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Panhandle Plains Texas touted as rich farming paradise
A visitor extols the Panhandle-Plains region around Amarillo and Vega Texas as a poor man’s paradise with cheap land, rising farms, and strong rail expansion. Cattle ranches yield to farming as tractors replace horses, roads improve, and towns like Amarillo and Vega grow into market centers amid abundant water and diverse crops.
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Harmon Benton
Kansas
Panhandle
Texas
Santa Fe
Rock T-land
Amarillo
Rock Island
Liberal
Lubbock
Denver
Plains
Potter County
Canadian River
Vega
Palo Duro Canyon
Grand Canyon
Arizona
Dalhart
Panhandle- Plaing
Horace Greely
Topeka
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