That beautiful lady telling the story about loving the rain touched my heart.

The Keota story is a love story of family, community, and hope. Keota is a snapshot of thousands of families who braved the Eastern plains for a new life. Many of the plains towns are gone but many have survived and thrived today. Keotans bear the standard of determination for a good life under harsh conditions along with every plain's pioneer. Thank you for this wonderful documentary and thank you to the Keota men and women who shared their stories of living in Keota.

An amazing history of a small farming town that grew up in the dust bowl and the Great Depression. Those hardy souls who steadfastly stayed...they were truly a great generation to be proud of.

Thanks for making this film. My wife and I love the flatlands and have camped at the Crow Valley Campground many times.

Beautiful piece.

this touched my heart. thank you.

The remains of a whole way of life, homesteading and ranching, are what you'll find in this string of ghost towns in the far northeast corner of Colorado. The intro here mentions the Beardley sisters? founded Keota. Sligo, another nearby extinct town, was also founded by two sisters, The Kringles.Women weren't just helpmates here or anywhere really in the West. I love History Colorado and Rocky Mountain PBS but I think the role of single or widowed women homesteaders ought to at least be acknowledged in this film. In some Colorado counties almost 20% of homestead claims were filed by women and according to Statistical Abstracts of the United States, women-owned homesteads had a higher success rate than men's. Women often did homestead near relatives, but not always. I recall one young widow in Keota who had to shoot a man who wouldn't leave her alone or leave her property and the locals found her innocent of any wrong doing. Another nearby town, Grover, had an all-woman city government because when the men failed to put down corruption and crime, the women took over and were so successful, all were reelected. In short, if not equal time, a little time spent recognizing such women would be a fairer depiction of Keota and this important part of our history.

My grandfather was born in Keota in 1920, a family of Volga Germans.

Was there on Xmas Day 2013 on my GS motorcycle, on the way to Pawnee Buttees... :)

People are restoring cabins in the desert of Nevada.

9:23 Homes being near to each other in clusters was actually for land use was not always kinship. This is an old European village ideal. It made more percentage of land available for cultivation than houses sprinkled all over chopping up the agrarian landscape. This activity hub version land use still in practiced in Europe today, most of this is credited to the old medieval land management rules. As for the kinship angle, putting Germans together in enclaves came with certain rules. Germans loved the Scots and Welsh because of how hard they worked. Germans and Scandinavians somewhat but usually there was resentment between these two groups about the 30 years war when Sweden invaded the German states over the division of Protestants and Catholics

I would have restored the house.

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