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Behind the Scenes | Making The Dust Bowl

Behind the Scenes | Making The Dust Bowl

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The Dust Bowl Season 1

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The Dust Bowl

Behind the Scenes | Uncovering the Dust Bowl

Ken Burns and Dayton Duncan discuss making The Dust Bowl and the myriad hardships facing those in the Panhandle during the 1930s.
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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.
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