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Modern Machinery
4:09
Modern machinery made farming more profitable.
Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Sunday After Church
1:25
Trixie Travis Brown talks about Sunday after church.
Woody Guthrie
3:34
Woody Guthrie moves to Los Angeles in the second half of the 1930s.
Bonus Material | Robert Boots McCoy Talks About Burning Cow Chips
0:30
Robert Boots McCoy talks about burning cow chips.
Bonus Material | Dale Coen Reads a Poem
1:09
Dale Coen reads a poem he thinks his mother wrote.
Caroline Henderson
2:35
Learn about Caroline Henderson.
Bonus Material | Mr. Huff
4:33
Raymond Huff hired the entire town to build the new high school in Clayton, New Mexico.
Bonus Material | Photographers of the Dust Bowl
4:41
During the Great Depression FDR's administration sought to document the economic crisis.
The Depression Comes to the Southern Plains
5:45
Wheat prices continue to fall and a drought begins the farmers look to FDR for relief.
Environmental Catastrophe
12:11
As the Great Depression sets in, farmers on the Great Plains begin to feel its effects.
Government Reform Programs
5:16
By 1937, the Dust Bowl farmers are asking for government help.
Relief
6:43
Social worker Dorothy Williamson describes her experiences in the Dust Bowl
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