dryfarmed

Updated: May 27, 2025

Not all the open range will ever be farmed, but very much that was long thought to be irreclaimable has gone under irrigation or is being more or less successfully "dryfarmed." The man who brought water upon the arid lands of the West changed the entire complexion of a vast country and with it the industries of that country.

Emerson Hough - The Passing of the Frontier; a chronicle of the old West