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The dust storms start rolling into the southern Great Plains.
2:42
Hear from Donald Worster about the increasing number of dust storms the area faced.
5:16
By 1937, the Dust Bowl farmers are asking for government help.
0:40
Land prices are going up and people say the climate is undergoing a permanent shift.
0:25
Hear from Timothy Egan about how Boise City was marketed to people.
1:12
Learn about what caused "The Great Plow Up" and the slogan "Wheat Will Win the War."
3:34
Woody Guthrie moves to Los Angeles in the second half of the 1930s.
1:56
Even thought wheat prices had plummeted, farmers went back to work in the fall.
0:33
Plagues of jack rabbits swarmed the great plains destroying everything in their path.
