Cotton was king in the 1950s on the high plains of West Texas when I was growing up, and it played a major role in life since the economy of the community depended on cotton production.
It was big news every fall when the first bale of cotton rolled out of a local gin with the stats on weight and bales per acre.
Migratory workers poured into the county to help pick the creamy white cotton bolls…
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