The Last Days Of The RainbeltLooking over the vast open plains of eastern Colorado, western Kansas, and southwestern Nebraska, where one can travel miles without seeing a town or even a house, it is hard to imagine the crowded landscape of the last decades of the 19th century. In those days, farmers, speculators, and town builders flooded the region, believing rain would follow the plow and that the "Rainbelt" would become their agricultural Eden. Drought and economic turmoil