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Local recollection of the Dust Bowl, and how it helped farmers adapt to surviveIn 1929, Amelia Perry was born in Haskell County; just one year later, the nation would be hit with an agricultural and ...
This is exactly what happened to the late author Sanora Babb. Her inspiration began as a child in Southeastern Colorado after ...
Children developed often fatal "dust pneumonia," business owners unable to cope with the financial ruin ... and farmers to develop new farming and conservation methods. The Dust Bowl chronicles ...
But as the Dust Bowl continued for most of the decade and wheat prices plunged to the lowest in recorded history, two-thirds of Saskatchewan farmers were forced to line up for monthly aid.
The Emergency Farm Mortgage Act allots $200 million ... and workers are given a 25 percent raise. Great dust storms spread from the Dust Bowl area. The drought is the worst ever in U.S. history ...
The Dust Bowl, arising from a combination of prolonged drought, heavy winds, and over farming leading to fruitless farmland, and skies blotted out by red and brown dust.
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