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An enormous cloud of dust looms near a farm.

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Ken Burns

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History

Ken Burns

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The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history, in which the frenzied wheat boom of the Great Plow-Up, followed by a decade-long drought during the 1930s nearly swept away the breadbasket of the nation.

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Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Dust Storms

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Dust Storms

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Dust Storms

Trixie Travis Brown talks about dust storms.

Okies

Okies

Okies

Woody Guthrie sings “I Ain’t Got No Home” and talks about migrant families traveling.

Recollection

Recollection

Recollection

Meet some of the people who lived in the Great Plains.

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Housekeeping

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Housekeeping

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Housekeeping

Trixie Travis Brown talks about housekeeping.

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Follett Texas

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Follett Texas

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Follett Texas

Trixie Travis Brown talks about her father moving to Follett, TX.

Episode 1 Introduction

Episode 1 Introduction

Episode 1 Introduction

The Dust Bowl was a decade-long natural catastrophe of biblical proportions.

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Sunday After Church

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Sunday After Church

Bonus Material | Trixie Travis Brown: Sunday After Church

Trixie Travis Brown talks about Sunday after church.

Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie

Woody Guthrie moves to Los Angeles in the second half of the 1930s.