

Two farmers inspect their once-fertile land near Kit Carson in eastern Colorado. Five years ago this was a wheat field. But the plowing of this land and hundreds of acres surrounding it loosened the soil, and winds began lifting the sand and silt and piled it into drifts as shown here. The land is now useless. In some places sand is a s deep as the top strand of a barbed wire fence. Residents of the area call this land "Fuller's Desert," taking the name from a rancher who once ran sheep in the country. Ironically, so long as Fuller lived there he refused to let the ground be plowed. But others began cultivating the land later. Colorado - Misc.

Photo is dated 1956.

Photo measures 9 x 7.25 inches.