The Dust BowlDavid C. King The ""Dust Bowl"" describes both a time in American history (mid-1930s) and a region (the Great Plains). Severe weather, misuse of land by farmers, and economic pressures from the Great Depression meant that farmers and families in a large area of the central U.S. were faced with loss of usable land, lack of work, and poverty. This is their story, told in their words and in photographs. Included are newspaper accounts, letters, interviews, memoirs, songs, government documents, FDR's Second New Deal, and an excerpt from Steinbeck's ""Grapes of Wrath."" |
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Introduction | 5 |
The Impact of the Great Depression | 15 |
Black Blizzard | 27 |
Copyright | |
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Administration agri agricultural Agricultural Adjustment Administration American areas Arthur Rothstein auctioneer bank black blizzards blow Boris California camp cash crop clothes corn cotton County crowd Deal Depression dollars Dorothea Lange Dust Bowl dust storms Eleanor Roosevelt erosion farm families farmers and ranchers Fresno FSA photographs Grapes of Wrath grass hail Harry Hopkins hog prices Hopkins John Steinbeck Kansas know yuh labor land little pigs living look Lorena Hickok mare Mendota ment migrant miles milk million acres Milton Meltzer mission Nation neighbors night numbers Okies Oklahoma outhouses overfarming owner percent Picked pickers pigs were killed Plains plant plow pork pounds Prairie farmers programs Quoted rags region roads Roy Emerson Stryker selling sheep Sioux City soil song Source South Dakota taxes tenant Texas thousands topsoil tractor trees truck trying twenty U.S. Government Printing Wages wheat wind workers World