Dust Bowl blows away plentiful grasslands

The old saw has it that the prairie grasses once “swept the stirrups” of pre-settlement Hamilton Countians. The story is, that in those days, the rocky-brushy lands occupied only the tops of hills and outcrops, while slopes and bottoms were covered by feet of soil, which were in turn thickly covered by tall grasses and scattered post and live oak. The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw a chang…