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Dust Bowl

Oklahoma, 1942. Agriculturists work on the region's catastrophic on erosion problem. history

True Grit: Dust Bowl Survivors

The threatening storm rises above a farm near Hartman, Colo. Once range land, it lies almost ruined by wheat. Dust-choked corral and pump are land's tombstones. history

‘Plague Upon the Land’: Scenes From an American Dust Bowl, 1954

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