Sunday, February 25, 2007
Farming in Oklahoma
About 900 A.D. Indians of Oklahoma grew beans, corn, and pumpkins. In the 1850's mixed-blood plantation owner Choctaw Robert M. Jones cultivated more than 5,000 acres and shipped his cotton to New Orleans on his own steam boats.
Labels:
Choctaw,
cotton,
Indians,
mixed-blood,
New Orleans,
plantation owners,
Robert Jones,
steam boats
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