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"Dust Bowl" is a term coined by a reporter for the Washington (D.C.) Evening Star to describe the effects of severe wind erosion in the Great Plains during the 1930s, caused ...
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Sunday, April 14, 1935, began as a warm spring day in the western part of Oklahoma known as the Panhandle. The sun shone, birds sang, and a gentle southwest wind stirred the fields. In the small town ...
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The time period from 1929 to 1941 marked a forlorn era in American history known as the Great Depression. During this time, unemployment levels increased dramatically, countless banks failed, i...
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James N. Gregory, in his lecture "The Dust Bowl Migration: Poverty Stories, Race Stories," went beyond the superficial rumors about stories of the Great Depression and Dust Bowl; instead, he deeply ex...
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