Already the largest producer in the world of soy and beef, it has the capacity to adapt more crops to its tropical soils and develop its vast landfrontier.
The vast view still captures the wild frontier and fertile land that held so much promise for those who once sailed across the sea with only their dreams and treasured culture to guide them.
Phillip Ruffin, the owner of the New Frontier casino at the north end of the Strip, recently tried to buy three acres of land that MGM owns behind his casino for a development he is working on with Donald Trump.