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Northern Utah scarecrow walks
Scarecrows, in one form or another, have been in the United States for centuries. They can be traced all the way back to pre-colonial days, when the Native Americans used "bird scarers" to protect their crops.
The Bluffdale City Scarecrow Walk Scarecrows, in one form or another, have been in the United States for centuries. They can be traced all the way back to pre-colonial days, when the Native Americans used "bird scarers" to protect their crops. However, the contemporary idea of the scarecrow can be linked to the 19th century, when homesteaders began to settle the Midwest and the Great Plains.
German immigrants made human-looking objects they called "bootsamon"—or bogeymen—to frighten birds and other animals away from their fields.
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