Colorado Experience (2013)

Season 5 Episode 13

White Gold

0.05 / Feb / 2018•27m

Charles Boettcher returned from Europe with sugar beet seeds and found the plains were perfect for growing them. They would become one of Colorado's most important crops, and would also attract workers from many backgrounds: Mexican nationals, European immigrants -- even German prisoners of war during WWII.

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