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The Dust Bowl
Sanora Babb's Account Beat Out by the Grapes of Wrath
Sanora Babb sent chapters of her book back to New York, but John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath is so popular, that her editor recommends holding off on publication. It is eventually published in 2004, a year before her death.
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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.