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Trixie Travis Brown: Sunday After Church
1:25
Trixie Travis Brown Talks About Sunday After Church.
Trixie Travis Brown: Almost Moving to Idaho
1:10
Trixie Travis Brown Talks About Almost Moving to Idaho.
Boise City Decline
0:51
Property values in Boise City decline by 90%.
Suicides
1:52
Multiple suicides took place during the Dust Bowl in the southern Great Plains.
Black Sunday
3:27
Sunday April 14, 1935 became known as Black Sunday.
New Deal Programs
3:39
Help came to the Great Plains by way of New Deal programs.
Psychological
1:39
Dorthy Williamson discusses working in the southern Great Plains during the dust bowl.
Plows and Bubbles
0:38
Learn about the two types of plows farmers used.
Modern Machinery
0:47
Learn how modern machinery made farming more efficient.
Trying To Get Ahead
0:45
Calvin Crabill talks about how his father drove a tractor at night to try to get ahead.
Two Midnights and a Jug
0:34
The dust storms start rolling into the southern Great Plains.
Black Blizzards
2:42
Hear from Donald Worster about the increasing number of dust storms the area faced.
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