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Harvesting the High Plains: John Kriss and the Business of Wheat Farming, 1920-1950 Barton Beebe Alice reaches out to twoThe semiarid plains of western Kansas and eastern Colorado are hardly the setting for an agricultural empire, but it was here that former field hand John Kriss managed G K Farms for Wichita entrepreneur Ray Garvey. Their enterprise became one of the largest wheat operations on the plains and yielded Kriss a one million bushel crop. Harvesting the High Plains is the rags to riches story of how Kriss applied hard work and common sense to make large