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Dust Bowl
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• Timothy Egan- starts out how Dost Bowl ruins everything including real state, stock, and family lives. • Dust bowl belongs to list of worst catastrophes –Donald Worster • “No Man Lands” 1907
• Home-stead act
• Wheat prices increase, “suitcase farmers”(farming boom) • 1920 stock market-financial panic
• People tried to start new businesses
• Crisis spread in wider areas
• Farmers thought more production will solve their problem • From 95 cents prices dropped to 23 cents
• Dust cloud seen in Texas
• Wind 60 mp...
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