Abandoned farm of the western Panhandle, Cimmaron [i.e. Cimarron] County, Oklahoma. In 1934 and again in 1936 drought conditions in the Great Plains became so severe that it was necessary for the federal government to take steps to rescue dying…
Abandoned farm on the high plains, Texas County, Oklahoma. "The record of the Great Plains is to a great extent a record of settlement and abandonment." J. Russell Smith
A human-turtle sculpture from Central America.
Artist rendering of Hindu god taking the form of a turtle to carry the world on his back.
A Madrid Codex, depicts the three hearth stones of creation on the turtle; and Guatemalan turtle carving: one…