The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals. (Ellsworth Huntington)

The Indians could not undertake any widespread cultivation of the plains not only because they lacked iron tools but also because they had no draft animals.

Ellsworth Huntington

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