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Dust Bowl: John Steinbeck
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Prepared by the Weather Channel, the brief section on the Dust Bowl originally aired on the Weather Channel. It apparently relied on Vance Johnson's Heaven's Tableland for research: it ... places the April 14 Black Sunday storm in 1934, which confuses the chronology of the era.
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Citizens of the affected regions started referring to their home as the “Dust Bowl,”and they rapidly began to experience serious economic problems. The Depression economy had already caused serious problems for many farmers, and the lack of a viable crop led to mass foreclosures by banks. Conditions drove many groups of farmers to become migrant workers, as documented by photographers like Dorothea Lange and authors like John Steinbeck. The impoverished migrant workers from the Dust Bowl became a symbol of the Depression for many people, illustrating how a combination of bad luck and unsustainable farming practices could radically change a formerly profitable pursuit like farming.
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It is estimated that 210,000 people migrated to California to escape the Dust Bowl. In 1939 Steinbeck's novel "The Grapes of Wrath" the highway receives its first trappings of recognition. A film recreation of the exodus was done in 1940.
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