The Dust Bowl. Dust Bowl Map Name five states the Dust Bowl affected.
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The Dust Bowl > Dust Storm. A wall of dirt and sand descends upon Spearman, Texas, on August 14, 1935
The Dust Bowl > Pare Lorenz, The Plow That Broke the Plains, 1936
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Migration > John Steinbeck, The Grapes of Wrath
• Novel published in 1939
• Film in 1940 (closely follows the novel)
•Reinforced the belief that migrants fled the dust storms
• In fact, they fled for varied reasons, including drought, falling agricultural prices, and mechanization of agriculture
• 16,000 farmers fled dust storms
• 400,000 migrated, from a larger area in the Southwest
• Famous scene: farmer confronts a man who is about to level his house, used the plight of farmers to convey a sense of unfocused outrage shared by many others during the Depression - people couldn’t figure out who was to blame for the disaster