Causes of the Dust Bowl
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- Causes of the Dust Bowl
- Keep producing those stupid amounts! I don't see any reason why it would be bought by rich people back east and in Europe! Good times forever!
- PLOW
- Farmers were encouraged to plow up more prairie. Too much topsoil was exposed and got swept away
- Our parents are abandoning us! We have dust pneumonia and they are going to Cali to sit pool side
- Sick of the drought? Come to California
- I made a boatload of money during WW I. Will it be that way during the 1920's? If so, I'll keep producing stupid amounts of wheat!
- Great Plains Farmer
- U.S. Government Official
- Wind Storms, also known as Dusters
- Farmers have learned to rotate crops, no till the soil, planted more trees and grass all because they saw what happened during the Dust Bowl
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