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Santa Fe’s wheat kingdom

By Angela Cotey | December 22, 2022

| Last updated on August 8, 2025


Several boxcars await loading at three classic wooden elevators along the Santa Fe at Dumas, Texas, in late summer 1936. In spite of the Dust Bowl, there’s still wheat to be loaded.
Arthur Rothstein, Library of Congress photo

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