The dustbowl! I just didn't know. Wah!

[chibirya]

So I've been listening to "The Worst Hard Time" by Timothy Egan. It's about the 'dustbowl' or the destruction of the prairie lands. I really didn't know how massive of a disaster it really was, and that the land was never really restored. It's sad to think about. Wait I revise that. It's a horrible tragedy and rape of the natural world that was

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[waddlyman]

Have you not read the Grapes of Wrath?!?!? or at least watched the movie? Both talk of the bowl and the abuse of the government quite well

[chibirya]

I read the Grapes of Wrath, when I was in High School so I don't remember the extent of the detail about the dustbowl. But if I recall correctly the focus was on the family scooting out