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The Dust Bowl
First Look | Suffocating Blackness
Survey the causes of the worst man-made ecological disaster in U.S. history: the catastrophic dust storms of the 1930s.
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The storms and the Great Depression continued.
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The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.