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The Dust Bowl
Boom Time
The Great Plains goes through a boom period as land speculators tout the miraculous advantages of farming wheat. Government and private industry encourage the settlement and development of the region.
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The storms and the Great Depression continued.
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The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.