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The Dust Bowl

Woody Guthrie: The Great Dust Storm

In the introduction to episode two, Woody Guthrie sings "The Great Dust Storm" as historians and survivors talk about the conditions of living in the Dust Bowl during the Depression.

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1:55:45
The storms and the Great Depression continued.
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1:55:15
The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.
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