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Experience the conservation efforts to bring farms back to life
Modern machinery made wheat farming more efficient and profitable.
Those caught in the dust thought the end of the world was upon them.
Feel the full force of the worst manmade environmental disaster in America’s history.
The dust storms were so severe they could suffocate those trapped out of doors.
The Dust Bowl chronicles the worst man-made ecological disaster in American history
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The southern Plains were rapidly turned from grasslands to wheat fields.