The Dust Bowl

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The Dust Bowl

• 1931 - 1939

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We havent had a good crop in three years, not
since the bounty of 31, and were all whittled
down to the bone these days, Karen Hesse Out of
the Dust
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We watched as the storm swallowed the light. The
sky turned from blue to black, night descended in
an instant and the dust was on us. Karen
Hesse Out of the Dust
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Dust lay two feet deep in ripply waves across
the parlor floor, dust blanketed the
cookstove, the icebox, the kitchen
chairs, everything deep in dust. Karen Hesse Out
of the Dust
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South Carolina Curriculum Standards Social
Studies I.5.2.8 Explain the effect of the Great
Depression on the United States. Internet
Resources http//www.ptsi.net/user/museum/dustbow
l.html http//www.humanities-interactive.org/texas
/dustbowl/ http//www.weru.ksu.edu/new_weru/multim
edia/dustbowl/dustbowlpics.html