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Abandoned on the Plains: Fragments of the American Dream Social History explains that depression tests theThe High Plains stretch from Texas in the south to the Canadian border in the north, embracing parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, Colorado, Nebraska, South Dakota, North Dakota and eastern Montana. Population density and land values are low, particularly in the north, and the agricultural economy is often precarious. Therefore, when things go wrong, farms, homesteads, grain elevators, schools and churches are just abandoned as they have little or no value.