They had crops for one year, and then a dry spell, drought, so the homesteaders moved out, and the rush and thistle and jimson moved in.
10 seconds sound clip from the The Westerner (1940) movie soundboard.
You can hear this line at 00:51:23 in the DVD version of the movie.
Quote context
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- Well, that makes it unanimous.
- I'm going to talk for the both of you.
- I've seen this kind of war before. It's happening now, back in Kansas and Nebraska.
- The cattlemen came in first, then the homesteaders moved in and fenced them out.
- And the big spaces were all broken up by little quarter sections...
- And the homesteads left empty, and the houses caved in, and the land, no good for man or cattle.
- You spoiled the land, then you came here to spoil this land.
- Yea, but it ain't big enough for cattlemen and homesteaders, and it never will be.
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