Ellsworth Huntington Quotes

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.

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• The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.

  

  Ellsworth Huntington