Name: Dust Bowl
Duration: 168
Description: Families were driven out of the once fertile great plains by massive dust clouds--one that rose to 10,000 feet and reached as far as New York City.

Families were driven out of the once fertile great plains by massive dust clouds—one that rose to 10,000 feet and reached as far as New York City.

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Families were driven out of the once fertile great plains by massive dust clouds--one that rose to 10,000 feet and reached as far as New York City.

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