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Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Dust Storms
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Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Dust Storms
Trixie Travis Brown talks about dust storms.
Low Valued Wheat
1:56
Low Valued Wheat
Even thought wheat prices had plummeted, farmers went back to work in the fall.
Lessons Learned
3:26
Lessons Learned
What have we learned from the Dust Bowl?
Suicides
1:52
Suicides
Multiple suicides took place during the Dust Bowl in the southern Great Plains.
Psychological
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Psychological
Dorthy Williamson discusses working in the southern Great Plains during the dust bowl.
New Deal Programs
3:39
New Deal Programs
Help came to the Great Plains by way of New Deal programs.
Black Blizzards
2:42
Black Blizzards
Hear from Donald Worster about the increasing number of dust storms the area faced.
CA Work
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CA Work
People who moved to CA were known as Okies.
Bonus Material | The Coens Talk About How They Ended Up In The Great Plains
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Bonus Material | The Coens Talk About How They Ended Up In The Great Plains
The Coens talk about how they ended up in the southern Great Plains.
FDR Visits the Dust Bowl
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FDR Visits the Dust Bowl
The rains followed FDR on his second trip to the Dust Bowl.
Hugh Bennett
1:50
Hugh Bennett
Hugh Bennett went on a fact finding trip through the Great Plains in search of a solution.
Heading West
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Heading West
Some people packed up their families and headed west.
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