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Ellen Fallia Kennedy, a survivor of the Great Depression, describes how some farmers reacted to the Dust Bowl and explains how she was able to feed her family on a limited income.
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- Dust Bowl
The Dust Bowl, also known as the Dirty Thirties, was a period of severe dust storms that greatly damaged the ecology and agriculture of the US and Canadian prairies during the 1930s; severe drought and a failure to apply dryland farming methods to prevent wind erosion (the Aeolian processes) caused the phenomenon.
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