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Although the dirt storms were fewer in 1934, it was the year which brought the Dust Bowl national attention. In May, a severe storm blew dirt from Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas as far east as New York City and Washington D.C. In spite of the terrific storm in May, the year 1934 was pleasant respite from the blowing dirt and tornadoes of the previous year. But nature had another trick up her sleeve, the year was extremely hot with new records being made and broken at regular intervals. Before the year had run its course, hundreds of people in Colorado, Texas, Oklahoma and Kansas had died from the heat.
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Entrepreneurs advanced the Dust Bowl with their new ideas. Entrepreneurs stayed focused on profits from farming and saw the environmental risks as being acceptable when compared to the amount of economic success they received from agriculture. Agriculture offered an investment factor to entrepreneurs; “the agricultural entrepreneur stood for the idea that the land’s true and only end was to become a commodity—something to be used, bought, and sold, for human gain.” (214). Western expansion was caused by capitalistic farmers chasing after huge profits in farming. Profits benefited agriculture and convinced many Americans to invest in farming, but proved to be destructive to the land. Environmentalists warned farmers of the problem they were creating, as Lookingbill suggests; “Ironically, spirited resisters to the variations on a frontier theme park roared about their own ‘stubborn adaptability’ and ‘ingenuity”’(127).
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Two-thirds of the residents of the Dust Bowl remained. Egan tells the lost story of "the people who stayed behind, for lack of money or lack of sense, the people who hunkered down out of loyalty or stubbornness, who believed in tomorrow because it was all they had in the bank."
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Despite antigovernment feelings, criminals, and confusion, slow changes for the better took place in the dust bowl as 1940 approached. Some changes were due to rain. Some were due to government aid. Some were due to farmers putting into practice techniques that saved water and kept the soil in place. J.R. Davison remembered, "During those Dirty Thirties they came out with a lot of these different methods—contour farming, you know, different things, summer puddling....
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The Dust Bowl saloon was a dining establishment in Mos Espa. A Jawa called Niktha was known to make aggressive begging to the patrons, making them turn away from the saloon. In response, the owner placed a small bounty for Niktha's death.
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On April 14, 1935, known as "Black Sunday", twenty of the worst "Black Blizzards" occurred throughout the Dust Bowl, causing extensive damage, turning the day to night. Witnesses reported that they could not see five feet in front of them at certain points.
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