Flying low

SALLISAW, OK - - Before we got out of Mississippi this morning we spotted this aerial acrobat plying his trade of crop dusting in this special agricultural aircraft or top dresser. Double click on the photo above and you can see the pilot wasn't so busy trying not to plow the field instead of spraying it that he couldn't take a look at me. The second photo of the plane heading away is for detail. I Googled a number of sites but couldn't come up with any information on a bi-plane like this one.

Sallisaw got its name from a French word for salt deposits. Buffalo hunters in the late 1800s used salt bought here to preserve buffalo hides and other animal skins. This area belonged in turn to Spain, France, the Cherokee Indian Nation and the U.S. The Cherokee got the heave-ho, along with most of Florida's Seminole Nation and three other tribes in a relocation plan to move them to Oklahoma. That infamous forced march/relocation and the resulting inhumane treatment of those involved became known as "The Trail of Tears."