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Bonus Material | Robert Boots McCoy Talks About  When The Rains Returned
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Robert Boots McCoy talks about when the rains returned.
Bonus Material | Robert Boots McCoy Talks About The Jack Rabbits
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Robert Boots McCoy talks about the jack rabbits.
Bonus Material | Floyd Coen Talks About Having A Big Family
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Floyd Coen talks about having a big family.
Bonus Material | The Coen Brothers Talk About Jack Rabbits
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The Coen Brothers talk about jack rabbits.
Mechanized Agriculture
4:39
Modern machinery made wheat farming more efficient and profitable.
Bonus Material | Robert Boots McCoy Talks About Wheat Prices
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Robert Boots McCoy talks about wheat prices.
Bonus Material | Tex Pace
5:08
Tex Pace left the panhandle for CA and worked as a orange picker near Visalia, CA
Arthur Rothstein
3:00
Learn about Arthur Rothstein.
Lessons
4:54
What lessons can we take from what happened during the Dust Bowl?
Episode 2 Introduction | Woody Guthrie's 'The Great Dust Storm'
2:17
In the introduction to episode two Woody Guthrie sings "The Great Dust Storm"
Bonus Material | Sanora's Return
3:26
Sanora Babb returns to her childhood home during the depression.
Woody Guthrie: Okies
2:19
No matter their state of origin, during the 1930s all newcomers were dubbed Okies in CA
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